> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Tumbler's Crag > [![[Tumblers_Crag_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Tumblers_Crag.webp) > ###### Location Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Point of Interest | > Location | [[Faelon]] | > Defining Feature | Mountain crag concealing a subterranean cavern and a planar rift | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Active | Tumbler's Crag is a jagged stretch of rocky outcrops above the treeline north of [[Faelon]], where the [[Everred Forest]]'s deep crimson canopy gives way to open, windswept mountain terrain. Long whispered about in the village below, the crag hides within its rocks a concealed pit dropping into a subterranean cavern — and inside that cavern, a planar rift that has lingered there long enough to warp the air and raise the dead. ## Location & Geography The crag lies directly north of [[Faelon]], on the high ground where the [[Everred Forest]] thins and the landscape opens into rocky, exposed peaks. The forest's crimson canopy recedes as the ground rises, replaced by loose stone and windswept outcrops. At the crag's heart, a flat clearing among the rocks conceals a hidden pit roughly twenty feet deep, indistinguishable from its surroundings until a traveller nearly steps into it. Below, the pit opens into a subterranean cavern. The space is cold and root-filled, pressed through from the forest floor overhead, and lit dimly by the shaft of sky above. A visible crack in space — a [[Riftshard]] — warps the air in the far corner of the cavern, radiating necromantic energy. The rift pulsed and reacted when healing magic was cast in its presence, suggesting some volatile interaction between its nature and positive energy. It is one of several such rifts the party has encountered across [[Valtorra]]. ## History Decades before the party's arrival, a young girl named [[Salla the Brave|Salla]] — one of a pair of twins born in [[Faelon]] — ventured alone onto the crag and fell through the concealed cave opening. She broke both legs in the fall and could not climb out or call for help. Her skeleton remained in the cavern for years, a small silver locket still clasped in her hand and the rift's corrupted energy warping the air beside her. In the village below, the story calcified into local legend: the ghost girl, glimpsed in the [[Everred Forest]], never explained and never resolved. Salla's twin sister [[Tara]] carried the grief alone for a lifetime, keeping the locket's memory close. ## [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 11 - The Tale of Salla the Brave]] Directed to the crag by [[Tara]] in search of the missing [[Teresa]], wife of the alchemist [[Thane]], the party pushed north through a blinding snowstorm to reach it. [[Ryo]] scaled a tree and scouted the rocky spine from above; between his tracking and a Thunderclap cast to provoke a reaction, the group located the hidden pit. They descended by rope into the cavern below, where Dondar's detection ritual confirmed overwhelming necromantic energy before they found [[Salla the Brave|Salla's]] skeleton — locket in hand — and, when the locket was disturbed, fought her ghost and two shadow creatures that emerged from the walls. The battle was desperate: Salla's initial wail dropped [[Vaeleran]] and [[Ryo]] instantly, and the rift reacted to healing magic cast nearby. Dondar destroyed Salla's ghost with an upcast Witch Bolt. In the silence after, the party found [[Teresa]] cowering alive in the far corner of the cavern. #### [[Session 12 - How to Start a Rebellion]] The party began the session still in the cavern. The rift's malice had not subsided: when [[Ryo]] attempted to heal [[Vaeleran]], the necromantic energy corrupted the spell and nearly killed him, sending him into a hallucination-fuelled rage. After subduing Vaeleran and escaping the cave, the party returned to [[Faelon]] to recover. Before leaving for [[Camaar]], [[Kai]] brought [[Tara]] the closure she had spent decades waiting for — returning her sister's bones and locket, and ending the village's ghost story for good.