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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>Gauntlight</h2><h2>Item 20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">Unique</li><li>Artifact</li><li>Magical</li><li>Necromancy</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</span></h2><p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p><h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3><p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p></article></section>
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entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Urevian.text
<section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">Contract Devil Eager to Make a Deal</p><p>Urevian sees the heroes as an unexpected opportunity and a potential solution. If the heroes slaughter their way through Jafaki and the seugathis, then all the better for the devil. Urevian has ordered his devils to keep an eye out for the heroes, to kill all but one or two, and then bring him the survivors for negotiations. He plans to convince the remaining heroes to deliver Carman Rajani to him. Otherwise, he’ll march his army up through the dungeon and destroy Otari.</p><p>Urevian is true to his word and departs quickly once he has his prize. If the heroes refuse, despite Urevian’s honeyed words, and they defeat him, he’s cast into the demagogue’s court, where he must explain his failure or face obliteration.</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-07/urevian.webp" width="470" /></figure></section><h2>Background</h2><p>Five centuries ago, Belcorra summoned the contract devil Urevian to administer her Abomination Vaults. Always looking to sweeten a deal, Urevian further offered to train Belcorra’s armies and lead her invasion of Absalom—for a price. Urevian knew that Vol Rajani, legendary Roseguard swordswoman and exiled royalty from Nidal, lived in Absalom. The Rajani family has, for reasons even Urevian doesn’t know, special value to certain parties in Hell. In exchange for Urevian’s aid, Belcorra guaranteed him Rajani’s soul.</p><p>When the Roseguard attacked Gauntlight, bringing the soul right to Belcorra’s doorstep, Urevian was in Hell, committing Rajani’s soul to a much more powerful entity—even though he didn’t yet have it. By the time he returned, the Roseguard had prevailed with Belcorra slain. The sorcerer couldn’t fulfill her end of the bargain, trapping Urevian in the interminable process of preparing a surface invasion that would gain him nothing. Worse, he didn’t dare return to Hell without the Rajani soul, and his agreement forbid him from capturing the soul directly or through his infernal proxies, as Belcorra was intended to deliver it. Urevian was trapped.</p><p>Now that Belcorra has returned, Urevian’s agreement with her can be fulfilled. He plans to train her armies and invade the surface, starting with Otari; his spying has informed him that Carman Rajani, whose soul can also fulfill his contract, lives there. Urevian has fully mobilized his devils to train the fleshwarps who’ve come into his realm. Belcorra placed several horrible monsters in stasis, though Urevian doesn’t yet know how to reliably free them and has made that discovery his next priority.</p><h3>Uneasy Allies</h3><p>Although the devils can use dimension door to reach the surface quickly, Urevian’s other troops need physical access, which required him to approach the seugathi @UUID[.qrb0F1AQ3iIR7Xni]{Jafaki} about allowing them through the laboratories. Jafaki feared another diabolic ruse—a reasonable assumption given the seugathis’ past relations with Urevian—and agreed on one condition: Urevian must allow the seugathis to “personally inspect” all infernal forces and make “upgrades and improvements.” Urevian knew this ploy was for Jafaki to get their tentacles on endless research subjects and that the fleshwarper would never sign off on any troops. Urevian is ready to wash his hands of this entire arrangement, but alas, he has a contract.</p>
<section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">急于达成交易的契约魔</p><p>乌瑞维安认为英雄们的队伍是一个期望之外的机会，同时也是潜在的解决方案。如果英雄们下决心要清理憎恨魔窟，可能会一路杀掉贾法基和他的双尾虫怪，那对魔鬼来说就更好了。乌瑞维安命令他的魔鬼们密切注意英雄们，杀掉其中几个，留下一两个人，然后把幸存者交给他进行谈判。他计划说服剩下的英雄们把卡曼·拉贾尼交给他。否则，他就会带领军队穿过地下城，荡平奥塔里。</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-07/urevian.webp" width="470" /></figure></section><h2>背景故事</h2><p>五百年前，贝科拉召唤契约魔乌瑞维安来帮助她管理憎恨魔窟。乌瑞维安一直在想办法让交易变得更加诱人，因此进一步提出，由他训练贝科拉的军队，并领导对艾巴萨罗姆的入侵行动——这当然是有条件的。乌瑞维安知道传说中的玫瑰团女剑士、奈多流亡的皇室成员沃尔·拉贾尼（Vol Rajani）就住在艾巴萨罗姆。拉贾尼家族对地狱里的某位大佬来说特别重要，虽然乌瑞维安并不清楚具体原因。作为对乌瑞维安服务的报酬，贝科拉保证让他得到拉贾尼的灵魂。</p><p>当玫瑰团攻击凄凉灯塔时，沃尔·拉贾尼的灵魂已经送上门来，而乌瑞维安此时却在地狱，正在向某个强大的存在许诺自己将带来回贾尼的灵魂，即使他目前还未得到。等他从地狱返回的时候，玫瑰团已经杀死了贝科拉。术士无法兑现她的许诺，把乌瑞维安困在了无休止的对地面发动入侵行动的准备中，而这无法给他带来任何好处。更糟糕的是，如果没有拉贾尼的灵魂，他就无法返回地狱，他所签下的契约禁止他直接或通过他的魔鬼手下来捕获拉贾尼的灵魂。乌瑞维安被永远困在了这里。</p><p>现在贝科拉已经复活，乌瑞维安可以履行和她的协议了。他计划训练她的军队并入侵地表世界，从奥塔里小镇开始；他的探子们告诉他，卡曼·拉贾尼，他的灵魂也可以用来完成契约，而他正住在奥塔里。乌瑞维安已经动员了他手下所有的魔鬼来训练那些入侵他领地的塑肉体。贝科拉曾经将一些强大而可怕的怪物放置在精滞牢笼中，但乌瑞维安还不知道如何可靠安全地释放它们，并将这作为下一阶段的优先任务。</p><h3>不可靠的同盟</h3><p>虽然魔鬼可以利用次元门快速前往地面，但乌瑞维安的其他部队需要通过物理手段移动，这就需要他同双尾虫怪@UUID[.qrb0F1AQ3iIR7Xni]进行谈判，让他的手下能穿过实验室。贾法基则担心这是魔鬼邪恶的诡计——考虑到双尾虫怪过去和乌瑞维安的关系，这是合理的假设——他提出一个条件，乌瑞维安必须允许双尾虫怪“亲自检查”所有的地狱士兵，并进行“升级和改进”。乌瑞维安看穿了贾法基的目的是为了把它们的触手伸向无穷多的研究对象，并且双尾虫怪塑肉师永远不会真心同意让任何部队离开。乌瑞维安已经准备放弃这个计划了，但是他毕竟需要完成契约。 </p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Wrin Sivinxi.name
Wrin Sivinxi
瓦琳·希温尼斯 Wrin Sivinxi
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<section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">Helpful Patron Haunted by Spectral Visions</p></article></section><figure class="flipx right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/otari/wrin-sivinxi.webp" width="270" /></figure><p>Wrin’s primary purpose is to motivate the heroes’ initial explorations and to give them a focal point to gather around. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path assumes that Wrin is a contact the heroes share in common, so when she notices a strange buildup of eerie light atop distant Gauntlight, it’s natural for her to confide her fears in the heroes.</p><p>As the campaign progresses, Wrin can help the heroes in other ways, such as by performing astrology readings for the heroes to aid them in their explorations. While she won’t give her store’s wares away for free, her establishment is the best place to buy and sell the odd magical treasures heroes tend to find and crave. Wrin can also introduce the heroes to the wonders of the spirit world—her tutelage unlocks the @UUID[Compendium.pf2e.feats-srd.mkp6lhBbTASEmKwY]{Ghost Hunter} archetype. Despite the claustrophobia she suffers, if the heroes find themselves in over their head in the Abomination Vaults, you can have Wrin face her fears to brave the dungeon and mount a rescue. Of course, you shouldn’t use Wrin in this capacity except as a last resort to keep the campaign from reaching an untimely end!</p><h2>Background</h2><p>Wrin Sivinxi grew up in the small village of Glitterbough in Kyonin, but a traveler wouldn’t find her hometown if they were to visit that nation today, for Glitterbough was destroyed 10 years ago by demons in the service of Treerazer. Despite the loss of her hometown, Wrin feels no sadness or despair about the event, for none perished in Glitterbough’s fall. In the days before the demon army’s attack, Wrin had a vision of the disaster. She warned her parents and neighbors, and their trust in her visions gave the town the time it needed to relocate everyone in the village to safety. When the demons came, they found Glitterbough deserted, and when they burned it in frustration, they suffered greatly from the magical traps the elves had left behind to greet them.</p><p>When she came of age a few years later, Wrin left her parents and friends, eager to find her own place in the world. As she traveled, she trusted in her visions and her unusual faith in a pantheon of deities associated with space and time she refers to as the Cosmic Caravan, looking to the nightly stars to make decisions for tomorrow. Her knack for finding lost things and gathering strange treasures made establishing her own curio shop an obvious choice, and it wasn’t by chance that she decided to set up that shop in Otari—it was simply the port she’d arrived at when her capacity to carry her collection finally outweighed its portability.</p><p>She opened her shop, @UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.jlb4fsKQC57ZjNQ7]{Wrin’s Wonders}, four years ago. In that time, she has become part of the community, even if many of its citizens regard her as a good-natured eccentric. Sales of the strange and bizarre aren’t brisk in the small town, but that’s no matter to Wrin—she’s patient and has enjoyed her time in Otari so far. One day, she hopes to make enough money to fund a trip west, for she has heard tell of an abandoned observatory in the small town of Crookcove on Ravounel’s southwestern coast that she hopes to purchase and transform into a temple devoted to the Cosmic Caravan. But for the time being, she’s content to stay in Otari and sleep under the stars.</p><p>Wrin’s tiefling ancestry is impossible to miss, and it’s something she long ago decided to embrace. Eyes devoid of pupils, small ram horns curling around her elven ears, a thin tail, and fingertips that sparkle with motes of glittering lights leave no doubt that she’s touched by supernatural forces. Yet, her quick smile and welcoming attitude have always helped her to secure friendships during her travels.</p>
<section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">被灵视能力困扰的可靠后援</p></article></section><figure class="flipx right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/otari/wrin-sivinxi.webp" width="270" /></figure><p>瓦琳的主要作用是给与英雄们最初的冒险动机，并且给他们一个组建队伍的契机。在《憎恨魔窟玩家手册》中提到，瓦琳是所有英雄们的朋友，当她注意到凄凉灯塔上发出诡异的蓝光时，她会很坦诚地向英雄们表达自己的担心和恐惧。</p><p>随着冒险的进行，瓦琳可以通过其他方式帮助英雄们，比如通过占卜来帮助英雄们进行冒险。虽然她不会把自己的商品免费赠送，但是她的店铺是买卖各种奇珍异宝魔法收藏的最佳场所，这些奇物往往是英雄们一直在寻找并渴望拥有的。瓦琳还可以向英雄介绍灵界的种种奇妙玄秘——她的指导将解锁@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.feats-srd.mkp6lhBbTASEmKwY]变体。尽管她患有幽闭恐惧症，但如果英雄们在憎恨魔窟里遭遇危险，你可以让瓦琳直面她的恐惧，勇敢地进入地牢进行救援。当然，你不应该随意动用瓦琳，除非已经到了即将灭团的最后关头！</p><h2>背景故事</h2><p>瓦琳·希温尼斯在奇奥尼（Kyonin）的一个叫做辉树村（Glitterbough）的小村里长大，但是如今旅行者去这个国家的话，已经找不到她的家乡了。因为辉树村在十年前被一个成为毁木者（Treerazer）的恶魔摧毁了。尽管家乡被毁灭，但是瓦琳并没有对这件事感到悲伤或绝望，因为没有人在灰树村的毁灭中丧生。在恶魔军队进攻前几天，瓦琳看到了灾难的幻象。她警告了她的父母和邻居，他们相信了她的预言，并且时间足够他们把村里的每个人安全转移。当恶魔来这里时，它发现整个村子都被遗弃了，当它沮丧地烧掉它时，精灵们留下的魔法陷阱给恶魔带来了极大的痛苦。</p><p>几年后，瓦琳长大成人，离开了父母和朋友，渴望在世界上找到自己存在的价值。当她旅行时，她依赖于自己的预知能力以及不同寻常的信仰。这是一个和空间与时间相关的神组成的神系，称为篷车星座群（Cosmic Caravan），她每天依靠观察星象来规划未来。她对于寻找失落的宝藏很有一套，并且最后显而易见地利用收集来的奇珍开了个古董店。她最后决定在奥塔里定居也不是出于偶然，主要是因为当她抵达这个海港时，她的收藏品已经多到搬不走了。</p><p>她在四年前开设了自己的店铺@UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.jlb4fsKQC57ZjNQ7]。从那时候起，她就已经成为了当地人的一员，尽管许多市民认为她是一个好心的怪人。在这个小镇里，这些奇珍异宝其实并没有多少人买，但是瓦琳并不在意这一点——她非常有耐心，并且到目前为止她在奥塔里渡过了一段非常快乐的时光。她希望有一天能赚足够多的钱，然后去西部旅行。因为她听说瑞瓦诺（Ravounel）西南海岸的一个叫做骗子湾（Crookcove）的小镇有一座废弃的天文台，她希望买下它，把它改造成一座献给篷车星座群的神殿。但是目前，她觉得奥塔里的生活和每天睡在星空下已经非常满足。</p><p>瓦琳的魔裔特征非常明显，她在很久以前就接受了这一点。她的眼睛没有瞳孔，精灵耳朵旁边长着弯曲的羊角，身后有一条细长的尾巴，指尖闪烁着魔法光芒。毫无疑问，她与超自然力量有着深厚的联系。然而她的微微一笑和热情的态度总是能让她在旅途中收获友谊。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Otari Ilvashti.name
Otari Ilvashti
奥塔里·伊瓦什提 Otari Ilvashti
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Otari Ilvashti.text
<section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">A Restless Spirit with Valuable Clues</p><p>Otari’s role is to present the tasks necessary to reach the lower levels of the Abomination Vaults described in @UUID[JournalEntry.3T1M395V6J75OsEp.JournalEntryPage.5MfX6RVIF7rOroV3]{Spectral Seal}. Once the heroes encounter Otari’s ghost and drive off the wisps that torment him, he relates his tale of woe. He has difficulty remembering much of his life, but becomes very emotional if he learns that the Roseguard survived and named their town after him.</p><p>While Otari’s information about the dungeon is centuries out of date, his supernatural link to the Abomination Vaults affords him glimpses into the inner workings of the dungeon and its key players. As Otari speaks to the heroes, make sure he conveys the following key points of information to them, either in the form of answers to questions or volunteered information.</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-04/otari-ilvashti.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><dl><dt><p>What the Roseguard knew</p></dt><dd><p>Belcorra harbored a grudge against Absalom and intended to use her sinister lighthouse, Gauntlight, as a weapon against the city. The Roseguard never discovered its actual use, other than that it had something to do with the ability to transport creatures across significant distances and could animate the dead with its light. None of the other Roseguard members knew about the Abomination Vaults beneath Gauntlight. Otari learned about them only in his last few days alive.</p></dd><dt><p>Source of the spirits</p></dt><dd><p>Some property of the Abomination Vaults increases the manifestation of ghosts, spectral undead, and haunts within their domain. Otari initially believed this was a side effect from Gauntlight but has now come to suspect a link to a much more ancient and ominous source deep below this level. He knows nothing of Nhimbaloth, but if the heroes tell him of the Outer God, he suspects her influence is the source.</p></dd><dt><p>Belcorra's return</p></dt><dd><p>Belcorra herself is now a ghost, although she can’t move far from the site to which she’s anchored. Otari can sense her somewhere deep underground and is also aware that the range of her movements is slowly expanding.</p></dd><dt><p>Belcorra's plans</p></dt><dd><p>Otari suspects Belcorra intends to fully reactivate Gauntlight and use it to begin her long-delayed attack on Absalom. She must be put to rest before she can finish this task. Otari isn’t sure how to stop her, but believes that clues await discovery in the deeper levels of the Abomination Vaults.</p></dd><dt><p>The Spectral Seal</p></dt><dd><p>Finally, Otari feels the barrier in area @UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.QCU2xefly79ZVBxj]{D12. The Ghostwalk} blocking progress deeper into the Abomination Vaults. He understands that it’s powered by the souls of Belcorra’s defeated enemies. Fortunately, he also understands how to take the barrier down. The Roseguard were the adventurers who finally killed her, and their psychic resonance can drop the barrier. The heroes must find and place four icons the Roseguard once held dear onto the altar in area @UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.CGaM81kBLtYIxmqu]{D13. Upper Temple of Nhimbaloth} to do this. Otari’s thieves’ tools are here with his bones and serve as his icon. The other icons are described in the @UUID[.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]{The Roseguard} handout and can be found on the surface. Recovering them is the focus of the first part of the next chapter.</p></dd></dl><p></p><h2>Background</h2><p>Otari Ilvashti recalls little of his life. His time as a child growing up in Absalom and his adventures with the other members of the Roseguard have dwindled to distant but pleasant memories. His fear of the devastation Belcorra plans to unleash upon Absalom is what keeps him shackled to this world as a ghost.</p><p>When the Roseguard fought Belcorra in Gauntlight Keep, she unleashed a powerful magical explosion that collapsed the room where the fight took place. Belcorra and three heroes avoided the collapse and fought on— to Belcorra’s ultimate defeat—but the rogue Otari was caught beneath the collapse. His companions assumed he was pulverized, but Otari had fallen into a level beneath Gauntlight Keep that none of the Roseguard knew existed. Otari desperately wanted to escape to the surface and share his discovery, but Belcorra’s minions forced him to flee ever deeper into the vaults, until finally he was cornered in a dead-end cave by an immense otyugh that left him trapped and suffering from filth fever. Otari died in that deep cave, but his ghost lingers on.</p>
<section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">不安的灵魂和有价值的线索</p><p>奥塔里的角色在战役中举足轻重，他是队伍能进入憎恨魔窟中更深层地下城的必要条件，详见@UUID[JournalEntry.3T1M395V6J75OsEp.JournalEntryPage.5MfX6RVIF7rOroV3]页面。当英雄们遭遇奥塔里的幽灵并解决了一直折磨他的鬼火之后，奥塔里会讲述自己的悲惨遭遇。他已经几乎不记得自己生前的大部分事情了，但是当他得知玫瑰团的其他成员都幸存了下来并以他的名字命名小镇时，他会变得非常激动。</p><p>虽然奥塔里了解到的关于憎恨魔窟的信息已经过时了五百多年，但他与这个地下城的超自然联系让他得以一窥地下城中一些关键性人物和运作机制。当奥塔里和英雄们交谈时，请务必确保他向英雄们传达了以下这些信息要点，无论是回答英雄们的问题还是主动向英雄提供这些信息。</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-04/otari-ilvashti.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><dl><dt><p>玫瑰团所知道的</p></dt><dd><p>贝科拉对艾巴萨罗姆怀恨在心，打算利用险恶的凄凉灯塔来作为对抗这座城市的武器。玫瑰团从未能掌握到它的真正用途，只知道它能远距离传送生物，还能用光束来复活亡者。其他玫瑰团成员甚至都不知道它下面有个如此庞大的憎恨魔窟。奥塔里也是在他死前的最后几天才知道这个事实的。</p></dd><dt><p>幽灵的来源</p></dt><dd><p>憎恨魔窟的一些特性增强了它范围内的幽灵、亡魂和作祟。奥塔里最初认为这是凄凉灯塔造成的，但是现在他怀疑这一切与一个更古老且不详的源头有关系，并且它深藏于这层之下。奥塔里对宁布洛斯不太了解，但是如果英雄们告诉他外神的事情，他会怀疑是外神的影响导致的。</p></dd><dt><p>贝科拉的归来</p></dt><dd><p>贝科拉现在是一个幽灵，尽管她也无法离开被束缚的地方。奥塔里能感觉到她就在地下深处，也一直到她的活动范围正在慢慢扩张。</p></dd><dt><p>贝科拉的计划</p></dt><dd><p>奥塔里怀疑贝科拉打算完全激活凄凉灯塔，并使用它对艾巴萨罗姆进行延迟已久的攻击。必须在她完成这项企图之前让她安息。奥塔里不确定该如何阻止她，但他相信在憎恨魔窟的更深层能找到一些线索。</p></dd><dt><p>幽灵封印</p></dt><dd><p>最后，奥塔里感觉到到了@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.QCU2xefly79ZVBxj]区域那条阻止任何人进入下层的障壁。他明白组成这道障壁的能量来自那些被贝科拉击败的敌人的灵魂。幸运的是，他也知道如何打破障碍。玫瑰团是最后杀死她的冒险者，他们的心灵共振可以打破障碍。英雄们必须把玫瑰团成员曾经重视的四件遗珍放置在@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.CGaM81kBLtYIxmqu]区域的祭坛上。奥塔里的盗贼工具可以作为他的遗珍。其他几件遗珍在@UUID[.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]的介绍中有描述，并且能在地表找到。寻回这些遗珍将会是下一章第一部分的主要目标。</p></dd></dl><p></p><h2>背景故事</h2><p>奥塔里·伊瓦什提几乎已经不记得他生前的事了。他在艾巴萨罗姆长大的童年时光，以及他与玫瑰团其他成员的冒险经历，都已经成为了遥远而愉快的回忆。他对贝科拉试图毁灭艾巴萨罗姆的计划的恐惧让他作为一个幽灵被束缚在这个世界上。</p><p>当玫瑰团在凄凉灯塔要塞和贝科拉战斗时，她释放出一次巨大的魔法爆炸，摧毁了当时战斗的房间。贝科拉和其他三位英雄都避开了坍塌，并继续战斗。贝科拉最终失败身死，但游荡者奥塔里却被困在了坍塌的瓦砾堆下。他的同伴以为他已经被压得粉身碎骨，但其实奥塔里掉进了当时凄凉灯塔要塞的下一层，并且其他玫瑰团成员都不知道下面有个地下城存在。奥塔里急切地试图想要逃到地面上去警告玫瑰团的其他人，但是在贝科拉手下的围追堵截下，他不得不逃向更深处，直到最后他被一只巨大的食腐怪困死在了一个死胡同里，并受到了腐热症的折磨。奥塔里死在了那个洞穴里，但是他的幽灵却无法安息。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Khurfel.name
Khurfel
库尔费 Khurfel
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Khurfel.text
<figure class="flipx right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-09/khurfel.webp" width="240" /></figure><section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">Visions-Wracked Warlord</p></article></section><p>Khurfel leads the largest and most active group of adversaries the heroes face in the Abomination Vaults. His fated confrontation with the heroes is necessary because he holds the Emerald Fulcrum Lens and refuses to give it up as long as he lives, as it symbolizes the leadership of his cult. Khurfel’s vision of falling at the heroes’ hands doesn’t inspire fear—it inspires fury, and he fights against his prophesized enemies as long as breath remains in his body.</p><h2>Background</h2><p>Khurfel saw his first blood vision as a child, after his first taste of an enemy’s blood. Not every urdefhan has blood visions; those who do tend to keep them quiet, for those who experience them are seen as irrational or untrustworthy. Such visions always relay great apocalypses, perhaps connected to daemons and urdefhans’ lust for great death, but they’re nonsensical and rarely come true. Yet, like all urdefhans subjected to blood visions, Khurfel was absolutely convinced of his vision’s veracity, its outcome terrifying him. He saw the end of his cult, the urdefhans in the Abomination Vaults once sworn to Belcorra but who had mostly forgotten their oaths. He saw that this end would come while he ruled and that he was powerless to stop it. He would be the last war champion.</p><p>Of course, Khurfel kept his visions secret. If the rest of his cult knew of them, his life would be forfeit— but that wasn’t the real reason he denied them. His blood boiled at the revelation. He was the chosen of Abaddon. He would indeed rise to war champion, but he would fight these fevered nightmares. They were another enemy to be vanquished.</p><p>Khurfel’s rise was swift. He was large, strong, and fearsome. When he led his first war band, he achieved victory and slaughter, and when he partook in his enemies’ blood, the haunting visions waned. Within a few years, Khurfel became the youngest war champion in his cult’s history. He swore to defend their symbol of leadership, the Emerald Fulcrum Lens carried by generations of war champions. That’s when Khurfel’s troubles began.</p><p>It’s one thing to lead comrades into battle. Everything not urdefhan is prey. Fighting was simple and visceral. It focused Khurfel’s mind, and it exhilarated him. But being a leader, he learned, was far more nuanced. He had to juggle the jealousies, ambitions, and problems of everyone in his cult, an aspect of his position that he found tiring and dull. Worse still, his blood visions resumed. The Ghost Queen Belcorra returned to tell his cult to be ready, for they would soon have worlds of slaughter when she finished with her plans. His fellow urdefhans cheered at this promise, but Khurfel’s visions dampened his joy.</p><p>His visions showed him that hunting the drow leader, Larathols, would be the first step toward his cult’s demise. However, Larathols provoked Khurfel with his cautious explorations of the great lake the urdefhans claimed as their own. Larathols sought secrets in the forbidden vault—the one the urdefhans had been told long ago that no one should enter. Hungry for another fight and believing he could overcome his visions, Khurfel swam to an island on the lake and there killed Larathols and his daughter. He drank of the drow’s blood and threw the body into the lake so monsters could rip it apart. He had vanquished his foes. The victory was glorious, and his people screamed his name in triumph. Larathols’s blood was invigorating. What urdefhan doesn’t want these things? It’s every urdefhan’s right to bring death and destruction into the world.</p><p>But Khurfel’s blood visions now manifest more frequently, showing strangers who threaten him and drow working against him. He has called upon his cult’s tormentors and blood mages to summon more daemons and strengthen their defenses, but the visions persist. Khurfel is uneasy, and his doubt feels like weakness. The only way to solve a problem is to destroy it utterly—what his people have always done. Still the visions come, and Khurfel is powerless to stop them.</p>
<figure class="flipx right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-09/khurfel.webp" width="240" /></figure><section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">被幻像压垮的军阀</p></article></section><p>库尔费领导的教派是英雄们在憎恨魔窟中将要面对的最大也是最活跃的敌对势力。他与英雄们的宿命对抗是难以避免的，因为他持有翡翠支点镜片，只要他还活着就不可能放弃它，因为镜片象征着他在教派中的领导地位。库尔费倒在英雄面前的幻象预言并没有让他畏缩，反而激起了他的怒火，只要他还有一口气在，就会和预言中的敌人死拼到底。</p><h2>背景故事</h2><p>当童年的库尔费第一次品尝到敌人的鲜血之后，他看到了血之幻象。并非每个透肌魔人都能看到血之幻象；那些能看到血之幻象的人通常倾向于选择保持沉默，因为那些经历过血之幻象的人会被同类当做不理性或不值得信任的家伙。血之幻象总是传递关于世界末日的启示，也许和邪魔或透肌魔人渴望的大灭绝有关，但它们多数都显得很荒谬，甚少能成为现实。然而，就像所有透肌魔人一样，库尔费坚信自己所经历的幻象一定是真的，其结果让他感到恐惧。憎恨魔窟中的透肌魔人曾向贝科拉宣誓效忠，但他们几乎忘记了曾经的誓言，而则看到了自己的教派最终将走向灭亡。他知道这一切将会在他的统治内发生，而他无力阻止。他将是教派中最后一个战争勇士。</p><p>然而，库尔费对他的幻象秘而不宣，因为如果其他教徒知道了这件事，一定会他其挫骨扬灰——但这不是他否认预言的真正原因。这一启示使他热血沸腾。他是末日荒原的选民。他确实会成为战争勇士，但他会和这些狂热的噩梦殊死斗争，它将像其他敌人一样被库尔费征服。</p><p>库尔费迅速崛起。他高大、强壮，令人生畏。当他第一次领导战帮时，他赢得了胜利和并大肆杀戮。当他品尝敌人的鲜血时，萦绕心头的幻象消失了。短短几年之内，库尔费成为了教派历史上最年轻的战争勇士。他发誓要捍卫他们的领袖象征——由历代战争勇士所携带的翡翠支点镜片。也就是从这时候起库尔费的麻烦开始了。</p><p>在战场上领导透肌魔人只需要关注一点——非我族类统统杀光。战斗是简单且发自内心的。这让库尔费精神集中，战意高扬。但他认识到，作为一名领导者，事情要微妙得多。他必须在嫉妒、野心和教派每个人的问题之间找到平衡点，这让他觉得乏味。更糟的是，血之幻象又出现了。幽灵女王贝科拉回归了，她让他的教派做好准备，因为很快当她完成计划时，他们很快就能拥有一个能随意屠戮的世界。他手下的透肌魔人为这个承诺而欢欣鼓舞，但库尔费的幻象让他自己的喜悦黯然失色。</p><p>根据幻象表示，追捕卓尔领袖劳拉索斯（Larathols）将是导致他教派灭亡的开端。然而劳拉索斯在透肌魔人宣称领土内的大湖进行了小心谨慎的搜索，这激怒了库尔费。劳拉索斯在禁忌的地穴中寻找秘密——那是很久以来透肌魔人都被告知不得入内的圣地。库尔费渴望战斗，并坚信自己能逆转幻象中的语言，于是他游到了湖中的小岛上杀死了劳拉索斯和他的女儿。他痛饮了卓尔的鲜血，然后把尸体扔进湖里，好让怪物将其撕碎。他击败了他的敌人。胜利充满荣耀，他的人民在胜利中高呼他的名字。饮自劳拉索斯的血液沸腾起来。哪个透肌魔人会拒绝这种感觉呢？每个透肌魔人都有权力给这个世界带来死亡和毁灭。</p><p>但是库尔费的血之幻象如今出现得更加频繁了，他从中看到了一群威胁到他统治的陌生人，还有和他作对的卓尔。他曾让教派的鞭笞者和血法师召唤更多的恶魔并加强他们的防御，但这些幻象依然没有消除。库尔费很不安，他对未来的犹疑似乎暴露了自己内心的软弱。解决问题的唯一方法就是彻底摧毁它——这也是他的子民一直以来的行事方式。幻象中预言仍在持续，库尔费无力阻止它。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Quara Orshendiel.name
Quara Orshendiel
库娅拉·奥申迪尔 Quara Orshendiel
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Quara Orshendiel.text
