Echo Crypt

This series of catacombs stretches some six miles below the mountains of the Abbor-Alz, and is fiendishly hard to explore. Much of its length comprises tunnels a halfling can barely squeeze through. Burial chambers with fine treasures have been looted in its upper length, and there are surely more to be found; however, the crypts have a bizarre magical feature that deters most explorers. Simply, the sound of voices here takes on amplified magical form and returns to assault those breaking the silence. The effects of shout, silence 15' radius and even power word spells beset those who speak even a syllable within the crypt complex. Thus, for obvious reasons, wizards and priests avoid the crypts like the plague. Since there are many mindless undead things in the lowest catacombs, their presence is sorely missed by explorers.

Great cave lizards, semi-transparent ropers, gelatinous cubes, and other monsters lurk in the farthest recesses. However, the rumored recovery of a rod of beguiling from Echo Crypt as recently as Ready'reat, 583 CY, ensures that the foolhardy continue to enter the place.