Last week, we shared the fourth level of the Dwarven Mine from our adventure Depths of the Dwarven Mine.

This week we finally reach the source of the terror that has driven the dwarves from their mine.

The bottom of the mine is home to a secret chamber not even the dwarves knew about. In the written adventure, this chamber was the ancient lair of a bronze dragon named Kharix. She would access this secret refuge through the submerged sea tunnel and felt safe enough to hatch her eggs here. In time, her ancient enemy, the aboleth Ogrorlo found her lair and corrupted the developing dragons within her eggs.

Discovering this treachery, Kharix abandoned the nest, but didn’t have the heart to destroy her own eggs.

When the dwarven miners discovered the eggs, they were psychically dominated by the now alien intelligence of the corrupted egg mass. The miners cut and fused egg and shell matter to their bodies becoming Dragonflesh Grafters (Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons) and started terrorizing the rest of the mine.

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-Mike