>>5378858You and your forces have left the two conquered dwarf-outposts to the Drow—the dark-skinned, dark-hearted elves who are your allies in this place. Their leader, the ‘Princess’ Jazkarmel (the title is less auspicious than you might expect) has returned to her people to negotiate further aid and a more concrete alliance with her queenly superior; in her absence, her forces largely defer to you. So too do the kobolds, and the cowed dwarven slaves who help to open the collapsed tunnels beneath the kobold caverns, exposing ancestral secrets of ancient days, when dragons ruled the earth. You have thus extracted a great deal of mineral wealth, as well as opened up the humble, primitive living spaces of the kobolds into a wider complex of grand-but-abandoned halls. You yourself have taken up residence in what looks to have once been some sort of meeting-room for delegates; you hear audiences in a throne-like stone chair no-doubt once intended for a chief representative of the Dragon King of Bloodrise.
In addition to this mineral wealth, a font of knowledge opens up to you. You had already extracted much of value from the private library intended for the Dragon King’s hatchlings, who died without being born. Well… That which was not lost when you collapsed the space to safeguard it from raiders, or stolen by a certain traitorous kobold. Now, though, you uncover new scholastic wings, much of the contents lost to the ages but still others ripe for translation, study, and exploitation! That which you CAN understand—or rather that which can be properly understood and conveyed by your close companion, the young Serpent Priestess who you know best as ‘The Novice’—helps to enrich your magic lessons, and that of your dwarven ‘apprentice’, Karz Throat-singer.
