Age of Conan Regional Profile: Tortage Island
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The pollution, blood and corruption that have seeped down from the Black Ring Citadel over the centuries have carved a series of natural caverns lined by the hardest rock known to man. This rock is laced with black veins of stone that throb and pulse with the evil around it. This onyx is what gives the chambers their name. Over the centuries these caves have been used as tombs, treasuries, sewers and troves of lore. They've also been used as arcane workshops where the vilest of experiments are performed on screaming men and women -- acts so terrible they must be done in places far from the light of day and sealed in the black stone walls.
Stygian tomb-robbers don't come here despite the riches that may be found. Others, like grave robbers from Shem, are less aware of the dangers. The chambers' pollution has had a strange effect on the native Stygian crocodiles. They've become powerfully built, thick-scaled, territorial powerhouses with nasty dispositions. At the heart of the chambers is a cabal of Black Ring necromancers performing rites only possible in such a sinkhole of evil. No-one yet knows what horrors they have disturbed down there but one name has floated up from the depths -- Setsokhaten the Death-Knight.
