The Door of the Three Attendants

The passage ends at a gigantic basalt door that rises beyond the reach of torchlight. Three vertical panels show a crouching wolf, a many-pointed star, and a veiled eye. Before it stands a waist-high plinth with three empty sockets, each shaped for a different object. The air tastes of ash and cold metal. Crimson candles burn without melting, while pale blue fire flickers in narrow grooves around the door. Whenever someone steps near the plinth, the wolf's stone teeth click, the ceiling lens throws a brief star-shaped glimmer across the floor, and the veiled eye exhales a whisper of dust.

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The Door of the Three Attendants

8LevelDeviousDifficultyLogic PuzzleType

LevelLevel 8

DifficultyDevious

TypeLogic Puzzle

Components8 parts

Time LimitNo fixed limit at first. After the party makes two mistakes, the door begins a 10-minute pressure clock as the heartbeat grows louder. If the party takes a short rest in the room, the clock pauses but the cult guardian beyond becomes fully alert.

Primary DCDC 16

Quick Reference

Type

Logic Puzzle

Difficulty

Devious

Level

Time Limit

No fixed limit at first. After the party makes two mistakes, the door begins a 10-minute pressure clock as the heartbeat grows louder. If the party takes a short rest in the room, the clock pauses but the cult guardian beyond becomes fully alert.

Primary DC

DC 16

Checks

InvestigationDC 15 Investigation
Recognize that the three sockets are intentionally different and that each bears a matching symbol elsewhere in the temple.
Animal HandlingDC 16 Animal Handling
Interpret the beast carvings and determine that the predator must be calmed before it is directed toward the moon-marked basin.
ArcanaDC 16 Arcana
Understand that the silver prism must be turned to cast a narrow beam through the central eye, not simply inserted.
ReligionDC 16 Religion
Identify the censer and doctrine tablet as ritual components representing purification and the correct final invocation.
PerceptionDC 14 Perception
Notice faint lines of ash, claw marks, and old prism-burns that indicate the intended sequence.

Overview

Discovery

The puzzle becomes clear when the party compares the three sockets with the Attendant Tablet and the matching objects recovered from other rooms. The claw socket corresponds to the beast attendant, the prism cradle to the star attendant, and the bowl to the veiled priest. The tablet gives duties rather than a direct order, so the party must infer that instinct comes first, magical focus comes second, and ritual invocation comes last.

Puzzle Handout

what the players see

The Attendant Tablet

Three hands keep the buried throne asleep.

The first has no book, yet knows the path. The first has no crown, yet guards the gate. Still the fang, and the silent road will turn.

The second has no voice, yet bends the flame. The second has no hand, yet points the sky. Make one star pierce the watching eye.

The third bears smoke where no fire lives. The third speaks last, when all is still. Name the sleep, and seal the stone below.

The Three Marks

The Wolf: "Fang before flame. Calm before command."

The Star: "Turn me until the heavens enter the eye."

The Veiled Eye: "Only the final voice may cross my threshold."

The Final Invocation

What sleeps below, remain below.

Glyph Chart

Glyph	Meaning	Category
Crouching wolf	The beast attendant, instinct, calming, and the first action	Attendant
Many-pointed star	The arcane attendant, magical focus, alignment, and the second action	Attendant
Veiled eye	The priest attendant, final invocation, sealing, and the third action	Attendant
Claw-shaped socket	Accepts the Ashen Beast Token or a suitable beast-based substitute	Component
Triangular cradle	Accepts and aligns the Silver Prism	Component
Closed-eye bowl	Accepts the Ash Censer or a consecrated ritual substitute	Component

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