Dregoth's Palace

The great doors to this entrance chamber were shattered by the same magic that cracked the plaza outside. Silt has drifted in through the opening, covering much of the floor in knee-deep dust. Long ago, Dregoth's templars built this grand hall to greet visiting nobles. A beautiful mural depicting the city beside a sea of blue water adorns the east wall. On the other wall is an engraved mural depicting Dregoth's templars prostrating themselves in this very chamber. In the picture, the wall shows a picture of the engraving, which has a picture of the engraving, and so forth. This represents Dregoth's ascendance to godhood and his eternal existence. The portion of wall where Dregoth himself appears has been charred and obscured by powerful magic. A huge throne rests in shambles at the north end of the chamber, its shattered parts jutting above the silt. A secret passage behind the throne leads to room 3.

The northern wall of this large chamber are cracked wide in places, exposing the room to tons of dust. A mammoth cupboard against the east wall was once full of ceramic plates and cups, but it has been shattered and most of the items smashed on the stone floor. This is were Nallan of Tenpug's Band retrieved most of the crockery that he sold to House Shom, though many pieces remain buried beneath the drifting silt.

When Dregoth was to appear before his minions, he would meet here with the High Templar and any other lackeys deemed important enough for the task at hand.

Tens of slaves once worked in the miserable heat of this place and it seems several of them were caught within when part of the roof collapsed. Corpses shackled with desiccated leather bonds are visible just beneath a dusty pile of rubble, and there is a hole in the roof above.

Tremendous amounts of food and water were stored here. Most of this was taken by the palace staff as they trekked off across the desert. All that remains are a few busted barrels and shattered crates.

Grand balls or celebrations could be held in this room, though the only holiday enjoyed by Giustenal was the Day of Cleansing (in celebration of the war against non-humans). In practice, the room was often used by templars to hold their own private parties. A huge table over 40 feet long and carved from a single tree has been scorched and overturned against the southern wall.

Some of the lower ranking templars who directly served Dregoth lived in this series of apartments. Each room consists of four beds, a desk, and four footlockers made of wood.

Higher ranking templars assigned directly to the palace lived in these chambers. Each room has two beds, two desks, and a wood wardrobe. Many are filled with scraps of clothing half buried in the silt and now worthless, and perhaps even a piece of brittle leather or hide armor. One of these rooms has collapsed from above.

On most occasions, this is where Dregoth's templars and any nobles who wished to mingle with them took their meals. Great tables made of wood still stand here.

What kind of people had access to the amount of water necessary to run baths of this size? The player characters may never know, but these rooms should add to the mysteries of the ancients.

The palace guards occupied this chambers in the distant past. Nothing remains but dust, a few bones, and unidentifiable debris.

: Dregoth decorated this room with valuable artifacts from his days of conquest and the Cleansing Wars. An ancient tapestry depicts a sorcererking in the earliest stages of dragon metamorphosis standing victoriously over the shattered body of a giant with a lion's head. The giant and the sorcerer-king wear metal armor, and the background shows a location much like the Forest Ridge. This tapestry is washed out and worn, and someone has scrawled a crude drawing of a lion's head in the lower corner. Unknown letters beneath it date back to Dregoth's reign and read, "The LionKing Lives!" This was written by one of the followers of Taraskir's religion-the humans and demihumans who worshipped him as a god after his death at Dregoth's hands. Others show the same malevolent sorcerer-king transforming from a man into a dragon, advancing through nine distinct stages of development. The spot marked "A" is the location of a staircase leading down. During Dregoth's day, a secret door hid this ancient staircase. Now it can be easily spotted. The stairs lead to the tunnels below Giustenal, though a small bit of rubble must be moved to descend. There are two pedestals in the room as well. One bears a marble sculpture of a dragon, the prototype of those that guard the gates and temples of Giustenal. On the other is the bust of a head, though it has been shattered from the mouth up. This was an image of Dregoth before his ascension to dragonhood. This room also houses the only staircase to Dregoth's Tower, which rises above the palace and hangs precariously over the Silt Sea.

Mon-Adderath was (and is) Dregoth's High Templar. His chamber is hardly touched by damage and time, though the west wall was cracked from the ante-chamber side. Only a gray marble table and desk inlaid with turquoise remain

Visiting dignitaries were housed in this elaborate room, though surviving templars looted the decorations after Dregoth's fall. The room is now a shambles and a corpse lies in the middle of a dusty red carpet. Several of its ribs are cracked as if from a dull blade stroke.

Dregoth was unusual in that he had one templar designated as High Priest. This man was not a spiritual guide but a templar charged with showing the masses how to pay proper respect to their god, Dregoth. It is his body that is staked to the front of Dregoth's Tower. The sorcerer-kings hunted the man down after murdering Dregoth and hung him there as a sign to those who might have believed in the power of the Dread King's religion.