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				"Decades ago, a wizard named Sylvene came to the Sword Coast from another plane of existence called Ravnica. While exploring Waterdeep and nearby lands, she met and fell in love with the father of her child. She built a refuge for them in a small demiplane of her own creation, but eventually she went home to Ravnica with her infant son and never returned.",
				"Now her grandson seeks to recover relics of her power by exploring Sylvene's history in the Realms\u2014and he doesn't care who he hurts along the way. The consequences of his careless pillaging already ripple out to impact others.",
				"This Dungeons & Dragons® adventure is written to suit four to six characters of 8th level. With this text and the core D&D manuals, you have everything you need to play.",
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					"name": "Adventure Overview",
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						"This adventure begins when the characters discover a secret door and overcome the traps beyond it. The treasure within takes them to a strange island demiplane in Part 2. At the center of that island is the refuge of a vanished wizard, described in Part 3. The fate of the demiplane and its current inhabitants is ultimately in the adventurers' hands.",
						"Finally, Part 4 of this text hints at the next adventure to help you foreshadow and prepare."
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					"id": "001"
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					"name": "Part of a Series",
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						"This adventure is written as the second in a five-part series. Whether you're playing this as part of our adventure series or weaving this adventure into another campaign, read \"Part 4: What's Next?\" to get an idea of where some of these threads lead, and how you can change those threads to accommodate your campaign.",
						"This adventure foreshadows a recurring villain named Tyreus. More about his plans and methods can be discovered in future adventures. If you prefer not to wait, or if you want to substitute another villain in for ours, you can adapt this adventure to refer to a villainous NPC of your own.",
						"By combining the immediacy of the players' choices with the mysterious histories and ambitions of key NPCs, this scenario explores matters of perspective, comfort, and regret. Future adventures in this series expand on this to explore the past and the consequences of the players' choices along the way.",
						"The end of this adventure makes a fine milestone for leveling up. The next adventure in the series is meant for 9th-level characters."
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					"name": "Background",
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						"A lone mage is at work enacting his villainous plan near the Sword Coast. He is a trespasser from another plane. He is here in pursuit of legends and lore, in the footsteps of his forebears who came here long ago. He is called Tyreus, though few here know him by name.",
						"By ransacking and looting the past, Tyreus hopes to gather enough arcane power to create a powerful, important future for himself. In his view, that means having people bow to him. Tyreus seeks his own grandeur above all.",
						"While plundering the demiplane refuge of his grandmother, Sylvene, Tyreus makes enemies of Sylvene's old allies, who call out for help the only way they know how\u2014through Sylvene's leftover magic. Their cries for help may be what draws adventurers to Sylvene's hidden refuge, thereby determining the fate of that demiplane and revealing Tyreus's dangerous plan for the future.",
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							"name": "Secrets of Tyreus",
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								"Although he does not appear in person in this adventure, Tyreus casts a long shadow. The characters may not discover all the following information during the adventure, but it can be useful when foreshadowing Tyreus.",
								"The wizard who crafted the demiplane at the heart of this adventure\u2014a female human mage called Sylvene\u2014was an explorer from Ravnica who visited the Realms decades ago. She fell in love with a man who lost his life to misadventure in the High Moor. Sylvene was pregnant when he died, and she gave birth to their son, Tyberio, in Waterdeep. She eventually returned to Ravnica to raise him, and she passed away when Tyberio was twelve.",
								"Tyberio rebelled by refusing to study magic. He sought a quiet life as a craftsman and merchant but carried a certain bitterness and resentment toward the world. He always wanted to visit the land where his parents met, but never managed to.",
								"Tyberio started a family with his wife, Ayraea, and had one son. In his bitterness, Tyberio forbade his son from studying magic\u2014but it didn't work. Tyberio's teenaged son secretly began learning the ways of mages the same summer that, coincidentally, Tyberio and Ayraea passed away from a minor plague in Ravnica. Their son, furious over his parents' fears of magic, over their death, and over his own powerlessness, devoted his life to wizardry thereafter. That angry wizard is Tyreus."
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							"name": "In Previous Adventures",
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								"The previous adventure in this series took place in an abandoned, secret sanctum on the High Moors of the Realms, buried in a place called the Wizard's Barrow. Tyreus ransacked that sanctum's library and left monsters behind to destroy what was left of it.",
								"Sylvene was one of the wizards who taught and practiced magic in the Wizard's Barrow decades before. It was guarded by trapped steles not unlike the emitter stone in Part 1 of this adventure.",
								"If the previous adventure isn't part of your campaign, this scenario can serve to involve your players' characters for the first time or provide a simple, standalone experience of magic and danger."
