> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Goblin Lair > [![[Goblin_Lair_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Goblin_Lair.webp) > ###### Location Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Point of Interest | > Location | [[Valtorra]] | > Defining Feature | Goblin warren over a sunken shrine | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Abandoned | The Goblin Lair was a hidden cave complex in the wilds of [[Valtorra]], home to a goblin tribe that raided the surrounding country and took captives for ransom and ritual. Its warren of crude tunnels had been dug into far older bones — a sealed shrine to [[Eldrin Starweaver]], buried and forgotten long before the goblins claimed the hill above it. ## Location & Geography The lair lay in untamed wilderland within reach of [[Darmouth]], its mouth concealed in a rocky, overgrown hillside. A guarded cave entrance opened onto a descending tangle of tunnels: a trapped passage that dropped the unwary into an octagonal puzzle chamber, prisoner holding cells fitted with cages, and a great vaulted shrine at the heart of the complex. Deeper still, the tunnels widened into a sprawling subterranean tent city where the bulk of the tribe sheltered. ## The Forgotten Shrine Beneath the warren sat a chamber the goblins had never truly mastered — a sealed sanctum dedicated to [[Eldrin Starweaver]], its floor set with a great mosaic of the god's symbol. A booby-trapped slide funnelled intruders into it, whereupon poison gas welled from cracks in the stone and a riddle of the eight schools of magic offered the only way out. The shrine's magic remained volatile to the end: in the final battle every spell cast there triggered a wild surge, and a strange "crack in space" was left hovering near its vaulted ceiling. ## [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 06 - The Goblin Lair]] Fulfilling a contract for the [[Green Gryphons]], the party assaulted the lair, survived the shrine's Trial of the Weave, and freed a captive who named herself [[Vallania Miriel|Nia]] before pressing on toward the inner sanctum. #### [[Session 07 - Grakthor Falls]] The party slew the goblin chief [[Grakthor]] amid the shrine's wild magic, looted the complex, and cleared out the tent city below — capturing the goblin [[Ellie the Goblin|Ellie]] and escorting Nia to safety — before returning to [[Darmouth]] to turn in their contract.