The Lost Reliquary

Ancient temples to dreaming gods that predate the Pantheon can be found scattered around the hinterlands of the Moonsaes. Forgotten in the jungles and swamps east of the trade road is this sturdy structure dedicated to a once-popular local goddess.

The statue of the goddess was torn out of the structure by explorers from Waterdeep during the heyday of the empire. The rest of the sturdy structure was left alone for the elements to take care of (seeing some irony in the rains washing away the temple as it is reclaimed by nature). What the explorers did not find at the time is a set of secret stairs leading down to the reliquary of the old temple.

But hunting through the once-secret codices of the Emerald Hawk society, an old map of the locations of the seven temples to the goddess Mara has been found, and it indicates the method to open the secret door into the reliquary beneath… and it appears that the Emerald Hawk society was unaware that they had this treasure map in their possession.

The temple had been inhabited by a hydra, which had made it's lair of the ruins with many skeletal remains littering the tiled floor.

Upon entering the lower ruins, along with gold, empty crypts, seemingly used were located, their true use and occupants unknown.