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					],
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					"name": "Adventure Hooks",
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						"Adventurers can become involved in this scenario in a number of ways\u2014some of them seemingly coincidental. When the mysterious groundskeepers of Sylvene's refuge call out for help, those cries might manifest in the Realms in the subtlest ways.",
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										"Adventurers looking into the origins and history of the Wizard's Barrow from the prior adventure discover an abandoned townhouse in Waterdeep. The building was once home to a wizard from afar but has been boarded up, is empty, and has been ransacked several times. Until now, no one has discovered the secret door that begins this adventure, but the cries of the keepers make it easier to locate now."
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										"To draw the characters into this adventure (whether they've explored the Wizard's Barrow or not), place the secret door and hidden chambers that kick off this scenario into another adventure or short side trek, then follow the adventurers into the demiplanar refuge when they have the planar key.",
										"The cries of the keepers can manifest in a telepathic emanation from the planar key itself, a wordless sense of desperate pleading for aid."
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										"Perhaps the adventurers are hired to find and open the secret door by a sage attempting to learn the secret history of Sylvene and her former cadre of wizards, for posterity's sake. The sage sends the adventurers to Sylvene's abandoned townhouse, which has been well pilfered except for the previously undiscovered secret door in the cellar\u2014made all the more obvious now by the cries of the keepers."
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						"At various points throughout play, the adventurers can discover lore about Tyreus, his plans, and the history of Sylvene's extraplanar refuge from the demiplane's keepers or from {@creature Morwena Veilmist|AitFR-THP}, whom Tyreus abandoned in the demiplane. Reveal lore in response to questions the adventurers ask of these NPCs or other suitable roleplaying cues. In general, though an NPC can reveal multiple pieces of lore at once, aim to reveal lore in the order listed.",
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								"The keepers of the demiplane at the heart of this adventure know some things about Sylvene's history from conversing with her, decades ago, and they know all about her demiplane. They also know a bit about Tyreus after observing him on the island. The keepers share this lore with adventurers if they feel it is safe and wise to do so:",
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										"Sylvene was a wise and thoughtful human mage who combined adventurous explorations with an almost anthropological study of the Realms. She came from a place called Ravnica.",
										"Sylvene fell in love with a human man from some village of the Sword Coast. They met in Secomber. She wouldn't say much about him except that he perished on an adventure.",
										"Sylvene brought her infant son, Tyberio, to the refuge several times before they inexplicably stopped coming back. That was decades ago, but the keepers don't keep careful track of time, so they can't be sure how long.",
										"Tyreus is a white, male human mage\u2014an adventurer, not a scholar. He arrived with Morwena and a horrific shadow creature to ransack the refuge. Tyreus left with just an armful of books.",
										"Seero took the form of a middle-aged man to speak with Tyreus, but Tyreus flew into a rage, accusing Seero of \"wearing my father's face.\" The keepers are sure Seero had taken on the form of an adult Tyberio, who must be Tyreus's father. \"They both have Sylvene's eyes.\"",
										"Tyreus and Morwena argued about the fate of the refuge, and Tyreus stormed off, then teleported away without her."
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							"name": "What Morwena Knows",
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								"Morwena knows things about Tyreus from time she spent with him since the previous adventure. She may be persuaded to share some or all of this lore with adventurers if she believes it is advantageous to her:",
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										"Tyreus believes power is the pinnacle quality of a mage and that power justifies itself. He doesn't care who he hurts if it empowers him.",
										"Tyreus blames his parents for denying him his \"birthright\" of magical power, which he should have inherited from his grandmother, Sylvene.",
										"Tyreus is an angry and sometimes petulant person. He thinks if he gathers enough power, he can make a place for himself in the world where he can be strong and, finally, find happiness.",
										"When he looks at the Realms, Tyreus only sees a place to be conquered or plundered out of spite. Morwena tried (and failed) to convince him the Realms could make him powerful\u2014that he could carve out a part of the Sword Coast for them to rule together\u2014and that's when she knew Tyreus would not share power.",
										"Morwena and Tyreus argued, but Tyreus's anger wouldn't let him trust her. He abandoned her in the demiplane because she threatened him\u2014and because he thought he might need her later.",
										"Morwena won't help Tyreus again. \"He's only out for himself,\" she says. \"He's a powerful mage already, but he cannot see himself or others well enough to recognize how dangerous he is. What a waste.\""
									]
								},
								"Remember that Morwena is willfully evil. All of the above is true to her experience with, and opinions of, Tyreus. Her thoughts may be influenced by her own lowered opinion of him, and he may now be more influenced by the time they spent together than he wanted to admit. But Morwena is done with Tyreus. His pursuit of personal grandeur is in the way of her own."
