The Green Warder

Brief History

Starglance Temple was dedicated to Sehanine Moonbow in the early days of 3 DR when visions drove a young girl among the Ulondarr Clan to seek out the moonstone studded grotto, open to the night sky, beneath Starglance Hill. Since that time, the surrounding area has been developed into a mostly unspoiled temple community, dedicated to the Daughter of the Night Skies. The legacy of the sibylline oracles of Sehanine made the site a popular pilgrimage destination throughout the history of Cormanthyr. The nature of the site changed once more in 75 DR, when the destruction of Tsornyl by Moander Darkbringer drove the southern Moonshadows to seek out a new stronghold. With the permission of the oracles, they chose Starglance, and have inhabited this place in ever decreasing numbers for centuries.

For centuries uncounted, the fierce forest trolls of southern Cormanthor have inhabited the ruins of Tsornyl deep in the Darkwatch. Despite the fierce nature of the Madwood as the place is sometimes called, the Darkwatch trolls have considered these elven ruins to be their home, and operate from its dark boughs with near impunity. Always a nuisance to the Moonshadows and Deepingdale, but rarely more, something has changed about the trolls in the last decade. Gone is the random violence and disunity of the past, for new leaders are arising in the black depths of the Darkwatch. Marked with strange, chalk white markings on their green hides resembling nothing so much as a spider, many among the Moonshadows suspect that their traditional enemy has joined with an enemy far ancient, and that Spider Queen now draws upon the loyalty of the vile giants.

The Lost Rider

A Moonshadow rider from Velethuil was expected in Starglance four days ago, and Sesadi Firehawk has been dispatched from Starglance to seek her. A day earlier, in a hollow less than a day from Starglance, the body of the rider's stormcat was discovered along with troll sign. Sesadi has been tracking the band since then, steadily northeast, and fears the rider, Liandris Mornmist, is being taken to the Darkwatch and out of the reach of her people.

===The Darkwatch Raiders==

The raiders are indeed marauders from Darkwatch, with standing orders to slay or capture any elf they find along their path. The servants of Lloth within Tsornyl are eager to discover all they can about the defenses of the Semberwood and Deepingdale, and relish the chance to subject their captives to the mind shattering mercies of the Spider Queen.

The small band is currently holed up in a small river cave near a tributary of the Glaemril, under the ruins of an ancient elven watchtower. The caves are known to both the Darkwatch trolls and the Moonshadows, and has been skirmished over more than once.

(4) Forest Trolls (MMIII)

(1) Graul (Lloth-touched Troll)

(1) Lloth-touched Huge Spider, which serves as the leader's mount and carries the venom drugged Liandris Mornmist.

Treasures of the Raiding Party

I.

• 500 gp
• Copper anklet plaited with silver (100gp)
• Moonstone bar (50gp)
• Least Augment crystal (M24)

II.

• 7000sp
• Silver ewer (50gp)
• thin adamantine armband with filigree carvings (250gp)
• Quaal's feather token, tree
• wand of bless (10 charges)

III.

• 6000sp
• Quaal's feather token, fan
• Chain shirt

IV.

• 10000sp
• Backpack made of rhinoceros hide (50gp)
• Cloth of gold vestments (Waukeen) (100gp)
• Elixir of vision
• Scroll of bull's strength (Waukeen)

Gruall

• 300 gp
• Mithril circlet engraved with elvish poetry (250gp)
• Ornate wooden box (50gp)
• Onyx sphere with trees carved in relief(500gp)
• Armband of elusive action (M72)
• Wand of cure light wounds (10 charges)

Spider

• 150gp
• Jade cameo pendant (a young woman, human)(250gp)
• Crystal of lifekeeping, lesser (M25)

Brief History

The Green Haven of Tuman'thaas was constructed in 632 DR as a retreat and magical haven by the moon elven wizard Aundas Maerdrym. As a long standing member of Myth Drannor's Guild of Naturalists, Aundas had a keen interest in the oddities of the natural world, in his case, the interest was botany. The young wizard gained a reputation as a first-rate scholar and experimentalist, and utilized Tuman'thaas as a quite retreat from the distractions of his family and peers in the City of Song.

Aundas' research took him to far flung locations in search of flora and fauna to investigate, and though little of the wizard's legacy has lived on to be remembered in the halls of knowledge outside of Myth Drannor, he is known for his extensive research into the complex web of portals and gates that crisscrossed both Cormanthor and indeed all of Faerun. When tragedy struck the City of Beauty, Aundas found himself on the front lines of conflict, using his knowledge of magic and transmutation to create great and terrible beasts of plant and flesh which tore through the ranks of the Army of Darkness. The histories recount that when Myth Drannor itself came under assault, several members of his family were slain, including his betrothed. Aundas withdrew from the remainder of the fight in grief, returning to his haven of Tuman'thaas where he had spent so many happy years surrounded by his work and hobbies. Though he was expected by friends and family in Evermeet, he never arrived, nor did he make himself discoverable by the divination magics of the survivors. In time, the memory of Aundas Maerdrym faded into all but the most obscure of arcane knowledge.

