#128 MAP & HANDOUT SUPPLEMENT PRODUCED BY PAIZO PUBLISHING, LLC. WWW.PAIZO.COM Joachim Barrum THE CHAMPION’S BELT by Tito Leati The Champion’s Games are here! Gladiators from around the world converge in the Free City! Yet this year, something dire festers in the arena’s foundations, for its director plots one of the final omens heralding the Age of Worms. An Age of Worms Adventure Path sce- nario for 9th-level characters. Dungeon #128 Map & Handout Supplement © 2005 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Permission to photocopy for personal use only. All rights reserved. 1 DUNGEON 128 Supplement Celeste Ekaym Smallcask Eva Widermann Eva Widermann Loris Raknian Okoral Eva Widermann Eva Widermann Dungeon #128 Map & Handout Supplement © 2005 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Permission to photocopy for personal use only. All rights reserved. 2 DUNGEON 128 Supplement Bozal Zahol Froghemoth Eva Widermann Eva Widermann Steve Prescott Dungeon #128 Map & Handout Supplement © 2005 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. 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Boyd onversion notes for Waterdeep (Free areas 16, 21, and 22) are actually tertiary pas- Aridarye’s plans unraveled eight days a�er City), Dagsumn (Eligos), and Kyrss sages that connect with the secondary sewer the funeral of Urtos I, when Lord Urtos II CWands (Pollard) are given in the passage (and its east fork) that leads north (LN afflicted werewolf [augmented Tethyrian Realms conversion sidebar for “Hall of Harsh from the primary passage west of SF18, as human] fighter 10) returned unexpectedly, two Reflections.” Conversion notes for Theldrick, a shown in City of Splendors: Waterdeep, page 123. months a�er his disappearance. The mantle of priest of Bane (Hextor), are given in the Realms The nearest surface sha� is area SF18 (which lordship passed to Urtos II, and Aridarye was conversion sidebar for “Three Faces of Evil.” corresponds to area G on the map), which is reduced to the role of tolerated stepmother. actually placed roughly south of area 20 on the Within a year of his return, Lord Urtos II Field of Triumph map and opens on the surface in a cul-de-sac married Lythis Mhairuun (NG female Tashlutan The Field of Triumph (Free City Arena) ($77) is opening northeast of Toalar’s Lane. human aristocrat 5), sole heir to the Tashlutan one of the chief attractions of the City of Splen- merchant family’s watchspider business. She dors. This huge open-air stadium is the site of House Phylund bore him three sons, but the Lords of Water- various spectacles staged for the populace of House Phylund has long been known for train- deep have barred any of them from inheriting Waterdeep. From late spring to late autumn, ing and procuring fierce monsters. In the Year the patriarchy of House Phylund (presumably thousands of people flood through the awe- of the Turret (1360 dr), Lord Urtos Phylund I because they fear the taint of lycanthropy that inspiring Lion Gate to witness shows of magic, (Lahaka), the widowed patriarch of House Phy- has infected their line). As such, Urtos III, half- martial skills, horse races, and exhibitions of lund and director of the Field of Triumph, fell brother of Urtos II and son of Aridarye, remains monstrous creatures big and small. The field for the charms of Lady Aridarye (NE female the heir. Urtos II is primarily involved with the also acts as a public forum for mportant public Tethyrian human aristocrat 7), who had moved raising of his young family and tending to the events such as the Open Lord’s proclamations to Waterdeep the year before as the consort fortunes of House Phylund. to the city and gatherings for foreign dignitar- of an Amnite trader and soon found herself Although he keeps a civil relationship with ies. The Field of Triumph is closely associ- at home amongst the parties and intrigues of his former stepmother, Urtos II recently dis- ated with the church of Tempus (Kord). An Waterdeep’s merchant nobility. A�er Aridarye covered that the bones of his late father had old shrine of Tempus beneath the arena (now set her sights on Urtos I, she quickly arranged gone missing from the family vault, renewing a shrine of Kyuss) has been abandoned in favor the death of her former lover by setting him his longstanding suspicions that there