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				"The adventure begins when the characters discover a secret door and the hidden chambers behind it. The exact location of this secret door can vary based on your campaign's needs. The hidden chambers are depicted in map 1.",
				"These hidden chambers teem with dangerous traps meant to protect the book in area 6.",
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						"Marks of safe passage found in the Wizard's Barrow in the previous adventure also work here in areas 1, 2, and 3. Creatures wearing a medallion of safe passage do not trigger the traps installed in areas 1 and 3 but are vulnerable to their effects if those traps are triggered by others in those areas."
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							"type": "entries",
							"name": "General Features",
							"page": 5,
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								"These hidden chambers are made of sturdy, grey stones, dry and dusty with age.",
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									"name": "Ceilings",
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										"The chambers have flat, 8-foot ceilings of stone."
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									"entries": [
										"These chambers are unlit and feature no sconces or fixtures for torches or lamps."
									],
									"id": "013"
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									"name": "Sound",
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										"At first, the chambers are silent. When the traps are activated, the place crackles with lightning and whirs with grinding metal joints and hinges even though the traps are mostly animated by magic."
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								"The secret door to Sylvene's hidden chambers has gone undetected and undisturbed for decades. The door itself is a collection of stones exactly matching the wall in which the door is set. It takes a successful DC 22 Intelligence ({@skill Investigation}) or Wisdom ({@skill Perception}) check to locate it.",
								"The door can be opened by pressing two stones simultaneously, one above the door and one in the floor at its base. It can be forced open with a DC 20 Strength ({@skill Athletics}) check.",
								"The door also opens if the keepers of Sylvene's magical refuge call out for help at the pillars on their island demiplane. Therefore it's possible for adventurers to find the door already ajar, making it easy to begin the adventure."
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								"Beyond the door, a wide corridor of stone leads to a dull, iron archway. The walls glitter and shine as if silver coins have been set into the walls at irregular intervals."
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									"name": "Magic Dart Trap",
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										"A dozen tiny mirrors are set into the walls in this area, seemingly at random. If any living creature casts a reflection in one of these mirrors, every intact mirror conjures a dart of magical force that flits wildly through the air at the end of that creature's turn, attacking up to 12 creatures in the corridor. Make a single attack roll per creature with a +8 bonus to hit, dealing 22 ({@damage 4d10}) force damage on a hit.",
										"Mirrors can be removed with various tools and a successful skill check (DC 13) or attacked (AC 15, 2 hit points) to disable the trap. Each mirror disabled reduces the trap's attack bonus by 1."
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								"In this corridor you hear an audible buzz and notice a slight metallic smell."
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						"Much of this area is within the area overseen by the trapped stele at the end of the corridor (area 3). Any creature in this area when the stele is triggered is subject to the lightning bolt fired by the stele, as described in area 3."
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					"name": "3. Emitter Stone",
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								"A wide, flat stele stands here, set into the mortar and etched with a one-foot-tall glyph of long, jagged lines. The glyph emits the faintest glow, like the wick of a blown-out candle."
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									"name": "Magic Stele Trap",
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										"The stele can detect trespassers out to a range of 60 feet in front of it, regardless of illumination. It has a passive {@skill Perception} score of 18. To disarm or dispel this trap requires a successful DC 18 check. When triggered, the trap emits a bolt of lightning the whole length of area 2.",
										"Any creature in the area that fails a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw takes 22 ({@damage 4d10}) lightning damage, or half as much damage with a successful save.",
										"The lightning ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried. This stele can emit lightning a total of five times before becoming nothing more than inert stone."
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					"name": "4. Bladed Corridors",
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								"This long, stone corridor has deep grooves and gaps in the walls and floor, each about one inch wide, laid out in no obvious pattern."
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									"name": "Scything Blades Trap",
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										"This trap activates when either the mirror-dart trap (area 1) or the magic stele (area 3) is triggered. Once activated, this trap continues to operate until disabled. Its scything blades whirl and slice through the air, guided not by machinery but by magic.",
										"Any creature that ends its turn within 20 feet of the center of the corridor is attacked by scything blades.",
										"On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), scything blades jut from the grooves and gaps in the corridor and attack any creatures within 20 feet of the center of the corridor.",
										"The trap has a +8 attack bonus and deals 22 ({@damage 4d10}) slashing damage on a hit.",
										"This trap can be disabled in the alcove off the center of area 5."
