Ruins of the Sunken Reliquary

You clear the final collapsed corridor of rubble and find a small chamber that served as a reliquary and scriptorium. Shelves and pedestals are overturned but some valuables survived tucked into hidden niches and sealed cases. Among the salvage are cut gems likely pried from ceremonial icons, a healing phial meant for temple attendants, and a weathered spell scroll used by a guide or acolyte. The party also recovers a well-balanced +1 short sword and a protective cloak that still carries minor wards. A practical Bag of Holding, likely tucked in a ruined steward's chest, lets you carry more of the recovered artifacts. Finally, several fragments of an ancient tablet and a pouch of luminescent quarry sand would be valuable to scholars and artificers who can decipher and repurpose them. The finds are modest but meaningful for a level 5 party exploring long-abandoned sanctums—useful now and worth selling or studying back in civilization.