Adventure 15: The Kaftar Threat

Eventually in the wee hours of the morning Abanazar arrived to collect his due from the Vipers. Unfortunately, he meets with the adventurers instead, who immobilize him through magic and then capture him in the hopes of fixing his hypnosis from Shanya the Naga.

Through time and reasoning, the party managed to keep Abanazar from being a threat and get him to explain himself. He said that Shanya was after the location of the Hanging Gardens, and used Abanazar to employ the Vipers to find relics and maps of its location. The Hanging Gardens would allow the Naga to find the brass vessel containing the Air Djinn lord, one of the four Djinn lords the Naga have been seeking to gain dominance over the Middle World.

Returning to the Shah with Abanaazar, the party agreed to help protect or find the brass vessel first. Khalid explained that finding the Hanging Gardens would be difficult because of the raging sandstorms preventing travel through the desert. These sandstorms were caused by the rituals of the Kaftar, the hyena-like nomads and warriors besieging Majirah. To first find the ruins of the Gardens, the party must quell the Kaftar's storms.

Enlisting the help of Suha, the party ventured southward through the desert via camel, heading to the ruined city of NEMBURU, the Kaftar capital...

RECAP:

• The Kaftar base of operations is an old southern capital called Nemburu. (See "The Kaftar" post.)
• The Kaftar have rituals that honor Buud, the Hyena god of the hot desert, and have been controlling sandstorms in order to plague caravans and travelers.
• The Hanging Gardens and the Citadel of Winds are the location of one of the brass vessels sealed by Kazim the Abjurer.