<section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">Reluctant Ruler</p><p>Quara will likely become an ally of the heroes, as she knows useful partners when she sees them. She’s interested in avenging her father and sister, but she knows that whatever goal her father was pursuing with the Ochre Fulcrum Lens could prove critical in freeing Yldaris from Belcorra’s control forever. She has learned that the ochre lens was only one of three lenses that Belcorra entrusted to allies in the region centuries ago, and she sets the heroes on the trail of recovering them and finding out more. The most important lead Quara provides to the heroes is that her father was headed toward an ancient vault at the edge of the lake, so the heroes can find out more at that location.</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-09/quara-orshendiel.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><p>The heroes might see drow as enemies and assault Yldaris. In this case, Quara does her best to protect her people, relying on the shootist training that still lingers in her quick fingers. She likely won’t trust the heroes with any information after such aggressions, but they might find some clues in her quarters.</p><h2>Background</h2><p>Quara Orshendiel never expected to become the ruler of Yldaris. Her father, a wise and prudent man named Larathols, had ruled the settlement for many centuries. She loved her father, not only because he was a decent man, but because he granted Quara the freedom to forge her own path. She loved the swagger and fearlessness of Yldaris’s shootists and grew up fascinated by their tall tales and the way they reveled in their exploits.</p><p>Larathols saw no reason not to indulge his youngest daughter’s aspirations. He was already preparing Quara’s older sister, Galuna, to lead Yldaris when the time came, which Quara always imagined as many centuries in the future. In the meantime, she honed her skills with the shootists. It didn’t take long for her to start inspiring stories herself and to collect the scars that go with them—the most severe of which came from a run-in with a gug, against which she ultimately prevailed. She wore the creature’s pelt for years until it grew too tattered to be practical.</p><p>Quara’s carefree life changed after her father’s and sister’s deaths. At the time, she was carousing in Lozardyn and delighting in its residents’ larger-than-life rumors about her. Larathols decided to raid one of Belcorra’s secret storehouses to gain more information about the magical lens the sorcerer had entrusted to Larathols’s father many years ago. Galuna had gone with him, and Khurfel, war champion of the nearby urdefhans, ambushed and killed the pair. Quara was immediately called back to Yldaris. As the most senior of the shootists and Larathols’s daughter, she was expected to assume leadership of the outpost.</p><p>Quara never knew much about Belcorra or about the secret mission that cost her father and sister their lives. Belcorra had visited Yldaris years before Quara’s birth and made a deal with her grandfather, the vague details of which Quara heard only through rumors. She knew her grandfather played a dangerous game with Belcorra, promising forces that he couldn’t deliver and keeping the arrangement secret from Lozardyn’s rulers.</p><p>When the sorcerer suddenly disappeared—killed at the hands of surface dwellers, rumor said—the problem seemed to have sorted itself out.</p><h3>Visit from a Forgotten Friend</h3><p>Belcorra arrived in Yldaris shortly after Quara came home, imperiously demanding that Quara swear fealty just as her grandfather had. Never one to be much bound by promises anyway, Quara glibly swore to support the ghost because it seemed like the safest course of action.</p><p>Quara immediately consulted with Yldaris’s enigmatic cavern seers and her father’s closest allies to find out what had happened to him. She learned a little bit about her father’s last days, where he had gone and why, and that he’d taken something called the Ochre Fulcrum Lens that Belcorra had entrusted to Quara’s grandfather five centuries earlier. Belcorra hadn’t mentioned the lens when she appeared before Quara—perhaps assuming it was languishing in some Yldaris treasure vault—but Quara deduced the lens’s critical importance.</p><p>The responsibility of administering Yldaris has changed Quara. Her wild days have ended; she rarely drinks and never to excess. However, her freewheeling time as a shootist taught her the dangers of their outpost. She boasts less and has become more circumspect, having learned the lessons of true leadership. Her people love her for it. Quara would be shocked to hear it, but she’s just as well-regarded a leader as Larathols ever was.</p>
<section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">并非自愿的统治者</p><p>库娅拉很可能成为英雄的盟友，因为当她看到他们时就知道他们是很有用的伙伴。她一直想为自己的父亲和姐姐报仇，但她知道，无论她父亲用赭石色支点镜片追求什么目标，都可能对将伊尔达里斯永远从贝科拉的控制中解放出来至关重要。她知道赭石色支点镜片只是几百年以前贝科拉托付给该地区盟友的三枚镜片中的其中一枚，她让英雄们踏上寻找和收回这些镜片的道路。库娅拉给英雄们提供的最重要的线索是，她的父亲曾经前往湖边的某个古老墓穴，所以英雄们可以在那里找到更多信息。</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-09/quara-orshendiel.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><p>英雄们可能会将卓尔视为敌人，攻击伊尔达里斯。在这种情况下，库娅拉会尽她的最大努力，依靠她灵动的手指和纯熟的射手技巧来保护她的人民。在经历这样的侵略之后，她可能不会再相信英雄们说的任何话，但他们可能会在库娅拉的住处找到一些线索。</p><h2>背景故事</h2><p>库娅拉·奥申迪尔从未预料过自己会成为伊尔达里斯（Yldaris）的统治者。她的父亲是一个聪明而谨慎的人，名叫劳拉索斯（Larathols），已经统治这个定居点几百年了。她爱自己的父亲，不仅因为不仅因为他是个正派的人，还因为他让库娅拉自由选择未来的道路。她喜欢伊尔达里斯的枪手们的派头和无畏，从小就被他们的荒诞故事和他们陶醉于自己功绩的方式所吸引。</p><p>劳拉索斯认为自己没有理由不满足小女儿的愿望。他已经准备好让库娅拉的姐姐嘉卢娜在合适的时候接过伊尔达里斯的领导重任，而库娅拉总觉得这是几百年以后的事情。与此同时，她不断地磨练自己的射手技艺。没过多久，她就开始了自己的传奇故事，并且随之而来的是她全身不断增加的伤疤——最严重的伤疤来自一只古革巨人（gug），她最终战胜了它。她把它的皮穿在身上好几年，直到它变得破烂不堪，不再能穿为止。</p><p>库娅拉无忧无虑的生活在她的父亲和姐姐惨遭横死之后彻底终结了。当时，她正在洛扎丁（Lozardyn）寻欢作乐，并沉醉于当地居民讨论关于她的那些传奇故事。当时劳拉索斯决定突袭贝科拉的一个秘密仓库，以获取更多关于多年前术士托付给劳拉索斯父亲的魔法镜片的信息。嘉卢娜和父亲一同前往，但是附近的透肌魔人战争勇士库尔费（Khurfel）伏击并杀死了他们。库娅拉立即被召回伊尔达里斯。作为年龄最大的射手和劳拉索斯的女儿，她被推举为前哨站的领导。</p><p>库娅拉对于贝科拉和那个让她父亲和姐姐双双丧命的秘密任务知之甚少。在库娅拉出生前几年，贝科拉拜访过伊尔达里斯，并且和她的祖父达成了意向协议，关于这个协议的模糊细节，库娅拉只能通过谣言推断，她的祖父和贝科拉玩了一个危险的游戏，他许诺了他无法给与的力量，并且对洛扎丁的统治者保守了这个秘密。</p><p>当术士突然消失——据说是被地表居民杀死之后——问题似乎得到了解决。</p><h3>不速之客的来访</h3><p>然而，库娅拉回家后不久，贝科拉就来到了伊尔达里斯，专横地要求库娅拉像她的祖父一样宣誓效忠。库娅拉想来不愿意被承诺束缚，她油嘴滑舌地发誓要效忠于幽灵术士，因为这似乎是风险最小的做法。</p><p>库娅拉立即咨询了伊尔达里斯的神秘洞窟预言者和她父亲最亲密的盟友们，想知道父亲身上到底发生了什么。她对于父亲最后的日子有一些了解，包括他去了哪里，为什么去，以及他拿走了一个叫做赭石色支点镜片的东西，这东西是贝科拉在五个世纪以前托付给库娅拉的祖父的。当贝科拉出现在库娅拉面前时，她没有提到镜片的事情——也许是谎称它已经在伊尔达里斯的某个宝库中逐渐朽烂——但库娅拉推断出了镜片的是一件至关重要的物品。</p><p>管理伊尔达里斯的职责已经永远地改变了库娅拉，她放荡不羁的日子早已结束；她现在很少饮酒，就算饮酒也从不过量。然而，她曾经作为一名自由自在的射手的经历让她感知到前哨站正面临危险。她不再夸夸其谈，变得更加谨慎，已经学会成为一名真正的领导者。她的人民很喜爱她。库娅拉听到这些说法会很惊讶，但她确实是一位和劳拉索斯一样备受尊敬的领袖。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.The Roseguard.name
The Roseguard
玫瑰团 The Roseguard
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.The Roseguard.text
<h1>Otari's Founders</h1><p>An adventuring party who made their name in Absalom, the Roseguard defeated the villainous @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.snj2fGhhuxfAInom]{Belcorra Haruvex} and founded what’s now the logging town of @UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.7WZr8QhFOSrHPTgU]{Otari}- named after a comrade of theirs who fell in battle against the sorceress.</p><p>Today, the people of Otari honor them on founders’ day, 3 Desnus.</p><aside class="av-float-block"><h3>Members of The Roseguard</h3><p>The Roseguard consisted of the following heroes:</p><p><strong>Aesephna Menhemes</strong>: Aesephna was the party’s healer. She was a cleric of Erastil who was always more comfortable in smaller towns than big cities.</p><p><strong>Otari Ilvashti</strong>: Otari, the group’s rogue, was an optimist who kept the others hopeful with his charm and humor, even during their darkest hours.</p><p><strong>Vol Rajani</strong>: Vol was the party’s fighter, a capable and no-nonsense swordswoman who claimed to be exiled royalty from Nidal.</p><p><strong>Zarmavdian</strong>: The group’s wizard was a well-educated diviner who pursued outlandish conspiracy theories and occult lore.</p></aside><h2>Icons of the Roseguard</h2><p>The founders of Otari each had a single item imbued with the essence of their abilities as adventurers. Two of these are mundane items, invested with a spark of magic sufficient to keep them from deteriorating over the years: Otari Ilvashti’s infiltrator’s thieves’ tools (which the heroes can find in area @UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.J8ggyg2kxws3Sa1h]{D18}) and Zarmavdian’s spellbook, Thresholds of Truth. Vol Rajani’s sword and Aesephna Menhemes’s brooch are magic items. Otari’s thieves’ tools are no different than standard infiltrator’s thieves tools; the other three items are described here in detail.</p><p>The Roseguard didn’t realize that these items would become icons imbued with their essence, of course; this occurred after their deaths, when they’d already put their adventuring gear away for their well-earned retirement. Otari Ilvashti only learned that these specific items are critical to bypassing the ward that blocks the Abomination Vaults’ lower levels once he returned as a ghost and witnessed the barrier’s creation.</p><p>Of course, each member of the Roseguard had other useful, if mundane, adventuring gear, much of which is on display in the town museum in Menhemes Manor as historical relics.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><h3 class="half">The Cooperative Blade</h3><p>This longsword has been in the Rajani family for years, and Vol Rajani carried it throughout her distinguished adventuring career. Despite its pristine and gleaming appearance, the Cooperative Blade is incredibly ancient, created in pre-Earthfall Nidal. The Cooperative Blade is normally on display at the Dawnflower Library, but Carman Rajani steals it from the library at the beginning of Chapter 5- see @UUID[JournalEntry.3T1M395V6J75OsEp.JournalEntryPage.6EE3LBjSntNQeK8i]{The Theft}.</p></article><article class="full"><figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/items/hunters-brooch.webp" width="150" /><figcaption>@UUID[JournalEntry.qv54jw6NdryeFh51.JournalEntryPage.NEDW7tKCJQEadNN6]{Hunter's Brooch}</figcaption></figure><h3 class="half">The Hunter's Brooch</h3><p>Aesephna Menhemes, a cleric of Erastil, wore this silver brooch during her time as an adventurer. She passed it down to her descendants, and it’s now on display in Menhemes Manor. Today, it holds a small trace of her power, granting the wielder greater strength when combating undead creatures.</p></article><article class="full"><figure class="left"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/items/thresholds-of-truth.webp" width="200" /><figcaption>@UUID[JournalEntry.qv54jw6NdryeFh51.JournalEntryPage.wYGplCER64Td6Hde]{Thresholds of Truth}</figcaption></figure><h3>Thresholds of Truth</h3><p>Zarmavdian's spellbook, Thresholds of Truth, was once a straightforward treatise on arcane and occult lore containing several useful spells. It's been so heavily annotated, however, that the original text is hard to read. It's clear that Zarmavdian wanted to prevent eldritch creatures from manipulating innocent minds, but his spellbook is a treasure trove for those seeking dangerous or inscrutable lore. The bookseller Morlibint currently keeps this book in his collection at Odd Stories.</p></article></section>
<h1>玫瑰团的建立者</h1><p>玫瑰团是一支冒险队伍，名声传遍了艾巴萨罗姆。他们打败了邪恶的@UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.snj2fGhhuxfAInom]，并建立了伐木小镇@UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.7WZr8QhFOSrHPTgU]——以他们一位战友的名字命名，他在与女术士的战斗中牺牲了。</p><p>如今，奥塔里的人们会在创始日（Founder's Day），也就是每年的五月（Desnus）3日来纪念和尊崇瑰团。</p><aside class="av-float-block"><h3>玫瑰团的成员</h3><p>玫瑰团由以下英雄组成：</p><p><strong>艾斯法娜·曼妮姆斯（Aesephna Menhemes）</strong>: 艾斯法娜是冒险队伍的治疗者。她是埃拉斯蒂尔（Erastil）的牧师，比起艾巴萨罗姆这样的大城市她更喜欢住在小镇子里。</p><p><strong>奥塔里·伊尔瓦什提（Otari Ilvashti）</strong>: 奥塔里是团队中的盗贼，他是一个富有魅力的乐观主义者，即使是在团队最黑暗的时刻，他也能用他的魅力和幽默让其他人充满希望。</p><p><strong>沃尔·拉贾尼（Vol Rajani）</strong>: 沃尔是队伍里的战士，是一个严肃的女剑士。她声称自己是奈多（Nidal）流亡的皇室成员。</p><p><strong>扎马夫迪安（Zarmavdian）</strong>: 队伍里的法师，是一个受过良好教育的预言师，他追求稀奇古怪的阴谋论和神秘传说。</p></aside><h2>玫瑰团的遗珍</h2><p>奥塔里的创始人们都拥有一件能体现他们作为冒险者本质的物品。其中两件是普通物品，但是带有一点魔法火花，足以防止它们随着时间流逝而退化：奥塔里·伊瓦什提的专家级盗贼工具（infiltrator's thieves' tools）（英雄们可以在区域@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.J8ggyg2kxws3Sa1h]找到）以及扎马夫迪安的法术书。沃尔·拉贾尼的剑和艾斯法娜·曼妮姆斯的胸针都是魔法物品。奥塔里的盗贼工具和标准的专家级盗贼工具没有什么区别；这里将详细描述其他三件。</p><p>当然，玫瑰团的成员并不知道这些东西会成为代表他们的遗珍；当他们拿着丰厚的退休金，早已经不再需要冒险和装备时，这些物品才升格为他们冒险生涯的象征。在奥塔里·伊瓦什提以幽灵的身份复活并目睹了创建屏障的过程后，他只知道这些东西是穿越防护咒，前往憎恨魔窟更深层的关键。</p><p>当然，玫瑰团的每位成员也有其他的冒险装备（都是普通物品），它们大部分都被当成历史遗物陈列在曼尼姆斯庄园的镇博物馆里。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><h3 class="half">合作之刃The Cooperative Blade</h3><p>这把长剑由拉贾尼家族传承多年，沃尔·拉贾尼在她光辉的冒险生涯中一直带着它。尽管它的外观干净而质朴，但这把剑的历史难以置信地古老，创造于星陨之灾发生之前的奈多（Nidal）。合作之刃通常展示在晨花图书馆，但卡曼·拉贾尼在第五章将它偷走了-详见@UUID[JournalEntry.3T1M395V6J75OsEp.JournalEntryPage.6EE3LBjSntNQeK8i]。</p></article><article class="full"><figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/items/hunters-brooch.webp" width="150" /><figcaption>@UUID[JournalEntry.qv54jw6NdryeFh51.JournalEntryPage.NEDW7tKCJQEadNN6]</figcaption></figure><h3 class="half">猎人胸针</h3><p>艾斯法娜·曼妮姆斯，埃拉斯蒂尔（Erastil）的牧师，在冒险中时刻佩戴者这枚胸针。她将它传给了自己的后人，现在这枚胸针陈列在奥塔里镇长的家——曼妮姆斯庄园里。</p></article><article class="full"><figure class="left"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/items/thresholds-of-truth.webp" width="200" /><figcaption>@UUID[JournalEntry.qv54jw6NdryeFh51.JournalEntryPage.wYGplCER64Td6Hde]</figcaption></figure><h3>《真理的门槛》</h3><p>扎马夫迪安的法术书《真理的门槛》是一本关于奥法和神秘知识的著作，其中包含了一些有用的咒语。然而由于注释过多导致原文艰涩难懂。很明显，扎马夫迪安致力于阻止邪恶生物操纵无辜的心灵，但他的魔法书却成了那些寻找危险的神秘知识的宝库。目前，书商莫里宾特（Morlibint）将这本书收藏在他的怪谈书店（Odd Stories）里。</p></article></section>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.name
Campaign Background
战役背景 Campaign Background
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Campaign Timeline.name
Campaign Timeline
战役时间线 Campaign Timeline
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Campaign Timeline.text
<table class="av-table"><thead><tr class="av-table-header"><th><p>Date</p></th><th><p>Event</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>Age of Darkness</p></td><td><p>Serpentfolk construct the Empty Vault, a shrine to Nhimbaloth far beneath the surface of Golarion. When Aroden raises the Starstone Isles from the Inner Sea, the Empty Vault ascends with it, ending up several hundred feet below the Isle of Kortos.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>The neutral drow of a subterranean city construct an outpost closer to the surface called Yldaris. These drow are unconsciously drawn to the Empty Vault but don’t know of its presence.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4213 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra Haruvex is born to the wealthy Haruvex family in Absalom. Unknown to anyone outside the family, the Haruvexes have a strong aberrant bloodline and a familial devotion to the Outer God Nhimbaloth.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4219 AR</p></td><td><p>The Haruvex family is ejected from Absalom when their secret sacrifices are discovered. They flee to Andoran, where they live in poverty. This is particularly hard on 6-year-old Belcorra, the family’s youngest scion. The Haruvexes instill in Belcorra a hatred of Absalom and impress upon the child her role as Nhimbaloth’s chosen one.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4230 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra, the last exiled Haruvex, has become a powerful sorcerer. She secretly relocates to the Isle of Kortos, where she begins work on a magical lighthouse called Gauntlight, situated directly above the Empty Vault. She magically opens passages through the earth to reach the shrine and begins to collect an army of aberrations to attack Absalom.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4234 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra completes Gauntlight and begins work on its dungeons, the Abomination Vaults. She uses will-o’-wisps and bound devils to enforce her will on the rapidly expanding hordes within. She meets the drow and urdefhans who dwell in the area and demands their fealty in exchange for their lives.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4244 AR</p></td><td><p>One of Absalom’s “hunting lodges” (a sanctioned group of adventurers) called the Roseguard hear of Belcorra’s presence and come to investigate her lighthouse. They kill her but never learn of the existence of the expansive Abomination Vaults beneath Gauntlight; Belcorra kills the rogue Otari Ilvashti in this battle. The victorious Roseguard construct a small port community and retire there, naming it Otari after their fallen friend.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4290 AR</p></td><td><p>The last Roseguard passes away, and Otari begins to fall into decline.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4294 AR</p></td><td><p>Otari is abandoned.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4300 AR</p></td><td><p>Stonescale kobolds colonize Otari.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4310 AR</p></td><td><p>Yarlaip seals his tribe’s fate by luring ships to their doom; the Stonescale kobolds are soon thereafter defeated by adventurers. Maklanni Menhemes leads the resettlement of Otari.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4323 AR</p></td><td><p>Construction of the Otari Mill and log flume is completed.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4719 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra awakens as a ghost and begins work to reactivate Gauntlight. Its dungeons have been populated with generations of infighting creatures since her death, and she seeks to bring them under her control once more.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4721 AR</p></td><td><p>The current year. Gauntlight becomes infested with a band of mitflits, who are displaced by morlocks pushing upwards at the urging of their “ghost queen.” Gauntlight is ready for a test to demonstrate its power.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
<table class="av-table"><thead><tr class="av-table-header"><th><p>时间</p></th><th><p>事件</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>黑暗时代</p></td><td><p>蛇人族在格拉利昂地下深处建造了空无之窟（Empty Vault），一个用于供奉宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）的神殿。当奥罗登（Aroden）从内海升起星石群岛（Starstone Isles）时，空无之窟也随之一同升起，最终移动到了位于寇托斯岛（Isle of Kortos）地下几百尺深的地方。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>未知年代</p></td><td><p>一群生活在地下的卓尔在靠近地表的浅层洞穴里建造了一个叫做伊尔达里斯（Yldaris）的据点。这些卓尔精灵无意识地被吸引到空无之窟附近，但并不知道它的存在。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4213 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）出生于艾巴萨罗姆富裕的哈鲁维克斯家族。不为外人所知的是，哈鲁维克斯家族拥有强大的异怪血脉，忠诚地侍奉着外神宁布洛斯（Outer God Nhimbaloth）。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4219 AR</p></td><td><p>由于秘密的祭祀仪式暴露，哈鲁维克斯家族被逐出艾巴萨罗姆。他们逃到安多安（Andoran），过着贫困潦倒的生活。这对于当时 6 岁的贝科拉来说尤其艰难，因为她是家族最小的孩子。哈鲁维克斯家族一直在向贝科拉灌输对艾巴萨罗姆的仇恨，并让这个孩子相信自己是宁布洛斯的天选者（chosen one）。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4230 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉，哈鲁维克斯家族最后的流亡者，已经成长为一个强大的术士。她偷偷返回了寇托斯岛，并开始在空无之窟正上方建造一座叫做凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）的魔法灯塔，她神奇地从打开了一条通往神殿的通道，并开始建立一支异怪大军，用于袭击艾巴萨罗姆。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4234 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉完成了凄凉灯塔的建造，并开始扩建憎恨魔窟。她通过鬼火（will-o'-wisps）和被束缚的魔鬼在迅速扩张的地下城内执行她的意志。她遇到了居住在这个地区域之下的卓尔和透肌魔人（urdefhans），并要求他们向她效忠来保全性命。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4244 AR</p></td><td><p>艾巴萨罗姆的“猎友会（hunting lodges）”（一群获得认证的冒险队伍）之一的玫瑰团（Roseguard ）听说了贝科拉的存在，前来调查她的灯塔。他们杀了她，但从并不知道在凄凉灯塔下还存在一个巨大的憎恨魔窟。贝科拉在这场战斗中杀死奥塔里·伊瓦什提（Otari Ilvashti）。赢得胜利之后的玫瑰团在附近的海边建立了一个小镇，并以他们死去的朋友奥塔里给小镇命名，然后在那里归隐田园。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4290 AR</p></td><td><p>玫瑰团的最后一名成员去世了，奥塔里开始衰落。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4294 AR</p></td><td><p>奥塔里被废弃。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4300 AR</p></td><td><p>石鳞狗头人（Stonescale kobolds）部落占领了奥塔里。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4310 AR</p></td><td><p>雅拉普（Yarlaip）引诱过往船只靠岸，这为狗头人部落带来了厄运；石鳞狗头人部落随后被冒险者击败。马卡拉尼·曼赫姆斯（Maklanni Menhemes）领导了奥塔里的重建工作。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4323 AR</p></td><td><p>奥塔里磨坊（Otari Mill）和运木水槽建成。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4719 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉复活成为一个幽灵，并开始尝试重新启动凄凉灯塔。自从她死后，憎恨魔窟里充斥着各种互相争斗的怪物，她试图将它们再次归于自己的控制之下。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4721 AR</p></td><td><p>当前年份。凄凉灯塔被一群螨精占据，它们被下层一群为了向“幽灵女王”表忠心的摩洛克驱赶到了地表。凄凉灯塔已经准备好展现它的威力。</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Gauntlight.name
Gauntlight
凄凉灯塔 Gauntlight
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Gauntlight.text
<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>Gauntlight</h2><h2>Item 20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">Unique</li><li>Artifact</li><li>Magical</li><li>Necromancy</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</span></h2><p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p><h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3><p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p></article></section>
<p><em>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</em> 很难被忽略，它矗立于凄凉灯塔要塞的废墟之上，并向下延申至憎恨魔窟每一层，直抵下方的空无之窟。从很多方面来说，这件神器和恶毒的贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯Belcorra Haruvex一样都是战役中的主要威胁。</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</h2><h2>物品20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">独特</li><li>神器</li><li>魔法</li><li>死灵系</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>凄凉灯塔</em> 凄凉灯塔不仅仅是一个矗立在雾隐沼泽的废墟中的 115 尺高的灯塔——它苍白的石墙深深地扎进废墟地下，穿过八层形态各异的地下城，地基的中心在地下第九层，是一个不祥的房间。很久以前，宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）就在那里触碰到这个世界。在完成了灯塔的物理构造之后，术士贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）用这个地方作为能量源，将魔力注入到<em>凄凉灯塔</em>每一层的墙壁、地板和天护板上。灯塔顶部的透镜可本可以及时将这种邪恶的能量汇聚成强大的光束射线，但是贝卡拉还没来及用更具威力的魔法透镜替换普通的透镜之前，她的计划就被打断了。</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>作为一个神器，<em>凄凉灯塔</em>无法以正常的方法破坏。它的外墙天衣无缝，除了宁布洛斯和其追随者，任何其他人都无法打破。它的外墙会阻碍创建临时通道的法术，如穿墙术（passwall），并且能作为屏障阻碍次元旅行（dimensional travel）。墙可以反制进入或离开<em>凄凉灯塔</em>内部区域的具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果和异界旅行（planar travel）、并会阻止将召唤生物至塔内区域的尝试（反制调整值+37）；该效果不会阻止被召唤的生物在召唤结束后离去。注意，这些效果只会在凄凉灯塔内部和它本体占用的空间生效(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}，等等)，而非整个憎恨魔窟！</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">如果贝科拉的幽灵被永久摧毁，凄凉灯塔就会失去所有的魔法特性，并一路崩塌至底部，在雾隐沼泽中留下一个难以置信的大坑。</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">启动方式</span></h2><p>要启动<em>凄凉灯塔</em>，1 个生物必须位于神器的基座层(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20})。在空无之窟的任何位置，生物可以通过<em频率>凄凉灯塔</em>的透镜远距离观察外面的世界，包括<em>凄凉灯塔</em>的光束射线射程以内的任何地方。</p><h3>支点镜片</h3><p>在<em>凄凉灯塔</em>功能减弱的当前状态下，它只能通过以下两种方式启动。通过更换和安装一组共四块被称为支点镜片的能够聚焦宁布洛斯那恶毒凝视的魔法透镜——这些透镜是如此强大，以至于贝科拉都需要小心翼翼——神器能获得显著的力量增幅，使它能照射到艾巴萨罗姆，并且可以每分钟 1 次的频率启动。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。光线会浸透整个区域，使得被照亮的区域内，所有埋在地下 10 尺深以内的尸体都会被复活为-1 级的不死生物（通常是骷髅守卫[skeleton guards]或蹒跚丧尸[zombie shamblers]）。一旦复活，这些不死生物在被杀之前都会保持主动攻击状态。不死生物处于不受控状态，只是被屠戮活人的欲望所驱使。</p><p>如果<em>凄凉灯塔</em>恢复至完全状态，则能把尸体复活成不高于 15 级的常见不死生物，具体取决于使用者的意愿。</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。使用者选择一个不高于 4 级的且身体于凄凉灯塔内的生物，然后将该生物传送至光照范围内的任意一点。如果凄凉灯塔恢复至完全状态，则灯塔内的任何不高于 15 级的生物都可以被传送。这是一个具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果。</p></article></section>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Nhimbaloth.name
Nhimbaloth
宁布洛斯 Nhimbaloth
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Nhimbaloth.text
