Lords of the Cruth Lowlands - Vaults of Pandius

Atlas of the Lowlands
sacred to the Lord of the Light, and she
chose the city to hide a very powerful
artifact, a constellation map whose
purpose was to slowly absorb magical
power and bring eternal night to the world.
In the Taymoran language, the city was
named Kosmoteiros, “Signs of the
Universe”.
When the war between followers of Nyx
and Thanatos was at its height, a powerful
army in service of the Dark Lord
conquered the city with the ultimate goal
of stealing the artifact. To prevent it, the
priests of Nyx destroyed the temple,
opening a chasm to the dephts of the
earth. The struggle for the artifact would
have continued, but the destruction of
Taymor also destroyed any memory of the
city and its secret. The People of the Night,
survivors of Taymor, and later the Traldars
and Hutaakans considered the place
cursed, naming it Koskatep in the
Hutaakan language.
But, obviously, Nyx and Thanatos have not
forgotten, and neither has Ixion. Many
times during the centuries the three
Immortals have sent priests and
adventurers to Koskatep, to retrieve the
artifact or prevent others from recovering
it or, in the case of Ixion, to protect even
more ancient secrets.
However, in 998 AC the Sons of Night
established a stronghold among the ruins,
manned by a fraternity of Darkers in
control of the entire sect in Karameikos,
under the leadership of Anna Exoter. The
Darkers have recovered the artifact of
Nyx, and collected a large amount of
arcane lore and magical items. However,
they are still unable to use the artifact
itself.
The Darkers are served by all manners of
undead, both intelligent and mindless, and
use constructs and traps to guarantee the
security of their vaults from both
adventurers and monsters.
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