Ville des Fantomes

Renee is from here, she was hit by a petrification ray (freed with greater restoration)/sequester (freed from taking damage/specific condition)/imprisonment spell (freed with 9th level dispel magic)/Mirror of Life Trapping
Beholder's lair

Demographics

Monsters and slaves; beholder and friends; oni, medusa, cyclops the maudite nobles that sided with the beholder have been transformed into nothics

Government

Beholder is a tyrant

Defences

Floor traps (beholders fly over them gas craters, DC13 CON save or poisoned false ceiling with gelatinous cube slaves chained and jailed (can be freed) water tank false floor, DC16 perception, DC15 DEX save, 30ft, quicksand Petrified people hurled with telekinetic ray at enemies Hanging boulder that blocks the entrance when the rope is cut https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/mirror-of-life-trapping covered by a blanket in the corner

Infrastructure

Caves made with disintegration ray

Assets

Two treasure rooms, one of them with all the treasure a beholder might not consider useful (weapons, armor, gold…), and the other one with all the things the beholder does truly care about and can use or look at (rings, capes, paintings, trophies…). Some of the items in the first treasure room are placed on a pressed pressure plate (while pressured it looks as if it was part of the ground). This can only be seen with a successful DC17 Wisdom (Perception) check. If an item were to be lifted from that treasure room, the room would collapse over the player characters. Because the beholder does not really care about those items, it didn’t really care if they were to accidentally break.

History

Maudites culturally occupied (confederated) the city
A 3 way revolutionary war 130 years ago;
1. the lower classes/slaves were led by their white dragon deity, the dragon fled to the north mountains 2. the maudite military/nobles were led by strange spheroid creatures with many eyes, the beholders retreated underground 3. the von krews were there to kill the dragon/monsters, depleted in number they took the survivors to replenish their forces

Architecture

Chinese ruins

RUINED SETTLEMENT
121 SAM

Founding Date

600 BAM

Location under

Kingdom of Maudite

Owner/Ruler

Beholder