Marpethgates
The area around Marpeth's Fang, a distinctively narrow column-like peak among the Stormhorns overlooks the High Road midway between the Greatgaunt trail and the Bridge of Fallen Men, has a hidden hold of its own. Among the pines and duskwoods on the tree-cloaked lower slopes of Marpeth's Fang stands a modest stone fortress shaped rather like a flat-topped pumpkin. One visitor described its interior unkindly three summers after it had been completed, saying it looked like "four floors of chilly, gloomy, damp stone chambers; a proper labyrinth of odd-shaped and -sized rooms, that seem chiefly devoted to growing wild molds." It has a crenellated-edged roof that leaks copiously, but no towers, and its low silhouette and the abundance of conifers makes it hard to see among the trees, even in the leafless depths of winter.
Though it is weathered and looks old, Marpethgates is of fairly recent construction, built during the 1430s and 1440s DR by the rich former Amnian merchant Uldros Marpeth as his retirement refuge. Marpeth had no ambitions to rule anyone; shaken by the loss during the chaos of the Spellplague of much of his wealth, buildings, and the younger kin who worked for him, he retreated to several remote places before deciding to build his own fortress in the Stormhorns.
He died in 1462 DR of natural causes, aged ninety-six, and brigands soon decided to take the fortress by forceonly to discover the hard way that Marpeth had enjoyed an unusual "share a home" relationship with a variety of monsters, and they were still in residence and were eager to fight and slay to remain so. They fought off not only brigands and opportunistic adventurers, but several forays by Purple Dragons out of High Horn, led by War Wizards, until Ganrahast and Vainrence conducted a thorough scrying of the place and decided to leave the residents of Marpethgates alone. These creatures are led by "some sort of shapechanger that usually takes the shape of a goliath, or perhaps a goliath that has mastered magic enough that it can readily and repeatedly change its form." Despite their battle losses, the group still includes at least two cyclops, three or four doppelganger sneaks (who impersonate various creatures to best dissuade would-be intruders), many kenku, and several trained spiretop drakes.
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