Nine thousand years ago, dwarves first emerged on the surface of Golarion, at the conclusion of their Quest for the Sky. A few years later, the dwarves of the newly built citadel of Jormurdun watched in amazement as huge chunks of flaming metal tumbled out of the sky. They investigated this baffling event, and discovered pieces of a
fallen starship. From the wreckage, the explorers retrieved an artifact they dubbed the Sky Key. It became a symbol of the Quest for the Sky, and the dwarves kept it safe in their fortress city of Jormurdun for millennia.
Jormurdun did not last forever. In approximately 1600 ar, duergar attacked and conquered the citadel. As the surviving dwarves fled, Jormurdun’s last king, Gutheran, broke the Sky Key into five pieces, keeping one for himself and giving one to each of his heirs. King Gutheran hoped that his heirs might one day return to reunite the Sky Key and Jormurdun’s scattered people.
These scions of Jormurdun headed west, but grew weary of travel and settled down. King Gutheran’s youngest son, Naldak, settled in one of the eastern Linnorm Kingdoms and founded the town of Naldak’s Point. There his people found Ulfen clients who respected the dwarves’ craftsmanship. In 3313 ar, as Baba Yaga and her forces invaded what would soon become Irrisen, another powerful spellcaster approached the dwarves: the Tian sorcerer Hao Jin. She offered Naldak’s descendants shelter from the encroaching armies. They refused, but Hao Jin returned each of the following nights, repeating her offer. As the armies of Baba Yaga massed on the horizon on the fourth day, the dwarves reluctantly agreed. Hao Jin’s magic transported most of Naldak’s Point to her personal demiplane hidden in the Hao Jin Tapestry.
There, the dwarves have survived in the centuries since. In 4714 ar, the Pathfinder Society explored Jormurdun and recovered King Gutheran’s piece of the Sky Key. The Society wishes to reassemble the Sky Key to explore its purpose. Society agents have struggled to track the dwarves by following millennia-old trails; a combination of divinations and the recent discovery of an old Ulfen map have pointed to Naldak’s Point in southwest Irrisen as the last known location of a Sky Key component.
Naldak’s Point is a few miles southeast of Dalun, an Irrisen port city on the banks of the Thundering River.The PC's are tasked by the Pathfinder society to investigate and possibly recover the missing sky key.
shared folder "Under the Ice"
