Adama's Tooth was a monolith found close to the gap between the Dustwall and Giant's Belt mountains. In the late 14th century DR, it was the only known source of plangent crystal.[1]
Description[]
Adama's Tooth was an immense monolith with cleft, striated sides, which were nearly vertical. It was over 2,000 feet (610 meters) in height.[2] The Tooth was clearly visible over the nearby foothills along the path from Huorm.[3]
Geography[]
In 1374 DR, the monolith lay a few miles from the Golden Water, near Huorm.[4] By 1479 DR, the monolith lay on the tip of a peninsula of the same name.[1]
Interior[]
A road spiraled up around the sides of the monolith. Along that road, there was a gate and a small cave for guards.[5] Eventually, even those defenses had proven insufficient, and instead, an airship dock had been built between canyons on the top of the monolith; all meals and services were provided internally.[2]
Before the mine was closed, there were five levels inside it; the fifth level could only be accessed from above. It contained a number of ruins from an Imaskari complex, an incredible amount of plangent crystal incrustations all throughout, and a gate leading into the Celestial Nadir.[6]
History[]
Some of the less civilized tribes of the Durpari considered the monolith a holy site, known to them as the Dragon Lodge.[2]
To Warian Datharathi's knowledge, the crystal for his prosthetic arm, installed in 1367 DR,[7] had come from the Fourth Deep of the Datharathi mine in Adama's Tooth. Between that year and 1372 DR,[8] another level had been excavated into the mines within the monolith, reaching a natural chamber lined in plangent crystal; alongside this chamber, a portal into the Celestial Nadir had been found.[6] Shaddon Datharathi used this crystal in order to build his upgraded plangent limbs; he also unleashed Pandorym in the process.[8]
By 1479 DR, the monolith lay on a peninsula.[1]
Rumors & Legends[]
By 1479 DR, an evil of elder days was said to lie in wait there, with a cloud of darkness atop the spire like a flag, waiting to cause more death, like it had unleashed before on the senior members of the Datharathi in the late 14th century DR.[1]
Inhabitants[]
Appendix[]
Appearances[]
- Novels
- Darkvision
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Edited by Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 18, pp. 168–169. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.
- ↑ Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 20, p. 190. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.
- ↑ Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 8, p. 81. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.
- ↑ Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 20, p. 192. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 18, pp. 170–174. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.
- ↑ Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 3, p. 24. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Bruce R. Cordell (2006). Darkvision. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 16, pp. 152–153. ISBN 0-7869-4017-4.