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							"id": "022"
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					"name": "5. Listing Floor",
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								"Halfway down this narrower corridor is an iron archway, five feet wide, set into one wall. Across from that is a one-foot-wide gap in the masonry of the opposite wall."
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									"name": "Listing Floor Trap",
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										"The area of floor marked on the map in this area is like a teeter-totter, pivoting on a hinge under the floor in front of the doorway to area 6. If more than 120 pounds of weight are placed on either half of the floor, it tilts into a 20-foot-deep pit underneath.",
										"Any creature on the floor when it tilts must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or fall into the pit below, taking 7 ({@damage 2d6}) bludgeoning damage from the fall and from jutting stones on the pit's floor.",
										"The pit floor is made up of pressure plates that activate the trap in area 6 when weight is removed from them. The mechanism of the rising blades trap in area 6 can be accessed from this pit only after the trap in area 6 has activated.",
										"The listing floor is meant to swing immediately back to its starting position, trapping intruders below, but after all these years it doesn't always function. It returns back to its level position on initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties).",
										"The 5-foot-square space just off the center of this area contains a 2-foot-long lever that disables the trap in area 4 and holds the floor steady in area 5 if held or jammed in place."
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					"name": "6. Room of Rising Blades",
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								"This low room is just six feet high. Across the room is a wooden podium holding up a large tome bound in snow-white leather. That podium is surrounded by a flat, coppery metal cage set into the floor. Instead of any kind of mortar, the floor's wide tiles are separated by more flat, coppery bands."
							],
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						},
						"The floor tiles here are all ceramic pressure plates that trigger when released (rather than when depressed). At least 5 pounds of weight are required to depress any of these tiles.",
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										"This trap activates when any of the pressure plates in this area, or in the pit under area 5, are triggered. Once activated, this trap continues to operate for 3 rounds or until disabled, whichever comes first.",
										"Once activated, long spears lined with swordlike blades immediately break through the floor tiles from below, stabbing almost 6 inches into the air at odd angles. (The spears are affixed to a metal rack beneath floor; that rack rises higher and higher each round until the blades finally reach the ceiling, the trap's designed limit.)",
										"The floor is {@quickref difficult terrain||3} thereafter. Any creatures on the floor when the spears first appear must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 ({@damage 4d10}) piercing damage on a failure, or half as much on a success.",
										"Afterward, on initiative counts 20 and 10 (losing initiative ties), the blades stab 1 foot higher toward the ceiling. Any creature in the area on the trap's turns must attempt a new DC 15 Dexterity saving throw to avoid 11 ({@damage 2d10}) slashing damage as the blades slice by.",
										"A successful DC 15 Dexterity check with {@item Thieves' Tools|PHB} (or similar) can disable this trap by interacting with the mechanism from inside the pit under area 5.",
										"A path can be hacked through the area by attacking the spear hafts in any 5-foot space (AC 12, 12 hit points)."
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										"The space under the podium is unaffected by the trap. The cage surrounding the podium can be accessed through a locked gate opposite the entrance. A character can pick the lock with a successful DC 20 Dexterity ({@item Thieves' Tools|PHB}) check."
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								"The book on the wooden podium inside the cage is a dyed-white leather tome with iron hinges and a sturdy clasp. It bears no title.",
								"Inside, the book begins with 86 vellum pages followed by a compartment cut into dozens more glued and sealed pages. That compartment holds an ivory key etched with sigils about the length of a human hand. This is a planar key with one charge remaining, linked to Sylvene's demiplane, detailed in Part 2: \"A Secret Isle.\"",
								"The book's first 86 pages contain sketches and handwritten notes made by Sylvene for herself and others. Every page is about the island she made, as well as the following lore and spells:",
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										"Sylvene's name and identity as a wizard \"traveling across the planes.\"",
										"\"My island shall be made from a magic stone I acquired not long ago\u2014a demiplane of my own design.\"",
										"The spells magic circle, Mordenkainen's faithful hound, and teleportation circle.",
										"A recipe for potato-leek stew with shallots and garlic.",
										"The name (Coriander) and location of the statue of a faithful hound in area 2 of the refuge (in Part 3): \"Coriander sleeps by the fireplace. Such a good boy.\"",
										"Notes explaining \"how time will work on my island\" (one hour each of dawn, day, dusk, and night).",
										"A list of the keepers who tend the demiplane: Ahma, Noa, Ohwo, and Seero."