was of the House of Heroes. up to pay for some illicit goods in a Dock Ward something mysterious about his father’s death The Field of Triumph is mapped in City of alley with counterfeit coins. Aridarye married and that Aridarye might have been involved. Splendors: Waterdeep, page 99. The House of Lord Urtos I in the month of Ches and gave As such, Urtos II has hit upon the idea of Heroes ($58) (the primary church of the Lord of birth to a baby boy, Urtos III, in the Year of the sponsoring a team of gladiators in this year’s Battles in Waterdeeep), is located just north of Wave (1364 dr). During this time, Lady Aridarye Champion’s Games and using them to search the Field of Triumph across Jelzar’s Stride. Pren- was instrumental in orchestrating the sharp for clues beneath the Field of Triumph. When dergast’s Villa (Raknian’s Palace) lies in the south- increase of House Phylund’s fortunes. Event 4 unfolds, Urtos II explains that his old east corner of the block just west of the House In the Year of the Sword (1365 dr), two trag- friendship with Prendergast and complicated of Heroes, across Jelzar’s Stride from the Field of edies struck House Phylund. First Lord Urtos II relationship with Aridarye make it difficult for Triumph. The Games Administration Building, (Ekaym Smallcask), eldest son and heir of Urtos him to search for clues beneath the arena. He Prendergast’s Bodyguards Barracks (Raknian’s I, fell victim to a wolf pack during a hunting trip implicates Aridarye, not Prendergast, in the Bodyguards Barracks), and Raknian’s Stables are to the Phylund Hunting Lodge in Ardeep Forest murder of his father, and is unwilling to con- the three adjacent buildings due west of Prend- during the month of Alturiak and was presumed sider any implication that Prendergast might ergast’s Villa (with the stables actually opening dead. (A servant in the hunting party seeking have been involved. onto the small alleyway that runs north/south to curry favor with Lady Aridarye employed a through the center of the block). The chimney scroll she provided to summon a huge pack of House Brokengulf (area F) that leads up from the Coenoby kitchen wolves, but the magic of the scroll “accidentally” In addition to exploration and guiding, House (area 17) opens into the southern end of the alley consumed him as well.) A grief-stricken, sullen Brokengulf has made its fortune hunting and in the block due east of the House of Heroes. Urtos I fell soon a�er, having apparently grown procuring exotic beasts for sale in the City The Warden’s Barracks and the west entrance careless while transporting a caged owlbear into of Splendors. Prendergast “Gast” Brokengulf into the Field of Triumph (not shown) face onto a holding cell beneath the Field of Triumph. The (CE male Tethyrian human fighter 13) (Loris Seaeye’s March. The passage (B) from area 5 to cage wasn’t locked properly, costing the patri- Raknian), heir to the lordship of House Bro- Prendergast’s Villa actually runs under Jelzar’s arch of House Phylund and six beast handlers kengulf and uncle of the current lord, fell Stride. The eastern entrance to the Field of Tri- their lives. Aridarye, playing the grieving widow, to Aridarye’s charms in the Year of the Wave umph is the aforementioned awe-inspiring Lion laid her husband to rest and compensated the (1364 dr). At the time, Lord Prendergast was Gate. The south entrances into the Field of Tri- families of the deceased for their losses. She a noted hunter and prominent gladiator umph (not shown) open on to Julthoon Street. planned to have her young son named lord and with many victories on the Field of Triumph. All areas on the Hidden Shrine of Kyuss map herself named regent, giving her complete con- Despite his close working relationship with marked “To Stream” (including those found in trol of the Phylund family fortune. Lord Urtos I and friendship with Urtos II, Dungeon #128 Map & Handout Supplement © 2005 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Permission to photocopy for personal use only. All rights reserved. 8 DUNGEON 128 Supplement Prendergast succumbed to Aridarye’s wiles a way to keep him young. Still consumed with dresses, favoring blue and purple, and is and arranged the accident that killed Lord guilt over his role in the death of Urtos I and never without her ornate dagger.