Maure Castle

Maure Castle is a forlorn, forbidding place on the edge of the Cairn Hills, standing above a boggy valley in Urnst. The above-ground levels of the castle are largely ruined, and the presence of a nesting pair of rocs in the hills nearby discourages the casually curious. Evilly-inclined ravens and other carrion birds flock to the castle towers. Fierce tyrgs are known to roam the area.

The entrances to the dungeons of Maure Castle are well obscured and reputedly located down long, slime-covered chutes with traps and hazards all their own, such as nesting otyughs, acid pools, and worse. Within the dungeons, humanoids are said to lurk, doing their best to avoid the golems and other mindless guardians that infest the place (together with no few ghouls and ghasts). At least one greater fiend is said to lair in the deepest dungeon.

Treasures said to have been taken from Maure Castle find their way to sale in Greyhawk and Hardby from time to time-weird statuettes of gold and jade, tapestries, and grimoires. For every treasure extracted, one can be sure that at least one adventurer perished searching for it.