<section class="npc"><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/symbol-nhimbaloth.webp" width="200" /></figure><figure><p class="stats">"The wind, her voice;</p><p class="stats">The wisp, her eye;</p><p class="stats">Your lot, to die."</p><p class="stats">- The Whispering Reeds</p></figure></section><p>The banks of the River of Souls brushes against every world, for when a mortal dies, their spirit steps out of their body to cross over these banks on the first step toward the afterlife. Yet, as with most rivers, predators lurk along these perilous banks. Night hags, astradaemons, devourers, and worse stalk the River, eager to pluck souls free and feed on them. Dread Nhimbaloth, the Empty Death, doesn’t deign to hunt the shores of the River of Souls alongside these predators—she instead feeds upon the predators themselves, reveling in consuming souls already being digested in the gullets of those who would deem themselves the apex hunters of the dead.</p><p>Nhimbaloth uses the shores of the River of Souls to manifest upon the universe’s countless worlds, but she can’t just do so whenever she wills it. Before the Empty Death can manifest within a world, it must first endure a cataclysm so vast that the outflow of the dead into the River of Souls weakens the boundaries between life and death. When such massive casualties sufficiently thin these borders, she can drift in through the cracks and stain what she finds. The resulting blurring between the River of Souls and its shore is metaphysically akin to the muddied boundary of a swamp. It’s no coincidence that when Nhimbaloth emerges into a world, she chooses to dwell in its remote swamplands. Nhimbaloth isn’t a glutton—she’s endlessly patient and can linger on a world for centuries before being noticed.</p><p>More often, her presence in an isolated swampland simply festers, turning a region of natural beauty into a dangerous fen that draws all manner of monsters to its fetid heart. Such lands call to will-o’-wisps; for these feeders of fears, the ruin wrought by the Empty Death is like a fine wine of unparalleled vintage. In time, many of these wisps realize the truth of the influence in their chosen haunts, and in most cases, these ravenous aberrations become Empty Death’s most fervent worshippers.</p><figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/nhimbaloth.webp" width="300" /></figure><h1>Personification and Realm</h1><p>While Dread Nhimbaloth has no physical body of her own, she has been known to manifest a perceivable shape under the perfect conditions, growing visible after consuming a huge quantity of souls the way an empty glass’s contours becomes more defined once filled with liquid. In this form, Nhimbaloth appears as a twisting, melted mass of glistening blue fluid with eyes the shape of yellow four-pointed stars and a tangle of translucent tentacles extending in every direction. The tentacles’ tips split into seven smaller tendrils, and where these “hands” touch the world, they leave her mark behind—a ring of seven strange divots where vegetation refuses to grow, stone becomes chalky, and flesh festers as if it had forgotten how to heal. The position of the stars in the sky, the number of dead trapped within the swamp, and the time of year all seem to play a part in determining when this shadow of what might have once been Nhimbaloth’s body can appear, as does the presence of her cultists, but the manifestation rarely persists for long. Always, the manifestation ends in a sudden consumption from within when the Empty Death retreats to her domain, leaving behind a dead swampland of toxic waters and mindless undeath.</p><p>This form often appears in illustrations that depict the Empty Death, though Nhimbaloth is also portrayed as a ghostly human woman with a single yellow eye in the shape of a four-pointed star filling her otherwise blank face, and a long, writhing mane of ghostly, seven-fingered tentacles wraps around her nearly skeletal body in a smoky shroud. This version of her is surely the product of an artist’s nightmare, yet cults have adopted it as their own.</p><p>Nhimbaloth’s realm is a twofold domain. She uses the banks of the River of Souls as a hunting ground and a highway to travel from world to world, but supposedly dwells on a distant, dead planet. The name of this domain has been lost to time; the faithful of Nhimbaloth refer to it in whispers only as Voidbracken. Here, an ancient battle between Nhimbaloth and another power took place (most myths suggest her foe was Pharasma) that resulted in the destruction of the Empty Death’s body. This conflict didn’t result in her death, however, and her cult fondly views the event as an evolution—for without a body, she could now come and go as she pleased along the shores of the River of Souls. Voidbracken spins still in the Dark Tapestry, wandering aimlessly through the universe but driven always by Nhimbaloth’s will, and when it draws near an inhabited system, the souls of the living are drawn from their mortal shells in a cataclysm referred to in rare surviving accounts as the Deadtide. According to certain passages scribed in ancient texts like the Necronomicon, many of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods must wait for the stars to align just right to manifest. This is quite literally true in Nhimbaloth’s case. Eventually, her Deadtides will claim enough lives so that Nhimbaloth’s death will die; the accumulated spiritual energy she has digested will ultimately undo her ancient defeat, allowing her to once more exist as a physical being.</p><p>She will rise from death hungrier than ever.</p><h1>Dogma and Worshippers</h1><p>Nhimbaloth’s creed and worship are entirely the product of her cultists, as the Empty Death has little interest in providing her worshippers with direct inspiration or direction. This tradition echoes the pattern established with all other cults centered on entities of the Elder Mythos who similarly care not for their worshippers. Because of this lack of divine direction, while their worshippers strive to accomplish specific goals, they aren’t limited by anathemas.</p><p>In Nhimbaloth’s case, her worshippers seek to create undead—particularly ghosts and other incorporeal creatures—to provide sustenance for their eldritch icon. They also feast upon carnivores at their ceremonies, aping Nhimbaloth’s predation upon soul-eating monsters. Her faith is all but unknown in urban areas, but in isolated swamp villages, worship of the Empty Death can suffuse entire settlements. In such instances, the cult typically builds the shell of a mainstream church to serve as a front and satisfy any curious outsiders passing through, while worshipping their goddess at a hidden location in the heart of the night.</p><p>Lower-level clerics of Nhimbaloth dress in whatever corpse’s attire is commonly used in their society’s burial rites, choosing to wear a “final suit” or “last gown” during their rituals in hopes that sweet oblivion might answer their prayers. Cult leaders, however, often eschew this tradition, instead wearing dark green or gray hooded robes adorned with tangled sheets of clinging moss and skull-shaped masks adorned with veils of additional moss. The cultists favor flails in combat; these weapons often have heads shaped into four-pointed stars with the flail’s chain attached to the center of the star and handles wrapped in moss and tanned flesh stripped from the dead.</p><p>Humanoids are far from the Empty Death’s only worshippers. As mentioned, will-o’-wisps and their kin find much to admire in the sinister aura Nhimbaloth’s presence brings to desolate swamplands, and it doesn’t take long for them to take up faith in the Empty Death, almost as if feeding on fear spurred by her influence infects the wisps with devotion to her faith. Marsh giants have also been known to venerate Nhimbaloth under names like “Bogmother,” “The Rushlight Woman,” “Swampfire Queen,” or the like, although they pray to her more as a patron of swampland than anything else. Vampiric mists commonly appear in her swamplands as well, and many scholars have nervously wondered about the implied connection between Nhimbaloth’s mark and the clusters of seven perfectly spaced punctures vampiric mists leave in the bodies of those they’ve fed upon through their misty tendrils.</p><h1>Temples and Shrines</h1><p>Often, the members of a cult of the Empty Death consist of the truly desperate, those with little money and less hope. They conduct their worship in their homes, or what passes as a home—partially collapsed shacks, abandoned barns, or even slumped survivalists’ shelters all suffice for the worship of Nhimbaloth. The rarer cults led by deviants of means construct larger structures to honor Nhimbaloth and often build these structures as mockeries of other churches by including stained glass windows, mosaics, and other works of art that honor the Outer Goddess. In such cases, the structure often serves a secondary purpose, such as a castle, a manor house, or the like. Curiously, these larger structures often share a particular feature: a tower that serves as a beacon or lighthouse as a way to honor will-o’-wisps, which the cult adore. To her followers, will-o’-wisps are Nhimbaloth’s eyes, and her gaze looks out upon the world through the lambent glow of these supernatural predators. A beacon or lighthouse in a temple thus symbolizes a will-o’-wisp, but also, they believe it gives Nhimbaloth a lens through which to gaze upon the world.</p><p>Nhimbaloth’s symbol is a skull with moss stuffed into its jaws, although her cultists often create variants of it as crude dolls or effigies of moss-caked bones and fragments of skulls. Temples that can afford to be open about their affiliation with the goddess often adorn their structures with skulls that have moss carefully grown into soggy, vermin-infested beards or with moss draperies that hang down over archways to form moist curtains in place of proper doors.</p><h1>A Priest's Role</h1><p>As with most cults of the Elder Mythos, the majority of Nhimbaloth’s devout don’t worship out of respect or adoration so much as fear. For them, the concept of death isn’t what evokes nightmare, but the fear of what judgment might await in the afterlife is what drives most to her faith. Those who have sinned, who have committed heresy against a prior faith, or who simply live in constant terror of what Pharasma might say to them when they reach her throne instead seek the oblivion offered by Nhimbaloth. They seek not to escape death or life, but to escape what they fear will be an even worse afterlife.</p><p>Yet this is not the only motive that draws worshippers to her fold. Some, rather than being driven by a fear of the afterlife, are enticed by the opportunity to bask in the misery and despair of others. These members are some of the most awful in the sect, for they use the promise of oblivion that Nhimbaloth offers to those who worship her as a lure to draw in the desperate to aid their own nefarious plots. Some seek to use these eager-for-oblivion zealots as disposable armies for acts of vengeance or rage; others draw upon these worshippers as sacrifices to fuel abhorrent rituals or to craft horrific magic items.</p><p>Even these predators of the desperate pale in comparison to the worst of Nhimbaloth’s worshippers—nihilists who fully understand the Empty Death and see in her the ultimate tool to destroy a world they’ve grown to loathe. For these cultists, nothing less than using the Voidbracken to bring a Deadtide upon their world will suffice. They might have a hidden plan to escape the world the moment all life is ended; they might even seek their own oblivion or believe that Nhimbaloth herself might reward them with dominion over a dead world. Regardless of their intent, these doomsday shepherds are the most dangerous of the Empty Death’s worshippers.</p><h1>Holidays</h1><p>Cults of Nhimbaloth that exist in small communities under the guise of a different religion take pains to observe that faith’s holidays if visitors or (more rarely) townsfolk don’t know their gathering’s true faith, but apart from that, worshippers of the Empty Death don’t observe regular holidays or religious festivals—with one unusual exception. The exact date on which Nhimbaloth’s body was taken from her and Voidbracken was denuded of life is unknown, so each cult chooses one day of import to observe this anniversary. The fact that no one knows the length of Voidbracken’s year makes this ritual even more arbitrary; regardless, her faithful believe that on one of these so-called Void Dawns, the sun won’t rise upon the world and all life will be snuffed in a Deadtide. Cultists celebrate the night leading to a Void Dawn with a gluttonous feast consisting of all manner of carnivores and monsters—meals they often make during the proceedings while the “food” still lives. When the sun inevitably rises, the cultists choose one of their own as the final feast in atonement for failing to bring the Deadtide to their world.</p><h1>Aphorisms</h1><p>Worshippers of Nhimbaloth fondly quote and recite their favorite tales from The Whispering Reeds, each of which has a number of memorable and haunting lines. However, a variant of an infamous quote from the Necronomicon particularly resonates with all of her worshippers.</p><p><em><strong>"Long Dream the Dead, Yet Even Death Can Die"</strong></em></p><p>To many, the notion of death is akin to an eternal slumber, a dawnless rest in which the soul experiences an afterlife in the way a sleeping person could dream several different lives in the span of a single night. Whether a dreamer wakes with the dawn or dies in their sleep, all dreams eventually come to an end. Just as when the Empty Death comes to call, even death knows oblivion—and even death may die.</p><h1>Holy Text</h1><p>Mentions of Nhimbaloth are rare, even for the esoteric topic of the Outer Gods. The dread Necronomicon mentions her, and certain translations of that book purportedly contain descriptions of her true form, which might be the only place where Nhimbaloth’s true form is set down in print. This information isn’t even present in the text most often associated with her worship: a rare tome called <em>The Whispering Reeds</em>.</p><p>The genesis of <em>The Whispering Reeds</em> lies not in those who worship the Empty Death, but in those who sought to oppose her. The book consists of stories, myths, parables, and encounters with Nhimbaloth gathered from hundreds of regions in dozens of worlds. The compiler’s name has been long forgotten, as they neglected to name themself in the text. This matters not to those who worship Nhimbaloth, nor does the fact that the author originally penned the book for the purpose of cataloging the ways in which Nhimbaloth’s influence could be opposed. The very act of collecting these old stories of the Empty Death brushing against the world had the opposite effect, and now, those who seek to draw their goddess’s attention to their world uses <em>The Whispering Reeds</em> to spread stories of her previous visits.</p><h1>Relations with Other Religions</h1><p>Nhimbaloth doesn’t consort with other gods, although often her visitations upon the wilderness force confrontations with other faiths. In particular, Gozreh and Desna oppose her influence—the former because of the proliferation of unnatural elements that taint swamplands, and the latter out of a mixture of anger and fear that her flock might stumble into Nhimbaloth’s clutches accidentally while exploring the wilds. The Eldest of the First World also oppose Nhimbaloth, whose parasitic tendrils can occasionally drift into that plane through fey gates and portals. Even after driving out the Empty Death, small cults of fey who have fallen under her sway inevitably remain.</p><p>Pharasma opposes Nhimbaloth for multiple reasons. Those who perish in lands haunted by the latter’s presence tend to rise as ghosts. Moreover, the Empty Death’s habit of consuming those ghosts has rightly angered Pharasma, for rather than being released to the Boneyard, the consumed souls simply disappear. One might assume that such an affront to the cycle of life and death would compel Pharasma into a direct confrontation with Nhimbaloth, and indeed, certain ancient texts tell of such a clash between the two goddesses at the very dawn of mortal civilization. The titanic battle left neither goddess the victor. Nhimbaloth learned to hide her predations upon the world so that even Pharasma can’t readily find her, and one particularly blasphemous tale in The Whispering Reeds speaks of a hidden scar that Pharasma bears to this day as a reminder of her failed attempt to decisively defeat the Empty Death—a scar, supposedly, in the pattern of seven divots of flesh where Nhimbaloth fed upon the essence of the Goddess of Death.</p><p>Whether or not this myth has any basis in fact, the faithful of Pharasma view Nhimbaloth and her cult with a combination of hatred and fearful respect. Only the most devout and powerful of Pharasma’s worshippers receive leave to hunt Nhimbaloth’s faithful, and they work hard to prevent lay worshippers from learning much of the Empty Death. Their justification—that Nhimbaloth feeds only on ghosts, and that by defeating or preventing the formation of theses undead, they strike blows against the Empty Death—reads to some as an excuse.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><h3>Nhimbaloth's Inspiration</h3><p>H. P. Lovecraft encouraged others to add to the mythos of eldritch beings he created to populate his weird fiction, and it was in this tradition that I first created Nhimbaloth as an antagonist for my own stories and roleplaying campaigns. Largely inspired by the mysterious horror lurking behind nature’s veil in Algernon Blackwood’s classic short story “The Willows,” and with some valuable advice on Outer God naming conventions from the fine folks at Chaosium, Nhimbaloth has become one of my proudest additions to the ever-expanding Lovecraft Mythos.</p><p><em><strong>- James Jacobs</strong></em></p></article></section>
<section class="npc"><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/symbol-nhimbaloth.webp" width="200" /></figure><figure><p class="stats">“风声，她之声；</p><p class="stats">鬼火，她之眼；</p><p class="stats">汝命，她所定；</p><p class="stats">汝运，黄泉途。”</p><p class="stats">——呓语芦苇</p></figure></section><p>灵魂之河轻轻冲刷着每个世界的堤岸，每当凡人死亡时，其灵魂脱离身体，跨过河岸，迈出了走向来世的第一步。然而，与其他河流一样，在这些危险的河岸上潜伏着捕食者。夜鬼婆、星界邪魔、囚魂魔和更可怖的存在徘徊河边，渴望撷取灵魂并大快朵颐。可怖的空无之死宁布洛斯则并不屈尊于在灵魂之河的岸边同这些捕食者一起捕猎——她反而以捕食者们本身为食，陶醉于吞噬那些自认为是顶级掠食者的生物胃里的灵魂。</p><p>宁布洛斯利用灵魂之河的河岸显现在宇宙中的无数个世界上，但她不能随心所欲地这样做。在空无之死能够于一个世界中显现之前，那个世界必须首先经受一场严重的灾难，以至于无数死者涌入灵魂之河，削弱了生与死的界限。当这种大规模的死难使生死的边界变薄时，她就可以从裂缝中漂流进去，染指她所发现的事物。由此在灵魂之河与河岸之间产生的模糊，在形而上学中有如沼泽地的泥泞边界。因此，并非巧合地，当宁布洛斯出现在一个世界中时，她选择停驻在偏远的沼泽里。宁布洛斯并不贪食——她有无尽的耐心，可以在一个世界上停留几个世纪后才被注意到。</p><p>多数时候，她的存在会慢慢在一个偏僻的沼泽地里发酵，把当地的天然美景转化成危险的泥潭，吸引各种怪物来到它腥臭的中心。这样的土地呼唤着鬼火——对这些以恐惧为食的存在，空无之死造成的破坏如同无与伦比的佳酿。随着时间的推移，许多鬼火意识到这些区域影响背后的真相，且在多数时候，这些贪婪的异怪成为空无之死最狂热的崇拜者。</p><figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/nhimbaloth.webp" width="300" /></figure><h1>显形和其领域</h1><p>虽然可怖的宁布洛斯没有自己的躯体，但她在完美的条件下可以显现出一个可被察觉的形状，在吞噬了大量的灵魂后，她的形状会越来越明显，如同一个空杯子的轮廓在装满液体后会变得更加明显一般。在这种形态下，宁布洛斯表现为一团扭曲熔化而闪闪发光的蓝色液体，眼睛呈黄色的四角星形状，一束半透明的触手从液体中向各个方向延伸。触手的顶端分成七个较小的卷须，而在这些 "手 "接触世界的地方，会留下她的印记：一块带有七片奇特草皮的环，周围的植被不再生长，石头变得白垩化，而肉体会像简直忘记了如何愈合一般溃烂。天空中群星的位置、被困在沼泽中的死者数量、时令以及她崇拜者的存在似乎都在影响这个可能曾经是宁布洛斯身体的阴影会何时出现，但这种显形很少持续很长时间。当空无之死撤退回她的领域时，其显形会突然从内部消解而结束，留下一片充斥着有毒水体和无意识的不死生物的死亡沼泽。</p><p>这种形象常出现在描绘空无之死的插图中，但宁布洛斯也被描绘成一个幽灵般的人类女性，一只四角星形状的黄色眼睛填满了她原本空白的脸，一长串蠕动的幽灵般的七指触须像头发般缠绕在她近乎骷髅般的躯体上，缭绕地笼罩着她。这个版本的她肯定来自于艺术家的噩梦，但邪教徒却也挪为己用。</p><p>宁布洛斯的国度是两重领域。她将灵魂之河的河岸既作为狩猎场，又作为从一个世界到另一个世界的捷径，但据说她本身居住在一个遥远的死亡星球上。其领域的名字已经湮没在时间之中，只有宁布洛斯的信徒们会悄声提起它：虚空之蕨（Voidbracken）。在那里，宁布洛斯和另一个势力之间发生了一场远古大战（多数神话都认为她的敌人是法莱斯玛），导致了空无之死的身躯被毁灭。然而，这场冲突并没有导致她的死亡，她的崇拜者欢喜地将那视为一种进化——没有躯体的她如今在灵魂之河的岸边来去自如。虚空之蕨仍然在黑暗帷幕中旋转着，在宇宙里漫无目的地游荡，但总是被宁布洛斯的意志所驱使，当它接近一个有人居住的星系时，一场在罕有的现存记载中被称为死亡之潮的大灾难就会将无数灵魂从凡人的躯壳中抽出。根据死灵之书等古代文献中的段落，许多旧日支配者和外神必须等待群星正确的排列时才能显现出来，这在宁布洛斯的案例中确有其事。最终，她的死亡之潮将夺走足够多的生命，以至于宁布洛斯的死亡也将死去；她所消化的精神能量将累计起来最终抹去她过去的战败，让她重新作为一个物理存在而降临。</p><p>而当她自死亡中归来时，将比以往任何时刻都更饥渴。</p><h1>信条与信徒</h1><p>宁布洛斯的信条和崇拜完全是邪教徒们创造的产物，因为空无之死对为她的崇拜者提供直接的灵感或指导没有兴趣。宁布洛斯邪教的传统与所有其他以旧神崇拜为中心的邪教的模式相呼应，那些实体同样不关心他们的崇拜者。由于缺乏神的指导，虽然他们的崇拜者会努力完成特定的目标，但他们并不受到禁忌的限制。</p><p>在宁布洛斯的邪教中，崇拜者试图创造亡灵——特别是鬼魂和其他虚体生物——来为他们的诡邪神明提供养料。他们还在仪式上享用食肉动物，模仿宁布洛斯对食魂怪物的捕猎。她的信仰在城市地区几乎无人知晓，但在偏僻的沼泽村落，对空无之死的崇拜可能会充斥整个定居点。在这种情况下，邪教组织通常会建立起一个主流教会的外壳作为门面，以满足任何路过的好奇外来者，同时在夜晚最深处的一个隐蔽地点崇拜他们的女神。</p><p>宁布洛斯的低级神职人员穿着他们社会中常用的任何葬礼中的尸体服装，在仪式中穿上 "临终衣着 " 或 "最后的长袍"，希望那甜蜜的永恒遗忘将回应他们的祈祷。然而，邪教领袖则往往摒弃这一传统，而穿着深绿色或灰色的连帽长袍，上面装饰着纠缠在一起的苔藓，骷髅形的面具上还蒙着苔藓面纱。邪教徒们在战斗中喜欢使用连枷；这些武器的头部通常被塑造成四角星，连枷的链条连接在星的中心，手柄上缠着苔藓和从尸体上剥下的鞣制肉革。</p><p>人类远不是空无之死的唯一崇拜者。如前所述，鬼火和他们的亲族十分钦服宁布洛斯的存在给荒凉的沼泽地带来的险恶灵气，而他们很快就会接受空无之死的信仰，仿佛是鬼火因为捕食了由她激发出的恐惧们而受到感染，对她充满了虔诚的崇拜一般。沼泽巨人以 "泥沼之母"、"枯光女士"、"沼泽之火女王 "之类的名字来崇敬宁布洛斯，尽管他们更多将她作为沼泽的守护者来祈祷。吸血迷雾也经常出现在她的沼泽地里，许多学者都曾怀着惊惧地好奇过宁布洛斯的徽记和吸血鬼雾气在他们通过缥缈的卷须吸食的人身上留下的七个完美间隔的刺孔之间是否有隐含联系。</p><h1>寺庙和神殿</h1><p>通常，空无之死邪教的成员由真正的绝望者组成，他们没有什么钱，更没有什么希望。他们在自己的家里，或者某种能称之为家的地方进行崇拜——倒塌的棚屋、废弃的谷仓，甚至是坍塌的野外庇护所，都足以让他们进行崇拜的仪式。较少见的，由富裕的邪教徒领导的邪教组织则会建造更大的建筑来纪念宁布洛斯，并经常添设彩色玻璃窗、马赛克和其他纪念这位外神的艺术作品，作为对其他教会建筑嘲弄式的模仿。这种时候，该结构往往有一个次要的用途，如作为城堡、庄园或类似的东西。奇特的是，这些较大型的宁布洛斯神殿往往有一个特别之处：作为烽火台或灯塔的塔楼，以此来纪念他们所崇拜的鬼火。对她的追随者来说，鬼火是宁布洛斯的眼睛，她的目光通过这些超自然的捕食者发出的微弱的光亮看着世界。因此，神殿中的烽火台或灯塔象征着鬼火，而且邪教徒们也相信它给了宁布洛斯提供了一面镜片，通过它来观察这个世界。</p><p>宁布洛斯的徽记是一个下颚塞满了苔藓的头骨，尽管她的崇拜者也经常将其改编成粗糙的娃娃或由苔藓包裹的骨头和骷髅碎片组成的雕像。那些不惮于公开崇拜宁布洛斯的神殿，通常会用骷髅来装饰他们的建筑，将这些骷髅上的苔藓被精心培育成潮湿的、害虫滋生的胡须，或者将苔藓挂在拱门上，形成潮湿的帘帷来代替大门。</p><h1>牧师的角色</h1><p>与崇拜旧神的大多数邪教一样，宁布洛斯多数信徒的崇拜并不是出于尊重或倾慕，而是恐惧。唤起他们噩梦的并非死亡的概念本身，而对于来世可能面临的审判的恐惧才是促使他们信仰的原因。那些犯了罪的人，叛离原有信仰的人，或者那些单纯一直恐惧着当他们到达法莱斯玛的御座会受到怎样判决的人们，转而寻求宁布洛斯提供的遗忘。他们并非为了逃避死亡或生命，而是为了逃避他们所担心的更可怕的死后经历。</p><p>然而这并不是吸引崇拜者加入她的唯一动机。有些人，与其说是被对死后的恐惧所驱使，不如说是被饱食他人的痛苦和绝望的机会所引诱。这些成员是教派中最可怕的一些人，他们利用宁布洛斯为崇拜者提供的遗忘承诺作为诱饵，吸引绝望之徒来为他们自己的邪恶阴谋服务。有些人试图利用这些渴求遗忘的狂热者作为可以随意消耗的军队来进行复仇或破坏的行动；有些人则利用这些崇拜者作为祭品来完成可憎的仪式或制作恐怖的魔法物品。</p><p>即使是这些利用绝望的人，在宁布洛斯最邪恶的崇拜者面前也相形见绌——他们完全理解空无之死的存在，并在她身上看到了毁灭一个他们已经厌恶的世界的终极手段。对这些邪教分子来说，只要利用虚空之蕨给他们的世界带来一场死亡之潮，就足够了。他们也许有一个隐藏的计划，在所有生命被终结的那一刻逃离这个世界；他们甚至可能寻求自己的遗忘，或者相信宁布洛斯本身可能会奖励他们对一个死亡世界的统治。无论他们的意图如何，这些末日先驱都是空无之死崇拜者中最危险的。</p><h1>节日</h1><p>如果外来者或镇民（这种情况更少见）不知道他们的真正信仰，那些打着其他宗教的幌子存在于小社区里的宁布洛斯教派会努力遵守他们伪装的信仰的节日，但除此之外，空无之死的崇拜者并没有常规的节日或宗教节庆——只有一个不寻常的例外。宁布洛斯的身体被夺去以及虚空之蕨变为死寂的确切日期是未知的，所以每个邪教会自行选择一个重要的日子来纪念这一天。事实上，没有人知道虚空之蕨星球上一年的长度，这使得这个仪式更加随意；无论如何，她的信徒们相信，在这被称为虚空黎明的节日的年复一年庆祝中，会有那样一天，太阳不再升起，而所有的生命都会在死亡之潮中被扼杀。在虚空黎明前的那一夜，教徒们会以一场摆满各种食肉动物和怪物的饕餮盛宴来庆祝——他们经常在“食物”还活着的时候就开动。当太阳最终不可避免地升起时，邪教徒们会选择他们中的一人作为盛宴最后的祭品，以弥补他们没能将死亡之潮带到自己的世界的罪过。</p><h1>箴言</h1><p>宁布洛斯的崇拜者们喜欢引用和背诵《呓语芦苇》中他们最喜欢的故事，每一个故事都有许多令人难忘而越思索越觉恐怖的句子。然而，《死灵之书》中一句有名的话的变体尤其能引起她所有崇拜者的共鸣</p><p><em><strong>“死者长梦，而死亡本身也将死亡。”</strong></em></p><p>对许多人来说，死亡的概念类似于永恒的沉睡，一种再没有黎明的安息，在这种休息中，灵魂会体验到来世，就像一个熟睡的人在一夜之间会梦到几度不同的人生。无论做梦的人是随着黎明醒来还是在睡梦中死去，所有的梦最终都会结束。就像当空无之死降临时，即使是死亡也会知道遗忘，死亡本身也可能死亡。</p><h1>圣典</h1><p>即使是在对诸外神的神秘学研讨当中，提到宁布洛斯的场合也屈指可数。可怕的死灵之书提到了她，而且据说该书的某些译本包含了对她真实形态的描述，这可能是唯一一个将宁布洛斯的真实形态录诸纸面的著作。这一信息甚至没有出现在最常与她的崇拜相联系的文本：一本名为<em>《呓语芦苇》</em>的稀有巨著当中。</p><p><em>《呓语芦苇》</em>并非由那些崇拜空无之死的人所创作的，而源于那些试图反对她的人。这本书由故事、神话、寓言以及与接触宁布洛斯的记录组成，收集自数十个世界中的无数地区。其编纂者的名字早已被遗忘，因为他们在文本中忽略了自己的名字。这对那些崇拜宁布洛斯的人来说并不重要，而作者最初写这本书的目的是为了将对抗宁布洛斯的影响的方法编辑成册。收集这些空无之死洗刷世界的古老故事的行为本身产生了相反的效果，而现在，那些试图将他们的女神的注意力引向他们世界的人使用<em>《呓语芦苇》</em>来传播她以前访问其他世界的故事</p><h1>与其他宗教的关系</h1><p>宁布洛斯不与其他神明交往，但她降临于荒野时常常造成与其他信仰的冲突。尤其是哥兹莱（Gozreh）和黛丝娜（Desna）反对她的影响——前者是因为非自然元素的泛滥玷污了沼泽地，后者则是出于愤怒和担心她的信者在探索荒野时可能意外地落入宁布洛斯的魔掌。第一世界的古老者们也反对宁布洛斯，她的触手偶尔会通过精类之门和传送门飘入那个位面。即使在赶走了空无之死本身后，在她的控制下的小型精类教派仍然不可避免地存在。</p><p>法莱斯玛有许多反对宁布洛斯的理由。那些在被后者的存在所笼罩的土地上丧生的人往往会作为幽灵复活。而且，空无之死吞噬这些鬼魂的习惯理所当然地激怒了法莱斯玛。那些被吞噬的灵魂不会被释放到骨园，而是直接消失了。人们可能会认为，这种对生死轮回的冒犯会迫使法莱斯玛与宁布洛斯发生直接冲突，事实上，某些古籍记载了这两位女神在凡人文明初创时期的一次冲突。这场激烈的战斗中没有任何一位女神成为胜利者。宁布洛斯学会了隐藏她对世界的掠夺，因此即使法莱斯玛也无法轻易找到她。《呓语芦苇》中一个特别亵渎神明的故事记录说，法莱斯玛至今还带着一道隐藏的伤疤，提醒她未能彻底地击败空无之死——据说这道伤疤是宁布洛斯吸食死亡女神的精华留下的七个创口。</p><p>无论这个神话是否有任何事实依据，法莱斯玛的信徒们都以仇恨和戒惧的态度看待宁布洛斯和她的崇拜者。只有最虔诚、最强大的法莱斯玛信徒才会被允许猎杀宁布洛斯信徒，而且他们努力阻止普通崇拜者了解到更多关于空无之死的信息。他们给的理由是，宁布洛斯以鬼魂为食，通过击败或阻止这些亡灵的形成就能对她造成打击——但在一些人看来只是一种借口。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><h3>宁布洛斯的灵感来源</h3><p>H. P.洛夫克拉夫特鼓励其他人创作出新的神话生物，以充实他的奇异创作，正是在这种传统下，我创造出了宁布洛斯作为我自己的故事和战役中的一个反派。宁布洛斯的灵感主要来自于 Algernon Blackwood 的经典短篇小说 "The Willows "中潜伏在自然界面纱之后的神秘恐怖之物，并得到了Chaosium 公司（有译为：混沌元素）的一些关于外神命名惯例的宝贵建议、现在宁布洛斯已经成为我为不断扩展的洛夫克拉夫特神话所做的最自豪的贡献之一了。</p><p><em><strong>—— James Jacobs</strong></em></p></article></section>
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The Abomination Vaults
憎恨魔窟 The Abomination Vaults
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<aside class="av-float-block"><p>The Abomination Vaults consist of 10 levels, including the ruins around Gauntlight on the surface.</p><p>They are, from top to bottom:</p><ul><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj]{The Ruins of Gauntlight Keep}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm]{The Servants' Quarters}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5]{The Library}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6]{Belcorra’s former living chambers}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.JT0zCcIwsSpKnbB5]{The Arena}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KI33EAGPVHP4zyFZ]{The Laboratories}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.OyNcqrpRClyhr8BJ]{The Prison}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.FwWmtOBFHhvM2gtf]{The Farm Caverns}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.1vlzl3NJsftNB9Dc]{The Hunting Cavern}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol]{The Temple}, which holds the @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{Empty Vault}.</li></ul><p>Each level has its own character, and the levels are progressively more dangerous the deeper the heroes venture.</p></aside><h2>A Dungeon Full of Monsters</h2><p>The horrors trapped in the Abomination Vaults developed some measure of ecosystem in the centuries following Belcorra's death. While many monsters beneath the citadel died, others have prospered, and now several communities of morlocks, urdefhans, ghouls, and stranger creatures call the dungeons home. Only the longest-lived remember any life other than the dungeons. Belcorra had bound several devils to serve her as overseers and administrators, and many of these still maintain order. Apart from the regions maintained by these devils and a drow outpost in one of the lowest levels, the Abomination Vaults are lawless and dangerous.</p><h2>Wandering Monsters</h2><p>While this book doesn’t present wandering monster tables for Abomination Vaults, the dungeon’s denizens still occasionally leave their homes! You can make the dungeon feel more dynamic by familiarizing yourself with each level’s denizens and then having them react to the party’s progression and presence. For example, if the heroes noisily explore an area, creatures in nearby rooms could come to investigate or perhaps set up an ambush. If the heroes decide to camp out in the dungeon rather than return to the safety of town, nearby creatures might visit or even attack their campsite while they rest. If the heroes clear out the denizens of a level and then return weeks later, they might find that new monsters have moved in. By keeping the inhabitants of the Abomination Vaults active, you can make the location feel all the more dangerous and unpredictable to your players.</p><h2>Beyond Gauntlight</h2><p>The ruins of Gauntlight Keep aren’t far out of town—just a 20-minute walk from Otari to the ruins. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path focuses almost entirely on the dungeon itself, and you can gloss over the details of trips between the dungeon and town as you see fit. If your players express interest in mixing things up, you can use some of the encounters or short adventures in the standalone Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari. That adventure presents additional content in the Otari hinterlands suitable for 2nd- to 4th-level characters and provides great ways to prepare heroes who need a bit of extra XP before they delve into the deeper, more dangerous levels of the Abomination Vaults.</p>