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										"The handwriting has a practiced, careful style. It often refers to \"my island\" and mentions a \"hidden page\" there to keep the author's thoughts and secrets in order. Notes vary between addressing a reader and addressing the author. This journal probably wasn't intended for any audience except the author herself."
									],
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								},
								"The book also fully identifies and explains how to use the planar key, that it cannot regain charges, and that \"to return to this world, seek the island's keepers, for they can send you home.\""
							],
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						"When the adventurers arrive, Sylvene's demiplane is in disarray thanks to a visit from Tyreus. The adventurers appear in the southwest corner of the island, as that destination is written into their planar key.",
						"The island is depicted in map 2.",
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										"Sylvene's island is almost rectangular, roughly three miles long and two miles wide.",
										"The temperature and atmosphere of the demiplane were chosen to feel like a thawing winter or early spring, with crisp winds and warm sunshine. The air smells of snowmelt, fresh greens, and seawater. The whole island is covered in low dunes of white sand, giving way to bare, soft beaches at the coastline.",
										"The demiplane is a sphere, so anyone attempting to cross the \"endless\" sea eventually arrives back at the island. It is the only land in the demiplane."
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										"No animals or beasts dwell in the demiplane normally. The saltwater of the endless sea is devoid of life but rich in plain, smooth stones.",
										"Plants magically grow throughout the island and in Sylvene's old gardens. Sharp, tall dune grasses, wildflowers, shrubs, and a few gnarled trees grow throughout the island.",
										"It rains occasionally\u2014enough to feed the plants, but never a deluge."
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										"Time cycles strangely here, as dictated by Sylvene when she created the place, to lend customized beauty to her experience. The stars at night are those of the Realms as viewed from the Sword Coast at the end of winter.",
										"Choose what time of day it is when the adventurers arrive or roll on the following table."
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							"page": 8,
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								"Sylvene meant for these areas to be comfortable reception sites for visitors or relaxation spots for the {@creature usagt|AitFR-THP} keepers. Wood-and-leather folding chairs sit in the sand near the 2-foot-high stone walls here.",
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										"All the stonework here is gently weathered by the sea winds of this place, suggesting they are decades or even centuries old."
									],
									"id": "035"
								},
								"Each corner is dominated by a stout pillar where the walls meet, and each pillar is marked by whorls and swirl patterns suggesting waves or winds. (These resemble motifs found at the Wizard's Barrow in the previous adventure, In Scarlet Flames)."
							],
							"id": "034"
						},
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							"name": "Keepers of the Sanctum",
							"page": 8,
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								"Once, four creatures kept watch over the island. All four were peculiar shapeshifting creatures called {@creature usagt|AitFR-THP}, brought from a distant plane by Sylvene to keep the grounds here while she was away. Though she never returned, the four keepers remained. Their names are Ahma, Noa, Ohwo, and Seero.",
								"Sylvene made a pact with the keepers: If they remained, they would hold the demiplane together and, in exchange, live there in peace. Sylvene would bring them food and drink from Faerûn. They would keep watch, tend to visitors, and Noa would remain attuned to the keystone in the refuge's cellar.",
								"Alas, Tyreus did not trust nor care to understand the sanctum's keepers. He slew Seero in a fit of rage.",
								"The surviving three usagt keepers are {@condition invisible} and in hiding, waiting to see what Morwena does and hoping they do not have to leave the sanctum to utter dissolution and flee to another plane. Once the adventurers arrive, the keepers watch them in hopes that they can work together to save this place.",
								"Each keeper is hiding at one of the four corners of the island. Choose where or roll {@dice 1d4} for each keeper; more than one might be in the same place. There Noa uses their connection to the demiplane's keystone to call for help as best they can, their cries for help echoing through Sylvene's last terrestrial sanctum and planar key.",
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											"Southeast corner"
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											"3",
											"Southwest corner"
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											"4",
											"Northwest corner"
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							"id": "036"
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							"page": 8,
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								"A great deal of the challenges in the demiplane come from other trespassers\u2014specifically, Tyreus's allies. How long they have been here depends on when (or how often) the adventurers arrive. It could be hours or days.",
								"The first trespasser is {@creature Morwena Veilmist|AitFR-THP}, once a Red Wizard of Thay and now Tyreus's abandoned accomplice. She is likely reading everything she can inside the refuge (in area 2). Her goal is to get the adventurers to remove the keystone in the cellar (area 10) and collapse the demiplane, freeing her and potentially hindering Tyreus.",
								"Additionally, Tyreus brought a minion with him to the demiplane, in case he needed it to fight on his behalf. He left it here when he departed. It is a {@creature greater shadow horror|AitFR-THP} from Ravnica. It treats the cellar of the refuge (area 10) as its den and stalks the refuge by night to protect the keystone."
