The Calling Mines

The Calling Mines have been a hotbed for trouble since its founding centuries ago. The presence of large amounts of silver mixed with the madness that inevitable besets anybody working in the mines is a recipe for disaster. The same riches also keeps drawing people to the region like moths to a flame. So it became a labor camp for criminals for few people cared about the occasional convict who went mad and/or missing – falling victim to the Calling of the Mines.
The mines take their name from the eerie, faint voices which whisper to the miners in the deeper and richer mine shafts. Perhaps a quarter of those who work here come to hear them; most do not, and there does not seem to be any obvious reason why only some hear these voices. Everyone who does hears something different. Some hear the calling of a dread ghost or malign spirit. Others hear svirfnebli calling that they will come to rescue them. Some hear the seductive voices of succubi and recoil in terror. The mines claim many lives through accident and the occasional monster, but they claim as many minds as they do bodies, for many become insane here.
No one knows the true nature of the creatures doing the calling or, indeed, whether there truly are any. All manner of wild rumors concern these beings, and tales of the magic and/or treasure which may lie below the mine shafts circulate in the lands around.

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Mine