<aside class="av-float-block"><p>憎恨魔窟由 10 层组成，包括地面上的凄凉灯塔周围的废墟。</p><p>它们从上到下分别是：</p><ul><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj]{The Ruins of Gauntlight Keep}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.JT0zCcIwsSpKnbB5]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KI33EAGPVHP4zyFZ]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.OyNcqrpRClyhr8BJ]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.FwWmtOBFHhvM2gtf]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.1vlzl3NJsftNB9Dc]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol]，那里坐落着 @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]。</li></ul><p>每一层都独具特色，并且随着英雄们的冒险不断深入，每一层也变得越来越危险。</p></aside><h2>充满怪物的地下城</h2><p>在贝科拉死亡后的几个世纪里，被困在憎恨魔窟的恐怖生物逐渐发展出了某种平衡的生态系统。虽然城堡下面的许多怪物死了，但另一些却兴旺了起来，现在有几个由摩洛克（morlocks）、透肌魔人（urdefhans）、食尸鬼（ghouls）和其他一些奇异的生物把魔窟当做了自己的家园。只有最长寿的怪物能记得地牢以外的任何生命。贝科拉曾让几个魔鬼（devils）担任她的监督者和管理者，其中许多魔鬼仍然维持着魔窟里的秩序。除了这些魔鬼掌控的区域和一个最下层的卓尔（drow）据点之外，憎恨魔窟中的大部分地区域没有秩序，危机四伏。</p><h2>游荡的怪物</h2><p>虽然本次冒险中并没有提供游荡怪物的列表，但地下城居民们依然会偶尔离开他们的家！你可以充分熟悉每一层的居民，然后思考他们对玩家队伍的存在和进展会作何反应，从而让你的地下城显得更有生命力。例如，如果英雄们在探索地下城的时候发出巨大的噪音，那么附近房间的生物可能会前来调查或体现设下埋伏。如果英雄们决定在地下城里扎营而不是返回安全的镇子上，附近的生物可能会在他们休息时来查看甚至突袭他们的营地。如果英雄们把某一层的居民清理干净之后，过了几周后再返回，他们可能会发现有新的怪物乘虚而入。通过保持憎恨魔窟里居民们的活跃，你可以让玩家觉得这个地下城更加危险且难以预测。</p><h2>凄凉灯塔之外</h2><p>凄凉灯塔要塞废墟离奥塔里不远，从镇子里到废墟只要步行 20 分钟。《憎恨魔窟》冒险之路的场景几乎全部集中在地下城中，你可以根据自己的需要适当忽略从镇子到地下城之间的旅行细节。如果你的玩家有兴趣混合一些其他剧情，你可以在独立冒险模组《奥塔里的麻烦（Troubles in Otari）》中选择一些较短的遭遇或简单的冒险。该冒险在奥塔里内陆腹地为 2-4 级的角色提供了额外的冒险内容，并且可以为那些准备深入更危险的憎恨魔窟下层的英雄们提供更多的经验值</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.A History of Otari.name
A History of Otari
奥塔里的历史 A History of Otari
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<aside class="av-float-block"><h3>See Also</h3><p>For a rough history of significant events relevant to this Adventure Path, including Otari, please see the following journal entry.</p><p>@UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.YFiR0qkYBybmdFao]{Campaign Timeline}</p></aside><h3>Belcorra's Rise and Fall (4230-4244 AR)</h3><p>Though the immense metropolis of Absalom has long dominated the urban scene on Starstone Isle, civilization has always thrived across the island. Otari’s beginning is relatively recent and involved a few false starts along the way. When @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.snj2fGhhuxfAInom]{Belcorra Haruvex} arrived in the region in 4230 AR, drawn by a series of sinister visions, the coastal region was practically uninhabited. Here, she built @UUID[.efRUYLBH9Kf3CLkX]{Gauntlight}, the keep surrounding the area, and the sprawling dungeons below the structure—without attracting notice. A group of adventurers known as the @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]{Roseguard} eventually learned of Belcorra’s villainy and slew her, but at the cost of one of their own: a rogue named Otari Ilvashti.</p><h3>Early Otari (4244-4294 AR)</h3><p>Having lost both their friend and their taste for adventuring, the three surviving members of the Roseguard decided to retire. They spent much of their savings constructing several buildings and a sizable pier in a sheltered cove south of the site of their final battle. Since their lost friend’s fondest dream had been to settle down in a small seaside village, they named this new village after him.</p><p>For some decades, Otari prospered as a fishing village, though its population never grew beyond a hundred or so. The three surviving Roseguard adventurers lived to a ripe old age, ultimately passing away from natural causes—an accomplishment many adventurers never achieve.</p><h3 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Decline (4290-4294 AR)</span></h3><p>With the passing of the last Roseguard, Aesephna Menhemes, in 4290 AR, Otari's fortunes began to dwindle. Within the span of a few years, its citizens had all drifted elsewhere, and by 4294 AR the town was entirely empty.</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/dawnflower-night.webp" width="700" /></figure><h3>Stonescale Kobolds (4300-4310 AR)</h3><p>Otari lay abandoned for decades, before a group of kobolds called the Stonescales moved in. When the kobolds started luring in passing ships during bad weather to ambush their crews and steal their cargo, it didn't take long for new adventurers to arrive and vanquish them.</p><h3>Otari Rebuilt (4310-4721 AR)</h3><p>While the adventurers moved on soon thereafter, their backer, Maklanni Menhemes, remained behind. Maklanni, Aesephna's granddaughter, conceived a plan to revitalize Otari as a lumber town. It already contained dozens of buildings that only needed to be restored, after all, and the Osprey River remained ideal for a mill and lumberyard. However, one setback complicated Maklanni's plan- the steep slopes and cliffs surrounding Otari made transporting timber to the ocean difficult.</p><p>Maklanni's solution was ingenious- she constructed a wooden flume that allowed for the easy transport of lumber from the woods to her mill and, from there, down an astounding loading ramp that extended from the top of the 200-foot-tall cliff to the harbor below. The mill and flume made Maklanni wealthy and revitalized Otari, although it made her an enemy of the Kortos Consortium, which had a stranglehold on the island's lumber industry. Two other small lumber companies broke from the Kortos Consortium and settled in Otari as well, each paying for use of Maklanni's invention.</p><h3>Otari Today</h3><p>Today, Otari is a thriving settlement- the largest on the coast between Absalom and Diobel. Maklanni is long dead, but her descendant @UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.WirKAYn5ZGirmgjb]{Oseph Menhemes} carries on the family trade and also serves as the town's mayor. Unsavory representatives of the Kortos Consortium have secretly infiltrated Otari and seek to undermine the town's security. However, a far greater threat looms over the city: Belcorra has returned and is preparing to light the baleful fires of <em>Gauntlight</em> once again!</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure>
<aside class="av-float-block"><h3>补充材料</h3><p>如果你想查阅有关这本冒险之路和奥塔里的包含各个重要事件的简略历史，请查阅以下日志条目。</p><p>@UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.YFiR0qkYBybmdFao]</p></aside><h3>贝科拉的崛起与陨落(4230-4244 AR)</h3><p>虽然长久以来，每次一提到星石岛上的城市风光，巨大的都会艾巴萨罗姆（Absalom）都唱主角，但其实文明在整个星石岛上都蓬勃发展。奥塔里的建立时间较短，并且在过程中经历了几次磨难。当 @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.snj2fGhhuxfAInom] 被一系列邪恶的幻象指引，于 4230AR 抵达这片区域的时候，这里还是一片荒无人烟的海滩。在这里，她在避人耳目的前提下建造了 @UUID[.efRUYLBH9Kf3CLkX] 、灯塔周围的要塞、以及要塞下面的地下城。但是，一群称为 @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN] 的冒险者最终还是得知了贝科拉的恶行并除掉了她，但是他们中的一人——名叫奥塔里·伊瓦什提（OtariIlvashti）的盗贼也牺牲在了这里。</p><h3>早年的奥塔里(4244-4294 AR)</h3><p>因为失去了好友，也失去了继续冒险的热情，幸存的三位玫瑰团成员决定退休。他们在最后一战之地的南边找了个隐蔽的小海湾，花了很多积蓄建造了几栋建筑物和一个相当大的码头。由于他们的朋友生前最美好的愿望是在一个海边小村度过余生，于是他们便以奥塔里之名给这个新的村庄命名。</p><p>几十年来，虽然奥塔里的人口从未超过 100 人左右，但却作为一个渔村繁荣兴旺。三位幸存的玫瑰团冒险者都活了很久，之后自然去世——这是许多冒险者从未企及的成就。</p><h3 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">衰败(4290-4294 AR)</span></h3><p>4290AR，随着玫瑰团的最后一名成员艾斯法娜·曼妮姆斯（AesephnaMenhemes）去世，奥塔里的气运似乎也到头了。在短短几年时间里，这里的居民都流失了，搬去了其他的地方。</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/dawnflower-night.webp" width="700" /></figure><h3>石鳞狗头人(4300-4310 AR)</h3><p>奥塔里被遗弃了几十年，直到一群石鳞狗头人（Stonescales）搬了进来。狗头人在恶劣的天气中引诱过往的船只并伏击船员、抢夺货物，没过多久，一群新的冒险者就来到这里并征服了狗头人部落。</p><h3>重建奥塔里(4310-4721 AR)</h3><p>当冒险者们准备继续踏上冒险之旅时，他们的背后支持者，马克兰尼·曼妮姆斯（MaklanniMenhemes）决定留下来。作为艾斯法娜的孙女，马克兰尼构想了一个复兴计划，试图将奥塔里重建为一个伐木为主业的小镇。毕竟，这里已经有了几十栋只需要修复一下就能用的建筑，而且鱼鹰河（OspreyRiver）为设立伐木场和锯木厂提供了相当大的便利。但是一项阻碍让马克兰尼的计划变得困难重重——奥塔里周围陡峭的山壁和悬崖导致很难把木材运送到海边装船。</p><p>马克兰尼的解决方法非常巧妙——她建造了一条木制水槽，可以方便地将木材从森林里运到她的锯木厂，然后加工过的木材可以通过一个令人惊奇的巨大装货斜坡，从 200 英尺高的悬崖顶端一直下降，到达下方的港口。锯木厂和水槽为马克兰尼带来了巨大的财富，也振兴了奥塔里镇，但这一举措也让她成为了意图垄断整个岛上木材行业的寇托斯财团（KortosConsortium）的眼中钉。另外两家木材公司也从寇托斯财团中分离出来，落户在奥塔里，每家公司都要为使用马克兰尼的发明而支付一定的费用。</p><h3>现在的奥塔里</h3><p>如今，奥塔里已经是从艾巴萨罗姆到迪奥贝尔之间的海岸线上最大最繁荣的定居点。马克兰尼早已去世，但她的后代——欧瑟夫继承了家族的生意，并担任小镇的镇长。但是，寇托斯财团讨人厌的特工们已经秘密潜入奥塔里，试图破坏小镇的安全。然而，一个更大的威胁正笼罩着这座镇子：贝科拉回来了，准备再次点亮可怕的<em>凄凉灯塔</em>！</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Exploring Otari.name
Exploring Otari
探索奥塔里 Exploring Otari
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Exploring Otari.text
<h1>Otari's Key Locations</h1><p>Significant locations in Otari are detailed in the journals in the Otari Locations folder of your journals sidebar tab. These location descriptions are also pinned to the scene as map pins. Unlabeled buildings are wooden homes whose inhabitants work for nearby businesses or for one of the town's three lumber concerns.</p><h2>Location Statistics</h2><p>Many significant locations include statistics that help to communicate the general function and level of the location or business, for the purpose of determining any necessary values associated with it, such as the highest level task available to Earn Income. All of this information is included in the location's journal entry, as well as the address, wares, and services for sale (such as spellcasting services), as well as information about the most significant NPC who lives or works at the establishment.</p><h3>Otari's Characters</h3><p>As well as a description and artwork, the journals will include some important details about the NPCs in each location. Their initial attitude condition to the heroes, along with DCs most likely to be useful when interacting with the NPC, will be especially important if the players would like to earn the support of the location, as outlined below.</p><aside class="av-float-block"><h3>Side Quests</h3><p>Some of the locations in the Abomination Vaults list side quests the heroes can pick up, usually after interacting with an NPC or discovering a clue. If the heroes complete a side quest, they earn an XP award for a moderate accomplishment (30 XP) in addition to any rewards the side quest grants, such as treasure or useful information.</p></aside><h3>Earning Support</h3><p>If a hero adjusts an NPC’s attitude condition to helpful (which might require completion of a listed task but usually requires successful Diplomacy checks to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.OX4fy22hQgUHDr0q]{Make an Impression}), that NPC's location supports the party in certain exploration and downtime activities. The specific benefits are based on the location's traits and are listed below. This support generally lasts throughout the campaign, although you might decide certain actions lose a location's support. The heroes can be supported by multiple locations in town, so long as they make enough friends!</p><h3>Location Traits</h3><p>Some of these locations include traits which can be a useful shorthand for the kind of benefits that the heroes might get for earning the trust and support of the business owners. An explanation of these traits is contained below.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Church</span></p><p>Faithful characters whose beliefs align with those of the church’s NPC (at your discretion) are permitted to use the location’s resources to retrain more efficiently. Retraining that would normally require a week takes only 5 days at this location, retraining that would normally require a month takes only 3 weeks, and retraining is generally free. Checks to Identify Magic, Treat Wounds, or Treat Disease on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Discount</span></p><p>The location provides a 10% discount on its wares.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Employer</span></p><p>The location offers tasks up to its level to Earn Income with a specified skill.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Garrison</span></p><p>Martially inclined characters can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Gather Information or Treat Wounds on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Housing</span></p><p>The location offers accommodations at a comfortable cost of living for no charge.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Library</span></p><p>Scholarly characters, as well as arcane and occult spellcasters, can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Create Forgery, Decipher Writing, or Learn a Spell on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Lodge</span></p><p>Primal spellcasters can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Identify Magic or Subsist on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Parlor</span></p><p>Socially inclined characters can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Gather Information or Earn Income with Performance gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Workshop</span></p><p>Heroes can use the location’s resources to Craft items associated with its purpose and gain a +1 item bonus to associated Crafting checks.</p>
<h1>奥塔里的关键地点</h1><p>在侧边栏的日志页面有一个奥塔里地点文件夹，其中的日志条目收录了奥塔里各处重要地点的详细情况。地图上也用地图笔记组件标记了这些地点的描述。那些没有标识的建筑，其居民要么在附近工作，要么受雇于镇上三家伐木公司之一。</p><h2>地点数据</h2><p>许多重要地点下面都有数据栏，数据栏里列出了地点的名称、一般功能和等级（用于确定任何与之相关的必要的数据，例如可以用来赚取收入的最高任务级别）。对应的日志条目里包含了所有这些信息，包括地址、商品和服务（例如法术服务），以及在这里居住或工作的最重要的 NPC 的信息。</p><h3>奥塔里的人物</h3><p>除了描述和肖像外，日志里还记载了每个地点对应NPC的重要细节、他们对英雄们的初始态度和英雄们与之打交道时最常用的 DC。</p><aside class="av-float-block"><h3>支线任务</h3><p>在憎恨魔窟的一些地点中会列出支线任务，英雄们通常在与 NPC 进行互动或发现线索之后给出。如果英雄完成了一个支线任务，除了支线任务本身提供的奖励（宝藏和关键信息）之外，他们还能得到适中的成就奖励（30 XP）。</p></aside><h3>获取支持</h3><p>如果 1 位英雄把某个 NPC 的态度提升至乐于帮助（helpful），（可以通过完成所列出的任务来提升，但是更通常的做法是通过交涉检定来 @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.OX4fy22hQgUHDr0q]），那么该 NPC 和他所在地点就能为团队在执行某些探索行动和休整期行动时提供支持。地点依照其特征来提供支持，有些地点在下面还列出了一些特殊的好处。这些好处通常是会持续到战役结束，但是你也可以决定英雄们的某种做法会导致失去某个地点的支持。英雄们在镇子里能得到不止一处地点的支持，只要他们能交到足够多的朋友！</p><h3>地点特征</h3><p>有些地点拥有数项特征，可以用来快速查阅英雄们获得主人的信任与支持后能在这里获得的好处。每种特征的涵义也在下方一并列举。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">教堂</span></p><p>与该教会信仰相合（由你判断）的角色可以使用该地点的资源进行更有效的重训行动。正常花费一周的重训在这里只需要 5 天，正常花费 1 个月的重训在这里只要 3 周，并且重训是免费的。在此地点中进行辨识魔法（Identify Magic）、治疗伤口（Treat Wounds）或治疗疾病（Treat Disease）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">折扣</span></p><p>此地点提供的商品打九折。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">雇主</span></p><p>该地点能提供最高等于其等级的任务，能依照对应技能进行赚取收入（Earn Income）行动。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">驻地</span></p><p>勇武的角色可以在此地点更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行收集信息（Gather Information）或治疗伤口（Treat Wounds）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">住宿</span></p><p>该地点提供舒适的住宿，生活费用全免。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">图书馆</span></p><p>学院派的角色、奥术和异能施法者，可以在此地点更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行伪造文书（Create Forgery）、文书解读（Decipher Writing）或学习法术（Learn a Spell）的检定有+1环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">小屋</span></p><p>原能施法者可以在这里更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行辨识魔法（Identify Magic）、求生（Subsist）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">会所</span></p><p>善于社交的角色可以在这里更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行收集信息（Gather Information）、以表演技能赚取收入（Earn Income with Performance）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">工坊</span></p><p>英雄们能使用该地点的资源来制造物品。当他们进行与地点相关的手艺检定时有+1 物品加值。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Otari Gazetteer.name
Otari Gazetteer
奥塔里地理志 Otari Gazetteer
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.Otari Gazetteer.text
<figure class="head"><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure><p>Otari is nestled in a coastal valley between two looming cliffs. To the west, the cliffside rises to meet a well-cared-for graveyard. To the east, a fantastic feat of engineering draws the eye—the trestle supporting a wooden loading chute extends down from the clifftop to a loading platform built into the harbor. This ingenious construction swiftly delivers lumber processed further inland at the mill to waiting ships below.</p><p>The people of Otari are friendly and welcoming for the most part, although they tend to react with reticence toward those they suspect hail from Absalom. Trade with Absalom is important, but the townsfolk are proud and feel no need to accommodate visiting “city folk.” People in Otari typically subsist on fish along with vegetables from local farms (primarily potatoes, carrots, and other root vegetables), but more unusual fare isn’t hard to get from Absalom. Coffee is a mainstay and a favorite drink of the hardworking and early-rising residents.</p><p> </p><aside class="av-float-block"><div class="split"><h3>Otari</h3><h3>Settlement 4</h3></div><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">N</li><li class="green">Town</li></ul><hr /><p>Diverse lumber town and trade port with a storied past and its fair share of sinister secrets.</p><p><strong>Government</strong>: Mayor (elected leader)</p><p><strong>Population</strong>: 1,240 (60% humans, 8% halflings, 7% half-elves, 6% elves, 5% dwarves, 5% gnomes, 3% half-orcs, 2% goblins, 4% other)</p><p><strong>Languages</strong>: Common, Dwarven, Elven, Halfling</p><p><strong>Religions</strong>: Cayden Cailean, Erastil, Gozreh, Sarenrae</p><p><strong>Threats</strong>: aberrant horrors, eerie hauntings, kobolds, smugglers</p><p><strong>Trinket Trade</strong>: Otari has a long tradition of catering to adventurers, and consumable items of up to level 10 are available for sale in its shops.</p></aside><h2>Who's Who in Otari</h2><hr /><p><strong>Oseph Menhemes</strong> <br /><em>N male human mayor 4</em></p><p>Current mayor and patriarch of one of three local lumber companies.</p><hr /><p><strong>Lardus Longsaddle</strong> <br /><em>CN male human soldier 4</em></p><p>Foul-mouthed and short-tempered captain of the town guard.</p><hr /><p><strong>Vandy Banderdash</strong> <br /><em>NG female halfling cleric of Sarenrae 5</em></p><p>Chatty priestess of Sarenrae and unusually knowledgeable town historian.</p><hr /><p><strong>Wrin Sivinxi</strong> <br /><em>CG female tiefling elf oddities merchant 5</em></p><p>Eccentric occult items dealer, artisan, and collector of stories and rumors.</p><hr /><p> </p>
<figure class="head"><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure><p>奥塔里坐落在两个悬崖夹角之间的靠海的山谷中。在西边，悬崖向上方延伸，与一片精心照料的墓地相连。在东面，一项令人惊叹的伟大工程吸引了人们的目光——支撑着木质装载滑槽的栈桥从悬崖顶端一直向下延伸到港口旁的装载平台上。这个精巧的建筑将加工过的木材从更远的内陆直接送到下面等待的船只上。</p><p>奥塔里的居民大部分是友善好客的，虽然他们对那些可能来自于艾巴萨罗姆的客人态度冷淡。与艾巴萨罗姆做生意是很重要，但是镇子上的居民大多都很自傲，觉得没必要特地招待那些来访的“城市佬”。奥塔里的居民通常以鱼和当地生产的蔬菜为食（主要是土豆、胡萝卜和其他根茎类蔬菜），但特别一点的食物也很容易从艾巴萨罗姆买到。咖啡是这里的主要饮品，是勤劳早起的镇民们最爱的饮料。</p><p> </p><aside class="av-float-block"><div class="split"><h3>奥塔里</h3><h3>定居点 4</h3></div><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">常见</li><li class="green">城镇</li></ul><hr /><p>繁荣的、多样化的伐木业为主的城镇和贸易港口，拥有众所周知的传奇历史和一些不为人知的阴暗秘密。</p><p><strong>政府</strong>: 镇长（选举制）</p><p><strong>人口</strong>: 1240 （60%人类, 8%半身人, 7%半精灵, 6%精灵, 5%矮人, 5%侏儒, 3%半兽人, 2%地精, 4%其他）</p><p><strong>语言</strong>: 通用语, 矮人语, 精灵语, 半身人语</p><p><strong>宗教</strong>: 凯登·凯连（Cayden Cailean）, 埃拉斯蒂尔（Erastil）, 哥兹莱（Gozreh）, 莎伦莱（Sarenrae）</p><p><strong>威胁</strong>: 怪异的恐怖事件, 可怕的作祟, 狗头人, 走私者</p><p><strong>货物</strong>: 奥塔里拥有悠久的冒险传统，在商店中可以买到最高为 10 级的消耗性物品。</p></aside><h2>奥塔里的人物</h2><hr /><p><strong>奥瑟夫·曼尼姆斯Oseph Menhemes</strong> <br /><em>绝对中立 男性 人类 镇长 4</em></p><p>现任镇长，也是当地三家木材公司之一的创始人。</p><hr /><p><strong>拉杜斯·长鞍Lardus Longsaddle</strong> <br /><em>混乱中立 男性 人类 士兵 4</em></p><p>污言秽语，脾气暴躁，是奥塔里镇的卫队长。</p><hr /><p><strong>万蒂·班德黛西Vandy Banderdash</strong> <br /><em>中立善良 女性 半身人 莎伦莱牧师 5</em></p><p>健谈的莎伦莱女祭司，知识渊博的小镇历史学家。</p><hr /><p><strong>瓦琳·希温尼斯Wrin Sivinxi</strong> <br /><em>混乱善良 女性 魔裔精灵 奇物商人 5</em></p><p>古怪的神秘物品商人、工匠、以及故事和谣言的收集者。</p><hr /><p> </p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Scene Artwork.name
Scene Artwork
场景插图 Scene Artwork
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Scene Artwork.pages.Abomination Vaults Cover.name
Abomination Vaults Cover
憎恨魔窟封面 Abomination Vaults Cover
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Scene Artwork.pages.Canker Cultists.name
Canker Cultists
溃烂教徒 Canker Cultists
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Scene Artwork.pages.Dawnflower Library.name
Dawnflower Library
晨花图书馆 Dawnflower Library
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Scene Artwork.pages.Deadly Corridor.name
Deadly Corridor
致命走廊 Deadly Corridor
Key English Chinese (Simplified) Actions
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.C: Library.pages.C37. Secret Scriptorium.text
<p class=" box-text narrative">A worktable covered with blank scrolls and papers sits against the eastern wall of this room. A cabinet with several closed drawers stands to the north.</p>
<section class="box-text investigation"><header><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/exploration/lens.webp" width="100" />
<h2>Exploration</h2>
<p>@Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{Search} @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.EwgTZBWsc8qKaViP]{Investigate}</p>
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<p>There are five locked drawers in the cabinet; each can be opened by a hero using the key from area @UUID[.KDcIKiVRxWGTfQhK]{C36}, succeeding at three @Check[thievery|dc:20]{Thievery} checks to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.2EE4aF4SZpYf0R6H]{Pick a Lock}, or with a successful @Check[athletics|dc:16]{Athletics} check to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.SjmKHgI7a5Z9JzBx]{Force it Open}.</p>
<h3>Valuable Books</h3>
<p>Several books are stored within—copies of texts produced by scribes and once intended for sale or as gifts to Belcorra’s allies in other lands, all of whom are now dead. These include 2 Bulk of @Item[SSMdEvSAlggOWV0v]{Valuable Books} for Morlibint.</p>
<h3>Infernal Contract</h3>
<p>Not all of the scrolls on the desk are blank; one tucked beneath the others is an @Item[A0akrLX7mp6OHty1]{Infernal Contract}. This contract was meant to be stored deeper in the Abomination Vaults, but it never quite made it there. A character who can read Infernal and takes 10 minutes to look over the contract learns that this is the devil Korlok’s contract that binds him as a guardian. A reader who succeeds at a @Check[perception|dc:18]{Perception} or @Check[society|dc:18]{Society} check, or who’s trained in Legal Lore, notes a loophole that can release the devil if it’s brought to his attention (area @UUID[.sVpphDD0gtGtIlFh]{C08}).</p>
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<p class=" box-text narrative">房间的东墙边有一张铺着空白卷轴和纸的工作台，北面立着一个橱柜，橱柜上有几个紧闭的抽屉。</p>
<section class="box-text investigation"><header><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/exploration/lens.webp" width="100" />
<h2>探索</h2>
<p>@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{搜寻} @UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.EwgTZBWsc8qKaViP]{调查}</p>
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<p>橱柜上总共有五个上锁的抽屉，每个都可以用@UUID[.KDcIKiVRxWGTfQhK]{C36}区域找到的小钥匙打开，或通过 3 次成功的@Check[thievery|dc:20]{贼活} 检定进行 @UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.2EE4aF4SZpYf0R6H]{开锁}，或通过 1 次成功的@Check[athletics|dc:16]{运动} 检定进行 @UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.SjmKHgI7a5Z9JzBx]{破拆}。</p>
<h3>有价值的书籍 Valuable Books</h3>
<p>里面装着基本抄写员制作的抄本，曾经打算作为礼物送给贝科拉在地面上的其他盟友，这些盟友现在都已经不在人世了。剩下的这些书里包含 2B 可以提供给莫里宾特的 @Item[SSMdEvSAlggOWV0v]{有价值的书籍 Valuable Books} 。</p>
<h3>地狱契约 Infernal Contract</h3>
<p>桌上的卷轴并非所有的都是空白的，有一份压在下面的卷轴是一份地狱契约。这份合同原本应该被送往憎恨魔窟的更深层，但这从未有人完成这个任务。一个能看懂魔鬼语的角色可以花 10 分钟看完合同，便能知晓这是魔鬼科罗克的契约，这份契约将它束缚为贝科拉的守卫。如果英雄通过 @Check[perception|dc:18]{察觉} 或者 @Check[society|dc:18]{社群} ，或有人法律学识受训，便可以指出其中有一个漏洞可以帮助魔鬼恢复自由身。（@UUID[.sVpphDD0gtGtIlFh]{C08})区域）</p>
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entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.C: Library.pages.C38. Authors’ Hall.name
C38. Authors’ Hall
C38. 作者大厅 Authors’ Hall
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.C: Library.pages.C38. Authors’ Hall.text
<p class=" box-text narrative">Long shelves with several chairs drawn up to them ring this room on all sides, save the north. Rancid stains of old blood and decay cake the shelves and floor.</p>
<p>Belcorra’s scribes once used this room to pen new works. The Cult of the Canker now use it as a place to store victims of ghoul fever until they die and arise as ghouls. There are no bodies stored here now, but the heroes can find ample evidence of the suffering and death that has occurred here.</p>
