Nemburu used to be the old southern metropolis of Majirah, but ages ago the hyena-like Kaftar were bred by Buud and took over the southern deserts. From Nemburu they send out their raiding parties and scouts in the hopes of food and destroying the Majirahan Kingdom.
According to Shah Khalid and his advisors, the sandstorms ravaging the deserts and preventing caravans (and, for the party, travel to the Hanging Gardens ruins) are being caused by a Kaftar ritual to Buud, and the party traveled to Nemburu with the intentions of disrupting those rituals.
The cave system Failn discovered led into a small, buried ruin of the old outskirts of the city. The party wound through some old rooms and fought off an umberhulk. Encountering some sealed doors (and acidic resistance), they turned away from further exploration and headed to the surface, where they entered a quiet part of the city. Ardeshir, Anden, and Suha took the flying carpet up for some reconnaissance, finding which of the buildings was being used as the Kaftar wujen (priest) temple.
Using Anden's knowledge of the cities and through stealth the party avoided Kaftar patrols, managing to enter the old palace being used as the ritual space. They fought off several Kaftar quickly and made their way up the ritual space, where Arashino Maru unleashed a devastating lightning bolt. The lightning shattered the ritual area, creating a vacuous portal. Maru was almost dragged in, but Failn managed to reach out and, with effort, drag him away from the portal's effects.
As the skies began to clear, the party unfurled their flying carpet and flew away, the sounds of Kaftar alarms ringing in the early sunset. Back towards Majirah they flew, in the hopes of settling matters with Shah Khalid and Abanazar.
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