South Barracks (Myth Drannor)

The South Barracks of Myth Drannor was a simple auxiliary structure of the Castle Cormanthor, located to the west from castle walls across the Street of the Evening Star.

Structure
South Barracks was a small but sturdy stone building with just one floor and one basement level. The entryway was a heavy wooden double door.

Interior
The entryway was a small room, once decorated with dwarven furniture. To the west from the entry was a small office of the garrison's commanding officer. The main and the biggest part of the structure was the main barracks, an open floor with numerous guard beds, each had a chest for a guard's personal belongings. The southern wall of the barracks had a small shelf-filled storage closet with the stairs leading down to the cellar right next to it.

The basement level had a big open floor plan, similar to the barracks area of the main floor. A wooden trapdoor in the north-western corner opened into the underground passage that led to Lyssic's Crypt in Polyandrium. The door was barricaded by furniture and hidden from the casual eye and nailed shut. The basement was used for storage and had a strong mildew smell. The floor was littered with ale casks, boxes of leathers, and cloth.

Following the ransacking and destruction of the city, the barracks' doors were broken open, the interior was ransacked. The building was filled with broken furniture, graffitis, ancient guard documents, broken armor, and several dead dwarven skeletons.

History
Before the destruction of the Weeping War, the Southern Barracks housed the human troops under Commander Lyssic, a human hero of the City of Song. When Lyssic perished in battle and was laid to rest within Lyssic's Crypt in Polyandrium, a rumor emerged among the Akh'Velahr that the Commander was to one day return from the dead to defend Myth Drannor. With that legend in mind, his followers built a secret passage from the South Barracks to the hero's crypt in Polyandrium. In the century that followed, the legend and the passage were both forgotten while the South Barracks were given to dwarven troops who thought the Lyssic return legend did not hold much water. The dwarves boarded up the passage to Lyssic's Crypt. Because of that, the tunnels remained undiscovered during the looting and destruction of the city by the Army of Darkness.

The South Barrack's tunnel remained undiscovered until 1369 DR. A group of adventurers ventured into the ruins of Myth Drannor in search of enslaved villagers and faced the Cult of the Dragon that was occupying the City of Song. With guidance from baelnorn Molostroi, the heroes were able to bypass garrisons and patrols of the Cilt moving undetected from Polyandrium to the Street of the Evening Star.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor