The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

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Introduction
Welcome to The Drow War, Book Two: The
Dying of the Light!
This is a linked series of three 256-page books. Each
one contains a single epic story broken into ten parts,
thus making thirty discrete adventures in total, all tied
in to one overarching saga.
The adventures are structured to take the characters
concerned from 1 st level to 30 th level. Each book covers
a span of ten levels, meaning that every adventure will
(if completed successfully) advance the characters by
approximately one level of experience. Naturally, this
outcome is not guaranteed, nor is the progress going to
be one long grind!
The story of the Drow War continues where it left off,
in the aftermath of the war for Caldraza. A mysterious
messenger brings the news that the threat of the drow
is by no means wiped out. A strike from below will
come any day now. Powerful friends wait to aid the
Player Characters in the city of Crom Calamar, the
unconquered capital of Jehannum, Nation of Warriors.
The attack comes in a way nobody could have foreseen
– from below. Immense battle-spires, the Darkspears,
smash up through the city streets and shed a pall of
unending night across the rooftops and battlements. In
the course of a day, a whole nation falls to the drow and
the crowned heads of Ashfar are thrown into turmoil.
The Player Characters are thrown centre stage, as the
fate of the entire world is placed upon their shoulders.
At Xoth Sarandi, the island called the Crossroads of the
World, the diplomats convene and it is there that the
Player Characters must make their stand.
First, though, there is an ocean to cross, with strange
secrets brooding in the deep. The menace of the
maelstrom is not the mere ocean hazard that it appears,
and the pirate tribe called the Sea Harriers prove to
be more than just a band of opportunistic brigands.
Legends tell of sunken cities far to the south, but not all
sunken cities stay sunken, not when there are deals to be
made with ancient creatures from times before mankind
arose.
Xoth Sarandi provides the opportunity to play politics
and avoid the daggers of assassins in back alleys. New
friends provide welcome help; the guidance of a Conclave
of powerful elven mages, tired of their government’s
endless neutrality, gives the Player Characters valuable
leads to follow. To break the drow’s dark spell, the
Players must find out how it was woven, which leads
to quests into the most icy and remote corners of the
world. From there, gateways to worlds darker and more
sinister still offer new challenging dimensions.
The long road to final confrontation with the drow
takes the Player Characters to deep, accursed deserts,
cities where the memories of the dead walk, mines
deep underground where traitors plot and scheme,
the workshops of the grey dwarves where mechanical
monstrosities wait to be unleashed and ultimately to
distant peaks where only dragons dwell.
Ultimately, the Player Characters will be the force to
unite the free nations against the drow, if they have the
wit and the will to do so. In this series of adventures,
they are doing more than avoiding traps and killing
monsters. They must mobilise armies, hold counsel
with kings and give the orders that, as every oracle
knows, always lead to death. Whether the Players or
the Dark prevail remains to be seen; there are no set
endings and no certain answers. Failure is always a
possibility, as without the threat of failure, there is no
reward in victory.
The Drow War, Book Two: The Dying of the Light
continues the adventure begun in The Drow War, Book
One: The Gathering Storm. The campaign concludes in
The Drow War, Book Three: The Darkest Hour.
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