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-Xanathar
-Krentz
-Zemk
-Grum'shar
-Brisborn Quickdeer
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 Would you throw that away? Would you squander such a gift, given the chance? Fools!, you rage against the tide, blind to the glory of the ocean it feeds."
-====Waterdeep Nobility====
-===Laeral Silverhand===
-Lord silverhand is the Open Lord of Waterdeep.
-===Gralhund===
-Gralhund Manor is currently occupied by [[#Urstul Floxin]] , a top ranking [[#Zhentarim]]
-According to the Alexandrian, this is an important location
-===Cassalanter===
-Ammalia and Victoro Cassalanters, facing imminent bankruptcy, struck a deal with [[#Asmodeus]] whose cult they now must secretly lead. See WDH p115. They are desperate to find [[#Golorr]] so they can "pay off" Asmodeus with the treasure and save their twin children who are about to become his victims at their birthday.
-===Renaer===
-Renaer Neverember
-is a nobleman, son of the former Open Lord of Waterdeep, Dagult Neverember who was succeeded by [[#Laeral Silverhand]]. Dagult is now  Lord Protector of Neverwinter.
-Renaer's mother died in his youth, bequeathing her riches entirely to Renaer, much to the chagrin of Dagult, and leading to their deepening estrangement, with Dagult gradually abandoned the Neverember estates and holdings, and his lordly duties in Waterdeep, in favor of his new schemes and enterprises in Neverwinter (his hometown), resulting in his expulsion from Waterdeep by the Masked Lords.
-Renaer, deigned to leave Waterdeep, and purchased [[Brandarthall]] (formerly Phylund house) as his personal residence. He retains much ancestral wealth, including several businesses and a "summer estate" on the isle of [[Mintarn]].
-[[Brandarthall]] (now known mainly as "Renaer's party place") is a fine four-story residence in the Sea Ward.
-His friends have an open invitation to use the house as they please and there is a party every night, but Renaer spends much of his free time out and about in various taverns.
-Renaer is a member of the [[#Harpers]]. He is talented at impressions, particularly with his voice. He collects books and is very well read in history and local lore.
-==Combat Stats==
-  *Armor Class 19 (leather armor)
-  *Hit Points 66
-  *Dagger. +6, 1d4+4.
-  *Rapier. +6, 1d8+4
-  *Multiattack. The swashbuckler makes three attacks: one with a dagger and two with its rapier.
-  *Lightfooted. Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on each of its turns.
-==Skills==
-  *STR +1
-  *DEX +4
-  *CON +1
-  *INT +2
-  *WIS 0
-  *CHA +2
-  *Acrobatics +8
-  *Arcana +3
-  *Athletics +5
-  *History +7
-  *Performance +8 (impressions)
-  *Persuasion +6
-===Dagult Neverember===
-Renaer's estranged father, lord of Neverwinter.
-Dagult hired Dalakhar to steal the Stone of [[#Golorr]] from [[#Xanathar]].
-===Urtos Phylund===
-see [[Urtos's Secret]] plotline linking [[Xundia]] and [[Malmac]]
-===Volo===
-Volothamp Geddarm (WDH p218)
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-====Waterdeep City officials====
-===Capt Staget===
-See WDHp27
-===Corporal Klegg===
-A wiry, fearless, and good-humored fellow, he will leap into action with a truncheon (d6) and two attacks per turn.
-He has DEX +2, 12 AC, 11 HP
-====Shopkeepers====
-===Trullskull Alley (Waterdeep)===
-  *Fala Lefaliir (F wood elf) runs //Corellon's Crown//, the Apothecary next door
-  *Tally (M half-elf) runs //The Bent Nail// and makes furniture
-  *//Steam and Steel// where a gay married couple: Embric (fire genasi) & Avi (water genasi) run the forge.
-  *//Tiger's Eye// - A private detective business operated by a male human named Vincent Trench.
-  *//Book Wyrm's Treasure// - A bookstore managed by a male gold dragonborn named Rishaal the Page-Turner.
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-====Xanathar====
-The Xanathar guild is organized crime, basically the Mafia. They suffer from despotic and unpredictable leadership.
-Xanathar wants the stone of [[#Golorr]] but has no idea who has it now.
-Xanathar is not yet, but will become the target of [[Esme]]'s vengeance for the assassination of her father.
-===Krentz===
-Krentz is a Human Thug who leads a small group of bandits for the Xanathar Guild,
-He is easily identified by the large blue and yellow tattoos of eyes on his bald head.
-He is [[Esme]]'s secret lover (and cousin)
-  *Pack Tactics: advantage on attack rolls when allies are within 5 ft. of the target and the ally isn't incapacitated.
-  *Multiattack: The thug makes two melee attacks.
-  *Mace: +4 to hit, 1d6+2 dmg.
-  *Heavy Crossbow: +2 to hit, range 100/400 ft., 1d10 dmg.