							],
							"id": "037"
						},
						{
							"type": "entries",
							"name": "Leaving the Demiplane",
							"page": 9,
							"entries": [
								"To leave this demiplane, Sylvene intended visitors to require the blessing of one of the {@creature usagt|AitFR-THP} keepers. Once, this simply required a conversation with the usagt in which they took the form of someone from the conversationalist's past and estimated whether Sylvene would prefer a guest to depart or an intruder to be stranded in the demiplane for later confrontation.",
								"In the current, fraught circumstances, the usagt want to keep adventurers around to deal with their situation, if possible. The usagt are not possessive creatures, so they don't necessarily object to adventurers leaving with treasure, either. The keepers sadly realize Sylvene isn't coming back.",
								"Once their favor is earned, the usagt cast {@spell banishment} on visitors, then maintain concentration on the spell for 1 minute to ensure visitors leave for good. (The usagt know a variation of banishment that optionally transports targets to the previous plane they were on, so extraplanar characters can be returned to the Realms rather than their plane of origin.)"
							],
							"id": "038"
						},
						{
							"type": "entries",
							"name": "Collapsing the Demiplane",
							"page": 9,
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								"If no one remains in the demiplane who is attuned to its keystone, the demiplane collapses over 10 ({@dice 1d10 + 5}) minutes. The sea overtakes the island and then gradually dissipates into nothingness. Creatures still in the demiplane in the last minute of the collapse are magically transported back to the plane from which they arrived. Objects like treasure, books, and furniture still in the demiplane are most likely lost or destroyed.",
								"Removing the keystone from the demiplane also causes it to collapse. Once removed from the demiplane, the keystone's power dissipates and is lost forever."
							],
							"id": "039"
						}
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						"The wide, comfortable house at the heart of the island is easy to spot. Though it has been exposed to the island's weather for years with minimal maintenance, the elements have been kind and the house wears its age like a handsome patina. The house, the weather, and the island are all aspects of the same magic, after all; they were made for each other.",
						"Sylvene etched her name for the refuge\u2014The Hidden Page\u2014into the wooden frames above the outer doors on the east and west sides of the building. She hoped to pass this place on to her son, Tyberio, one day. Even for mages, life seldom goes quite as planned.",
						"In her absence, the keepers cleaned and maintained the place as best they could. Tyreus and Morwena have since searched through the place with little regard for its tidiness.",
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										"The Hidden Page is made of thick wooden timbers and plastered stones, presented in a simple, bright style with a wide, flat roof. The layout of the place is depicted in map 3.",
										{
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												"Each room features 10-foot ceilings with exposed wooden rafters and patterned plaster. The floors feature wide slate tiles and copious, lavish rugs."
											],
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										{
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												"Security not being a major concern, the doors of the refuge are simple, lightweight wood with ornate fixtures and no locks."
											],
											"id": "03e"
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											"type": "entries",
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											"page": 10,
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												"High, wide windows sit just below the ceilings in most outer walls to allow ambient light. Lanterns and candles abound to supplement the fireplaces."
											],
											"id": "03f"
										},
										{
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											"page": 10,
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												"Normally, a serene quiet permeates the refuge, with the occasional sound of waves and wind."
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					"name": "1. West Foyer",
					"page": 10,
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							"entries": [
								"This wide foyer is designed to practically bask in sunlight. The white plaster walls here amplify the glow from outside. The floor is made of tidy, slate tiles."
							],
							"id": "042"
						},
						"Once, this room was intended to receive guests and be a place for people to doff sandy shoes. This is the main entrance used by the keepers, out of habit. A pair of sandals and a pair of boots, dried and almost rotten, stand near the outer doorway."
					],
					"id": "041"
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					"name": "2. Grand Hall",
					"page": 10,
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								"Despite the glow of the fireplace, this room feels dark and cave-like, insulated by shelves and shelves of books\u2014many of which lay in piles or heaps on the floor. The room smells like old books. Loose leaves of paper lay abandoned on the floor here and there, torn or fallen out of the collection. Whatever order these books might once have been in, they are in chaos now."