<section class="box-text encounter"><header><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/encounter/skull.webp" width="100" />
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<h2>Encounter</h2>
<h2>Moderate 3</h2>
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<div>
<p>@Actor[lMCEVxKkQ7XK6Nid]{Canker Cultists (2)}</p>
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<p>80 XP</p>
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<p>A pair of ghoul cultists are having a spirited debate on whether or not flesh “ripened” by violet fungi tastes better than naturally decayed meat. They’re distracted enough that they don’t overhear the sounds of combat in area @UUID[.tTVIrzNZtjKG1XVb]{C33}, but they attack any intruders they notice.</p>
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<section class="box-text investigation"><header><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/exploration/lens.webp" width="100" />
<h2>Exploration</h2>
<p>@Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{Search}</p>
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<article>
<p>A hero who Searches the south wall and succeeds at a @Check[perception|dc:18]{Perception} check finds a section of shelving that folds down to allow access to a secret door leading to area @UUID[.grfsjSzZmO95qpo7]{C39}.</p>
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<p class=" box-text narrative">几个长长的架子环绕着这个房间的三边 ，除了房间北侧。架子前摆放着几把椅子。陈旧的血迹和腐烂的污迹布满了架子和地板。</p>
<p>贝科拉的抄写员曾经用这个房间来书写新作。溃烂教现在将这里用作食尸鬼热的培养室，把受害者关在这里直到他们死亡并成为食尸鬼。现在这里没有尸体，但是英雄们可以找到足够的证据来证明这里曾经发生或的痛苦和死亡。</p>
<section class="box-text encounter"><header><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/encounter/skull.webp" width="100" />
<section>
<h2>遭遇</h2>
<h2>中等难度 3</h2>
</section>
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<div>
<p>@Actor[lMCEVxKkQ7XK6Nid]{溃烂教徒 Canker Cultists (2)}</p>
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<p>80 XP</p>
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<p>一对食尸鬼信徒正在激烈争论紫菌“成熟”的肉是否比自然腐烂的肉更好吃。它们被分散了足够多的注意力，所以不会听到 @UUID[.tTVIrzNZtjKG1XVb]{C33}区域的战斗声音，但它们会迅速攻击任何它们注意到的入侵者。</p>
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<h2>探索</h2>
<p>@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{搜寻}</p>
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<p>搜索南墙的英雄如果通过 @Check[perception|dc:18]{察觉} 检定能发现其中一个架子能的搁板可以折叠然后变成通往 @UUID[.grfsjSzZmO95qpo7]{C39}区域的暗门。</p>
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entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.C: Library.pages.C39. Guard Room.name
C39. Guard Room
C39. 守卫室Guard Room
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<p class=" box-text narrative">A small alcove, its floor decorated with a silvery circle of inlaid runes, sits in the eastern wall of this empty room.</p>
<p>This room once housed a bound devil who served as one of Belcorra’s guardians, but this creature’s contract expired long ago, releasing her back to Hell.</p>
<p class=" box-text narrative">这间空屋的东墙上有一个小壁龛，地板上镶嵌着一圈银色的符文。</p>
<p>这个房间曾经住着一个被束缚的魔鬼，是贝科拉的守护者之一。但这个生物的契约很久以前就过期了，自己返回了地狱。</p>
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C40. Pool
C40. 地下蓄水池 Pool
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<p class=" box-text narrative">The dripping, sloshing sound of water fills this large cavern chamber. The air is cold and damp, and to the east sits a sizable pond. A lazy rivulet of overflow trickles to the north down a sloping tunnel, while a five-foot-diameter opening gapes in the ceiling above the center of the pool.</p>
<p>The pool here is 5 feet deep and was once used as a source of drinking water for these levels; the hole in the ceiling 15 feet above leads up 25 more feet to the well in area @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.vKXFtG7SrIcibaif]{B23}, while the downward sloping tunnel to the north leads to area @UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.PuMBjgCkm2ImMyCh]{D14}.</p>
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<h2>Encounter</h2>
<h2>Moderate 3</h2>
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<p>@Actor[dEAneTvoPuQXZoLR]{Gibbering Mouther}</p>
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<p>80 XP</p>
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<p>A gibbering mouther has dwelt in this cavern for decades. It periodically crawls along the tunnel to area @UUID[.Xi06PfArAS2ZFqot]{C02} to hunt bats and rats. It immediately attacks intruders and pursues foes as best it can. The monster doesn’t differentiate between the heroes and other denizens, so a canny group might lure the gibbering mouther into a fight against ghouls, morlocks, or other creatures.</p>
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<h2>Exploration</h2>
<p>@Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{Search}</p>
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<p>Heroes Searching the pond discover 190 cp and 64 sp under the well opening. These offerings were tossed here by superstitious servants ages ago.</p>
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<p class=" box-text narrative">这个巨大的洞穴里充斥着水珠滴落的声音。空气寒冷而潮湿，东边有一个巨大的池塘。一条缓缓流淌的小溪沿着一条逐渐下坡的隧道流向东北，水池中央上方的天花板中有一个直径 5 尺的圆洞。</p>
<p>这个水池有 5 尺深，曾经作为这几层的饮用水来源。15 尺高的天花板上的洞，向上爬 25 尺能通到@UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.vKXFtG7SrIcibaif]{B23}区域的水井。而不断下坡的隧道最终和 @UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6.JournalEntryPage.PuMBjgCkm2ImMyCh]{D14}区域相连。</p>
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<section>
<h2>遭遇</h2>
<h2>中等难度 3 级遭遇</h2>
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<section>
<div>
<p>@Actor[dEAneTvoPuQXZoLR]{呓语之喉 Gibbering Mouther}</p>
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<p>80 XP</p>
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<p>一只呓语之喉已经在这个洞穴里住了几十年了。他会周期性地沿着隧道爬到@UUID[.Xi06PfArAS2ZFqot]{C02} 区域去捕食蝙蝠和老鼠，但是部分时候都飘在水池里。它会立即攻击入侵者，并尽可能地追击敌人。怪物分不清英雄和食尸鬼的区域别，所以精明的团队可以引诱呓语之喉与食尸鬼、摩或其他生物战斗。洛克</p>
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<section class="box-text investigation"><header><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/exploration/lens.webp" width="100" />
<h2>探索</h2>
<p>@UUID[Compendium.pf2e.actionspf2e.TiNDYUGlMmxzxBYU]{搜寻}</p>
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<p>对蓄水池进行搜索（Searching）的英雄们能在井口下方的水里收集到总计 190 枚铜币和 64 枚银币。这些大部分都是很久以前迷信的仆从们扔下来的。
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Campaign Background
战役背景 Campaign Background
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.A History of Otari.name
A History of Otari
奥塔里的历史 A History of Otari
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<aside class="av-float-block"><h3>See Also</h3><p>For a rough history of significant events relevant to this Adventure Path, including Otari, please see the following journal entry.</p><p>@UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.YFiR0qkYBybmdFao]{Campaign Timeline}</p></aside><h3>Belcorra's Rise and Fall (4230-4244 AR)</h3><p>Though the immense metropolis of Absalom has long dominated the urban scene on Starstone Isle, civilization has always thrived across the island. Otari’s beginning is relatively recent and involved a few false starts along the way. When @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.snj2fGhhuxfAInom]{Belcorra Haruvex} arrived in the region in 4230 AR, drawn by a series of sinister visions, the coastal region was practically uninhabited. Here, she built @UUID[.efRUYLBH9Kf3CLkX]{Gauntlight}, the keep surrounding the area, and the sprawling dungeons below the structure—without attracting notice. A group of adventurers known as the @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]{Roseguard} eventually learned of Belcorra’s villainy and slew her, but at the cost of one of their own: a rogue named Otari Ilvashti.</p><h3>Early Otari (4244-4294 AR)</h3><p>Having lost both their friend and their taste for adventuring, the three surviving members of the Roseguard decided to retire. They spent much of their savings constructing several buildings and a sizable pier in a sheltered cove south of the site of their final battle. Since their lost friend’s fondest dream had been to settle down in a small seaside village, they named this new village after him.</p><p>For some decades, Otari prospered as a fishing village, though its population never grew beyond a hundred or so. The three surviving Roseguard adventurers lived to a ripe old age, ultimately passing away from natural causes—an accomplishment many adventurers never achieve.</p><h3 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Decline (4290-4294 AR)</span></h3><p>With the passing of the last Roseguard, Aesephna Menhemes, in 4290 AR, Otari's fortunes began to dwindle. Within the span of a few years, its citizens had all drifted elsewhere, and by 4294 AR the town was entirely empty.</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/dawnflower-night.webp" width="700" /></figure><h3>Stonescale Kobolds (4300-4310 AR)</h3><p>Otari lay abandoned for decades, before a group of kobolds called the Stonescales moved in. When the kobolds started luring in passing ships during bad weather to ambush their crews and steal their cargo, it didn't take long for new adventurers to arrive and vanquish them.</p><h3>Otari Rebuilt (4310-4721 AR)</h3><p>While the adventurers moved on soon thereafter, their backer, Maklanni Menhemes, remained behind. Maklanni, Aesephna's granddaughter, conceived a plan to revitalize Otari as a lumber town. It already contained dozens of buildings that only needed to be restored, after all, and the Osprey River remained ideal for a mill and lumberyard. However, one setback complicated Maklanni's plan- the steep slopes and cliffs surrounding Otari made transporting timber to the ocean difficult.</p><p>Maklanni's solution was ingenious- she constructed a wooden flume that allowed for the easy transport of lumber from the woods to her mill and, from there, down an astounding loading ramp that extended from the top of the 200-foot-tall cliff to the harbor below. The mill and flume made Maklanni wealthy and revitalized Otari, although it made her an enemy of the Kortos Consortium, which had a stranglehold on the island's lumber industry. Two other small lumber companies broke from the Kortos Consortium and settled in Otari as well, each paying for use of Maklanni's invention.</p><h3>Otari Today</h3><p>Today, Otari is a thriving settlement- the largest on the coast between Absalom and Diobel. Maklanni is long dead, but her descendant @UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.WirKAYn5ZGirmgjb]{Oseph Menhemes} carries on the family trade and also serves as the town's mayor. Unsavory representatives of the Kortos Consortium have secretly infiltrated Otari and seek to undermine the town's security. However, a far greater threat looms over the city: Belcorra has returned and is preparing to light the baleful fires of <em>Gauntlight</em> once again!</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure>
<aside class="av-float-block"><h3>补充材料</h3><p>如果你想查阅有关这本冒险之路和奥塔里的包含各个重要事件的简略历史，请查阅以下日志条目。</p><p>@UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.YFiR0qkYBybmdFao]</p></aside><h3>贝科拉的崛起与陨落(4230-4244 AR)</h3><p>虽然长久以来，每次一提到星石岛上的城市风光，巨大的都会艾巴萨罗姆（Absalom）都唱主角，但其实文明在整个星石岛上都蓬勃发展。奥塔里的建立时间较短，并且在过程中经历了几次磨难。当 @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.snj2fGhhuxfAInom] 被一系列邪恶的幻象指引，于 4230AR 抵达这片区域的时候，这里还是一片荒无人烟的海滩。在这里，她在避人耳目的前提下建造了 @UUID[.efRUYLBH9Kf3CLkX] 、灯塔周围的要塞、以及要塞下面的地下城。但是，一群称为 @UUID[JournalEntry.DQepDGIcXuhkYOuU.JournalEntryPage.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN] 的冒险者最终还是得知了贝科拉的恶行并除掉了她，但是他们中的一人——名叫奥塔里·伊瓦什提（OtariIlvashti）的盗贼也牺牲在了这里。</p><h3>早年的奥塔里(4244-4294 AR)</h3><p>因为失去了好友，也失去了继续冒险的热情，幸存的三位玫瑰团成员决定退休。他们在最后一战之地的南边找了个隐蔽的小海湾，花了很多积蓄建造了几栋建筑物和一个相当大的码头。由于他们的朋友生前最美好的愿望是在一个海边小村度过余生，于是他们便以奥塔里之名给这个新的村庄命名。</p><p>几十年来，虽然奥塔里的人口从未超过 100 人左右，但却作为一个渔村繁荣兴旺。三位幸存的玫瑰团冒险者都活了很久，之后自然去世——这是许多冒险者从未企及的成就。</p><h3 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">衰败(4290-4294 AR)</span></h3><p>4290AR，随着玫瑰团的最后一名成员艾斯法娜·曼妮姆斯（AesephnaMenhemes）去世，奥塔里的气运似乎也到头了。在短短几年时间里，这里的居民都流失了，搬去了其他的地方。</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/dawnflower-night.webp" width="700" /></figure><h3>石鳞狗头人(4300-4310 AR)</h3><p>奥塔里被遗弃了几十年，直到一群石鳞狗头人（Stonescales）搬了进来。狗头人在恶劣的天气中引诱过往的船只并伏击船员、抢夺货物，没过多久，一群新的冒险者就来到这里并征服了狗头人部落。</p><h3>重建奥塔里(4310-4721 AR)</h3><p>当冒险者们准备继续踏上冒险之旅时，他们的背后支持者，马克兰尼·曼妮姆斯（MaklanniMenhemes）决定留下来。作为艾斯法娜的孙女，马克兰尼构想了一个复兴计划，试图将奥塔里重建为一个伐木为主业的小镇。毕竟，这里已经有了几十栋只需要修复一下就能用的建筑，而且鱼鹰河（OspreyRiver）为设立伐木场和锯木厂提供了相当大的便利。但是一项阻碍让马克兰尼的计划变得困难重重——奥塔里周围陡峭的山壁和悬崖导致很难把木材运送到海边装船。</p><p>马克兰尼的解决方法非常巧妙——她建造了一条木制水槽，可以方便地将木材从森林里运到她的锯木厂，然后加工过的木材可以通过一个令人惊奇的巨大装货斜坡，从 200 英尺高的悬崖顶端一直下降，到达下方的港口。锯木厂和水槽为马克兰尼带来了巨大的财富，也振兴了奥塔里镇，但这一举措也让她成为了意图垄断整个岛上木材行业的寇托斯财团（KortosConsortium）的眼中钉。另外两家木材公司也从寇托斯财团中分离出来，落户在奥塔里，每家公司都要为使用马克兰尼的发明而支付一定的费用。</p><h3>现在的奥塔里</h3><p>如今，奥塔里已经是从艾巴萨罗姆到迪奥贝尔之间的海岸线上最大最繁荣的定居点。马克兰尼早已去世，但她的后代——欧瑟夫继承了家族的生意，并担任小镇的镇长。但是，寇托斯财团讨人厌的特工们已经秘密潜入奥塔里，试图破坏小镇的安全。然而，一个更大的威胁正笼罩着这座镇子：贝科拉回来了，准备再次点亮可怕的<em>凄凉灯塔</em>！</p><figure><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure>
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Campaign Timeline
战役时间线 Campaign Timeline
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<table class="av-table"><thead><tr class="av-table-header"><th><p>Date</p></th><th><p>Event</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>Age of Darkness</p></td><td><p>Serpentfolk construct the Empty Vault, a shrine to Nhimbaloth far beneath the surface of Golarion. When Aroden raises the Starstone Isles from the Inner Sea, the Empty Vault ascends with it, ending up several hundred feet below the Isle of Kortos.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>The neutral drow of a subterranean city construct an outpost closer to the surface called Yldaris. These drow are unconsciously drawn to the Empty Vault but don’t know of its presence.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4213 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra Haruvex is born to the wealthy Haruvex family in Absalom. Unknown to anyone outside the family, the Haruvexes have a strong aberrant bloodline and a familial devotion to the Outer God Nhimbaloth.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4219 AR</p></td><td><p>The Haruvex family is ejected from Absalom when their secret sacrifices are discovered. They flee to Andoran, where they live in poverty. This is particularly hard on 6-year-old Belcorra, the family’s youngest scion. The Haruvexes instill in Belcorra a hatred of Absalom and impress upon the child her role as Nhimbaloth’s chosen one.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4230 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra, the last exiled Haruvex, has become a powerful sorcerer. She secretly relocates to the Isle of Kortos, where she begins work on a magical lighthouse called Gauntlight, situated directly above the Empty Vault. She magically opens passages through the earth to reach the shrine and begins to collect an army of aberrations to attack Absalom.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4234 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra completes Gauntlight and begins work on its dungeons, the Abomination Vaults. She uses will-o’-wisps and bound devils to enforce her will on the rapidly expanding hordes within. She meets the drow and urdefhans who dwell in the area and demands their fealty in exchange for their lives.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4244 AR</p></td><td><p>One of Absalom’s “hunting lodges” (a sanctioned group of adventurers) called the Roseguard hear of Belcorra’s presence and come to investigate her lighthouse. They kill her but never learn of the existence of the expansive Abomination Vaults beneath Gauntlight; Belcorra kills the rogue Otari Ilvashti in this battle. The victorious Roseguard construct a small port community and retire there, naming it Otari after their fallen friend.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4290 AR</p></td><td><p>The last Roseguard passes away, and Otari begins to fall into decline.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4294 AR</p></td><td><p>Otari is abandoned.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4300 AR</p></td><td><p>Stonescale kobolds colonize Otari.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4310 AR</p></td><td><p>Yarlaip seals his tribe’s fate by luring ships to their doom; the Stonescale kobolds are soon thereafter defeated by adventurers. Maklanni Menhemes leads the resettlement of Otari.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4323 AR</p></td><td><p>Construction of the Otari Mill and log flume is completed.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4719 AR</p></td><td><p>Belcorra awakens as a ghost and begins work to reactivate Gauntlight. Its dungeons have been populated with generations of infighting creatures since her death, and she seeks to bring them under her control once more.</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4721 AR</p></td><td><p>The current year. Gauntlight becomes infested with a band of mitflits, who are displaced by morlocks pushing upwards at the urging of their “ghost queen.” Gauntlight is ready for a test to demonstrate its power.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
<table class="av-table"><thead><tr class="av-table-header"><th><p>时间</p></th><th><p>事件</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>黑暗时代</p></td><td><p>蛇人族在格拉利昂地下深处建造了空无之窟（Empty Vault），一个用于供奉宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）的神殿。当奥罗登（Aroden）从内海升起星石群岛（Starstone Isles）时，空无之窟也随之一同升起，最终移动到了位于寇托斯岛（Isle of Kortos）地下几百尺深的地方。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>未知年代</p></td><td><p>一群生活在地下的卓尔在靠近地表的浅层洞穴里建造了一个叫做伊尔达里斯（Yldaris）的据点。这些卓尔精灵无意识地被吸引到空无之窟附近，但并不知道它的存在。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4213 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）出生于艾巴萨罗姆富裕的哈鲁维克斯家族。不为外人所知的是，哈鲁维克斯家族拥有强大的异怪血脉，忠诚地侍奉着外神宁布洛斯（Outer God Nhimbaloth）。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4219 AR</p></td><td><p>由于秘密的祭祀仪式暴露，哈鲁维克斯家族被逐出艾巴萨罗姆。他们逃到安多安（Andoran），过着贫困潦倒的生活。这对于当时 6 岁的贝科拉来说尤其艰难，因为她是家族最小的孩子。哈鲁维克斯家族一直在向贝科拉灌输对艾巴萨罗姆的仇恨，并让这个孩子相信自己是宁布洛斯的天选者（chosen one）。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4230 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉，哈鲁维克斯家族最后的流亡者，已经成长为一个强大的术士。她偷偷返回了寇托斯岛，并开始在空无之窟正上方建造一座叫做凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）的魔法灯塔，她神奇地从打开了一条通往神殿的通道，并开始建立一支异怪大军，用于袭击艾巴萨罗姆。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4234 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉完成了凄凉灯塔的建造，并开始扩建憎恨魔窟。她通过鬼火（will-o'-wisps）和被束缚的魔鬼在迅速扩张的地下城内执行她的意志。她遇到了居住在这个地区域之下的卓尔和透肌魔人（urdefhans），并要求他们向她效忠来保全性命。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4244 AR</p></td><td><p>艾巴萨罗姆的“猎友会（hunting lodges）”（一群获得认证的冒险队伍）之一的玫瑰团（Roseguard ）听说了贝科拉的存在，前来调查她的灯塔。他们杀了她，但从并不知道在凄凉灯塔下还存在一个巨大的憎恨魔窟。贝科拉在这场战斗中杀死奥塔里·伊瓦什提（Otari Ilvashti）。赢得胜利之后的玫瑰团在附近的海边建立了一个小镇，并以他们死去的朋友奥塔里给小镇命名，然后在那里归隐田园。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4290 AR</p></td><td><p>玫瑰团的最后一名成员去世了，奥塔里开始衰落。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4294 AR</p></td><td><p>奥塔里被废弃。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4300 AR</p></td><td><p>石鳞狗头人（Stonescale kobolds）部落占领了奥塔里。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4310 AR</p></td><td><p>雅拉普（Yarlaip）引诱过往船只靠岸，这为狗头人部落带来了厄运；石鳞狗头人部落随后被冒险者击败。马卡拉尼·曼赫姆斯（Maklanni Menhemes）领导了奥塔里的重建工作。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4323 AR</p></td><td><p>奥塔里磨坊（Otari Mill）和运木水槽建成。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-row"><td><p>4719 AR</p></td><td><p>贝科拉复活成为一个幽灵，并开始尝试重新启动凄凉灯塔。自从她死后，憎恨魔窟里充斥着各种互相争斗的怪物，她试图将它们再次归于自己的控制之下。</p></td></tr><tr class="av-table-alt-row"><td><p>4721 AR</p></td><td><p>当前年份。凄凉灯塔被一群螨精占据，它们被下层一群为了向“幽灵女王”表忠心的摩洛克驱赶到了地表。凄凉灯塔已经准备好展现它的威力。</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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Exploring Otari
探索奥塔里 Exploring Otari
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<h1>Otari's Key Locations</h1><p>Significant locations in Otari are detailed in the journals in the Otari Locations folder of your journals sidebar tab. These location descriptions are also pinned to the scene as map pins. Unlabeled buildings are wooden homes whose inhabitants work for nearby businesses or for one of the town's three lumber concerns.</p><h2>Location Statistics</h2><p>Many significant locations include statistics that help to communicate the general function and level of the location or business, for the purpose of determining any necessary values associated with it, such as the highest level task available to Earn Income. All of this information is included in the location's journal entry, as well as the address, wares, and services for sale (such as spellcasting services), as well as information about the most significant NPC who lives or works at the establishment.</p><h3>Otari's Characters</h3><p>As well as a description and artwork, the journals will include some important details about the NPCs in each location. Their initial attitude condition to the heroes, along with DCs most likely to be useful when interacting with the NPC, will be especially important if the players would like to earn the support of the location, as outlined below.</p><aside class="av-float-block"><h3>Side Quests</h3><p>Some of the locations in the Abomination Vaults list side quests the heroes can pick up, usually after interacting with an NPC or discovering a clue. If the heroes complete a side quest, they earn an XP award for a moderate accomplishment (30 XP) in addition to any rewards the side quest grants, such as treasure or useful information.</p></aside><h3>Earning Support</h3><p>If a hero adjusts an NPC’s attitude condition to helpful (which might require completion of a listed task but usually requires successful Diplomacy checks to @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.OX4fy22hQgUHDr0q]{Make an Impression}), that NPC's location supports the party in certain exploration and downtime activities. The specific benefits are based on the location's traits and are listed below. This support generally lasts throughout the campaign, although you might decide certain actions lose a location's support. The heroes can be supported by multiple locations in town, so long as they make enough friends!</p><h3>Location Traits</h3><p>Some of these locations include traits which can be a useful shorthand for the kind of benefits that the heroes might get for earning the trust and support of the business owners. An explanation of these traits is contained below.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Church</span></p><p>Faithful characters whose beliefs align with those of the church’s NPC (at your discretion) are permitted to use the location’s resources to retrain more efficiently. Retraining that would normally require a week takes only 5 days at this location, retraining that would normally require a month takes only 3 weeks, and retraining is generally free. Checks to Identify Magic, Treat Wounds, or Treat Disease on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Discount</span></p><p>The location provides a 10% discount on its wares.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Employer</span></p><p>The location offers tasks up to its level to Earn Income with a specified skill.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Garrison</span></p><p>Martially inclined characters can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Gather Information or Treat Wounds on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Housing</span></p><p>The location offers accommodations at a comfortable cost of living for no charge.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Library</span></p><p>Scholarly characters, as well as arcane and occult spellcasters, can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Create Forgery, Decipher Writing, or Learn a Spell on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Lodge</span></p><p>Primal spellcasters can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Identify Magic or Subsist on site gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Parlor</span></p><p>Socially inclined characters can retrain more efficiently here (as Church). Checks to Gather Information or Earn Income with Performance gain a +1 circumstance bonus.</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">Workshop</span></p><p>Heroes can use the location’s resources to Craft items associated with its purpose and gain a +1 item bonus to associated Crafting checks.</p>
