The party can help the giants by leaping onto the attackers etc. If their giant dies, they will die the grey death in the Sea of Silt.
They arrive on the shore and the giants take them to their settlement. As they come over some mountains there is lush green in the distance like they have never seen. Grass and trees, vines and pools of water.
As they come in they see there is a small figure sitting on the head giants shoulder. He is their leader, but he is enthralled and magically controlled by a human. This is Karshore – a member of the Veiled Alliance. He always whispers in the giant’s ear before the giant speaks.
He has come here to control access to the cyclops powers on behalf of The Veiled Alliance.
He will ask them who they are, where they have come from and what they want?
If you want the key, he will want to know why. If they tell him of the avangeon he will want to meet the being. He will not let the giants let the party see the cyclops otherwise. He will think they are lying.
The giants live in a Giants Cave at the base of an enormous volcano. There are 8 giants living in primitive conditions in the cave complex see the map Giants Cave.
He will want to know why they want to see the cyclops who lives alone along a winding path that leads to the top of the volcano.
He will have them carried to the Storage Room and placed inside one of two roomsized chests. In the other chest is an old defiler named Krowton. They say that if the Avangion is real he will surely save them. The size of a room. This is their cell. They will be fed enormous bread roll once a day. A giant will open the box. If they escape the defiler will call to them. Krowton will try to escape and they will hear him. If they escape he will cry for help.
They can escape and find the path up the volcano themselves.
The path up the volcano is narrow and windy.
The cyclops Dojen-Ra reveals that he was trapped up here by Dregoth who destroyed the wider path so the giants could no longer visit their shaman. They lost their spiritual guide. Even more surprisingly he tells them that Dregoth is still alive and that he can see him lurking under the ruins of Giustenal building an army using the darkest magic.
The cyclops is fed by a tribe thri-kreen who live near the peak. They were enslaved by Dregoth and worship him as a god.
The cyclops reveals the key is at the Vault of the Veiled Alliance. In the north of the Kreegill mountain range. The doors are concealed by illusion magic.