							],
							"id": "044"
						},
						"This room housed Sylvene's mundane personal library, which only filled the shelves to about half capacity at the time of her last visit. Many volumes of history, natural history, poetry, religion, and other subjects have been stacked throughout this room by Tyreus and Morwena since they arrived. All of these books are from and about the Realms.",
						"This is where Morwena has spent most of her time since being stranded here.",
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								"Near the west-facing fireplace, a life-size statue of a deerhound reclines like a dog by a fire. The skill displayed by its carving is exquisite."
							],
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						},
						"Speaking the proper command words within 30 feet of the deerhound statue activates the statue's magic and instantly casts {@spell Mordenkainen's faithful hound} centered on the statue. The faithful hound cannot be conjured again until 8 hours have passed. The command words are \"Come here, Coriander.\"",
						"Morwena does not know the command words but has cast {@spell detect magic} as a ritual in this area, so she knows the statue is magical."
					],
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					"page": 10,
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								"A square, hardwood table dominates this room, surrounded by enough high-backed wooden chairs to seat eight. The room's two sideboards look like they're made of driftwood. A painting on the southern wall depicts a green, grassy barrow with two tall steles in front, etched with spirals."
							],
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						},
						"This room is in good shape and largely undisturbed, as it has been of little interest to the recent trespassers. The sideboards contain a complete set of silverware worth 125 gp.",
						"The painting is a wide, framed landscape called Wizard's Barrow, by a once-famed Waterdhavian artist called Saraque Skyhill, whose work Sylvene admired. It is worth 550 gp."
					],
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					"page": 11,
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								"Loose doors on the south wall let in crisp air. Empty barrels and neatly folded burlap sacks say this kitchen has been neatly emptied. Smoke stains on the plaster show it has seen a lot of use. Stairs descend into darkness to the north."
							],
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						},
						"The fireplace boasts a large stew pot and roasting spit. The shelves and cupboards here are bare. A collection of common knives and spoons slowly rusts in a small chest here.",
						"The stairs lead down to the cellar (area 10)."
					],
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								"A few floor-to-ceiling bookcases complement the deep desk, plush couches, and leather chairs here to create a cozy reading area. The effect is undermined by loose papers scattered about and books stacked haphazardly on the floor and furniture. Someone was looking for something."
							],
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						},
						"Here is where Sylvene did her work and read about topics related to wizardry. The books here cover a variety of topics, from architecture to zoology, all from and about the Realms.",
						"All the spellbooks and diaries that were kept here have been taken by Tyreus.",
						"A first-edition, pristine copy of a book called simply Mythologies can be found here, worth 200 gp."
					],
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								"This long foyer chamber seems designed to draw in the outside ambiance and light. The emptiness of the space augments the airy effect."
							],
							"id": "04d"
						},
						"This area was once intended as a place to receive guests and leave sandy shoes behind. It stands empty now."
					],
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					"entries": [
						{
							"type": "insetReadaloud",
							"entries": [
								"The centerpiece of this room is a bare, four-post bed set at an angle relative to the walls. A hulking fireplace nearby stands cold and clean. A wooden, covered cradle stands in the northwest corner of the room, where it could be warmed by the fireplace in days past."
							],
							"id": "04f"
						},
						"A large chest holds sheets and blankets for the bed and the cradle. A quilt still folded neatly in the cradle bears the name Tyberio in ornate, stitched letters."
					],
					"id": "04e"
				},
				{
					"type": "entries",
					"name": "8. Outer Garden",
					"page": 11,
					"entries": [
						{
							"type": "insetReadaloud",
							"entries": [
								"Overgrown to the point of choking on itself, this garden is dotted here and there with signs marking the original plots of herbs and vegetables, many of which clearly no longer grow here. The air smells like sweet basil."
							],
							"id": "051"
						},
						"Lively herbs have overtaken much of the garden, but some carrots and turnips still grow here, too. The keepers don't eat (in case they need food for visitors), and Morwena has been surviving thus far on rations she brought."
					],
					"id": "050"
				},
				{
					"type": "entries",
					"name": "9. Solarium",
					"page": 11,
					"entries": [
						{
							"type": "insetReadaloud",
							"entries": [
								"Long and empty tables run the length of this room, along the walls and down the center, stained where pots and planters once sat. Now they're all stacked beneath the tabletops on a floor still stained with good dirt."