Then

The haven constructed by Aundas Maerdrym in the Year of Burning Skies was a place of quite and serene beauty in the old moon elven style. Built on a small rise deep in the Semberwood, on the site of a natural spring, the haven was a tiered structure mostly open to the beauty of nature, protected from the extremes of the forest by the protective magics of the archmage.

The structure was roughly divided into three general areas. As one ascended the hill, the bottom level was given over the public area, for whatever rare visitors, family and guests would spend time in Aundas' Haven. The middle level of the hill was dedicated to the private residence of Aundas, with an enchanted garden to supply an ever flowing food supply, contemplation gardens, and reverie chamber. The top of the hill served as Aundas' research library and casting chambers and also the access to his portal chambers.

Much of the governance of the day to day affairs of the Haven was given over to the care of Nestorrin, a green warder in service to the Maerdrym Clan for over three hundred years. The creature had cared for the Maerdrym estate in Myth Drannor, and Aundas convinced the servant to come with him to Tuman'thaas when he left in 632 DR. Nestorrin guarded the facility while his master was away and maintained the gardens and apartments with care and grace.

Now

When Aundas' returned from the front in 712 DR, the Year of the Lost Lance, he was a changed man. Gone was the bright eyed researcher and lover of growing things. The war had made the moon elf hard, and the loss of his family had made him bitter. Aundas' was uninterested in watching the collapse of his civilization, but he lacked the drive to expend himself in defense of a crumbling city. By withdrawing to Tuman'thaas, he withdrew completely from the world around him, falling into his work, which itself became darker and more aggressive. He allowed the great garden walls to grow taller and taller, until they completely blocked out the surrounding woodland. Seeds of his research found fertile soil in the enchanted gardens and bowers of his domain, growing into assassin vines and spawning aggressive animate plant life all out of the ability of Nestorrin to defeat it. Finally, in 827 DR, an experimental attempt to fuse plant to flesh in the form of a minotaur like creature got away from him and the now mad moon elf was slain. The creature that killed him, a horrible combination of plant and minotaur, was left to run amok in the now maze-like confines of the Haven, shattering statuary and snapping furniture like kindling.

Yet fate had not finished with the sad tale of Aundas' Maerdrym. For his dark spirit could find no rest even in death. The shade of Aundas' Maerdrym lingers still, in the tangled vines and twisted briar passages of Tuman'thaas, awaiting a time when his research can be claimed by another, and continued into a legacy.

The Codex of Many Wanderings

In it's day, Tuman'thaas was a storehouse of alchemical potions, tinctures, and oils, as well as the storehouse of many volumes of scrolls penned by the hand of Aundas' Maerdrym. Sadly, much of the knowledge once contained within this bower has crumbled or rotted away to mulch. However, one great treasure of the archmage Aundas remains, preserved by the most powerful protective magic at his disposal.

Codex of Many Wanderings Price (Item Level): Unknown Body Slot: Unslotted Caster Level: 17th Aura: Strong; (DC 23) conjuration Weight: 6 lb. The Codex of Many Wanderings is a heavy, wood-bound tome inked in a deep blue, steady hand. The book is well carved, depicting a forest on the front cover, fading into a mountain range on the binding, and finally the shore of a broad sea on the back. The book was penned by the hand of Aundas' Maerdrym himself, and is inked in deep, pleasing blue and liberally illustrated with diagrams and lovingly drawn illustrations of his observations across the breadth of Cormanthor and beyond. Additionally, the book is possessed of a fraction of Aumas' Maerdrym's own personality, and is quite intelligent.

Other Treasures of Tuman'thaas

Minotaur

• 7,000 sp
• A slender marble female elven figurine, nude, about 6 inches tall, in mid-dance (70 gp)
• A rearing unicorn statue, about 6 lbs, carved of a block of amber (1,000 gp)
• (Magic) A Healing Belt (M110).
• Three smokesticks, in a sealed, stiff leather pouch.

Assassin Vine

• 60 gp
• A silver ring set with blue quartz (50 gp)
• (Magic) Scroll (arcane) of mass snake's swiftness.

(3) Wood Woads

• 2,000 sp
• purple velvet gloves with silver stitching (50 gp)
• silver chalice with lapis inlay (100 gp)
• Duskwood breastplate
• Heavy duskwood shield

• 1,000 sp
• (magic) potion, peach/clear (lesser restoration)
• (magic) potion, green/cloudy (cure light wounds)

• 800 gp
• ornate wooden box (50 gp)
• a collection of corals (100 gp)
• (magic) Amulet of Aquatic Salvation (M68)