Certain slavers, the oldest and wiliest, claim to know of a route for their charges that avoids the rickety cliff elevators from Shadowfall Harbour to the Dregs above, a route that descends deep into the heart of the volcano. But it is a brave man who will venture down into the hidden tunnels of the Underground Stair, where more frightening creatures than drow or duergar are to be found...
The credulous whisper that Shardleish's magic has soaked into the firmament of the mountain, raising monstrous spirits from a prehistoric age, 'Ancestors', who stalk the dark corridors of the Stair. Whatever the truth, no slaver's party that takes the underground route ever comes back with as many as it set out with, and it is a lucky merchant who can count his heads and sigh, contentedly, that he has only lost one life to the depths below...
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