FoD: General Information

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# Outline
The preceding background information will give players sufficient facts to understand the history of the area, in addition to providing a purpose for the journey into the forest. The background includes some hints that dark elves (drow) are behind the organization of the evil forces within the forest.
 
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A general description of the motives of the drow will be helpful to the DM in giving the adventure a logical foundation and. if desired, incorporating this adventure into an ongoing campaign. The ruling forces in the drow underworld are noble houses, whose actions are sometimes influenced by the merchant clans they are allied with. Inter-house rivalries pervade drow society; one faction or another is always trying to demonstrate its superiority over the others by wreaking more havoc and plundering more treasure than its competitors.
 
One noble house has gone to great lengths to formulate a scheme designed to assure its rise to the top of the noble hierarchy. This house, led by a noble named Erihn (“Arron”), has achieved the construction and occupation of a huge above-ground fortress, deep inside the evil forest. It serves as a base from which the drow, and various evil creatures in their service, can raid the prosperous Lands of Launewt, stripping the country of its valuables and riches and funneling prisoners and possessions by caravans back to the dark elves' underworld home.
 
The fortress took years to build, but the passage of time has little significance to elves; the end result is something that might be called a masterpiece, were its origin and purpose not so shrouded in evil. While the construction was proceeding, dark elves from the house of Erihn began to methodically make subjects and allies out of the evil humanoids who live in the forest, working toward the day when they could consolidate enough evil power to overrun every community in the Lands of Launewt.
 
The raids that have taken place in recent weeks were disguised to appear as isolated incidents, but their increasing frequency and ferocity suggest to some members of the council that they are really the first skirmishes in a massive assault which could descend upon the Lands of Launewt at any time. As the members of the adventuring party will discover when they reach the site of the fortress, the threat of an all-out assault is a very real one indeed.
 
Except where otherwise specified, the drow encountered in the forest and within the fortress conform in all respects to the description of the dark elves in the FIEND FOLIO™ Tome.
 
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