<h1>奥塔里的关键地点</h1><p>在侧边栏的日志页面有一个奥塔里地点文件夹，其中的日志条目收录了奥塔里各处重要地点的详细情况。地图上也用地图笔记组件标记了这些地点的描述。那些没有标识的建筑，其居民要么在附近工作，要么受雇于镇上三家伐木公司之一。</p><h2>地点数据</h2><p>许多重要地点下面都有数据栏，数据栏里列出了地点的名称、一般功能和等级（用于确定任何与之相关的必要的数据，例如可以用来赚取收入的最高任务级别）。对应的日志条目里包含了所有这些信息，包括地址、商品和服务（例如法术服务），以及在这里居住或工作的最重要的 NPC 的信息。</p><h3>奥塔里的人物</h3><p>除了描述和肖像外，日志里还记载了每个地点对应NPC的重要细节、他们对英雄们的初始态度和英雄们与之打交道时最常用的 DC。</p><aside class="av-float-block"><h3>支线任务</h3><p>在憎恨魔窟的一些地点中会列出支线任务，英雄们通常在与 NPC 进行互动或发现线索之后给出。如果英雄完成了一个支线任务，除了支线任务本身提供的奖励（宝藏和关键信息）之外，他们还能得到适中的成就奖励（30 XP）。</p></aside><h3>获取支持</h3><p>如果 1 位英雄把某个 NPC 的态度提升至乐于帮助（helpful），（可以通过完成所列出的任务来提升，但是更通常的做法是通过交涉检定来 @Compendium[pf2e.actionspf2e.OX4fy22hQgUHDr0q]），那么该 NPC 和他所在地点就能为团队在执行某些探索行动和休整期行动时提供支持。地点依照其特征来提供支持，有些地点在下面还列出了一些特殊的好处。这些好处通常是会持续到战役结束，但是你也可以决定英雄们的某种做法会导致失去某个地点的支持。英雄们在镇子里能得到不止一处地点的支持，只要他们能交到足够多的朋友！</p><h3>地点特征</h3><p>有些地点拥有数项特征，可以用来快速查阅英雄们获得主人的信任与支持后能在这里获得的好处。每种特征的涵义也在下方一并列举。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">教堂</span></p><p>与该教会信仰相合（由你判断）的角色可以使用该地点的资源进行更有效的重训行动。正常花费一周的重训在这里只需要 5 天，正常花费 1 个月的重训在这里只要 3 周，并且重训是免费的。在此地点中进行辨识魔法（Identify Magic）、治疗伤口（Treat Wounds）或治疗疾病（Treat Disease）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">折扣</span></p><p>此地点提供的商品打九折。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">雇主</span></p><p>该地点能提供最高等于其等级的任务，能依照对应技能进行赚取收入（Earn Income）行动。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">驻地</span></p><p>勇武的角色可以在此地点更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行收集信息（Gather Information）或治疗伤口（Treat Wounds）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">住宿</span></p><p>该地点提供舒适的住宿，生活费用全免。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">图书馆</span></p><p>学院派的角色、奥术和异能施法者，可以在此地点更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行伪造文书（Create Forgery）、文书解读（Decipher Writing）或学习法术（Learn a Spell）的检定有+1环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">小屋</span></p><p>原能施法者可以在这里更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行辨识魔法（Identify Magic）、求生（Subsist）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">会所</span></p><p>善于社交的角色可以在这里更有效率地进行重训（类似教会）。在此地点进行收集信息（Gather Information）、以表演技能赚取收入（Earn Income with Performance）的检定有+1 环境加值。</p><hr /><p><span class="trait">工坊</span></p><p>英雄们能使用该地点的资源来制造物品。当他们进行与地点相关的手艺检定时有+1 物品加值。</p>
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Gauntlight
凄凉灯塔 Gauntlight
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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>Gauntlight</h2><h2>Item 20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">Unique</li><li>Artifact</li><li>Magical</li><li>Necromancy</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</span></h2><p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p><h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3><p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p></article></section>
<p><em>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</em> 很难被忽略，它矗立于凄凉灯塔要塞的废墟之上，并向下延申至憎恨魔窟每一层，直抵下方的空无之窟。从很多方面来说，这件神器和恶毒的贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯Belcorra Haruvex一样都是战役中的主要威胁。</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</h2><h2>物品20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">独特</li><li>神器</li><li>魔法</li><li>死灵系</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>凄凉灯塔</em> 凄凉灯塔不仅仅是一个矗立在雾隐沼泽的废墟中的 115 尺高的灯塔——它苍白的石墙深深地扎进废墟地下，穿过八层形态各异的地下城，地基的中心在地下第九层，是一个不祥的房间。很久以前，宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）就在那里触碰到这个世界。在完成了灯塔的物理构造之后，术士贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）用这个地方作为能量源，将魔力注入到<em>凄凉灯塔</em>每一层的墙壁、地板和天护板上。灯塔顶部的透镜可本可以及时将这种邪恶的能量汇聚成强大的光束射线，但是贝卡拉还没来及用更具威力的魔法透镜替换普通的透镜之前，她的计划就被打断了。</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>作为一个神器，<em>凄凉灯塔</em>无法以正常的方法破坏。它的外墙天衣无缝，除了宁布洛斯和其追随者，任何其他人都无法打破。它的外墙会阻碍创建临时通道的法术，如穿墙术（passwall），并且能作为屏障阻碍次元旅行（dimensional travel）。墙可以反制进入或离开<em>凄凉灯塔</em>内部区域的具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果和异界旅行（planar travel）、并会阻止将召唤生物至塔内区域的尝试（反制调整值+37）；该效果不会阻止被召唤的生物在召唤结束后离去。注意，这些效果只会在凄凉灯塔内部和它本体占用的空间生效(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}，等等)，而非整个憎恨魔窟！</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">如果贝科拉的幽灵被永久摧毁，凄凉灯塔就会失去所有的魔法特性，并一路崩塌至底部，在雾隐沼泽中留下一个难以置信的大坑。</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">启动方式</span></h2><p>要启动<em>凄凉灯塔</em>，1 个生物必须位于神器的基座层(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20})。在空无之窟的任何位置，生物可以通过<em频率>凄凉灯塔</em>的透镜远距离观察外面的世界，包括<em>凄凉灯塔</em>的光束射线射程以内的任何地方。</p><h3>支点镜片</h3><p>在<em>凄凉灯塔</em>功能减弱的当前状态下，它只能通过以下两种方式启动。通过更换和安装一组共四块被称为支点镜片的能够聚焦宁布洛斯那恶毒凝视的魔法透镜——这些透镜是如此强大，以至于贝科拉都需要小心翼翼——神器能获得显著的力量增幅，使它能照射到艾巴萨罗姆，并且可以每分钟 1 次的频率启动。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。光线会浸透整个区域，使得被照亮的区域内，所有埋在地下 10 尺深以内的尸体都会被复活为-1 级的不死生物（通常是骷髅守卫[skeleton guards]或蹒跚丧尸[zombie shamblers]）。一旦复活，这些不死生物在被杀之前都会保持主动攻击状态。不死生物处于不受控状态，只是被屠戮活人的欲望所驱使。</p><p>如果<em>凄凉灯塔</em>恢复至完全状态，则能把尸体复活成不高于 15 级的常见不死生物，具体取决于使用者的意愿。</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。使用者选择一个不高于 4 级的且身体于凄凉灯塔内的生物，然后将该生物传送至光照范围内的任意一点。如果凄凉灯塔恢复至完全状态，则灯塔内的任何不高于 15 级的生物都可以被传送。这是一个具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果。</p></article></section>
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Nhimbaloth
宁布洛斯 Nhimbaloth
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<section class="npc"><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/symbol-nhimbaloth.webp" width="200" /></figure><figure><p class="stats">"The wind, her voice;</p><p class="stats">The wisp, her eye;</p><p class="stats">Your lot, to die."</p><p class="stats">- The Whispering Reeds</p></figure></section><p>The banks of the River of Souls brushes against every world, for when a mortal dies, their spirit steps out of their body to cross over these banks on the first step toward the afterlife. Yet, as with most rivers, predators lurk along these perilous banks. Night hags, astradaemons, devourers, and worse stalk the River, eager to pluck souls free and feed on them. Dread Nhimbaloth, the Empty Death, doesn’t deign to hunt the shores of the River of Souls alongside these predators—she instead feeds upon the predators themselves, reveling in consuming souls already being digested in the gullets of those who would deem themselves the apex hunters of the dead.</p><p>Nhimbaloth uses the shores of the River of Souls to manifest upon the universe’s countless worlds, but she can’t just do so whenever she wills it. Before the Empty Death can manifest within a world, it must first endure a cataclysm so vast that the outflow of the dead into the River of Souls weakens the boundaries between life and death. When such massive casualties sufficiently thin these borders, she can drift in through the cracks and stain what she finds. The resulting blurring between the River of Souls and its shore is metaphysically akin to the muddied boundary of a swamp. It’s no coincidence that when Nhimbaloth emerges into a world, she chooses to dwell in its remote swamplands. Nhimbaloth isn’t a glutton—she’s endlessly patient and can linger on a world for centuries before being noticed.</p><p>More often, her presence in an isolated swampland simply festers, turning a region of natural beauty into a dangerous fen that draws all manner of monsters to its fetid heart. Such lands call to will-o’-wisps; for these feeders of fears, the ruin wrought by the Empty Death is like a fine wine of unparalleled vintage. In time, many of these wisps realize the truth of the influence in their chosen haunts, and in most cases, these ravenous aberrations become Empty Death’s most fervent worshippers.</p><figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/nhimbaloth.webp" width="300" /></figure><h1>Personification and Realm</h1><p>While Dread Nhimbaloth has no physical body of her own, she has been known to manifest a perceivable shape under the perfect conditions, growing visible after consuming a huge quantity of souls the way an empty glass’s contours becomes more defined once filled with liquid. In this form, Nhimbaloth appears as a twisting, melted mass of glistening blue fluid with eyes the shape of yellow four-pointed stars and a tangle of translucent tentacles extending in every direction. The tentacles’ tips split into seven smaller tendrils, and where these “hands” touch the world, they leave her mark behind—a ring of seven strange divots where vegetation refuses to grow, stone becomes chalky, and flesh festers as if it had forgotten how to heal. The position of the stars in the sky, the number of dead trapped within the swamp, and the time of year all seem to play a part in determining when this shadow of what might have once been Nhimbaloth’s body can appear, as does the presence of her cultists, but the manifestation rarely persists for long. Always, the manifestation ends in a sudden consumption from within when the Empty Death retreats to her domain, leaving behind a dead swampland of toxic waters and mindless undeath.</p><p>This form often appears in illustrations that depict the Empty Death, though Nhimbaloth is also portrayed as a ghostly human woman with a single yellow eye in the shape of a four-pointed star filling her otherwise blank face, and a long, writhing mane of ghostly, seven-fingered tentacles wraps around her nearly skeletal body in a smoky shroud. This version of her is surely the product of an artist’s nightmare, yet cults have adopted it as their own.</p><p>Nhimbaloth’s realm is a twofold domain. She uses the banks of the River of Souls as a hunting ground and a highway to travel from world to world, but supposedly dwells on a distant, dead planet. The name of this domain has been lost to time; the faithful of Nhimbaloth refer to it in whispers only as Voidbracken. Here, an ancient battle between Nhimbaloth and another power took place (most myths suggest her foe was Pharasma) that resulted in the destruction of the Empty Death’s body. This conflict didn’t result in her death, however, and her cult fondly views the event as an evolution—for without a body, she could now come and go as she pleased along the shores of the River of Souls. Voidbracken spins still in the Dark Tapestry, wandering aimlessly through the universe but driven always by Nhimbaloth’s will, and when it draws near an inhabited system, the souls of the living are drawn from their mortal shells in a cataclysm referred to in rare surviving accounts as the Deadtide. According to certain passages scribed in ancient texts like the Necronomicon, many of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods must wait for the stars to align just right to manifest. This is quite literally true in Nhimbaloth’s case. Eventually, her Deadtides will claim enough lives so that Nhimbaloth’s death will die; the accumulated spiritual energy she has digested will ultimately undo her ancient defeat, allowing her to once more exist as a physical being.</p><p>She will rise from death hungrier than ever.</p><h1>Dogma and Worshippers</h1><p>Nhimbaloth’s creed and worship are entirely the product of her cultists, as the Empty Death has little interest in providing her worshippers with direct inspiration or direction. This tradition echoes the pattern established with all other cults centered on entities of the Elder Mythos who similarly care not for their worshippers. Because of this lack of divine direction, while their worshippers strive to accomplish specific goals, they aren’t limited by anathemas.</p><p>In Nhimbaloth’s case, her worshippers seek to create undead—particularly ghosts and other incorporeal creatures—to provide sustenance for their eldritch icon. They also feast upon carnivores at their ceremonies, aping Nhimbaloth’s predation upon soul-eating monsters. Her faith is all but unknown in urban areas, but in isolated swamp villages, worship of the Empty Death can suffuse entire settlements. In such instances, the cult typically builds the shell of a mainstream church to serve as a front and satisfy any curious outsiders passing through, while worshipping their goddess at a hidden location in the heart of the night.</p><p>Lower-level clerics of Nhimbaloth dress in whatever corpse’s attire is commonly used in their society’s burial rites, choosing to wear a “final suit” or “last gown” during their rituals in hopes that sweet oblivion might answer their prayers. Cult leaders, however, often eschew this tradition, instead wearing dark green or gray hooded robes adorned with tangled sheets of clinging moss and skull-shaped masks adorned with veils of additional moss. The cultists favor flails in combat; these weapons often have heads shaped into four-pointed stars with the flail’s chain attached to the center of the star and handles wrapped in moss and tanned flesh stripped from the dead.</p><p>Humanoids are far from the Empty Death’s only worshippers. As mentioned, will-o’-wisps and their kin find much to admire in the sinister aura Nhimbaloth’s presence brings to desolate swamplands, and it doesn’t take long for them to take up faith in the Empty Death, almost as if feeding on fear spurred by her influence infects the wisps with devotion to her faith. Marsh giants have also been known to venerate Nhimbaloth under names like “Bogmother,” “The Rushlight Woman,” “Swampfire Queen,” or the like, although they pray to her more as a patron of swampland than anything else. Vampiric mists commonly appear in her swamplands as well, and many scholars have nervously wondered about the implied connection between Nhimbaloth’s mark and the clusters of seven perfectly spaced punctures vampiric mists leave in the bodies of those they’ve fed upon through their misty tendrils.</p><h1>Temples and Shrines</h1><p>Often, the members of a cult of the Empty Death consist of the truly desperate, those with little money and less hope. They conduct their worship in their homes, or what passes as a home—partially collapsed shacks, abandoned barns, or even slumped survivalists’ shelters all suffice for the worship of Nhimbaloth. The rarer cults led by deviants of means construct larger structures to honor Nhimbaloth and often build these structures as mockeries of other churches by including stained glass windows, mosaics, and other works of art that honor the Outer Goddess. In such cases, the structure often serves a secondary purpose, such as a castle, a manor house, or the like. Curiously, these larger structures often share a particular feature: a tower that serves as a beacon or lighthouse as a way to honor will-o’-wisps, which the cult adore. To her followers, will-o’-wisps are Nhimbaloth’s eyes, and her gaze looks out upon the world through the lambent glow of these supernatural predators. A beacon or lighthouse in a temple thus symbolizes a will-o’-wisp, but also, they believe it gives Nhimbaloth a lens through which to gaze upon the world.</p><p>Nhimbaloth’s symbol is a skull with moss stuffed into its jaws, although her cultists often create variants of it as crude dolls or effigies of moss-caked bones and fragments of skulls. Temples that can afford to be open about their affiliation with the goddess often adorn their structures with skulls that have moss carefully grown into soggy, vermin-infested beards or with moss draperies that hang down over archways to form moist curtains in place of proper doors.</p><h1>A Priest's Role</h1><p>As with most cults of the Elder Mythos, the majority of Nhimbaloth’s devout don’t worship out of respect or adoration so much as fear. For them, the concept of death isn’t what evokes nightmare, but the fear of what judgment might await in the afterlife is what drives most to her faith. Those who have sinned, who have committed heresy against a prior faith, or who simply live in constant terror of what Pharasma might say to them when they reach her throne instead seek the oblivion offered by Nhimbaloth. They seek not to escape death or life, but to escape what they fear will be an even worse afterlife.</p><p>Yet this is not the only motive that draws worshippers to her fold. Some, rather than being driven by a fear of the afterlife, are enticed by the opportunity to bask in the misery and despair of others. These members are some of the most awful in the sect, for they use the promise of oblivion that Nhimbaloth offers to those who worship her as a lure to draw in the desperate to aid their own nefarious plots. Some seek to use these eager-for-oblivion zealots as disposable armies for acts of vengeance or rage; others draw upon these worshippers as sacrifices to fuel abhorrent rituals or to craft horrific magic items.</p><p>Even these predators of the desperate pale in comparison to the worst of Nhimbaloth’s worshippers—nihilists who fully understand the Empty Death and see in her the ultimate tool to destroy a world they’ve grown to loathe. For these cultists, nothing less than using the Voidbracken to bring a Deadtide upon their world will suffice. They might have a hidden plan to escape the world the moment all life is ended; they might even seek their own oblivion or believe that Nhimbaloth herself might reward them with dominion over a dead world. Regardless of their intent, these doomsday shepherds are the most dangerous of the Empty Death’s worshippers.</p><h1>Holidays</h1><p>Cults of Nhimbaloth that exist in small communities under the guise of a different religion take pains to observe that faith’s holidays if visitors or (more rarely) townsfolk don’t know their gathering’s true faith, but apart from that, worshippers of the Empty Death don’t observe regular holidays or religious festivals—with one unusual exception. The exact date on which Nhimbaloth’s body was taken from her and Voidbracken was denuded of life is unknown, so each cult chooses one day of import to observe this anniversary. The fact that no one knows the length of Voidbracken’s year makes this ritual even more arbitrary; regardless, her faithful believe that on one of these so-called Void Dawns, the sun won’t rise upon the world and all life will be snuffed in a Deadtide. Cultists celebrate the night leading to a Void Dawn with a gluttonous feast consisting of all manner of carnivores and monsters—meals they often make during the proceedings while the “food” still lives. When the sun inevitably rises, the cultists choose one of their own as the final feast in atonement for failing to bring the Deadtide to their world.</p><h1>Aphorisms</h1><p>Worshippers of Nhimbaloth fondly quote and recite their favorite tales from The Whispering Reeds, each of which has a number of memorable and haunting lines. However, a variant of an infamous quote from the Necronomicon particularly resonates with all of her worshippers.</p><p><em><strong>"Long Dream the Dead, Yet Even Death Can Die"</strong></em></p><p>To many, the notion of death is akin to an eternal slumber, a dawnless rest in which the soul experiences an afterlife in the way a sleeping person could dream several different lives in the span of a single night. Whether a dreamer wakes with the dawn or dies in their sleep, all dreams eventually come to an end. Just as when the Empty Death comes to call, even death knows oblivion—and even death may die.</p><h1>Holy Text</h1><p>Mentions of Nhimbaloth are rare, even for the esoteric topic of the Outer Gods. The dread Necronomicon mentions her, and certain translations of that book purportedly contain descriptions of her true form, which might be the only place where Nhimbaloth’s true form is set down in print. This information isn’t even present in the text most often associated with her worship: a rare tome called <em>The Whispering Reeds</em>.</p><p>The genesis of <em>The Whispering Reeds</em> lies not in those who worship the Empty Death, but in those who sought to oppose her. The book consists of stories, myths, parables, and encounters with Nhimbaloth gathered from hundreds of regions in dozens of worlds. The compiler’s name has been long forgotten, as they neglected to name themself in the text. This matters not to those who worship Nhimbaloth, nor does the fact that the author originally penned the book for the purpose of cataloging the ways in which Nhimbaloth’s influence could be opposed. The very act of collecting these old stories of the Empty Death brushing against the world had the opposite effect, and now, those who seek to draw their goddess’s attention to their world uses <em>The Whispering Reeds</em> to spread stories of her previous visits.</p><h1>Relations with Other Religions</h1><p>Nhimbaloth doesn’t consort with other gods, although often her visitations upon the wilderness force confrontations with other faiths. In particular, Gozreh and Desna oppose her influence—the former because of the proliferation of unnatural elements that taint swamplands, and the latter out of a mixture of anger and fear that her flock might stumble into Nhimbaloth’s clutches accidentally while exploring the wilds. The Eldest of the First World also oppose Nhimbaloth, whose parasitic tendrils can occasionally drift into that plane through fey gates and portals. Even after driving out the Empty Death, small cults of fey who have fallen under her sway inevitably remain.</p><p>Pharasma opposes Nhimbaloth for multiple reasons. Those who perish in lands haunted by the latter’s presence tend to rise as ghosts. Moreover, the Empty Death’s habit of consuming those ghosts has rightly angered Pharasma, for rather than being released to the Boneyard, the consumed souls simply disappear. One might assume that such an affront to the cycle of life and death would compel Pharasma into a direct confrontation with Nhimbaloth, and indeed, certain ancient texts tell of such a clash between the two goddesses at the very dawn of mortal civilization. The titanic battle left neither goddess the victor. Nhimbaloth learned to hide her predations upon the world so that even Pharasma can’t readily find her, and one particularly blasphemous tale in The Whispering Reeds speaks of a hidden scar that Pharasma bears to this day as a reminder of her failed attempt to decisively defeat the Empty Death—a scar, supposedly, in the pattern of seven divots of flesh where Nhimbaloth fed upon the essence of the Goddess of Death.</p><p>Whether or not this myth has any basis in fact, the faithful of Pharasma view Nhimbaloth and her cult with a combination of hatred and fearful respect. Only the most devout and powerful of Pharasma’s worshippers receive leave to hunt Nhimbaloth’s faithful, and they work hard to prevent lay worshippers from learning much of the Empty Death. Their justification—that Nhimbaloth feeds only on ghosts, and that by defeating or preventing the formation of theses undead, they strike blows against the Empty Death—reads to some as an excuse.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><h3>Nhimbaloth's Inspiration</h3><p>H. P. Lovecraft encouraged others to add to the mythos of eldritch beings he created to populate his weird fiction, and it was in this tradition that I first created Nhimbaloth as an antagonist for my own stories and roleplaying campaigns. Largely inspired by the mysterious horror lurking behind nature’s veil in Algernon Blackwood’s classic short story “The Willows,” and with some valuable advice on Outer God naming conventions from the fine folks at Chaosium, Nhimbaloth has become one of my proudest additions to the ever-expanding Lovecraft Mythos.</p><p><em><strong>- James Jacobs</strong></em></p></article></section>