-  *STR, CON +2
-  *Intimidation +2
-===Zemk===
-Krentz's sidekick, a half-orc bandit. AC 12 (leather armor), 11 HP, Short Sword +0, d6 dmg
-===Grum'shar===
-Half-Orc Apprentice Wizard (modified to 16 STR). AC 10, 12 HP, Longsword +3, d8+3
-Cantrips: Fire Bolt, Mending, Prestidigitation
-st Lvl (2 slots) Spells: Burning Hands, Shield, Disguise Self
-===Brisborn Quickdeer===
-[[Esme]]'s dad was a Xanathar smuggler, but Esme did not know this until after his death, as revealed by [[#Krentz]]
-Any Xanathar agent knows: (d6)
-  *1,2 - Never heard of him.
-  *3 - sure the blacksmith.
-  *4 - yeah I played poker with him a couple times
-  *5 - yeah, we played poker. He owes money to [[Sharkey]] down in skullport. I haven't seen him in a while.
-  *6 - He was caught embezzling and ordered to be "taken out"
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-====Zhentarim====
-The Zhentarim are basically the Dutch East India company or the Hudson Bay company.
-===Davil===
-Davil Starsong - (see DH p 198-199) is Master Of Opportunities (HR, Business Development) for the Zhentarim. He slowly and cautiously cultivates opportunities and is not one to give away information quickly.
-[[#Yagra]] is Davil's bodyguard.
-===Yagra===
-Yagra Strongfist is a lovely half-orc Zhentarim agent. She's a Thug plus half orc racial abilities, Relentless Endurance and darkvision. See WDH page 20.
-As the personal bodyguard for [[#Davil]] Starsong (WDH p198), she is actually quite high level in the guild, and privvy to a lot of top secret info, though lacking some detail. Her job causes her to seldom stray from the YP, since she must keep an eye on [[#Davil]].
-She will easily refer interested parties to speak to Davil about Zhentarim recruitment opportunities.
-She is in love with [[Lakdorf]]
-===Urstul Floxin===
-Urstul Floxin is the Zhentarim regional director. His headquarters are in the villa of the [[#Gralhund]] family. He is spearheading a search for the Stone of Golorr.
-===Tvinza Gerast===
-Tvinza Gerast is the Zhentarim Regional director of chultan operations, but has been relegated to trying to keep the division afloat by any means necessary including getting his hands dirty in the failing mining operations in southern Chult.
-He is in over his head and desperate for any way to turn things around. He has taken up correspondence with Urstal Floxin for advice, but is in danger wearing out his welcome.
-Tvinza is beginning to think that the Dwarves have ripped him off. He is paying them a lease for mining rights but the ore seams here seem to have been run dry. In reality, the Dwarves just want to take advantage of the Zhentarime supply chain to easily acquire cheeses and grains for brewing and baking. This allows them to vastly cut back on the need for other trade forays above ground.
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-==== Tymantherian ====
-The Dragonborn aristocracy of Tymanther is the homeland of [[Malmac]].
-===Vorzric===
-Vorzric is Malmac's estranged father.
-At the age of 12, Vorzric, had become ashamed of his son's impulsive actions, and in frustration sent the boy off with Nadaar, the great adventurer. Though infuriated me, Malmac obeyed his father's orders.
-For 5 years Malmac travelled under Nadaar's stern tutelage, where he grew in discipline, skill, and honour, but on his return home, my Vorzric was still mistrustful of his changed ways. There was a great argument and Malmac swore to not reenter Tymanther until Vorzric apologized. His sister Adgrah is furious with him.
-===Hama===
-[[Malmac]] seeks Hama Pashar, a female human paladin, of Nadaar’s Party who was recently known to have been in Waterdeep.
-Hama Pashar has come to search for Nadaar because she believes he has entered undermountain. (He left her a clue, knowing her honor would demand she track him, but he built in delays into the clues to give himself a headstart)
-===Nadaar===
-[[Malmac]]'s mentor. Some time ago, Nadaar began to experience things which led him to beleive he was developing lycanthropy. Some research led him to the story of Urtos III, who Nadaar suspects may be immortal, and he is now trying to track him down.
-At [[Phylund Lodge]] he discovered a map which led him to the secret river passage and into Undermountain(level 3, DOTMM p45 waterfall dumps just upstream of loc 16b. He left the gnoll inhabitants of Phylund intact to reduce the chances of being followed by anyone else.
-Hama or Malmac will eventually find Nadaar who is on the verge of finding [[Urtos's secret]]
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 ====Pirates====
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   *Grappling Ballista: +6 to hit, range 120/480 ft., 3d10 piercing damage.
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-====Aboleth League====
-All the Aboleths are searching for Prince [[#Golorr]] so they can set him free.
-===Golorr===
-[[https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Stone_of_Golorr]]
-==Backstory==
-Golorr is an Aboleth prince - the son of Queen Oothoon. Long ago (Aboleths do not keep track of time), he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a powerful wizard sensing his telepathic powers, transformed him into a device for controlling memories. The form of the device is a small smooth stone with three eyes. The ritual involved several enchantment components, including "confusion", which prevents Golorr from thinking clearly and a form of "compulsion" that keeps him aware of a specific "injected fact".
-Golorr's fate was unknown, but his family has searched for him, and does so to this day.
