=====Golorr=====

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====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 dwarf 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 to his family, but they searched for him 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 seems knows the exact location of the stone and there are conflicting claims of who has it. It might be hidden 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, or someone in one of [[Waterdeep]]'s factions or nobility might still have it.

====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 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.