Bones and coffins are as far as the eye can see. Rats scurry too and fro as they nibble on the desiccated remains. The coffins that are still intact are all open from grave robbers that visited long ago. A smell of mothballs pervades the air.
inside temple crypt, Inside Temple
archaeologist
bandit
I can't wait to rob the king. I am eager and impatient. I love spending my days in the forest, waiting.
You archaeologist! Give me everything you have or I will take your life! You are disturbing a official expedition. I'll have you know I'm a member of the Imperial College. Ha Imperial College? Whats that! Come on, just give me what you have or ill ruin your little expedition. I have several colleagues and a spearman of the Guard just outside the temple. Do you mean to fight through us all? Wow now. Lets just take it easy.... What exactly is this expedition for anyways? We are standing beneath aTemple of Ara'anos. They might not mean much to you, but these markings are clearly late Second Dynasty. The priests of Ara'anos during that age were rumored to experiment in using combination of blood magic and transfiguration to create hybrids of man and beast. We aim to look for evidence of these tales. This sounds very serious... I took this from one of the chambers.. I was planning to sell it but now that seems like a bad idea. This seems bigger than my petty greed. Well...perhaps I misjudged you. I am Bregos of Taccus. What is your name? I am Nicolas. I wasn't always a bandit you know.. I just found myself in a bad sitation. How did you get yourself into this expedition? Well...to be honest, many at the university think my ideas are nonsense. I think they granted me funding for this expedition to get rid as much as anything. But this expedition, it has things to do with rituals and blood magic! How would they think its nonsense? Did you discover this here temple? The ruins on the surface are well documented. Some original tablets from the temple archives even survive at the Library of Silus. But there are no recorded excavations of these catacombs.