The nest

Maru Mausoleum

Tar moved quickly and as silently as he possibly could through the narrow pathways between the tombs. He tried to put some distance between him and the fighting.

Hopefully the man and the woman could distract the Naylmo long enough so that he could explore the main crypt at the centre of the cemetery. Where the beast had made its nest now for several seasons.

They had not been the first he had lured down here. But Tar hoped they would be more capable. Or at least not die almost immediately like the last two. Maybe the motivation for finding their friends proved to be stronger than gold.

The circular tomb stood in the centre of the mausoleum. All paths led to it. All notable members of the Maru clan had been entombed there for generations, until just after the days of the the Fall and the Jade War. Before the Odonine renounced the deep and turned their back on the old ways. When the cult of Noraura usurped the one of Fosia.

His vision at the Fire-Shrine was clear. He no longer felt he was mad. Here he would find Fosia's Hammer, Ichor of Solitude. Which would led him to the Amulet of Queens...

He saw the huge statue of an old bearded man atop the central tomb and continued to make his way to it.

He didn't have long....