Emberdale

Current arc · Second realm behind the mirrors

A town beneath a volcano, and it is freezing.

Arrival

Two portals had opened in Urmon's Temple while the party was in the swamp. One showed a farming town. The other showed a mountain of fire.

They chose the mountain.

It felt warm going through.

Snowflakes fall in symmetrical patterns — the same geometry the party last saw in a Phandalin turned white.

A path leads up the volcano, lined with lanterns.

Halfway up, the lanterns stop being lit.

What they know

• The name, from a tablet recovered in the Surveyor's Sepulcher
• A volcano, and a town somewhere beneath it
• A lantern-lined path up the mountain, unlit past the halfway point
• Snow, falling in Diamabel's geometry

What it means

Diamabel was here first. The snowflakes are the same signature the party saw on the buildings and the apples of a corrected Phandalin — order imposed where it doesn't belong.

A volcano that has gone cold is not a natural thing. Something here has been made clean.

Open threads

• Where is the anchor? Nobody has found it, or the town.
• Why do the lanterns stop? Somebody lit the bottom half and stopped.
• The party has not entered the town yet.

This page fills in as they explore.