The party has been captured by a fairly powerful wizard, Zanzer Tem. Zanzer is a professed Evoden wizard. While searching for a keep in the Spinebreaker mountains, he discovered the dungeon, attached salt mine, and the secondary dungeon Stonefast below. While setting up a luxurious tower above ground, he kidnaps locals and adventurers, to torture and experiment on. Lately his pursuits have turned towards more magical and foreign creatures.
Zanzer is secretly a Landiss wizard, and researching that creatures can be used to fight in the upcoming war, as well as trying to research how to control them, specifically Dragons. As such he has lured and captured a white dragon, though the dragon as eluded him and holed up in Stonefast. He hopes that if he can capture the right adventurers, they can clear the lower dungeon for him.
He has also enslaved a company of Gnomes that were passing through, to work in the salt mines. The salt is used in healing potions he makes, and he sells the potions, and the salt, to caravans passing by. The denizens of the dungeon have been recruited from the nearby areas. With promise of riches, food, and the ability to torture others, the Gnolls and Orcs have found what they consider to be a pleasant home.
Session 1 - Zanzer Tem’s Dungeon 1
Session 2 - Zanzer Tem’s Dungeon 2
Session 3 - Zanzer Tem’s Dungeon 3
Session 4 - Zanzer Tem’s Dungeon 4, start of Stonefast