Glimmermoon Workshop

Description
Located near the center of the Ashfen Isles.

The place where Shukura the Planebinder created and shaped the Glimmermoon with the hammer Umbra. After being abandoned, a tribe of ratfolk discovered it and were corrupted by the ambient negative energy from the hammer, twisting into terrible shapes and growing wicked spines.

Encounter Index

 * 1) A family of rats has made a nest here among the litter on the floor. They squeak and scatter, but one remains still. It has small spines on its back. Medicine/Arcana 12 some necrotic force is corrupting the rat.
 * 2) Crouched low here is a man with streaks of decay and fur across his face. He looks to them and speaks how they should leave at once. He can't think straight, something about this place... He can't remember what happened, but he can feel his mind slipping away.
 * 3) Here is a hole in the floor, leading to a great cavern below, dozens of feet below. Light will not penetrate, but you hear a terrible gnashing of teeth, the scraping of claws.
 * 4) An object sticks out of the muck. It looks like a telescope, and is embedded with an emerald. If they can activate it INT 13/WIS 15 looking into the device reveals a moving image of a tall, beautiful woman with pointed ears dressed in a black tunic. She is standing with a hammer-looking tool held in a massive gauntlet, next to the Glimmermoon which rests on a pedestal. You recognize the halls of the dungeon, though all the grime is missing. She appears to be arguing with a man, dressed in gold. Suddenly she looks to whoever is watching, and grows angry as the man turns around and notices as well. A black blast of energy goes toward the viewer, and the image stops.
 * 5) Another telescope. You see a man with a rat-face peering quizzically back at you. He turns, and behind him is a hulking man wielding the same hammer from the other message. His body is twisted and covered in spines, and his skin seems to be in the process of falling off. He speaks in common, though his voice is wretched: "I need more bodies. Go out to the village again. More bodies! Tell them the Bramblebrax is coming for them."

After the Fight
When they defeat the Bramblebrax, he dissolves into goop, leaving behind a cloak and Umbra, the moonshaping tool.