Early 616 MR
The Heroes reach the opposite entrance of Khazefryn, where they face Quaggoth spider riders. They eventually meet a dead end, and decide to return to one of the islands, to better study a huge opening on the cavern side, from which a great evil power seems to spread.
From the opening, a gargantuan Wyrm, clad in shadows, dives upon them. Claws, fangs and corrosive breath cannot stop the Heroes, and they eventually defeat the creature, and loot his immense treasure.
Sigurd thinks that the source of this evil in an unholy altar they found on one of the dark elves' islands, and he goes back there to destroy it. Unfortunately, he provokes the wrath of the dark god Azariel, who punishes the desecration of his altar by sending a creeping doom spell. Sigurd does not survive.
The Heroes spend the rest of the night in the Dragon cave, and, when the shadows seem to became deeper, an image of Azariel makes his appearance. He comes as an alabaster-skinned nobleman, bearing a chain. At the end of the chain, into the deeper Shadows, Michael's soul is trapped. Before disappearing, Azariel advises the Heroes to stop interfering with his plans.
It seems that, by defeating the Dragons, the Heroes have severed the connection of these caves with the Shadow World. They secure all the treasure, and return to the Dwarven Halls of the Rocksplitter Clan. The rewards have been many, but the cost in life and friends has been high.
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