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Bareface Canyon Mine
🕑 Added 2024-12-23 14:30:01 +0000 UTCBareface Canyon is a small box canyon in the badlands roughly a day’s travel from the city. About a hundred years ago a rebellious dwarf came to the canyon and “evicted” the small clan of bugbears lairing in the caves on the west side with extreme prejudice and then started a small mining operation opposite the bugbear caves. The dwarf was obviously an exile from his kin, and went by the ridiculous moniker of “Grimbold”… and due to his shaving of his beard he was more commonly known as Bareface.
Grimbold kept his small silver mine working for about a decade before giving up and moving on (or perhaps being killed by the kin of the bugbears he had evicted). And the box canyon has been generally quiet since then – occasionally used by bandits and exiles as a temporary home but it is either too far from the city or too close to the city for either type of inhabitants and they too move on.
Unbeknownst to the locals though, Bareface Canyon has become the unlikely home to a small cult of assassins in service to Solicitor APHAZROS, Demon of Lost Stones, Distant Relations, and Murder Paid For In Copper. (It’s a strange portfolio, but someone had to take it). They chose this location because it is almost exactly 41,217 steps from the gates of the city (a combination of APHAZROS’s magic numbers of 41, 21 and 7). The once again removed the new clan of bugbears that had taken up residence here, and used magic and pickaxes to add the structure deep in the caves on the northwest side – a small temple to their demonic patron. The rubble from their work was added to the existing piles of tailings from Grimbold’s old silver mine (but any decent miner can immediately tell that the very new stones from the older stones that date back to the mining operation).
And what brings adventurers here? Obviously if they catch wind of the cult of Solicitor APHAZROS most groups will want to deal with it (and some might want to join it). However, there is also an old diary of Grimbold Bareface’s that details where in his mines he hid a few gems that he stole from his old clan before leaving in exile. And there are these weird deaths involving the various bugbear clans in the region, each bugbear being found with a single copper piece pinned to their foreheads…
