Waterside

Waterside is the town in which the Dungeon Era campaign begins. What sets this town apart for the most part is the mine on its outskirts.

Other notable features of Waterside, however, include the Amber Dew brewery and the Iron Church of Korfan within its premises. The Amber Dew brewery is incredibly popular within the Keflands for they make an Ale beloved by both the dwarves and humans of the Keflands. The family that owns Amber Dew, The Makovecs, have other breweries spread out all over the Keflands as well. Their strong economic hold on the Keflands gives them a weirdly formidable influence over the politics in the area when they choose to get involved.

The Iron Church is similarly not entirely unique, as churches of Korfan are many within the Keflands, but the one within Waterside has both an adamantine forge within its walls and the fire giant Gallagher as its head blacksmith.

The Mines & The Dungeon
The mine just beyond the outskirts of Waterside is the only mining operation in which its location was chosen by Barnabas Kef himself.

The Dungeon Era campaign begins when undead begin to rise from the mine’s entrances scattered around the area and threaten those who work in the mines as well as those who live on the surface.

Waterside’s duchess, Marris Greenway hires a party of adventurers to delve into the mines and take out what she believes to be some kind of necromancer or evil spellcaster taking up lodging there.

As the campaign progresses, however, the mine reveals itself to be something much more sinister; a sprawling Dungeon belonging to the incredibly powerful lich, Modus Tollens. Modus Tollens is using the guise of the mines to lure foolhardy adventures into his dungeon like cattle to strengthen and fatten until he can cull them to feed his own power. Modus Tollens himself has been called the “First of the Drow”, and much drow symbolism decorates his dungeon and those individuals on which he leaves his mark.