The Maw of Death

Descriptive Text

"For reasons that I will never know we were sent marching into the gaping maw. Incredibly, the walls, floor and ceiling were not of stone but of bone, human bone, animal bone, unidentifiable bone. The resilient stuff chattered without cracking under our boots as we trundled up the passage. Suddenly comrades plunged from sight as the floor gave way in a half dozen places. But it was not only the floor that betrayed us. The walls and ceiling melted away too in a terrible clattering of bone as the stuff flowed like water back to the cave entrance, where it gathered itself to cut off our escape and begin its assault. What should have been the commanding voice of our captain was instead a pitiful wail that collapsed into a loathsome gurgling. In the ensuing bedlam it was my inspiration to look up. I managed the climb into the natural chimney that would deliver from the debacle the time worn bones that you have here before you and them alone."

- Gustov Petroff, hawkmaster and horse smuggler wanted for desertion from the Falkovnian army, recounting his escape from the Maw of Death in G'henna

Descriptive text contributed by cure to John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (posted on the Fraternity of Shadows message board).

Description

The Maw of Death is a cave in the northeastern corner of G'Henna. Is infamous among those who know the region for it is in fact the lair of a boneyard that flattens itself against the stone walls effectively creating a tunnel of bone. Prior to the Great Upheaval, a company of Falkovian soldiers where dispatched to investigate it. The sole survivor was a man who would later be known under the name of Gustov Petroff.