TSR 9360 - WGR2 - Free

The Shroud of Karyne
Terrain: Hills/Underground
ntal Party Levels: 40
Average Party Level: 6th
Adventure XP:
Full: 21,600
Partial: 16,200
Retreat: 5,400
Set Up
* While journeying to the City of Greyhawk,
the PCs come upon an overturned wagon of a
type commonly used by caravan merchants,
lying by the side of the road. The wagon appears
to have already been looted by thieves.
Tkvo bodies lie nearby, apparently a merchant
and his servant.
Evidence found there suggests that the two
men were not slain by the brigands who
sacked the wagon. In fact, it seems that they
killed each other. A thorough search of the
wagon reveals a secret compartment that contains
an ancient scroll case. Inside the scroll
case rests a very ancient map.
The hand-scribed map, written in the Suloise
language, shows a section of the shoreline
of Nyr Dyv and several other features that do
not appear on modern-day maps of the same
area. Once the PCs have stated they are
searching the wagon, they will find the case,
and the DM should give the players a photocopy
of Map # 1. This is the map that the party
has just found.
Gregor’s Map
The map that the PCs have found leads to a
secret tomb in the Cairn Hills, where long ago,
a cruel lord forced his subjects to build a tomb
for his wife. When she was laid to rest, the
lady was covered with a shroud that was encrusted
with a king’s ransom in emeralds. It is
easily worth 100,000 gp.
When the PCs return to the Free City of
Greyhawk, the Great Library of Greyhawk will
enable them to track down some of the names
on the map. These are in the ancient records
and legends of Greyhawk. If the characters
spend a day or two searching through the Library’s
most ancient tomes, the PCs learn that
the castle of Marteen was once the home of
Lord Gregor Eichyer, a powerful baron who
lived long before even the gnomes came to the
Cairn Hills.
Lord Gregor forced his subjects to build a
secret tomb for his beloved wife, Karyne. He
then killed all of the workers who participated
in its construction so it could never be located
and plundered. After his wife’s death, Gregor
lost all interest in governing his kingdom. He
left on a journey across the Nyr Dyv river to
Furyondy. He never returned, and no record of
the location of his wife’s tomb was ever found.
If the PCs spend a week researching, they
will find an ancient scroll, written by Lord
Gregor himself. The actual contents of the
scroll are irrelevant, but the handwriting exactly
matches the writing on the map. By comparing
their map with maps of the time and of
the present day, the PCs are able to pinpoint
the location of the tomb.
The Cairn Hills
The area shown on Gregor’s map is located
approximately forty miles directly due north
from the Free City. If the PCs follow the stream
towards Nyr Dyv in hopes of finding some
trace of Marteen Castle, they are merely wasting
their time, since the castle was destroyed
centuries ago.
If they travel upstream, however, they eventually
come to a bend in the stream which is
blocked by the dead remains of an ages-old
oak tree. From the way the tree’s roots protrude
from the ground, the party should be
able to deduce that it was uprooted in a violent
storm some years ago. There is no sign of the
path that Lord Gregor drew on his map, but
there are no particular obstructions preventing
them from journeying north.
Roughly ten miles north of the dead oak, the
PCs find a carved stone standing on top of a
small knoll. The stone is black in color, harder
than granite, and roughly conical in shape. If
the party waits at the stone until noon, the
shadow of the stone falls directly on a path at
the bottom of the west side of the hill. The PCs
have only a 5% chance of finding this path
without waiting for the stone to show them the
way. The path traces a curving course heading
due west for a little over a mile, ending at the
mouth of what appears to be a small cave.
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