Tomb of Chonis The Tomb of Chonis was the name given to a mysterious tomb in the Eastern Plains of Cormyr . Location . It was located north of the Way of the Manticore and west of the Vast Swamp . Coming from the west , from Wheloon , it lay approximately half a mile ( 800 meters ) beyond a ridge . History . It was an ancient structure and it had long been emptied of its contents . Over the long centuries , it had been used as a lair by countless creatures and as base for bandits and monsters out of the Vast Swamp to assault travelers on the road . Smugglers also made use of it . In the early 1370s DR , the smugglers Coobert Draftworth and Norry Waywocket made the Tomb of Chonis their favorite drop - site , storing their illicit goods here . Over three months in the Year of Lightning Storms , 1374 DR , they ' d accumulated a stash of stolen jewelry , bottles of utterdark wine , and royal attire . In early Eleint , they came to collect it but discovered others lurking in the tomb . A dark stalker and four dark creeper s had since taken up residence in the Tomb of Chonis . These were mercenaries , hired by cleric s of Shar involved in the operations at the Temple of Mystra in Wheloon and the Lost Refuge in the Vast Swamp to watch over the petitioners travelling between the two . In particular , they watched for groups investigating these petitioners . After spying for a while , Norry and Coobert instead camped at the nearby Unknown Shrine while they thought about what to do about it . They ' d only been there a day when adventurers investigating the Temple of Mystra in Wheloon may have encountered and questioned them , learning about the strange creatures waiting in the tomb . These adventurers may have then encountered the dark one s at the Tomb and dealt with them . Structure . It was a long low barrow mound resembling a hill , running north to south . Like the surrounding landscape , it was covered over with grass , heather , and thistle . At the base of the hill on the southern end yawned an open door . A heavy stone lintel hung over the entrance , with deeply carved letters in the Thorass alphabet giving the name " Chonis " . The barrow tomb was constructed of great stone slabs about 3 feet ( 1 meter ) thick that had been roughly cut and loosely joined together . It was then buried in earth to form the mound . Interior . Inside , the floors , wall , and ceiling of the tomb were all of roughly hewn stone , with the earth visible between them . The ceiling was 10 feet high , but nonetheless visitors felt an oppressive feeling from the great masses of earth and stone above their heads . The entrance chamber was a long , low - ceilinged room , 15 feet wide and 50 long ( 4 . 5 by 15 meters ) . It appeared to have once been some kind of ceremonial chamber , but the paintings on the walls had been utterly erased by time and vandalism . A wide pit took up much of the northern half , the remains of an ancient pit trap and since filled in with refuse , dirt , rocks , bones , and rusted weaponry . Coobert and Norry built a rope bridge over this , anchored by iron spikes hammered into the floor . On the north wall , visitors were greeted by a wide circular face , horned and frowning , carved in a crude and archaic style . To left and right ran a long loop of catacombs over an area of 50 feet by 50 feet ( 15 meters by 15 meters ) . Niches were cut into the stone walls to hold the bodies of the dead ; with these niches stacked four high , there was space for a total of 320 bodies . Their valuables had once been contained in clay pots beside their bodies . By the 14th century DR , all that remained were a few broken bones and potsherds , with the most intact on the uppermost row . On the rear wall was another frowned , horn face . Its deep mouth concealed a catch for a secret room behind it , used as the smugglers ' secret hiding place . Finally , at the rear of the tomb was the so - called great hall , thought to be the final resting place of " Chonis " . It was 25 feet by 35 feet ( 7 . 6 meters by 10 . 6 meters ) and supported by six 5 - foot - wide columns ( 1 . 5 meters ) . At the end was a stone dais bearing a crude stone casket , but this was entirely empty . Over it , on the wall , was another horned face , now smiling . Defenses . The dark ones carved holes through the corpse niches and the mouth of the first stone face , forming arrow slits and turning the catacombs into a gauntlet for intruders . Rumors and legends . By the 1370s DR , the meaning of the name " Chonis " was unknown . The name also appeared in the ruins called Chonis ' Temple in the west , so some speculated it was a long - forgotten deity , demigod , or fiend . The Tomb of Chonis remained little known ; few people in Wheloon knew of it . Those people who did it recall it knew it as a lair for bandits , smugglers , or monsters venturing out of the Vast Swamp .