<section class="npc"><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/icons/symbol-nhimbaloth.webp" width="200" /></figure><figure><p class="stats">“风声，她之声；</p><p class="stats">鬼火，她之眼；</p><p class="stats">汝命，她所定；</p><p class="stats">汝运，黄泉途。”</p><p class="stats">——呓语芦苇</p></figure></section><p>灵魂之河轻轻冲刷着每个世界的堤岸，每当凡人死亡时，其灵魂脱离身体，跨过河岸，迈出了走向来世的第一步。然而，与其他河流一样，在这些危险的河岸上潜伏着捕食者。夜鬼婆、星界邪魔、囚魂魔和更可怖的存在徘徊河边，渴望撷取灵魂并大快朵颐。可怖的空无之死宁布洛斯则并不屈尊于在灵魂之河的岸边同这些捕食者一起捕猎——她反而以捕食者们本身为食，陶醉于吞噬那些自认为是顶级掠食者的生物胃里的灵魂。</p><p>宁布洛斯利用灵魂之河的河岸显现在宇宙中的无数个世界上，但她不能随心所欲地这样做。在空无之死能够于一个世界中显现之前，那个世界必须首先经受一场严重的灾难，以至于无数死者涌入灵魂之河，削弱了生与死的界限。当这种大规模的死难使生死的边界变薄时，她就可以从裂缝中漂流进去，染指她所发现的事物。由此在灵魂之河与河岸之间产生的模糊，在形而上学中有如沼泽地的泥泞边界。因此，并非巧合地，当宁布洛斯出现在一个世界中时，她选择停驻在偏远的沼泽里。宁布洛斯并不贪食——她有无尽的耐心，可以在一个世界上停留几个世纪后才被注意到。</p><p>多数时候，她的存在会慢慢在一个偏僻的沼泽地里发酵，把当地的天然美景转化成危险的泥潭，吸引各种怪物来到它腥臭的中心。这样的土地呼唤着鬼火——对这些以恐惧为食的存在，空无之死造成的破坏如同无与伦比的佳酿。随着时间的推移，许多鬼火意识到这些区域影响背后的真相，且在多数时候，这些贪婪的异怪成为空无之死最狂热的崇拜者。</p><figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/nhimbaloth.webp" width="300" /></figure><h1>显形和其领域</h1><p>虽然可怖的宁布洛斯没有自己的躯体，但她在完美的条件下可以显现出一个可被察觉的形状，在吞噬了大量的灵魂后，她的形状会越来越明显，如同一个空杯子的轮廓在装满液体后会变得更加明显一般。在这种形态下，宁布洛斯表现为一团扭曲熔化而闪闪发光的蓝色液体，眼睛呈黄色的四角星形状，一束半透明的触手从液体中向各个方向延伸。触手的顶端分成七个较小的卷须，而在这些 "手 "接触世界的地方，会留下她的印记：一块带有七片奇特草皮的环，周围的植被不再生长，石头变得白垩化，而肉体会像简直忘记了如何愈合一般溃烂。天空中群星的位置、被困在沼泽中的死者数量、时令以及她崇拜者的存在似乎都在影响这个可能曾经是宁布洛斯身体的阴影会何时出现，但这种显形很少持续很长时间。当空无之死撤退回她的领域时，其显形会突然从内部消解而结束，留下一片充斥着有毒水体和无意识的不死生物的死亡沼泽。</p><p>这种形象常出现在描绘空无之死的插图中，但宁布洛斯也被描绘成一个幽灵般的人类女性，一只四角星形状的黄色眼睛填满了她原本空白的脸，一长串蠕动的幽灵般的七指触须像头发般缠绕在她近乎骷髅般的躯体上，缭绕地笼罩着她。这个版本的她肯定来自于艺术家的噩梦，但邪教徒却也挪为己用。</p><p>宁布洛斯的国度是两重领域。她将灵魂之河的河岸既作为狩猎场，又作为从一个世界到另一个世界的捷径，但据说她本身居住在一个遥远的死亡星球上。其领域的名字已经湮没在时间之中，只有宁布洛斯的信徒们会悄声提起它：虚空之蕨（Voidbracken）。在那里，宁布洛斯和另一个势力之间发生了一场远古大战（多数神话都认为她的敌人是法莱斯玛），导致了空无之死的身躯被毁灭。然而，这场冲突并没有导致她的死亡，她的崇拜者欢喜地将那视为一种进化——没有躯体的她如今在灵魂之河的岸边来去自如。虚空之蕨仍然在黑暗帷幕中旋转着，在宇宙里漫无目的地游荡，但总是被宁布洛斯的意志所驱使，当它接近一个有人居住的星系时，一场在罕有的现存记载中被称为死亡之潮的大灾难就会将无数灵魂从凡人的躯壳中抽出。根据死灵之书等古代文献中的段落，许多旧日支配者和外神必须等待群星正确的排列时才能显现出来，这在宁布洛斯的案例中确有其事。最终，她的死亡之潮将夺走足够多的生命，以至于宁布洛斯的死亡也将死去；她所消化的精神能量将累计起来最终抹去她过去的战败，让她重新作为一个物理存在而降临。</p><p>而当她自死亡中归来时，将比以往任何时刻都更饥渴。</p><h1>信条与信徒</h1><p>宁布洛斯的信条和崇拜完全是邪教徒们创造的产物，因为空无之死对为她的崇拜者提供直接的灵感或指导没有兴趣。宁布洛斯邪教的传统与所有其他以旧神崇拜为中心的邪教的模式相呼应，那些实体同样不关心他们的崇拜者。由于缺乏神的指导，虽然他们的崇拜者会努力完成特定的目标，但他们并不受到禁忌的限制。</p><p>在宁布洛斯的邪教中，崇拜者试图创造亡灵——特别是鬼魂和其他虚体生物——来为他们的诡邪神明提供养料。他们还在仪式上享用食肉动物，模仿宁布洛斯对食魂怪物的捕猎。她的信仰在城市地区几乎无人知晓，但在偏僻的沼泽村落，对空无之死的崇拜可能会充斥整个定居点。在这种情况下，邪教组织通常会建立起一个主流教会的外壳作为门面，以满足任何路过的好奇外来者，同时在夜晚最深处的一个隐蔽地点崇拜他们的女神。</p><p>宁布洛斯的低级神职人员穿着他们社会中常用的任何葬礼中的尸体服装，在仪式中穿上 "临终衣着 " 或 "最后的长袍"，希望那甜蜜的永恒遗忘将回应他们的祈祷。然而，邪教领袖则往往摒弃这一传统，而穿着深绿色或灰色的连帽长袍，上面装饰着纠缠在一起的苔藓，骷髅形的面具上还蒙着苔藓面纱。邪教徒们在战斗中喜欢使用连枷；这些武器的头部通常被塑造成四角星，连枷的链条连接在星的中心，手柄上缠着苔藓和从尸体上剥下的鞣制肉革。</p><p>人类远不是空无之死的唯一崇拜者。如前所述，鬼火和他们的亲族十分钦服宁布洛斯的存在给荒凉的沼泽地带来的险恶灵气，而他们很快就会接受空无之死的信仰，仿佛是鬼火因为捕食了由她激发出的恐惧们而受到感染，对她充满了虔诚的崇拜一般。沼泽巨人以 "泥沼之母"、"枯光女士"、"沼泽之火女王 "之类的名字来崇敬宁布洛斯，尽管他们更多将她作为沼泽的守护者来祈祷。吸血迷雾也经常出现在她的沼泽地里，许多学者都曾怀着惊惧地好奇过宁布洛斯的徽记和吸血鬼雾气在他们通过缥缈的卷须吸食的人身上留下的七个完美间隔的刺孔之间是否有隐含联系。</p><h1>寺庙和神殿</h1><p>通常，空无之死邪教的成员由真正的绝望者组成，他们没有什么钱，更没有什么希望。他们在自己的家里，或者某种能称之为家的地方进行崇拜——倒塌的棚屋、废弃的谷仓，甚至是坍塌的野外庇护所，都足以让他们进行崇拜的仪式。较少见的，由富裕的邪教徒领导的邪教组织则会建造更大的建筑来纪念宁布洛斯，并经常添设彩色玻璃窗、马赛克和其他纪念这位外神的艺术作品，作为对其他教会建筑嘲弄式的模仿。这种时候，该结构往往有一个次要的用途，如作为城堡、庄园或类似的东西。奇特的是，这些较大型的宁布洛斯神殿往往有一个特别之处：作为烽火台或灯塔的塔楼，以此来纪念他们所崇拜的鬼火。对她的追随者来说，鬼火是宁布洛斯的眼睛，她的目光通过这些超自然的捕食者发出的微弱的光亮看着世界。因此，神殿中的烽火台或灯塔象征着鬼火，而且邪教徒们也相信它给了宁布洛斯提供了一面镜片，通过它来观察这个世界。</p><p>宁布洛斯的徽记是一个下颚塞满了苔藓的头骨，尽管她的崇拜者也经常将其改编成粗糙的娃娃或由苔藓包裹的骨头和骷髅碎片组成的雕像。那些不惮于公开崇拜宁布洛斯的神殿，通常会用骷髅来装饰他们的建筑，将这些骷髅上的苔藓被精心培育成潮湿的、害虫滋生的胡须，或者将苔藓挂在拱门上，形成潮湿的帘帷来代替大门。</p><h1>牧师的角色</h1><p>与崇拜旧神的大多数邪教一样，宁布洛斯多数信徒的崇拜并不是出于尊重或倾慕，而是恐惧。唤起他们噩梦的并非死亡的概念本身，而对于来世可能面临的审判的恐惧才是促使他们信仰的原因。那些犯了罪的人，叛离原有信仰的人，或者那些单纯一直恐惧着当他们到达法莱斯玛的御座会受到怎样判决的人们，转而寻求宁布洛斯提供的遗忘。他们并非为了逃避死亡或生命，而是为了逃避他们所担心的更可怕的死后经历。</p><p>然而这并不是吸引崇拜者加入她的唯一动机。有些人，与其说是被对死后的恐惧所驱使，不如说是被饱食他人的痛苦和绝望的机会所引诱。这些成员是教派中最可怕的一些人，他们利用宁布洛斯为崇拜者提供的遗忘承诺作为诱饵，吸引绝望之徒来为他们自己的邪恶阴谋服务。有些人试图利用这些渴求遗忘的狂热者作为可以随意消耗的军队来进行复仇或破坏的行动；有些人则利用这些崇拜者作为祭品来完成可憎的仪式或制作恐怖的魔法物品。</p><p>即使是这些利用绝望的人，在宁布洛斯最邪恶的崇拜者面前也相形见绌——他们完全理解空无之死的存在，并在她身上看到了毁灭一个他们已经厌恶的世界的终极手段。对这些邪教分子来说，只要利用虚空之蕨给他们的世界带来一场死亡之潮，就足够了。他们也许有一个隐藏的计划，在所有生命被终结的那一刻逃离这个世界；他们甚至可能寻求自己的遗忘，或者相信宁布洛斯本身可能会奖励他们对一个死亡世界的统治。无论他们的意图如何，这些末日先驱都是空无之死崇拜者中最危险的。</p><h1>节日</h1><p>如果外来者或镇民（这种情况更少见）不知道他们的真正信仰，那些打着其他宗教的幌子存在于小社区里的宁布洛斯教派会努力遵守他们伪装的信仰的节日，但除此之外，空无之死的崇拜者并没有常规的节日或宗教节庆——只有一个不寻常的例外。宁布洛斯的身体被夺去以及虚空之蕨变为死寂的确切日期是未知的，所以每个邪教会自行选择一个重要的日子来纪念这一天。事实上，没有人知道虚空之蕨星球上一年的长度，这使得这个仪式更加随意；无论如何，她的信徒们相信，在这被称为虚空黎明的节日的年复一年庆祝中，会有那样一天，太阳不再升起，而所有的生命都会在死亡之潮中被扼杀。在虚空黎明前的那一夜，教徒们会以一场摆满各种食肉动物和怪物的饕餮盛宴来庆祝——他们经常在“食物”还活着的时候就开动。当太阳最终不可避免地升起时，邪教徒们会选择他们中的一人作为盛宴最后的祭品，以弥补他们没能将死亡之潮带到自己的世界的罪过。</p><h1>箴言</h1><p>宁布洛斯的崇拜者们喜欢引用和背诵《呓语芦苇》中他们最喜欢的故事，每一个故事都有许多令人难忘而越思索越觉恐怖的句子。然而，《死灵之书》中一句有名的话的变体尤其能引起她所有崇拜者的共鸣</p><p><em><strong>“死者长梦，而死亡本身也将死亡。”</strong></em></p><p>对许多人来说，死亡的概念类似于永恒的沉睡，一种再没有黎明的安息，在这种休息中，灵魂会体验到来世，就像一个熟睡的人在一夜之间会梦到几度不同的人生。无论做梦的人是随着黎明醒来还是在睡梦中死去，所有的梦最终都会结束。就像当空无之死降临时，即使是死亡也会知道遗忘，死亡本身也可能死亡。</p><h1>圣典</h1><p>即使是在对诸外神的神秘学研讨当中，提到宁布洛斯的场合也屈指可数。可怕的死灵之书提到了她，而且据说该书的某些译本包含了对她真实形态的描述，这可能是唯一一个将宁布洛斯的真实形态录诸纸面的著作。这一信息甚至没有出现在最常与她的崇拜相联系的文本：一本名为<em>《呓语芦苇》</em>的稀有巨著当中。</p><p><em>《呓语芦苇》</em>并非由那些崇拜空无之死的人所创作的，而源于那些试图反对她的人。这本书由故事、神话、寓言以及与接触宁布洛斯的记录组成，收集自数十个世界中的无数地区。其编纂者的名字早已被遗忘，因为他们在文本中忽略了自己的名字。这对那些崇拜宁布洛斯的人来说并不重要，而作者最初写这本书的目的是为了将对抗宁布洛斯的影响的方法编辑成册。收集这些空无之死洗刷世界的古老故事的行为本身产生了相反的效果，而现在，那些试图将他们的女神的注意力引向他们世界的人使用<em>《呓语芦苇》</em>来传播她以前访问其他世界的故事</p><h1>与其他宗教的关系</h1><p>宁布洛斯不与其他神明交往，但她降临于荒野时常常造成与其他信仰的冲突。尤其是哥兹莱（Gozreh）和黛丝娜（Desna）反对她的影响——前者是因为非自然元素的泛滥玷污了沼泽地，后者则是出于愤怒和担心她的信者在探索荒野时可能意外地落入宁布洛斯的魔掌。第一世界的古老者们也反对宁布洛斯，她的触手偶尔会通过精类之门和传送门飘入那个位面。即使在赶走了空无之死本身后，在她的控制下的小型精类教派仍然不可避免地存在。</p><p>法莱斯玛有许多反对宁布洛斯的理由。那些在被后者的存在所笼罩的土地上丧生的人往往会作为幽灵复活。而且，空无之死吞噬这些鬼魂的习惯理所当然地激怒了法莱斯玛。那些被吞噬的灵魂不会被释放到骨园，而是直接消失了。人们可能会认为，这种对生死轮回的冒犯会迫使法莱斯玛与宁布洛斯发生直接冲突，事实上，某些古籍记载了这两位女神在凡人文明初创时期的一次冲突。这场激烈的战斗中没有任何一位女神成为胜利者。宁布洛斯学会了隐藏她对世界的掠夺，因此即使法莱斯玛也无法轻易找到她。《呓语芦苇》中一个特别亵渎神明的故事记录说，法莱斯玛至今还带着一道隐藏的伤疤，提醒她未能彻底地击败空无之死——据说这道伤疤是宁布洛斯吸食死亡女神的精华留下的七个创口。</p><p>无论这个神话是否有任何事实依据，法莱斯玛的信徒们都以仇恨和戒惧的态度看待宁布洛斯和她的崇拜者。只有最虔诚、最强大的法莱斯玛信徒才会被允许猎杀宁布洛斯信徒，而且他们努力阻止普通崇拜者了解到更多关于空无之死的信息。他们给的理由是，宁布洛斯以鬼魂为食，通过击败或阻止这些亡灵的形成就能对她造成打击——但在一些人看来只是一种借口。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><h3>宁布洛斯的灵感来源</h3><p>H. P.洛夫克拉夫特鼓励其他人创作出新的神话生物，以充实他的奇异创作，正是在这种传统下，我创造出了宁布洛斯作为我自己的故事和战役中的一个反派。宁布洛斯的灵感主要来自于 Algernon Blackwood 的经典短篇小说 "The Willows "中潜伏在自然界面纱之后的神秘恐怖之物，并得到了Chaosium 公司（有译为：混沌元素）的一些关于外神命名惯例的宝贵建议、现在宁布洛斯已经成为我为不断扩展的洛夫克拉夫特神话所做的最自豪的贡献之一了。</p><p><em><strong>—— James Jacobs</strong></em></p></article></section>
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<figure class="head"><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure><p>Otari is nestled in a coastal valley between two looming cliffs. To the west, the cliffside rises to meet a well-cared-for graveyard. To the east, a fantastic feat of engineering draws the eye—the trestle supporting a wooden loading chute extends down from the clifftop to a loading platform built into the harbor. This ingenious construction swiftly delivers lumber processed further inland at the mill to waiting ships below.</p><p>The people of Otari are friendly and welcoming for the most part, although they tend to react with reticence toward those they suspect hail from Absalom. Trade with Absalom is important, but the townsfolk are proud and feel no need to accommodate visiting “city folk.” People in Otari typically subsist on fish along with vegetables from local farms (primarily potatoes, carrots, and other root vegetables), but more unusual fare isn’t hard to get from Absalom. Coffee is a mainstay and a favorite drink of the hardworking and early-rising residents.</p><p> </p><aside class="av-float-block"><div class="split"><h3>Otari</h3><h3>Settlement 4</h3></div><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">N</li><li class="green">Town</li></ul><hr /><p>Diverse lumber town and trade port with a storied past and its fair share of sinister secrets.</p><p><strong>Government</strong>: Mayor (elected leader)</p><p><strong>Population</strong>: 1,240 (60% humans, 8% halflings, 7% half-elves, 6% elves, 5% dwarves, 5% gnomes, 3% half-orcs, 2% goblins, 4% other)</p><p><strong>Languages</strong>: Common, Dwarven, Elven, Halfling</p><p><strong>Religions</strong>: Cayden Cailean, Erastil, Gozreh, Sarenrae</p><p><strong>Threats</strong>: aberrant horrors, eerie hauntings, kobolds, smugglers</p><p><strong>Trinket Trade</strong>: Otari has a long tradition of catering to adventurers, and consumable items of up to level 10 are available for sale in its shops.</p></aside><h2>Who's Who in Otari</h2><hr /><p><strong>Oseph Menhemes</strong> <br /><em>N male human mayor 4</em></p><p>Current mayor and patriarch of one of three local lumber companies.</p><hr /><p><strong>Lardus Longsaddle</strong> <br /><em>CN male human soldier 4</em></p><p>Foul-mouthed and short-tempered captain of the town guard.</p><hr /><p><strong>Vandy Banderdash</strong> <br /><em>NG female halfling cleric of Sarenrae 5</em></p><p>Chatty priestess of Sarenrae and unusually knowledgeable town historian.</p><hr /><p><strong>Wrin Sivinxi</strong> <br /><em>CG female tiefling elf oddities merchant 5</em></p><p>Eccentric occult items dealer, artisan, and collector of stories and rumors.</p><hr /><p> </p>
<figure class="head"><img class="light-writer" src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/otari-docks.webp" width="700" /></figure><p>奥塔里坐落在两个悬崖夹角之间的靠海的山谷中。在西边，悬崖向上方延伸，与一片精心照料的墓地相连。在东面，一项令人惊叹的伟大工程吸引了人们的目光——支撑着木质装载滑槽的栈桥从悬崖顶端一直向下延伸到港口旁的装载平台上。这个精巧的建筑将加工过的木材从更远的内陆直接送到下面等待的船只上。</p><p>奥塔里的居民大部分是友善好客的，虽然他们对那些可能来自于艾巴萨罗姆的客人态度冷淡。与艾巴萨罗姆做生意是很重要，但是镇子上的居民大多都很自傲，觉得没必要特地招待那些来访的“城市佬”。奥塔里的居民通常以鱼和当地生产的蔬菜为食（主要是土豆、胡萝卜和其他根茎类蔬菜），但特别一点的食物也很容易从艾巴萨罗姆买到。咖啡是这里的主要饮品，是勤劳早起的镇民们最爱的饮料。</p><p> </p><aside class="av-float-block"><div class="split"><h3>奥塔里</h3><h3>定居点 4</h3></div><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">常见</li><li class="green">城镇</li></ul><hr /><p>繁荣的、多样化的伐木业为主的城镇和贸易港口，拥有众所周知的传奇历史和一些不为人知的阴暗秘密。</p><p><strong>政府</strong>: 镇长（选举制）</p><p><strong>人口</strong>: 1240 （60%人类, 8%半身人, 7%半精灵, 6%精灵, 5%矮人, 5%侏儒, 3%半兽人, 2%地精, 4%其他）</p><p><strong>语言</strong>: 通用语, 矮人语, 精灵语, 半身人语</p><p><strong>宗教</strong>: 凯登·凯连（Cayden Cailean）, 埃拉斯蒂尔（Erastil）, 哥兹莱（Gozreh）, 莎伦莱（Sarenrae）</p><p><strong>威胁</strong>: 怪异的恐怖事件, 可怕的作祟, 狗头人, 走私者</p><p><strong>货物</strong>: 奥塔里拥有悠久的冒险传统，在商店中可以买到最高为 10 级的消耗性物品。</p></aside><h2>奥塔里的人物</h2><hr /><p><strong>奥瑟夫·曼尼姆斯Oseph Menhemes</strong> <br /><em>绝对中立 男性 人类 镇长 4</em></p><p>现任镇长，也是当地三家木材公司之一的创始人。</p><hr /><p><strong>拉杜斯·长鞍Lardus Longsaddle</strong> <br /><em>混乱中立 男性 人类 士兵 4</em></p><p>污言秽语，脾气暴躁，是奥塔里镇的卫队长。</p><hr /><p><strong>万蒂·班德黛西Vandy Banderdash</strong> <br /><em>中立善良 女性 半身人 莎伦莱牧师 5</em></p><p>健谈的莎伦莱女祭司，知识渊博的小镇历史学家。</p><hr /><p><strong>瓦琳·希温尼斯Wrin Sivinxi</strong> <br /><em>混乱善良 女性 魔裔精灵 奇物商人 5</em></p><p>古怪的神秘物品商人、工匠、以及故事和谣言的收集者。</p><hr /><p> </p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.The Abomination Vaults.name
The Abomination Vaults
憎恨魔窟 The Abomination Vaults
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Campaign Background.pages.The Abomination Vaults.text
<aside class="av-float-block"><p>The Abomination Vaults consist of 10 levels, including the ruins around Gauntlight on the surface.</p><p>They are, from top to bottom:</p><ul><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj]{The Ruins of Gauntlight Keep}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm]{The Servants' Quarters}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5]{The Library}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6]{Belcorra’s former living chambers}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.JT0zCcIwsSpKnbB5]{The Arena}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KI33EAGPVHP4zyFZ]{The Laboratories}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.OyNcqrpRClyhr8BJ]{The Prison}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.FwWmtOBFHhvM2gtf]{The Farm Caverns}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.1vlzl3NJsftNB9Dc]{The Hunting Cavern}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol]{The Temple}, which holds the @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{Empty Vault}.</li></ul><p>Each level has its own character, and the levels are progressively more dangerous the deeper the heroes venture.</p></aside><h2>A Dungeon Full of Monsters</h2><p>The horrors trapped in the Abomination Vaults developed some measure of ecosystem in the centuries following Belcorra's death. While many monsters beneath the citadel died, others have prospered, and now several communities of morlocks, urdefhans, ghouls, and stranger creatures call the dungeons home. Only the longest-lived remember any life other than the dungeons. Belcorra had bound several devils to serve her as overseers and administrators, and many of these still maintain order. Apart from the regions maintained by these devils and a drow outpost in one of the lowest levels, the Abomination Vaults are lawless and dangerous.</p><h2>Wandering Monsters</h2><p>While this book doesn’t present wandering monster tables for Abomination Vaults, the dungeon’s denizens still occasionally leave their homes! You can make the dungeon feel more dynamic by familiarizing yourself with each level’s denizens and then having them react to the party’s progression and presence. For example, if the heroes noisily explore an area, creatures in nearby rooms could come to investigate or perhaps set up an ambush. If the heroes decide to camp out in the dungeon rather than return to the safety of town, nearby creatures might visit or even attack their campsite while they rest. If the heroes clear out the denizens of a level and then return weeks later, they might find that new monsters have moved in. By keeping the inhabitants of the Abomination Vaults active, you can make the location feel all the more dangerous and unpredictable to your players.</p><h2>Beyond Gauntlight</h2><p>The ruins of Gauntlight Keep aren’t far out of town—just a 20-minute walk from Otari to the ruins. The Abomination Vaults Adventure Path focuses almost entirely on the dungeon itself, and you can gloss over the details of trips between the dungeon and town as you see fit. If your players express interest in mixing things up, you can use some of the encounters or short adventures in the standalone Pathfinder Adventure: Troubles in Otari. That adventure presents additional content in the Otari hinterlands suitable for 2nd- to 4th-level characters and provides great ways to prepare heroes who need a bit of extra XP before they delve into the deeper, more dangerous levels of the Abomination Vaults.</p>
<aside class="av-float-block"><p>憎恨魔窟由 10 层组成，包括地面上的凄凉灯塔周围的废墟。</p><p>它们从上到下分别是：</p><ul><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj]{The Ruins of Gauntlight Keep}</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.Os5bHdzCDiXgJBQ6]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.JT0zCcIwsSpKnbB5]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.KI33EAGPVHP4zyFZ]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.OyNcqrpRClyhr8BJ]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.FwWmtOBFHhvM2gtf]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.1vlzl3NJsftNB9Dc]</li><li>@UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol]，那里坐落着 @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]。</li></ul><p>每一层都独具特色，并且随着英雄们的冒险不断深入，每一层也变得越来越危险。</p></aside><h2>充满怪物的地下城</h2><p>在贝科拉死亡后的几个世纪里，被困在憎恨魔窟的恐怖生物逐渐发展出了某种平衡的生态系统。虽然城堡下面的许多怪物死了，但另一些却兴旺了起来，现在有几个由摩洛克（morlocks）、透肌魔人（urdefhans）、食尸鬼（ghouls）和其他一些奇异的生物把魔窟当做了自己的家园。只有最长寿的怪物能记得地牢以外的任何生命。贝科拉曾让几个魔鬼（devils）担任她的监督者和管理者，其中许多魔鬼仍然维持着魔窟里的秩序。除了这些魔鬼掌控的区域和一个最下层的卓尔（drow）据点之外，憎恨魔窟中的大部分地区域没有秩序，危机四伏。</p><h2>游荡的怪物</h2><p>虽然本次冒险中并没有提供游荡怪物的列表，但地下城居民们依然会偶尔离开他们的家！你可以充分熟悉每一层的居民，然后思考他们对玩家队伍的存在和进展会作何反应，从而让你的地下城显得更有生命力。例如，如果英雄们在探索地下城的时候发出巨大的噪音，那么附近房间的生物可能会前来调查或体现设下埋伏。如果英雄们决定在地下城里扎营而不是返回安全的镇子上，附近的生物可能会在他们休息时来查看甚至突袭他们的营地。如果英雄们把某一层的居民清理干净之后，过了几周后再返回，他们可能会发现有新的怪物乘虚而入。通过保持憎恨魔窟里居民们的活跃，你可以让玩家觉得这个地下城更加危险且难以预测。</p><h2>凄凉灯塔之外</h2><p>凄凉灯塔要塞废墟离奥塔里不远，从镇子里到废墟只要步行 20 分钟。《憎恨魔窟》冒险之路的场景几乎全部集中在地下城中，你可以根据自己的需要适当忽略从镇子到地下城之间的旅行细节。如果你的玩家有兴趣混合一些其他剧情，你可以在独立冒险模组《奥塔里的麻烦（Troubles in Otari）》中选择一些较短的遭遇或简单的冒险。该冒险在奥塔里内陆腹地为 2-4 级的角色提供了额外的冒险内容，并且可以为那些准备深入更危险的憎恨魔窟下层的英雄们提供更多的经验值</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.name
Character Biographies
人物传记 Character Biographies
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Belcorra Haruvex.name
Belcorra Haruvex
贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯 Belcorra Haruvex
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Belcorra Haruvex.text
<section class="npc"><figure><h2>A Local Legend</h2><p class="stats">When the fog is creeping,<br />And the moon is low;<br />When the town is sleeping,<br />Gauntlight starts to glow!</p><p class="stats">That's when she arises<br />For her midnight lunch.<br />Naughty kids are prizes<br />For her teeth to crunch.</p><p class="stats">But if you obey me,<br />And obey the rules;<br />You're safe from Belcorra;<br />She just eats the fools!</p></figure><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-10/belcorra-haruvex-half.webp" width="420" /></figure></section><p>So warns a popular nursery rhyme among the parents in the town of @UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.7WZr8QhFOSrHPTgU]{Otari}, as they often sing the melodious but unsettling poem to their children at night to encourage good behavior. As a result, everyone who grows up in Otari has a healthy mix of fear, respect, and curiosity for the old ruins out in Fogfen and the strange lighthouse that stands at the swamp's heart. As they grow older, townsfolk learn what's more often accepted as truth: that the heroic founders of Otari had slain the wicked sorcerer Belcorra many years ago. For a time, thrill-seekers explored the ruins around the lighthouse called <em>Gauntlight</em>, but today, common knowledge holds that the place has become a haven for pests—no longer a source of active danger or significant treasure after being completely picked over. Nearly 500 years has passed since Belcorra's defeat after all, and in that time, she has only posed a menace to Otari through sinister rhymes.</p><p>Or so the citizens of Otari believe.</p><p>While many old legends about Belcorra are true (she did practice cannibalism, for example, but didn't limit her diet to foolish children), the belief that she's no longer a danger is false. Two years ago, on the 500th anniversary of the most significant event of her life- her family's exile from Absalom for abhorrent rites- Belcorra's spiteful ghost awoke deep beneath Gauntlight Keep. The lighthouse and surrounding ruins presented only the highest level of a vast complex Belcorra had stocked with malicious and malignant creatures: her Abomination Vaults. Belcorra's spite has festered in the intervening centuries, and she hungers for revenge, not only against Absalom for destroying her family, but also the town of Otari and its founders- the heroes who killed her. Belcorra bides her time while she rebuilds, reenergizing the dread Gauntlight and reasserting her dominance over the feral and forgotten monsters of the Abomination Vaults!</p><h2>Belcorra's History</h2><p>The ghost sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex is the primary villain of the Abomination Vaults Adventure Path. The story behind her spiteful rage is one of exile and loss.</p><p>The Haruvex family tree both sprawls and surges with sorcery. The family's strongest bloodlines have an aberrant strain, which provides family prestige as well as sorcerous power. Generations of Haruvexes married within the family to strengthen this lineage, and the most powerful Haruvexes lived in Absalom 500 years ago. These Absalom Haruvexes made secret obeisance to the Outer Gods for great wealth and greater power. But none in the family approached the power of their youngest scion, Belcorra Haruvex. Belcorra had been told, every day for as long as she could remember, that she was the harbinger of Nhimbaloth, the Empty Death, and that she was her family's greatest hope for power and prosperity.</p><p>The Haruvexes enacted abhorrent rites in their worship, including bloody sacrifices, and the authorities eventually caught wind of their crimes. The Haruvexes were finally driven from the Isle of Kortos in 4219 ar, forced to leave their estates and luxuries behind. Belcorra was only 6 years old at the time, but as she grew, her rage at losing her home solidified into an overwhelming hatred of Absalom and everyone in it.</p><p>Most of the exiled Haruvexes died in poverty, but Belcorra grew strong and proud. At 17, she interpreted visions from Nhimbaloth that led her back to the Isle of Kortos to plan her revenge. Far above a subterranean shrine to Nhimbaloth called the Empty Vault, in a lonely stretch of wooded coast a few dozen miles from Absalom, Belcorra erected a magical lighthouse and called it @UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.efRUYLBH9Kf3CLkX]{Gauntlight}. She dug deep beneath it to reach the shrine she had seen in her visions, and while she worked, she began to plan her revenge. She would draw subterranean monsters and violent beasts into her secret dungeons- which she called the Abomination Vaults- and use <em>Gauntlight</em>'s magic to send them into Absalom to wreak havoc. She enacted the first part of her plan, expanding the Abomination Vaults and raising a defensible keep around the lighthouse. She leveraged family acquaintances to acquire powerful retainers and champions to lead her monstrous forces.</p><p>Belcorra was still stocking her Abomination Vaults with aberrations when rumors of her villainy reached Absalom. The @UUID[.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]{Roseguard}, a group of heroes headquartered in Absalom, set out from the city to confront and vanquish her. The Roseguard faced Belcorra within Gauntlight Keep and killed her there. One of the four members of the Roseguard, a rogue named Otari Ilvashti, died in this fight. Grieving their lost friend, the Roseguard left, sealed up the keep, founded what would become the town of Otari, and retired there. They never knew of the keep’s lower levels or the many creatures still remaining within them.</p><h2>Spiteful Master of the Abomination Vaults</h2><p>Belcorra’s spirit didn’t rest peacefully. Consumed by rage and empowered by Nhimbaloth, she arose as a powerful ghost 500 years after her family’s exile from Absalom, the event that so dramatically altered her life. Belcorra now lurks in the deepest levels of the Abomination Vaults, plotting her revenge against Absalom and the heroes who vanquished her. The Roseguard are long dead, but the town they founded remains, and the icons representing their adventuring careers now have the power to penetrate Belcorra’s protections.</p><p>At first, no one in Otari realizes the danger Belcorra poses. Her machinations and her monsters are well out of sight. But before she moves against Absalom, she intends to use her <em>Gauntlight</em> against Otari—the town built by the adventurers who killed her five centuries before. Only Otari’s newest heroes can prevent Belcorra’s vengeance and put her spirit to rest.</p>
<section class="npc"><figure><h2>本土传说</h2><p class="stats">雾迷茫，<br />彷徨月下灯塔亮。<br />灯塔亮，<br />沉眠小镇，<br />凄凉光芒。<br />谁家孩童四处藏，<br />亡灵魔女找得忙。<br />找得忙，<br />不快藏好，<br />就成口粮。</p></figure><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-10/belcorra-haruvex-half.webp" width="420" /></figure></section><p>在@UUID[JournalEntry.YbOS6pQRxoWI0Q56.JournalEntryPage.7WZr8QhFOSrHPTgU]，父母常常在晚上给孩子唱一首悠扬但令人不安的童谣，让孩子乖乖听话。因此，每个奥塔里长大的人都对雾隐沼泽（Fogfen）的老废墟以及沼泽中央矗立的灯塔心怀畏惧、尊重和好奇。随着年龄的增长，镇民都会了解到一个通常被认为是真理的事实：邪恶的死灵法师贝科拉（Belcorra）在很多年以前就已经被建立奥塔里小镇的英雄们杀死。曾有一段时间，寻求刺激的人们探索完了<em>凄凉灯塔(Gauntlight)</em>周围的遗迹，但是目前，人们通常认为这个地方已经成为了害虫们的天堂——经过完全地探索之后，那里不再对小镇有什么威胁，也没剩下什么值钱的宝藏。毕竟，距离贝科拉被击败已经过去了五百年了，在这段时间里，她对小镇的唯一威胁只有那首邪恶的童谣。</p><p>至少，奥塔里的居民们是这么认为的。</p><p>虽然很多关于贝科拉的古老传说都是真的（例如她确实吃人，但不局限于愚蠢的孩子），但认为她不再构成威胁的想法是错的。就在两年前，在她一生中的最重要事件——她的家族因为举行禁忌的仪式因而被艾巴萨罗姆（Absalom）流放五百周年的纪念日上，贝科拉那怨毒的幽灵在凄凉灯塔要塞（Gauntlight Keep）苏醒了。灯塔和周围的废墟只是贝科拉那塞满恶毒怪物的庞大地下城，也就是“憎恨魔窟（Abomination Vaults）”的最上层而已。几个世纪以来，贝科拉的怨恨与日俱增，她渴望复仇，不仅要报复毁了她家族的艾巴萨罗姆，也要报复奥塔里小镇和他们的创建者——那些杀死她的英雄们。贝科拉在等待着机会，重新激活恐怖的凄凉灯塔，并重新获得对憎恨魔窟下层那些野蛮但被遗忘的怪物们的统治权！</p><h2>贝科拉的历史</h2><p>幽灵术士贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）是《憎恨魔窟》冒险之路的主要反派。在她的满腔怒火背后，是一个关于流放和失落的故事。</p><p>哈鲁维克斯的族谱因魔法而壮大。这个家族最强大的血脉中有异怪之力，它为家族带来了源源不断的声望和魔法力量。哈鲁维克斯家族成员代代都选择在家族内部通婚，以保持家族血脉的纯净。500 年前，哈鲁维克斯家族中最强大的成员就定居在艾巴萨罗姆（Absalom）。这些艾巴萨罗姆的哈鲁维克斯们为了获得财富和权力而秘密地崇拜着外神（Outer Gods）。但是在整个家族中，没有谁能和最年轻的后裔贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯相提并论。自从贝科拉记事以来，每天都有人告诉她，她是宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）的先驱者，所谓的“空死之眼（Eyes of Empty Death）”，她是家族获得权力和繁荣的最大希望。</p><p>哈鲁维克斯家族在崇拜外神的过程中执行了一系列可怕的仪式，包括血腥的祭祀，这使得当局最终发现了他们的罪行。哈鲁维克斯家族最终在 AR 4219 年被赶出寇托斯岛，被迫丢下他们的豪宅和满屋的奢侈品。贝科拉当时只有 6 岁，但随着她的不断长大，失去家的愤怒逐渐变成了对艾巴萨罗姆和所有人的强烈仇恨。大多数被流放的哈鲁维克斯家族成员都死于贫困，但贝科拉却逐渐变得强大而自傲。17 岁时，她解读了来自宁布洛斯的幻象，这让她回到寇托斯岛去执行她的复仇计划。在离艾巴萨罗姆几十英里远、树木繁茂、人烟稀少的海岸地下，埋藏着一座属于宁布洛斯的的地下神殿，叫做“空无之窟（EmptyVault）”， 贝科拉在其上方建造了一座魔法灯塔，命名为“凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）”。她一边向下深挖一边寻找那座在幻象中看到的神殿，并且在她进行这项工作的同时，开始策划复仇大计。她计划把地底的怪物和凶猛的野兽吸引到她的秘密地下城——她称之为憎恨魔窟（Abomination Vaults）——然后利用凄凉灯塔的魔法把它们传送到艾巴萨罗姆进行大肆破坏。她实施了计划的第一部分，扩建了憎恨魔窟的规模，并在灯塔周围建起了一个防御性的堡垒。她利用家族的残留的人脉来笼络强大的侍从和支持者，让他们来领导她那支怪物大军。</p><p>当有关她恶行的谣言传到艾巴萨罗姆的时候，贝科拉还在她的憎恨魔窟里组建异怪大军。玫瑰团（Roseguard），一支从艾巴萨罗姆城出发的英雄队伍，试图挑战并击败他。玫瑰团在凄凉灯塔要塞中直面对贝科拉，在那里杀死了她。玫瑰团的四名成员之一，名叫奥塔里·伊瓦什提（Otari Ilvashti）的盗贼，在这场战斗中牺牲了。玫瑰团的其他成员因为队友的牺牲而感到悲痛，他们离开前封闭了要塞，并在附近建立了日后的奥塔里小镇，并在那里归隐田园。他们不知道要塞下面有一个巨大的魔窟，也不知道里面还居住着大量的怪物。</p><h2>憎恨魔窟的恨意之主</h2><p>贝科拉的灵魂并未安息。在她的家人被艾巴萨罗姆被流放这一戏剧性的改变了她人生的重大事件的 500 周年纪念日上，借由满腔的怒火和宁布洛斯赐予的力量，贝科拉复活成了一个强大的幽灵。她潜伏在憎恨魔窟的最深处，谋划着对艾巴萨罗姆和当初击败她的英雄进行复仇。玫瑰团成员们早已故去，但他们建立的小镇依然存在，代表他们冒险生涯的标志现在依然能够穿透贝科拉的守护力量。</p><p>一开始，奥塔里没人意识到贝科拉的威胁。她的阴谋和她的怪物大军早已消失无踪。但在对付艾巴萨罗姆之前，她打算先用<em>凄凉灯塔(Gauntlight)</em>对付奥塔里——这个在五个世纪前由一伙杀死他的冒险者所建立的小镇。只有奥塔里的新英雄才能阻止贝科拉的复仇，让她的灵魂真正地安息。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Carman Rajani.name
Carman Rajani
卡曼·拉贾尼 Carman Rajani
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Carman Rajani.text
