Jewelled Idol Demiplane

## **Intro**

This small demiplane hosted a shrine to Yan Turin. It was supposedly suspended or isolated in time, but it seemed more likely that it was in fact connected to the Elemental Plane of Earth.

It was found on the other side of a portal opened using the Jewelled Idol and the Dual Crystal Key, and was inhabited by the Shard Guardian, which the party defeated. The demiplane subsequently collapsed.

## **Description**

The demiplane consisted of a single room approximately 60' in diameter. The architecture of this room resembled the caves of the Old Orc Encampment, as they would have been before the past centuries of ruin and decay.

There was ancient Orcish writing on the walls. Key words which Godric picked up while failing to get through the portal included: "Worship. Yan Turin. Silas. Abandonment. War."

## **The Story So Far**

### **Background**

The orcish text on the walls of the room told the story of how the demiplane came to be:

[...]
*They had erected temples and, as a group, had collectively begun to worship Silas in hopes that the god of revolution would assist them in toppling the established power and ushering in the new age of orc.*
[When the orcs began to be pushed back] *the warband was left by the wayside. They hid up in the caves in The Stotzyev Mountains of Paeleuah and they waited for their god to assist them. Per the writings here, assistance never came. But there was another power that someone began to speak of that could help them.*
*It goes on to chronicle how the elemental prince Yan Turin reached out and saved them and gave them protection and let the mountains close in on them so that they could survive. Then it speaks of a civil war inside the clan between the people who still worshipped Silas and the people who had converted to Yan Turin. In the end, they cannibalised themselves.*
*In a last-ditch attempt to keep the memory of the warband alive, they sacrificed to Yan Turin to give them a space outside of time where they could keep their ways alive.*
*All of that was carved in really intricate [script]. Then, chipped crudely into the wall is: 'We made a mistake,' and things like 'This is our tomb,' and 'One by one, each shall go.' And that's where it stops.*

Godric recorded a full transcription of this text prior to the collapse of the demiplane. This record was shared with Shinan University.

### **Chapter 1**

#### "**Thinking With Portals****" (1x8)**

The party entered the demiplane from The Sapphire Tower via a portal created by the Jewelled Idol and Dual Crystal Key. They defeated the Shard Guardian found within and *mostly* managed to escape before the portal closed - with the exception of Godric who was trapped on the demiplane.

#### **"Fissures" (1x9)**

Soon after the portal closed, the room began to rumble and shake. After around an hour, the ground began to crumble and a 10' hole opened up in the centre of the room. This hole descended more than 200' to a river of sand which Vangdondalor hypothesised was connected to the Elemental Plane of Earth. Over the next (approx.) 3 hours, this hole continued to widen until Godric and Vangdondalor were released from the demiplane by Su Miichan's *Demiplane* spell. At this point, there was only a narrow 5' band of floor remaining around the outside of the room.

It is presumed that the demiplane subsequently collapsed entirely.