A17 to B19: Trying to understand? *spolier*


Abomination Vaults


I’m trying to reconcile how 10 to 15 foot deep swamp on west side, a collapsed pier, and then B19 is 10 foot deep housing a river drake.

Is the water table of the swamp just really low down from the land that the ruins sit on?

There’s an entrance to B19 from A17 but the thrives boat was tied off at A17 with pier collapsed into mud and river drake can exit from here?

I see the flooded cavern water level is 3 feet below ceiling but this implies that the entire water table of the swamp sits that low below the top floor/ruins? It would also have to be closely equal for the old boat launch to work from servants quarters.

I’m just trying to understand how my players navigate down here as it’s clearly not submerged cavern but thieves didn’t row down it and drake can get out of it despite the collapsed pier.

Thanks for any help.


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Yes! The banks of level 1 are steep down to the water.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

The side view of the Abomination Vaults on page 4 of the hardcover is also a bit off in that it doesn't show the steep banks well enough. The water level should be a little lower than level 2's floor, not equal to its ceiling, and the dip between the two portions of level 2 shoudl go deeper.

Basically... the bog's water surface level is between the floor of level 2 and the ceiling of level 3.


Thank you. This was very helpful.

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