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DarkangelUziel 05-24-07, 10:57 AM	At the end of the Forgotten Forge they find a map of a land between Cyre and Darguun (out of the top of my head) and it has all kinds of symbols on it. It says that it is mentioned in Shadows of the Last War what these signs mean, but I can't seem to find them. The only thing I can come up with is that it is a map, roughly the same as the one they find in Darguun in Shadows of the Last War with all sorts of Vetsments of House Cannith on it. In that case I could probably use the picture of Merrix d'Cannith from the bok Dragonmarked, where he stand over the table, but I'm not sure if I'm rght about this. ANybody else know what these signs mean??
kentonblack 05-24-07, 09:23 PM	Really, they were plot hooks used to make DM's think more. If your players asked "what do these symbols mean" eventually, you would ask... (oN a side note, I just realised that a player who recently died made a detailed map of that area. And he killed the only other person in the blood of Vol to make a detailed investigation of the map. Which makes the late players journal VERY important to the emerald claw. thanks man!) Anyways, the map detailed several areas...*gets his copy of the module*...including: -Whitehearth -Tallis -Cabblen Hall -Blackhearth -Kronu Hall -Redhearth Judging by the description in the module, they all reside somewhere in the mournland, and judging by the logic of the module, they all are owned by house Cannith and most likely deal in Heavy experimentation(whitehearth having been a magical development facility that unknowingly created a firebombing box powered by fire elementals...)
DarkangelUziel 05-25-07, 02:59 AM	I know that they are plothooks, but it specifically says that in the second advetnure they are used as well and since I am going to play that next adventure as well, I wanted to know what they meant, but I couldn't find the specifics. But looking at those names it seems like my diea was right. Thanx for the reply:)
Neutronium_Dragon 05-26-07, 12:03 AM	I suspect that it was intended to be used as a hook, but plans got changed between the finalization of the ECS and the completion of SotLW. It would be difficult for the map to relate to near-modern Cannith holdings in the Mournland though, since the foundry in The Forgotten Forge was (if I recall) operated and lost during the War of the Mark period, which would make the map seriously out of date...
amerigoV 05-26-07, 07:56 AM	I actually found a good use for it. In Shadows, my group did assault the Emerald Claw camp. I rolled rather poorly, and the PCs survived (some of the EC withdrew). The party was beat up and withdrew as well. I decided that Garrow figured out the floor map, smashed the statues and took their heads, then refilled the place with rubble and fled the area. The "mysterious map" just had a few landmarks and in one of the margines had the information that was on the back of the statue's head. This allowed them to still have the same puzzle, but I then the EC's could take reasonable actions (destroy the evidence) without derailing the adventure.