The City that Never Was

Nobody in Icewind Dale claims to have seen it, and nobody had a name for it — until something that wasn’t Bjarne said one, in a voice that wasn’t his, in a language only Berg could follow.

It called itself one of “the City’s own.” It said the City was gone — erased, not destroyed — and that it shouldn’t still be here either. It had a wife and children there, once. It said the others gave something up willingly, and it refused, and lost everything for that refusal. Whatever happened to the City happened to it too, only halfway: it was left “partially taken” — the same phrase that has quietly followed Savin his whole life.

Bjarne’s cache site — the wreckage, the dead mage’s armor, the tent where all of this came to a head — sits near wherever this place is, or was, or almost still is.

A locket recovered there, showing a woman and a child, is confirmed to have belonged to it.

This is everything the party knows so far. More, presumably, is coming.