Editing The Third Eye (section)

====The Hidden Vault of House Mondar====
The next morning, they came up from the basement through the ruined ashes of the tavern. Since Avra had nowhere else to go, they asked her to join them. Then they wrapped Mondar's body in a rug and took him off to his family crypt. Outside were two Royal Swords who told them the queen had ordered it closed. Their nervousness soon gave away that they were not actual Royal Swords, and when Ilara shoved past them they didn't put up a fight. The entry chamber featured a great mural of dwarves mining, trading, and amassing great wealth, bearing the title of "The Greatness of the Mondar Clan". Descending into the main chamber, they found an empty crematory, two sarcophagi bearing the images of a male and a female dwarven warrior, and dozens of niches with urns. The male dwarf's sarcophagus had been opened, and the body inside had clearly been disturbed. Its ghost appeared, accused them of disturbing his rest, and threatened that they would be consumed in flames like those of the Mondar line if they did not make right what had been defiled and offer proper prayer and tribute. And a necrotic fire blazed in the crematory at the ghost's proclamation. Leon, being well-versed  in dwarven funerary practices, was able to instruct the others how to return the body to the proper ritual burial position before closing the sarcophagus back up. Once this was done, they removed the ruby from Mondar's signet ring and offered it as tribute while speaking a prayer for the dead and lighting a candle, and the ghost of Lord Gronjyph Mondar vanished.

Though they wished to cremate Cyne Mondar like his ancestors, they didn't have an urn to place his ashes in, so they left his body for the moment and opened a secret door to find a set of stairs. A blood-tipped spear jutted from the wall near the top, its retracting mechanism jammed, and bloody footprints led down to the door at the bottom. Sylas found the pressure plates that triggered the other spears. The door at the bottom was a stone vault door with a circular valve lock, which Ililen managed to figure out how to open by listening carefully to the mechanism as it was turned. On the other side was a room bearing the stony face of Lord Gronjyph across the entire floor, with three other identical doors leading out.
They could also hear a muffled voice moaning and begging for help from somewhere below the floor. Killing two birds with one stone, Leon stone-shaped a section of the floor into an urn for Mondar. Thirty feet below, they saw a man impaled on a  spikes. They lowered a rope and pulled him up, and he told them his name was Fernog and confessed that he and his friends, having heard about the treasure of House Mondar, had come to steal it. However, he had accidentally triggered a trap that opened the floor and dropped him onto the spikes. He gave them his coin pouch in thanks and they let him go.

After cremating Lord Mondar, they returned to the room with the moving floor and took precautions against sharing Fernog's fate. Isabelle attempted to open the first door, which triggered the floor; Sylas grabbed Leon, who had affixed himself to the wall, while Isabelle cast feather fall and she and her companions drifted slowly to stand among the spikes. Leon lowered a rope for them as the floor slid closed once more. Sylas, meanwhile, figured out that the "2-4-2" on the signet ring was the instructions on which door to take, and successfully opened the second door. This revealed another staircase, leading them to a large room whose floor was carved to depict a dwarven fortress with a massive stone gate under Lord Gronyph Mondar's face. A thin layer of fine sand covered some of the room, which contained four more exit doors and a group of people. Among them was a badly burned doppelganger wearing the armor of a Knight of the Crown, and a woman adorned with gold jewelry that Leon recognized as Yhlsaby, matron of the Loud and Lusty brothel. Sensing that things were likely to get violent, Yhlsaby confirmed that they were there to claim the Mondars' riches and offered a compromise: they help each other get through, and each person present would get an equal share of the treasure.

Agreeing to the compromise, Sylas attempted to open the fourth door, but failed to set it to the right combination and set of a trap that began filling the room with sand. As repeated attempts failed, and the sand threatened to make it impossible to open the door, let alone breath, Ilara simply forced the door open, hurrying everyone else through before slamming it shut behind them. The next hallway was lined with alternating white and dark gray tiles. When Sylas couldn't find any traps, Ilara took a step onto a gray tile, which fell open beneath her and dropped her fifty feet into a pool of putrid water. Isabelle levitated her out, and Sylas checked again and they realized that the white tiles were safe while the gray ones were trap doors. At the end of the hallway, they were faced with four more doors; Sylas simply pointed at the second one, and Yhlsaby and her crew managed to get it open.

The final hallway was blocked by a naga, who warned that none but the Mondars may pass. The Third Eye showed it the signet ring and explained they were here on the Mondars' behalf, which it accepted. It opened the door and allowed them into the vault, but sternly reminded them that under the terms of its agreement with the Mondars, it was granted ten percent of the treasure within. Yhlsaby thanked the heroes for a profitable partnership, making mention that they were part of the thieves' guild known as the Golden Masks. Wile her people began taking stock of and divvying up the treasure, Sylas went straight for the book sitting on the table, finding it to be Lord Cyne Mondar's personal journal. After skimming through the early years of his life, his induction into the Knights of the Crown, and how he'd used significant portions of his family treasure to fund various charitable causes in the city, Sylas found an account of the fateful journey into the Feywild fifteen years ago.

Most of it was as Lord Mondar had said: they went to the Feywild to rescue Queen Lyrencia, King Waldrann defeated the Satyr Lord Dasmag in a duel, and Dasmag returned the queen and threw them a big feast at which he enchanted the crown with a blessing of plenty to make up for the trouble he caused. Lord Mondar noted in his journal, however, that the two kings struck a second, secret deal with each other, the details of which he was not privy to. Where the story diverged, however, was in what happened as the party returned to the Material Plane. The official story - the one told to the public, and that Lord Mondar told them - was that on the way back, they had the misfortune to find a quicksand-like area of sucking mud in the swamp, to which both Prince Krasnar and Brother Lestor lost their lives. The truth, as written by Lord Mondar in his journal, was that as they journeyed Prince Krasnar suddenly demanded confirmation of his rightful status as heir, leading to a fight between him and his father. Ultimately, the king killed his raging and indignant son, then made the entire company swear an oath to never again speak of the details of the journey. When Father Lestor refused to do so, the king exiled him to the Feywild, forbidding him from returning to the Material Plane with them.

With the mystery deepening, the group decided that they would need to find a way to the Feywild to speak with Father Lestor. However, first, they must complete their present mission: to use the secret tunnel to enter the palace, steal the crown, and deliver it to the Arcane Tower to end the curse afflicting the kingdom.