Grayvein clings to a network of slate ridges where miners carved homes into the rock and lit their lives by lantern and pick; once three thousand souls worked the veins, but a slow, inexplicable death began and emptied the streets, leaving a few hundred desperate survivors who hire outsiders to find the cause at the heart of the mine.
Where the stone keeps its own counsel.
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Forewoman
A resolute forewoman who coordinates relief and organizes searches into the dangerous veins.
Healer and apothecary
A sober apothecary who has been studying symptoms and late-night samples from the dead.
Mine foreman
A dwarf foreman who knows every drift and has a scarred hand from a shaft collapse.
Tavernkeeper
A towering half-orc who runs the tavern and keeps a ledger of every guest and their debts.
Trader
A gnome trader who barters supplies and sometimes buys unusual mineral samples.
Chaplain
A tired cleric who ministers to the bereaved and preserves ancient town papers.
General provisions
A cramped stall stacked with salted meat, lamp oil, and hardtack.
Apothecary
Shelves of poultices, dried herbs, and labeled jars of crushed minerals line the room.
Miners, foremen, and the occasional desperate traveler.
A wide, smoke-darkened room with benches, a stone hearth, and a bar carved from a single beam of petrified wood.
labor guild
A rough collective of miners protecting small claims and safety protocols.
merchant consortium
A company of outside investors who buy large claims and push deeper, riskier extraction.
outlaw band
A loose band of brigands that raids lonely caravans and prey on the desperate.
A shimmering shaft where glass-like mineral veins slice the rock in unnatural patterns.
A narrow, roofed stone bridge where lanterns are often left for missing miners.
The collapsed North Adit where a dozen bodies were recovered in strange poses.
A shallow, frozen pool fed by an underground spring that never fully thaws.
An old quarantine was enacted years ago when a similar sickness appeared and records were quietly altered.
The glass vein is a geas-formed shell over the remains of a bound earth-elemental creature.
The mineral harbors a slow, sap-like contagion that rewrites living tissue on contact.
Some say the glass vein is the petrified blood of a sleeping mountain spirit.
A sealed ledger lists names of those who first breached the glass and vanished.
Travelers whisper that smoke from the deepest adits drifts like breath at dusk.
The Glass That Hums
Investigate a newly uncovered glass-vein that hums at night and seems linked to the deaths.
Run to Highcairn
Escort a supply wagon through the pass after bandits ambushed the last caravan.
Ledger of Names
Find and recover Brother Malen's hidden quarantine ledger before someone else burns it.
Circle of the Abandoned Tools
Descend into a sealed chamber beneath the Northworks where miners' tools lie abandoned in a perfect circle.
