Garden of Lead
The Garden of Lead, also known as the Pleasure Palace of the Dead, is a horrifically haunted place even by the standards of Virlych. It hosts endless "parties" among pools of molten metal where tortured ghosts of costumed revelers and undead servants provide grotesque entertainment for their dread mistress, the Skeleton Countess Dissayn.1
History
The garden was once known as the Garden of Leids and was where the nobility of Ustalav relaxed amidst waterfall gardens and a fantastic menagerie of magical beasts. When Tar-Baphon took control of the country in the 33rd century AR, he sent his minion Dissayn there with a horde of undead and a collection of nobles from across the nation for a final party during which her skeletal minions filled its buildings, pools, and canals with molten lead, killing the nobles instantly and leaving their tortured forms intact as lead statues.2
Dissayn is also rumored to have retreated here after Tar-Baphon's defeat in 3827 AR at the end of the Shining Crusade. Other known inhabitants include adamantine golems, allips, fire elementals, magma oozes, mohrgs, salamanders, and skeletons.2
References
- ↑ . “Continuing the Campaign” in Shadows of Gallowspire, 62. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 . “Legends and Hauntings” in Rule of Fear, 61. Paizo Inc., 2011
