Sokol Keep

The Keep
Sokol Keep is located on the Thorn Island. It would be considered ancient by anyone looking at it. The stone walls the keep are charred, gray, and desolated looking. Dragon fire had burned and destroyed most of the wooden buildings that lined the large courtyard of the keep, except for the only stone building, which was the Tyrian Temple. The temple is primarily still intact, except for the wooden bell tower, and it was located in the far left corner of the courtyard when you enter through the old wooden gates. The charred stable and blacksmith shop is on the right of the gates. In the center of the courtyard was the mess hall, which is an open airy building with tables.

In 1340DR, the keep was in habited, purportedly, by monsters.Shal Desanea (Shal Bal of Cormyr at the time), Tarl Desanea, and Ren o’ the Blade determined that the primary presence at the keep was in fact the undead souls of many Clerics of Tyr that were tormented to remain at the keep to protect their temple and a valuable artifact—the holy scale. Though the heroes encountered many humanoids, giant frogs, kobolds, goblins, and orcs, during their search of the keep, the hero’s, particularly Tarl, were drawn to the undead clerics and warriors of Tyr. They needed to help them ease their sorrows, to give them peace, to assist them in finding eternal rest, to finish what they started.

The Island
The island is located south of the civilized portion of the city of Phlan out in the Bay of Phlan. The Moonsea and the Bay of Phlan surround the island. Sokol Keep covers most of the island. The island and keep can be seen from the docks. The shorline has a low slate sheer cliff that supports the keep above.

If you review a map of the city Phlan, Thorn Island is happed like a tear dropped from east (start of the tear drop) to west (end of the tear drop). The keep sit on the western portion of the island.

Tyrian Temple
In approximately 1290 DR, construction at the Tyrian Temple on Thorn Island was finished; however, it was never used by anyone other then the clerics that built it. This was because, shortly there after, the dragons run occurred that burn and destroyed the keep. Brother Ferran Martinez was a high cleric that was also the ruling cleric of the sacred order of Tyr at the Tryian Temple on Sokol Keep. He die in approxiamately 1290 DR after the dragons run of starvation.