Editing Brightstone Heroes (section)

===Lost===
Unfortunately, the heroes arrived not at Winter's Gate, but at a mysterious tower in the middle of the sea. Worse still, Balon was no longer with them. Ascending the tower, they found others who had been trapped there as a result of failed teleportation spells, ultimately discovering that the tower had been created for that purpose. One of the fellow refugees they met was a druid named Gulin who had been surviving off of his own magically created food and water.

After destroying the crystal responsible for the tower's magic, Gulin helped them escape by teleporting them into the elemental plane of air. Eventually they encountered a genie who agreed to transport them back to the material plane. He explained that he had once been forced into the servitude of a beautiful, powerful, and wholly evil wizard named [[Theriana]]. He eventually escaped, but still wanted to exact his revenge upon her. While Gulin returned via a planar gateway he knew of, the heroes agreed that if they ever encountered the wizard they would do their best to capture her alive and deliver her to the genie, who then transported them to what he described as a great, glorious city where Theriana had conducted most of her business when he still served her.

[[Image:GrellPatriarch.jpg|thumb|right|A grell patriarch with a lightning lance.]]
Expecting to appear in Silverstone, they were distressed to find themselves instead amidst [[Estorium|ancient, crumbling ruins]]. While searching for some indication of where they actually were, they happened upon a colony of grell living in a cavern below one of the buildings. While searching the cavern to ensure they had killed them all, they discovered a baelnorn: an elf who had willingly transformed himself into a lich in order to protect something of importance to his people.

Their meeting with the baelnorn was cut short, however, as two black-robed wizards arrived: Theriana, and another mage named [[Valthian]] and demanded that the baelnorn give them what they came for. Instead, he ushered the heroes into his private chambers and attacked the duo. There they found a strange dagger made of black stone, which had the same magical aura as the orb they found beneath Sionaas's tower, as well as a boat tethered in an underground river. Realizing that this was another of the keys to Lolth's prison, and that the two wizards must be seeking to free her, they took the dagger, climbed into the boat, and let the river take them wherever it went.

The river quickly picked up speed, rushing around corners and down waterfalls in utter darkness. Though they held on as best they could, Shin was thrown from the boat and lost during the journey. Eventually, the river emptied into a large underground lake, and the heroes went ashore to rest, mourn their lost companion, and figure out their next move.