<section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">Desperate Thief In Over His Head</p><p>Carman’s initial role in this adventure is as a minor obstacle; to bypass the @UUID[JournalEntry.3T1M395V6J75OsEp.JournalEntryPage.5MfX6RVIF7rOroV3]{Spectral Seal}, the heroes need the four icons of the Roseguard, and Carman has stolen one of them, the Cooperative Blade. Tracking Carman down is one of the heroes’ first tasks. They’re likely to bring Carman to justice rather than kill him, as he’s quick to surrender when things turn against him. Some parties might even agree that Carman’s claim to the sword is valid and give the Cooperative Blade back to him.</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/otari/carman-rajani-half.webp" width="250" /></figure></section><p>But Carman has a greater role to play in this adventure. As the last descendant of one of the Roseguard, his soul is important to the contract devil @UUID[.t9SSGAP5pW2NpkWh]{Urevian}. Urevian gives the heroes the option to bring the reprobate Carman to him, providing the key moral dilemma of this adventure. Carman’s ultimate fate is in the heroes’ hands</p><h2>Background</h2><p>A descendant of one of the original members of the @UUID[.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]{Roseguard}, Carman grew up on stories of Vol's bravery, dedication, and skill. As a boy, Carman didn't understand why his family's sword was hanging in the @UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.AztvvKcx7K7gOXhN]{Dawnflower Library} and not in their house. It was theirs, or so his parents insisted. As Carman grew older, he first worked at Otari's blacksmith's shop, @UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.5yYs7JNliPnSYLhp]{Blades for Glades}, and later won the shop in a lucky wager against the prior owner. Yet he couldn't forget his family's sword. Officially, the Menhemes family claimed ownership over Vol's ancient blade but "allowed" it to stay in the library in an act of purported generosity that Carman found offensive.</p><p>The summer his parents were waylaid and slain by bandits on the road from Absalom, Carman became a broken man. His work at the smithy became erratic, and he stopped relaxing with his friends and helping his community. With no other direction, Carman squandered his inheritance, spending the money on entertainment, fine clothes, and rare whiskey. He started spending more time gambling and drinking at the @UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.sdNti6BHkPTeO5fC]{Crook’s Nook} than he did at his smithy. Eventually the inheritance money ran out, and Carman was faced with a sizable debt. Several owed favors later, he started grifting travelers or hustling them at the knife-throwing board at the Crook's Nook. But his vices still outpaced his earnings from petty cons, and soon he took to outright thievery under Yinyasmera's tutelage. The "Ace of Blades" is the moniker given to the best knife thrower in the Crook's Nook, and Carman Rajani has held that title for so long that it's become his nickname among fellow members of the Osprey Club.</p><h3>Mayoral Candidacy</h3><p>Within a few years, Carman had settled into his new life, working as a smith during the day, carousing at the Crook's Nook at night, and occasionally engaging in some petty larceny when his coin purse started to get light. When he heard rumors that people thought he was wasting his life, though, it stung his pride. He resolved to run for mayor against Oseph, to show the whole town that his family was the equal of the Menhemes family.</p><p>Everyone thought Carman's candidacy was a joke. The second time he ran, his platform became nothing more than sharp personal attacks against the Menhemes family; the townspeople felt the joke had gone sour and considered it a waste of their time. He met their jibes with violence, getting into brawls to prove he was the better man. The third time he ran for office, he actually put in effort to help the community. Though he lost by much smaller margin, he took the loss as proof that kindness can't get you any further than your fists can. The fourth time, he tried to force a successful campaign with open bribes and blackmail.</p><p>Oseph won by a landslide, showing up on Election Day wearing the Cooperative Blade as part of his celebratory regalia. Carman finally decided that the magic sword must be the key to his success. Everyone in town knew it brought Otari good luck, so whoever held the sword had the town in their pocket. As Vol's heir, he deserved the sword. He begged Oseph to sell the weapon, but Oseph suspected it was some new scheme- or worse, connected to one of Carman's rumored crimes or debts- and countered with delays, excuses, and price increases.</p><p>Finally, Carman decided he'd had enough. If he wanted his family's sword back, he'd have to take it.</p>
<section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">陷入绝境的绝望窃贼</p><p>卡曼在这次冒险中最初扮演的角色只是个小障碍；为了通过@UUID[JournalEntry.3T1M395V6J75OsEp.JournalEntryPage.5MfX6RVIF7rOroV3]，英雄们需要收集玫瑰团的四件遗珍，而卡曼偷走了其中一件，也就是合作之刃。追捕卡曼成了英雄们的首要任务之一。他们可能会将卡曼绳之以法，而不是杀了他，因为当他觉得情势不利时很快就会投降。有些人甚至可能会认为卡曼对于这把剑的宣称是合理的，并将合作之刃归还给他。</p></article><figure class="flipx"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/otari/carman-rajani-half.webp" width="250" /></figure></section><p>但卡曼在这次冒险中扮演了更重要的角色。作为玫瑰团成员的最后一位后代，他的灵魂对于魔鬼@UUID[.t9SSGAP5pW2NpkWh]来说至关重要。乌瑞维安让英雄们把堕落的卡曼交给他，这成为了本次冒险最难选择的道德困境。卡曼的最终命运掌握在英雄们的手中。</p><h2>背景故事</h2><p>卡曼·拉贾尼是著名的@UUID[.Gx2mnbeUctXU7XUN]成员、同时也是奥塔里镇的创始人之一沃尔·拉贾尼（Vol Rajani）最后在世的血脉。卡曼从小就是听着那些关于沃尔的勇气、对朋友的奉献以及她高超技巧的故事中长大的。作为一个男孩，卡曼不明白为什么他的家人会把这把剑摆在@UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.AztvvKcx7K7gOXhN]，而不是挂在自己家里。这是他家人，或者说是他父母的坚持。随着年龄增长，卡曼开始在奥塔里的铁匠铺@UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.5yYs7JNliPnSYLhp]里工作，后来在一次和前任老板的赌博中幸运地得到了这家店铺。然而，他却无法忘掉自己家族的宝剑。官方说法是，曼妮姆斯家族声称拥有沃尔的古剑，但“允许”它挂在图书馆里，这种所谓的慷慨行为让卡曼感到被冒犯。</p><p>某年夏天，他的父母在从艾巴萨罗姆（Absalom）返回的路上被强盗杀害，这让卡曼变得失魂落魄。他对铁匠铺的工作变得心不在焉，他不再和朋友一起聚会，也不再帮助社区。因为失去了人生方向，卡曼挥霍着父母的遗产，把它们全花在了娱乐、漂亮衣服和酒精上。他开始花更多时间泡在@UUID[JournalEntry.PrAuOqj2BsexgBgU.JournalEntryPage.sdNti6BHkPTeO5fC]赌博和酗酒，而不是在自己的铁匠铺。最终，他继承来的财富全花完了，并背上了巨额债务。在借了几个朋友的钱之后，他开始欺骗旅行者，或者将他们引到骗子之角设计好的骗局里。但这样的小偷小骗还是无法弥补他的恶习造成的亏空，很快他就在伊娜斯梅拉（Yinyasmera）的指导下开始了彻底的偷盗生涯。“刀锋王牌”（Ace of Blades）是鱼鹰俱乐部授予最善于投掷匕首的成员的称号，而卡曼·拉贾尼是这个头衔的长期持有者。这已经成为了他在鱼鹰俱乐部里的绰号。</p><h3>竞选镇长</h3><p>几年以后，卡曼适应了他的新生活，他白天当铁匠，晚上在骗子之角狂欢作乐，当他的钱包变得干瘪时，就去偷点小钱。当然，当他听到人们私下里都在说他在浪费生命时，他觉得自己的自尊心受到了伤害。他决定和欧瑟夫竞争镇长一职，向全镇人民证明他的家族和曼妮姆斯的家族是平等的。</p><p>每个人都认为卡曼参与竞选是个笑话。第二次竞选时，他的竞选演讲变成了对曼妮姆斯家族尖锐的人身攻击；镇上人觉得这个笑话已经开始不那么好笑了，认为听他演讲是在浪费时间。他以暴力来回应他们的嘲笑，用打架来证明自己更优秀。在第三次竞选时，他努力帮助社区；这次他输得没有那么难看，但是他把这次失败当做了善意并不能比拳头能让你走得更远的证据。第四次竞选时，他试图用公开的贿赂和勒索来保证自己上位。</p><p>在选举日那天，欧瑟夫佩戴着合作之刃盛装出场，结果他以压倒性的优势获得胜利。卡曼最终认为，这把剑一定是他成功的关键。镇上的人都知道这把剑给奥塔里镇带来的好运，所以谁持有这把剑就能掌控整个小镇。作为沃尔的后裔，他本就配得上这把剑。他恳求欧瑟夫把剑卖给他，但欧瑟夫怀疑这是某种阴谋——或者更糟的是，他准备拿这把剑去犯罪——因此不断地拖延、找借口、抬价。</p><p>最后，卡曼觉得受够了，他为什么不能直接拿回属于自己家族的剑呢？他只需要等待一个合适的机会。</p>
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Jafaki.name
Jafaki
贾法基 Jafaki
entries.Abomination Vaults.journals.Character Biographies.pages.Jafaki.text
<figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-06/jafaki.webp" width="320" /></figure><section class="npc"><article><h2>Campaign Role</h2><p class="stats">Inhuman Alchemist Creating Perfect Monsters</p></article></section><p>Jafaki initially considers the heroes to be little more than annoyances and trusts in others to take care of them. Once Jafaki realizes the heroes are powerful enough to face them directly, the seugathi understands that they would make excellent candidates for experimentation. Unfortunately for Jafaki, this realization probably comes too late.</p><h2>Background</h2><p>Belcorra first spotted Jafaki and several other seugathis slithering through the Darklands while she was building the Abomination Vaults. They expressed an eagerness to serve her and advance their own experiments. Belcorra knew the seugathis could improve her forces, as well as expand. She tasked them with building her a perfect soldier, then making armies of them to conquer Absalom. Knowing that perfection was a high price to ask, Belcorra funneled all the resources she could to the seugathis. The seugathis pursued not one research path but many, including fleshwarping, monster breeding, and even dabbling in magical constructs. Belcorra didn’t mind this broad experimentation, as nearly all of it provided her with useful monsters for her growing army. She passed along the seugathis’ innovations to other alchemists and mages who could duplicate the work.</p><h3>After Belcorra</h3><p>When the Roseguard defeated Belcorra, the seugathis nevertheless continued pursuing their objective. Their initial obstacle was a bone devil named Tarkannah. Tarkannah deemed that ongoing duty to Belcorra—to whom the bone devil remained loyal even after her death—meant taking a firmer hand in overseeing the seugathis. Tarkannah tried to constrain and direct the seugathis’ sprawling research. Rather than comply with these unwelcome demands, the seugathis rebelled; Jafaki ambushed and killed Tarkannah and seized control of the laboratories level.</p><p>This assault started a brief war between the devils and the seugathis. For months the two sides fought, but @UUID[.t9SSGAP5pW2NpkWh]{Urevian} soon discovered the seugathis weren’t really interested in expanding their holdings, only defending the territory they had. The two sides settled in an uneasy truce on their respective levels of the vaults. These front lines aren’t absolute; Urevian is happy to permit potential “raw materials” to pass through the prison, and the seugathis’ cast-off creatures often find their way into the devil’s gradually increasing forces.</p><figure class="left"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/items/fleshforged-soldier.webp" width="210" /></figure><p>Jafaki has little concern for the army growing on the level below. The seugathis don’t bother with the imp and zebub spies that occasionally pass through the laboratories, but Jafaki and their colleagues can make marching through with a large army costly or even impossible. Jafaki plans to permit free passage only in exchange for additional concessions to bolster their ongoing experiments, even though Urevian is certain to balk at the cost.</p><h3>Jafaki's Obsession</h3><p>Jafaki's research has seemed to drift over the years through various abhorrent sciences: fleshwarping, reanimation of the dead, selective breeding, or even golem creation. Yet they remain as focused on their goal of creating the perfect soldier as they were when they spoke to Belcorra all those years ago.</p><p>That word has driven Jafaki for centuries. Good soldiers? They’ve created those, and all have died by the dozens or hundreds in the arena. Great soldiers? Some of Jafaki's finest works have been nearly unstoppable. But “nearly” is not “perfect.” Jafaki will pursue perfection for as long as it takes.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/bestiary-portraits/ch-06/jafaki.webp" width="320" /></figure><section class="npc"><article><h2>战役角色</h2><p class="stats">制作完美怪物的怪胎炼金术士</p></article></section><p>贾法基最初认为英雄们不过是些恼人的麻烦，他相信别的生物能料理他们。一旦贾法基意识到英雄们有足够强的力量直面它，双尾虫怪就会明白他们可能是自己最佳的实验对象。对贾法基来说，不幸的是，等它意识到这一点时可能已经太迟了。</p><h2>背景故事</h2><p>当贝科拉第一次找到在幽暗地域里蠕行的贾法基和其他几个双尾虫怪时，她正在建造憎恨魔窟。它们渴望为她服务，并推进自己的实验。贝科拉知道双尾虫怪的加入不仅能扩充战力，还能强化自己的军队。贝科拉嘱咐它们为自己制造完美的士兵，她要用这些完美的怪物征服艾巴萨罗姆。贝科拉知道追求完美需要付出极高的代价，因此将几乎所有资源都给了双尾虫怪。双尾虫怪的研究方向不止一种，而是多种多样，包括塑肉实验、培育怪物、甚至涉及魔法构装体。贝科拉不介意它们广泛地进行尝试，因为几乎所有实验都为她不断壮大的怪物军队提供了有用的兵卒。她把双尾虫怪的研究成果交给了那些可以将其量产的炼金术士和法师们。</p><h3>贝科拉死后</h3><p>玫瑰团击败贝科拉后，双尾虫怪依然在继续追求它们的目标。它们最初的障碍是一个叫做塔坎纳（Tarkannah）的骨魔。塔坎纳对贝科拉忠心耿耿，即便是在贝科拉死后也要持续履行自己的职责，这意味着它需要更加坚定地监督双尾虫怪们的工作。塔坎纳试图限制并指导双尾虫怪繁杂的研究。但双尾虫怪并不打算遵循这种令其反感的指导，反而发动了大规模的叛乱；贾法基伏击并杀死了塔坎纳，最终掌控了实验室。</p><p>这次袭击引发了魔鬼和双尾虫怪之间的短暂战争。双发交战数月，但很快@UUID[.t9SSGAP5pW2NpkWh]就发现双尾虫怪对于扩张领土没有兴趣，于是双方达成了不稳定的休战协议，暂时都待在各自的那一层。两个势力的边界并不是绝对的；乌瑞维安乐于让潜在的“实验原材料”穿过监狱，而那些被双尾虫怪抛弃的生物也逐渐让魔鬼的军力慢慢变强。</p><figure class="left"><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/items/fleshforged-soldier.webp" width="210" /></figure><p>贾法基并不担心在实验室下方逐渐壮大的军队。双尾虫怪并不理会偶尔穿过实验室的小魔鬼和斥控魔密探，但如果魔鬼的大军要通过实验室向上层进军，贾法基和它的同僚们则可以让这种企图变得代价高昂，甚至失败。贾法基打算以自由通行权为价码，换得魔鬼更大的让步，以支持它们目前的实验，尽管其乌瑞维安一定不会同意这样的条件。</p><h3>贾法基的痴迷</h3><p>多年以来，贾法基的研究似乎一直涉及各种令人憎恶的学科：塑肉实验、死者复活、选择性反制、甚至制造魔像。然而，它们依然专注于创造完美士兵的目标，就像多年前它们对贝科拉许诺的那样。</p><p>几个世纪以来，“完美”这个词一直鞭策着贾法基。优秀的士兵？它创造出的成百上千的士兵都在竞技场中死去了。伟大的士兵？贾法基的一些最好的造物在战斗几乎无人能挡。但“几乎”并不等于“完美”。贾法基会尽其所有的努力追求完美。</p>
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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>Gauntlight</h2><h2>Item 20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">Unique</li><li>Artifact</li><li>Magical</li><li>Necromancy</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</span></h2><p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p><h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3><p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p></article></section>
<p><em>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</em> 很难被忽略，它矗立于凄凉灯塔要塞的废墟之上，并向下延申至憎恨魔窟每一层，直抵下方的空无之窟。从很多方面来说，这件神器和恶毒的贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯Belcorra Haruvex一样都是战役中的主要威胁。</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</h2><h2>物品20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">独特</li><li>神器</li><li>魔法</li><li>死灵系</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>凄凉灯塔</em> 凄凉灯塔不仅仅是一个矗立在雾隐沼泽的废墟中的 115 尺高的灯塔——它苍白的石墙深深地扎进废墟地下，穿过八层形态各异的地下城，地基的中心在地下第九层，是一个不祥的房间。很久以前，宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）就在那里触碰到这个世界。在完成了灯塔的物理构造之后，术士贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）用这个地方作为能量源，将魔力注入到<em>凄凉灯塔</em>每一层的墙壁、地板和天护板上。灯塔顶部的透镜可本可以及时将这种邪恶的能量汇聚成强大的光束射线，但是贝卡拉还没来及用更具威力的魔法透镜替换普通的透镜之前，她的计划就被打断了。</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>作为一个神器，<em>凄凉灯塔</em>无法以正常的方法破坏。它的外墙天衣无缝，除了宁布洛斯和其追随者，任何其他人都无法打破。它的外墙会阻碍创建临时通道的法术，如穿墙术（passwall），并且能作为屏障阻碍次元旅行（dimensional travel）。墙可以反制进入或离开<em>凄凉灯塔</em>内部区域的具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果和异界旅行（planar travel）、并会阻止将召唤生物至塔内区域的尝试（反制调整值+37）；该效果不会阻止被召唤的生物在召唤结束后离去。注意，这些效果只会在凄凉灯塔内部和它本体占用的空间生效(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}，等等)，而非整个憎恨魔窟！</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">如果贝科拉的幽灵被永久摧毁，凄凉灯塔就会失去所有的魔法特性，并一路崩塌至底部，在雾隐沼泽中留下一个难以置信的大坑。</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">启动方式</span></h2><p>要启动<em>凄凉灯塔</em>，1 个生物必须位于神器的基座层(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20})。在空无之窟的任何位置，生物可以通过<em频率>凄凉灯塔</em>的透镜远距离观察外面的世界，包括<em>凄凉灯塔</em>的光束射线射程以内的任何地方。</p><h3>支点镜片</h3><p>在<em>凄凉灯塔</em>功能减弱的当前状态下，它只能通过以下两种方式启动。通过更换和安装一组共四块被称为支点镜片的能够聚焦宁布洛斯那恶毒凝视的魔法透镜——这些透镜是如此强大，以至于贝科拉都需要小心翼翼——神器能获得显著的力量增幅，使它能照射到艾巴萨罗姆，并且可以每分钟 1 次的频率启动。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。光线会浸透整个区域，使得被照亮的区域内，所有埋在地下 10 尺深以内的尸体都会被复活为-1 级的不死生物（通常是骷髅守卫[skeleton guards]或蹒跚丧尸[zombie shamblers]）。一旦复活，这些不死生物在被杀之前都会保持主动攻击状态。不死生物处于不受控状态，只是被屠戮活人的欲望所驱使。</p><p>如果<em>凄凉灯塔</em>恢复至完全状态，则能把尸体复活成不高于 15 级的常见不死生物，具体取决于使用者的意愿。</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。使用者选择一个不高于 4 级的且身体于凄凉灯塔内的生物，然后将该生物传送至光照范围内的任意一点。如果凄凉灯塔恢复至完全状态，则灯塔内的任何不高于 15 级的生物都可以被传送。这是一个具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果。</p></article></section>
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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>Gauntlight</h2><h2>Item 20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">Unique</li><li>Artifact</li><li>Magical</li><li>Necromancy</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</span></h2><p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p><h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3><p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p></article></section>
<p><em>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</em> 很难被忽略，它矗立于凄凉灯塔要塞的废墟之上，并向下延申至憎恨魔窟每一层，直抵下方的空无之窟。从很多方面来说，这件神器和恶毒的贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯Belcorra Haruvex一样都是战役中的主要威胁。</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>凄凉灯塔（Gauntlight）</h2><h2>物品20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">独特</li><li>神器</li><li>魔法</li><li>死灵系</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>凄凉灯塔</em> 凄凉灯塔不仅仅是一个矗立在雾隐沼泽的废墟中的 115 尺高的灯塔——它苍白的石墙深深地扎进废墟地下，穿过八层形态各异的地下城，地基的中心在地下第九层，是一个不祥的房间。很久以前，宁布洛斯（Nhimbaloth）就在那里触碰到这个世界。在完成了灯塔的物理构造之后，术士贝科拉·哈鲁维克斯（Belcorra Haruvex）用这个地方作为能量源，将魔力注入到<em>凄凉灯塔</em>每一层的墙壁、地板和天护板上。灯塔顶部的透镜可本可以及时将这种邪恶的能量汇聚成强大的光束射线，但是贝卡拉还没来及用更具威力的魔法透镜替换普通的透镜之前，她的计划就被打断了。</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>作为一个神器，<em>凄凉灯塔</em>无法以正常的方法破坏。它的外墙天衣无缝，除了宁布洛斯和其追随者，任何其他人都无法打破。它的外墙会阻碍创建临时通道的法术，如穿墙术（passwall），并且能作为屏障阻碍次元旅行（dimensional travel）。墙可以反制进入或离开<em>凄凉灯塔</em>内部区域的具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果和异界旅行（planar travel）、并会阻止将召唤生物至塔内区域的尝试（反制调整值+37）；该效果不会阻止被召唤的生物在召唤结束后离去。注意，这些效果只会在凄凉灯塔内部和它本体占用的空间生效(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}，等等)，而非整个憎恨魔窟！</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">如果贝科拉的幽灵被永久摧毁，凄凉灯塔就会失去所有的魔法特性，并一路崩塌至底部，在雾隐沼泽中留下一个难以置信的大坑。</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">启动方式</span></h2><p>要启动<em>凄凉灯塔</em>，1 个生物必须位于神器的基座层(区域 @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20})。在空无之窟的任何位置，生物可以通过<em>凄凉灯塔</em>的透镜远距离观察外面的世界，包括<em>凄凉灯塔</em>的光束射线射程以内的任何地方。</p><h3>支点镜片</h3><p>在<em>凄凉灯塔</em>功能减弱的当前状态下，它只能通过以下两种方式启动。通过更换和安装一组共四块被称为支点镜片的能够聚焦宁布洛斯那恶毒凝视的魔法透镜——这些透镜是如此强大，以至于贝科拉都需要小心翼翼——神器能获得显著的力量增幅，使它能照射到艾巴萨罗姆，并且可以每分钟 1 次的频率启动。</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。光线会浸透整个区域，使得被照亮的区域内，所有埋在地下 10 尺深以内的尸体都会被复活为-1 级的不死生物（通常是骷髅守卫[skeleton guards]或蹒跚丧尸[zombie shamblers]）。一旦复活，这些不死生物在被杀之前都会保持主动攻击状态。不死生物处于不受控状态，只是被屠戮活人的欲望所驱使。</p><p>如果<em>凄凉灯塔</em>恢复至完全状态，则能把尸体复活成不高于 15 级的常见不死生物，具体取决于使用者的意愿。</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>启动</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> 交互;</p><p><strong>频率</strong> 每月一次;</p><p><strong>效果</strong> 一道浅蓝色的光束从凄凉灯塔的透镜中射出，在 1 英里范围内的任意一点，照亮半径 30 尺爆发范围。使用者选择一个不高于 4 级的且身体于凄凉灯塔内的生物，然后将该生物传送至光照范围内的任意一点。如果凄凉灯塔恢复至完全状态，则灯塔内的任何不高于 15 级的生物都可以被传送。这是一个具有传送（teleportation）特征的效果。</p></article></section>
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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p><section class="location-head"><header><h2>Gauntlight</h2><h2>Item 20</h2></header><article><ul class="traits"><li class="blue">Unique</li><li>Artifact</li><li>Magical</li><li>Necromancy</li></ul></article></section><section class="npc"><article><p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p></article><figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure></section><hr /><p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p><p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)"><span style="font-family:var(--main-font)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</span></p><hr /><h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)"><span style="font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</span></h2><p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p><h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3><p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p><section class="compartment"><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p></article><article class="full"><p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p><p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p><p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p><p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p></article></section>
 
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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p>
<section class="location-head"><header>
<h2>Gauntlight</h2>
<h2>Item 20</h2>
</header>
<article>
<ul class="traits">
<li class="blue">Unique</li>
<li>Artifact</li>
<li>Magical</li>
<li>Necromancy</li>
</ul>
</article>
</section>
<section class="npc">
<article>
<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p>
</article>
<figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure>
</section>
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<p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p>
<p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</p>
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<h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</h2>
<p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p>
<h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3>
<p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p>
<section class="compartment">
<article class="full">
<p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="action-glyph">3</span> Interact;</p>
<p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p>
<p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p>
<p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p>
</article>
<article class="full">
<p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="action-glyph">3</span> Interact;</p>
<p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p>
<p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p>
<p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p>
</article>
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<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is hard to miss, as it towers over the ruins of Gauntlight Keep and its base extends down through every level of the Abomination Vaults to the Empty Vault far below. In many ways, this artifact is just as much a key danger of the campaign as the spiteful Belcorra Haruvex herself.</p>
<section class="location-head"><header>
<h2>Gauntlight</h2>
<h2>Item 20</h2>
</header>
<article>
<ul class="traits">
<li class="blue">Unique</li>
<li>Artifact</li>
<li>Magical</li>
<li>Necromancy</li>
</ul>
</article>
</section>
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<article>
<p><em>Gauntlight</em> is much more than a 115-foot-tall lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight different dungeon levels and finally terminating at the ninth level below the surface, where its deep foundation centers on an ominous chamber where, long ago, Nhimbaloth herself once physically brushed against this world. Once she finished its physical construction, the sorcerer Belcorra Haruvex used this spot as a source of power to infuse the walls, floors, and ceilings of each of <em>Gauntlight</em>’s levels with eldritch power. The lens at the apex of the lighthouse would have, in time, been able to focus this lingering eldritch energy into a powerful beam, but Belcorra’s plans were cut short before she could replace the mundane lenses with dangerous magical ones.</p>
</article>
<figure><img src="modules/pf2e-abomination-vaults/assets/journal-images/vignettes/fogfen-1.webp" width="300" /></figure>
</section>
<hr />
<p>As an artifact, <em>Gauntlight</em> can’t be damaged by normal means. Its walls are impenetrable and impervious to any attempt to breach them by anybody except for followers of Nhimbaloth. They block effects that allow temporary passage, such as passwall, and also create a barrier against dimensional travel. The walls attempt to counteract teleportation effects and planar travel into or out of areas within <em>Gauntlight</em> and efforts to summon creatures into the area (using a +37 counteract modifier); this effect does not stop a summoned creature from departing when the summoning ends. Note that this effect only applies to the areas that are within Gauntlight and its footprint (areas @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.JNlpc7pDiBmm5RGj]{A11}, @UUID[JournalEntry.kDJSn9wbVvjnqYEj.JournalEntryPage.6wFkYYY7f8SqcRy8]{A25}, @UUID[JournalEntry.uMZ0RiCcPSqsx1Nm.JournalEntryPage.8pbhSFgv71lvCz9M]{B35}, @UUID[JournalEntry.KeWKr2yd8dbppeS5.JournalEntryPage.eOv6LI3wvIuKyyNJ]{C15}, and so on), and not to the entirety of the Abomination Vaults!</p>
<p style="font-family:var(--main-font);font-size:var(--body-font-size)">If Belcorra’s ghost is permanently destroyed, Gauntlight loses all of its magical properties and collapses in on itself all the way down to its base, leaving an incredibly deep pit in the Fogfen.</p>
<hr />
<h2 style="font-size:var(--h3-font-size);font-family:var(--h3-font)">Activation</h2>
<p>To activate <em>Gauntlight</em>, a creature must be in the deepest portion of the artifact, the Empty Vault on the Temple level (area @UUID[JournalEntry.yn21bNM6kpV4xRol.JournalEntryPage.a9b40LjI7QwLgirk]{J20}). From anywhere within the Empty Vault, a creature can observe the world outside remotely through Gauntlight’s lens in its cuploa, including any area <em>Gauntlight</em>’s beam can reach.</p>
<h3>Fulcrum Lenses</h3>
<p>In <em>Gauntlight</em>’s current state of diminished functionality, it can be activated only in the two ways below. By swapping in a series of four magical lighthouse lenses called <em>fulcrum lenses</em> that focus Nhimbaloth’s baleful gaze—lenses so powerful that even Belcorra takes special care with them—the artifact gains significantly greater power, including the ability to reach all the way to Absalom and to activate its effects every minute.</p>
<section class="compartment">
<article class="full">
<p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p>
<p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p>
<p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The light saturates the region, causing any corpses in the area or within 10 feet of the surface of the illuminated area to animate as level –1 undead (typically as skeleton guards or zombie shamblers). Once animated, the undead remain active until slain. Until then, they remain uncontrolled and are driven only by the desire to slaughter the living.</p>
<p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, the undead instead animate as any Common undead of 15th level or less, as the user wishes.</p>
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<p><strong>Activate</strong> <span class="pf2-icon">3</span> Interact;</p>
<p><strong>Frequency</strong> once per month;</p>
<p><strong>Effect</strong> A pale blue beam shines from <em>Gauntlight</em>’s lens and illuminates a 30-foot-radius burst centered on any point within 1 mile. The user chooses one creature of 4th level or less that is physically located within <em>Gauntlight</em>; this creature is then is teleported to any point within this illumination radius. This is a teleportation effect.</p>
<p>If <em>Gauntlight</em> is fully restored, any number of creatures within <em>Gauntlight</em> of 15th level or lower can be transported.</p>
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