Crypt of Al-Alisk

The Crypt of Al-Alisk was an ancient mausoleum in the Desert of Al-Alisk. The wizard Martek used it as a trial for his Inner Sanctum.

Location
The Crypt of Al-Alisk was located northeast of the crystal pillar in the Desert of Al-Alisk.

Structure
The entrance of the crypt was a staircase leading into a cavern, which had pillars at the entrance. Once past the entrance, the tomb itself had a fourfold rotative symmetry. There were four rooms similar to the entrance of the crypt, complete with fake doors akin to the entrance. Each of those fake exits was a room with an altar covered in black cloth in the middle, with a pair of bronze doors on the far end. One of the fake entrance rooms held the skeletons of a minotaur and a man wearing chain mail.

At the center of the crypt were four pillars, which maintained an enchantment over a crystal cylinder 10 feet in diameter. Within the cylinder lay a kneeling young woman, with one of Martek's miniature crystal minarets by her side. Only by destroying the pillars could she be freed, and the minaret retieved.

Defenses
There was a defensive line outside of the crypt, full of spectral minions, at all times except from midnight to 3 AM, when the lancers of death distracted them. The crypt proper was patrolled by wights and wraiths as well as that. Habrauk Al-Nirin, now a spectre, protected the entrance himself, together with a group of moaning minions, capable of frightening people into fleeing the crypt. Two of the fake entrances were protected, one by a groaning spirit, and one by five cockatrices.

Inhabitants
The only live inhabitants of the crypt were five cockatrices. Nothing else but undead were inside, including Habrauk's spectre, a groaning spirit, wights, wraiths, and spectral minions. Princess Sithal Al-Husn's spirit remained imprisoned inside.

History
The Crypt served as the sepulcher of the Al-Alisk clan until their destruction. Martek spirited away the crypt and a section of desert in order to use it as a trial for adventurers after its destruction. In, Martek's minaret was retrieved, releasing the princess in the process.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Desert of Desolation