-The stone changed hands and was used for various nefarious and sometimes illogical purposes which did not help Golorr's mental stability. The personality flaws and foibles of each user were Golorr's only outside contact aside from his own troubled mind, and thus over time he began to regard them as valued parts of his psyche. Each consecutive user who contacted Golorr became slightly more effected by his clouded and chaotic psychic trauma. Golorr subconsciously longs to escape his enchantment, so users also become overcome with a need to escape from some unknown subconscious state.
-==Recent events==
-A few years ago, [[#Dagult Neverember]] used the stone to hide the location of a massive hoard of gold embezzled from the economy of Waterdeep.
-The stone has recently been the subject of a string of thefts. Xanathar managed to get it at one point, but Dagult hired [[#Dalakhar]] to steal it back from [[#Xanathar]]. Dalakhar then failed to report back to Dagult and has not been seen since.
-Nobody knows the exact location of the stone. It is most likely somewhere in or under Waterdeep - [[https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/42791/roleplaying-games/dragon-heist-remix-part-5-clues-and-timelines]] or possibly, in the Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
-==Effects and Usage==
-By meditating on The "Stone of Golorr", the user's subconscious joins with the aboleth's memory in a similar way as the [[https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Spells:Legend%20Lore/#h-Legend%20Lore|Legend Lore]] spell. This allows a user to "inject" or "read" a specific fact.
-However, when skin contact is broken, this knowledge fades like a dream and all knowledge of the stone or Golorr himself is taken with it - wiped from the character's memory. The character can describe the dream-like information to his companions only while still holding the stone, immediately after the meditation.
-Trapped inside the stone, Golorr wishes to return to his Aboleth form and to his family.
-The other Aboleth's seek to rescue Golorr from his curse. Because of his obsession with freedom, the dream state will almost always contain partial information to this end, but also to the recent string of thefts and passing along to many holders. If the stone holder rejects Golorr's pleas, he may attempt to seize control (possess) the holder, or cause them psychic damage.
-Currently, Golorr holds the knowledge of the location of the Vault of Dragons containing a treasure embezzled by [[#Dagult Neverember]] when he was Open Lord of Waterdeep. Characters can only find this out by focused meditation on this particular subject, essentially "asking the right question". (Currently, the party has no inkling of this plot line). However, Golorr will vaguely refer to his recent string of thefts.
-==Freeing Golorr==
-Golorr can possibly be freed from the stone using an Antipathy spell cast at level 8 or higher, which subconsciously overrides other conditioning. However, if Golorr were freed in this way, it would likely go berserk and attack any nearby creatures.
-Golorr wishes to avenge his capture, but he does not know how he came to be imprisoned in the stone. He remembers only that the perpetrators were dwarves. This has been the only thought he has managed to leak out to his brother Eemmaat from across space. Slowly, Eemmaat came to a gradual realization that dwarves are behind his brother's dissappearance. He mercilesly seeks to interrogate all of dwarf-kind.
-===Eemmaat===
-Eemmaat is an
-[[https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Aboleth|Aboleth]], brother of [[#Golorr]] and son of queen Oothoon. He is in chult, trying to track down [[#Golorr]]
-The party briefly ran into them en route to Chult and will meet again in
- in ToA "Tomb of the Nine Gods" level 5 (Gears of Hate) on p174 (ToA refers to him as G'lyh'rul) as he is searching through subterranean waterways in his quest for [[#Golorr]]
-Eemmaat is responsible for the abduction of dwarves from [[Hrakhamar]]. He takes them to [[#Withers]] in the Tomb of Annihilation. Withers is a former Omuan priest who serves the lich Acererak. Withers performs a ritual that transforms the remains of dead dwarves into these undead Tomb Dwarves (wights with axes), who then maintain and expand the tomb and reset the traps within the tomb.
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 ====Gods====
 ===Atropol===
-A disgusting half formed fetal god. He is the aborted offspring of [[#Asmodeus]] and Istus, whom he hates and has vowed to destroy.
+A disgusting half formed fetal god. He is the aborted offspring of [[#Asmodeus]] and Istus. Though barely sentient, Atropol absolutely despises his parents for creating him, and his only thought is for their destruction.
 Acerak the Lich foolishly believes he can control Atropol and is trying to raise it.
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 ===Asmodeus===
-Asmodeus and [[#Istus]] are the parents of [[#Atropal]], who they left for dead.
+Asmodeus and [[#Istus]] are the parents of [[#Atropol]], who they left for dead.
-Nobody is supposed to know this, but rumors abound in hell.
+Nobody is supposed to know this, but rumors abound in hell, and Calcifer rooted out these rumors.
-A demon named [[#Zalekoth]] has been sent to Chult to corroborate the rumor.
+A demon named [[#Zalekoth]] has been sent to Chult to corroborate the rumor, locate and terminate Atropol.
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 Istus is a goddess of fortune and fate, served by [[Ak]] and perhaps a very few other scattered clerics, but her fame failed to blossom and has faded into obscurity.
-[[#Asmodeus]] and Istus are the parents of [[#Atropal]]
+[[#Asmodeus]] and Istus are the parents of [[#Atropol]]
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