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Fifth Age - Hell on Urthe: The Storming of Meneldrod

Ayas, it turned out, had been imprisoned for his chance sighting of Meneldorod ("The Mountain in the Sky"), a flying mountain upon which stood a Giant's Tower and where the fourth portal was to be found, somewhere in the vicinity of Faugond (Rocky Gully as once was, where Brugar's kin once dwelled).

The journey to Faugond was fraught with difficulties, not least of which was containing Hamin with magic and strong chains for the three days around the full moon when the curse of lycanthropy was upon him.

Though luck was with the party too - ambushing a group of Drow who had been sent to resupply Meneldorod, the party acquired their bracers which allowed passage through a portal that was located beneath a temple, a stepped pyramid in the foothills from which the Sankaduin (the Snake River as was) flowed.

Using that portal to travel to the mountain, the party freed a Dragon Horse tethered by mystic chains in the courtyard outside, then navigated traps and hazards as they searched the massive chambers and hallways of the Giant's tower, finding the massive but mutilated corpse of its builder, and defeating the tower's evil new master Ezoran, the Deceiver, and his apprentice Draxella, she no less mendacious than her master, and were engaged in fighting the demon that he had summoned to guard the fourth portal, even as Ezoran caused the mountain to fall from the skies while the pair made their escape.

With the demon unfooted by the gyrations of the tower, Brugar was able to break open the fourth portal and Alasha'an shattered the globe that was sealed behind its wards, so freeing Lugh, the Forgotten God of Light, as the demon wisely fled.

Lugh halted the mountain's fall, bringing it safely to the ground, and proved both grateful and amenable, scrying out the location of the fifth portal in the underground city of Garek Enkdal ... the City of Ten Thousand Blades, where the Urthe Mother herself had been bound.

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