Tagas Labyrinth

The Tagas Labyinth, also known as Tagas, is a ruined city fashioned into a shifting, trap-riddled maze that dates back to the existence of the Tekritanin League. Once renowned for its toy-making, the city was warped into the plaything of the aberration Kuworsys and magically sealed from the outside world by its last surviving residents.

History

Legends passed down by the Ifranin family, which traces its ancestry to residents of Tagas who left before its sealing, say the city was near the site of a meteoroid strike during the Tekritani era that brought starmetals to the region. The discovery spurred an age of invention, trade, and entertainment.

However, the hidden presence of Kuworsys drained nearly all of the city's people of their will to do anything but labor toward the city's growth, which became a race to strip-mine materials and construct a city of unprecedented complexity. Few residents remained unaffected, and while most of those families left the city, those who stayed devised three magical wards that would trap Kuworsys within long enough for others to come to their aid and destroy the aberration. In the process, the wards also trapped themselves and every affected person in the labyrinth city.

However, Kuworsys's affliction of addictive exhaustion raised the city's people as undead after they died and forced them to continue working on the city even as materials to do so ran out. The wards trapping Kuworsys also attract people to the site in the hopes of someone finding a way to end the aberration's reign.

Geography

Tagas is located near Duwwor, Thuvia, in the Barrier Wall mountains. It contains outer walls riddled with traps and undead inhabitants, inner walls infested with powerful incorporeal undead, and a center region filled with powerful creatures.

Recent history

As of 4721 AR, the Society of Tekritanin History was recruiting explorers and adventurers from Duwwor to explore the site.