The Dwarven Chasmleap Bridge (watch your step). [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Francius

04-27-07, 03:32 PM
This time we venture to the northwest from our lush Dalelands forests, and our trail leads us just south of Silverymoon, inside the thick and high canopy of the High Forest.

It is not this foreign land's aboveground geomorphologic breathtaking beauty that concerns us, however.

For we are about to descend deep inside the earth and under this region's landscape - deep down the earth's soil where another milestone of Dwarven building engineer awaits to be explored...
Francius

04-27-07, 03:32 PM
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The Chasm span's underground edges (projected in the aboveground territory).




THE CHASMLEAP BRIDGE


This railless, smooth stone arch is over a thousand paces in length, but only six paces wide. It spans The Long Chasm, a great gorge in the Northdark, those subterranean realms that underlie the Sword Coast North.

The Long Chasm runs for some sixty miles, roughly northeast to southwest, from west of Everlund to under the Woods of Turlang.

The Chasmleap Bridge is smooth to the touch, so cunningly finished that it appears to be fashioned of a single, solid piece of stone. Here and there along its deck are carved old and intricate runes, their meaning unknown to the dwarves of today.


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The underground "Chasmleap Bridge" and its mysterious and eerie surrounding atmosphere...


Legends hold that these runes mark the sites of gates to other worlds or planes, or the locations of storage cavities hidden in the bridge itself-cavities holding powerful magical weapons.

If these legends are true, the means of activating or entering these magical openings is forgotten. Still, some adventurers still vanish on the Chasmleap Bridge from time to time, and not all are found to have simply fallen the half mile down to their deaths.

At the same time, their disappearances cannot all be attributed to the monsters that lurk on or fly near the bridge, waiting for dinner to come trudging up towards them. Undoubtedly the Chasmleap Bridge holds other sinister secrets that have cost many their lives.



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The orc & goblin hordes gather to invade the stout folk's long and highly crafted settlements...


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...yet the Faerunian Dwarves are ready to face the invading armies and defend their halls of stone.
Francius

04-27-07, 03:33 PM
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Francius

04-27-07, 03:33 PM
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Francius

04-27-07, 03:34 PM
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