Rise of the Runelords

This large chamber was once a prison, as evidenced by the twenty cells lining its perimeter. A rickety wooden platform overlooks the room, with two staircases descending to the prison floor ten feet below. A five-foot-wide wooden walkway extends from the northern platform to an eastern passageway. Though the wood appears old and worn, it remains stable due to an ancient Thassilonian preservative magic that has kept it intact through the ages. The same magic has also prevented the skeletons in the cells—former prisoners, mostly agents of Shalast who ventured too close to Bakrakhani holdings—from crumbling entirely to dust. Two sinspawn lurk here. If an alarm has been raised, they hide in the rafters beneath the platform, waiting to ambush anyone who strays too close. If the alarm hasn’t been sounded, they bicker in the eastern part of the room over crumbling skulls stolen from the remains in the surrounding cells, their guttural snarls echoing through the ancient prison.