							],
							"id": "053"
						},
						"Sylvene never got around to accomplishing as much gardening as she intended. Nothing grows in this room anymore.",
						"A golden disc, about the size of a platter and made to resemble a stylized sun, hangs on a wall in this room. It is worth 250 gp."
					],
					"id": "052"
				},
				{
					"type": "entries",
					"name": "10. Cellar",
					"page": 11,
					"entries": [
						{
							"type": "insetReadaloud",
							"entries": [
								"Bare stone and wooden rafters make up this low, sixfoot-tall cellar. Dry sand is scattered throughout a room that is almost parched\u2014despite the nearby seashore. Perhaps this windowless cellar was magically made to keep the kegs, barrels, and sacks here from moldering."
							],
							"id": "055"
						},
						"The cellar is largely empty, and most of what remains is dried or rotten.",
						"The {@creature greater shadow horror|AitFR-THP} lurks here during the daylight hour. By night, it prefers to roam the island or the refuge, passing through doors and walls as it goes. During dawn and dusk hours, it stays close to the refuge. Its goal is to keep anyone, including Morwena, from interacting with the keystone, on Tyreus's orders. In its mind, Morwena is no threat unless she ventures into the cellar. (Thus, she doesn't.) The shadow horror is satisfied with keeping new trespassers, like the adventurers, away from the house\u2014and just as happy to kill them.",
						"The keystone is set in the center of the ceiling. It is a dark, jagged stone with veins of gold, all etched with arcane runes and sigils, very much out of place here. It's about the size of a loaf of bread and weighs about 10 pounds.",
						"Three bottles of fortified wine from the Sword Coast, never opened, still sit amid straw in a crate in the southeast corner of the cellar. Each bottle is now worth 70 gp.",
						{
							"type": "inset",
							"name": "Keystone of the Hidden Page",
							"page": 12,
							"entries": [
								"The keystone Sylvene used to found and anchor her demiplane refuge was created by manipulating the magic imbued into the stone by a powerful artifact (detailed in subsequent adventures in this series). Sylvene's keystone was an experiment, both more potent and less flexible in its power than the artifacts soon to be discovered. If Sylvene kept detailed notes about the magical experiments that harnessed this power, those notes seem to be lost."
							],
							"id": "056"
						}
					],
					"id": "054"
				}
			],
			"id": "00e"
		},
		{
			"type": "section",
			"name": "Part 4: What's Next",
			"page": 12,
			"entries": [
				"The adventurers likely have new lore at hand and questions about what's next. The subsequent adventure's hooks take them back into the High Moors to seek a lost tomb, where Sylvene and old allies have been laid to rest and new secrets wait to be discovered.",
				"Soon, the full scope of Tyreus's villainous plan comes into view."
			],
			"id": "057"
		},
		{
			"type": "section",
			"name": "Appendix: Monsters and Magic Items",
			"page": 12,
			"entries": [
				"This section details game statistics for the key NPC, monsters, and magic items that interact with the adventurers in this scenario.",
				{
					"type": "entries",
					"name": "Monsters",
					"page": 12,
					"entries": [
						{
							"type": "list",
							"columns": 3,
							"items": [
								"{@creature Greater Shadow Horror|AitFR-THP}",
								"{@creature Morwena Veilmist|AitFR-THP}",
								"{@creature Usagt|AitFR-THP}"
							]
						}
					],
					"id": "059"
				},
				{
					"type": "entries",
					"name": "Magic Items",
					"page": 13,
					"entries": [
						"The following entry describes a generalized version of the planar key found in this adventure. Each planar key is unique.",
						{
							"type": "list",
							"items": [
								"{@item Planar Key|AitFR-THP}"
							]
						}
					],
					"id": "05a"
				}
			],
			"id": "058"
		},
		{
			"type": "section",
			"name": "Credits",
			"entries": [
				{
					"type": "list",
					"style": "list-hang-notitle",
					"items": [
						{
							"type": "item",
							"name": "Adventure Writing & Maps",
							"entries": [
								"Will Hindmarch"
							]
						},
						{
							"type": "item",
							"name": "Adventure Graphic Designer",
							"entries": [
								"Bree Heiss"
							]
						},
						{
							"type": "item",
							"name": "Illustrators",
							"entries": [
								"Deruchenko Alexander and Zoltan Boros"
							]
						},
						{
							"type": "item",
							"name": "Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Set Leads",
							"entries": [
								"James Wyatt (narrative), Zach Stella (art), with contributions from Tyler Jacobson"
							]
						}
					]
				}
			],
			"id": "05d"
		}
	]
}