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DUNGEONS OF

GOLARION

Jason Bulmahn, Brandon Hodge, and Anthony Pryor

DUNGEONS OF GOLARION

GALLOWSPIRE

CANDLESTONE

CAVERNS

HOLLOW MOUNTAIN

RED REDOUBT OF

KARAMOSS

ZOLURKET MINES

PYRAMID OF KAMARIA

DUNGEONS OF GOLARION

A Pathfinder Campaign Setting Supplement

This book works best with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook .

Although it is suitable for play in any fantasy world, it is optimized for use in

the Pathfinder campaign setting.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

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RedRedoubtofKaramoss 44

ZolurketMines

CandlestoneCaverns

Gallowspire

HollowMountain

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Authors • Jason Bulmahn, Matthew Goodall,

Brandon Hodge, Anthony Pryor, and Mike Shel

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PATHFINDER CAMPAIGN SETTING: DUNGEONS OF GOLARION

WELCOME TO THE MEGADUNGEON

T he concept of a megadungeon might not be

listed alphabetically by name, with the region it is located

in indicated in parenthesis—these regions correspond to

those presented in The Inner Sea World Guide .

Bastardhall (Ustalav) : Looming darkly on the eastern

border of Ustalav, this sprawling castle is the onetime

home of a cursed family. Many of the dungeons below

this vast castle are f looded and inhabited by all manner

of aquatic horrors, while other subterranean levels

doubtless hide secrets of a terrible nature.

Castle Korvosa (Varisia) : Built atop an ancient

Thassilonian pyramid, the royal castle of Korvosa is the

most distinctive feature of that city’s skyline. Yet below

the castle, deep dungeons extend, unseen by intruding

eyes for thousands of years. Here, amid ancient dungeons

f illed with forgotten Thassilonian perils, the minions of

Sorshen, the Runelord of Lust, still dwell, as mighty as

their powerful mistress herself.

Crimson Citadel (Mediogalti Island) : This towering

structure sits atop a jungle peak on Mediogalti Island.

As the headquarters of the Red Mantis, the numerous

aboveground levels of this structure contain danger and

peril enough, but rumor holds that the many-spired

structure was built over extensive underground ruins

that date back to the time of Ghol-Gan.

Deepgate (Hold of Belkzen) : One of the two known

entrances to the Darklands in the orc homeland of

Belkzen, Deepgate was the f irst point at which the dwarves

drove the orcs to the surface during the onset of the Quest

for Sky.

Earthnavel (Realm of the Mammoth Lords) : Connecting

the Orvian Vault of Deep Tolguth to the surface world

above, this extensive cavern system is inhabited by a

vast diversity of enormous, primeval beasts. Rumors of

strangely advanced and intelligent troglodytes in certain

remote sections of these caves persist.

Eel’s Skull (The Shackles) : This rocky island in the

Shackles served for many years as the fortress of the

notorious smuggler Nalt Tarbrow, one of the most

successful pirates in a region noted for its successful

pirates. Nalt is said to have stored numerous captured

artifacts in the Ghol-Gan dungeons below his island

fortress, but since he went mad (some say as a direct

result of using one of those artifacts, the so-called T hrone

of Nalt ,) and destroyed the upper levels of his extensive

fortress, an entrance to these supposed dungeons has yet

to be rediscovered.

El-Fatar (Katapesh) : This sprawling ruined city in

northern Katapesh, originally believed to have been a

particularly realistic, but nevertheless, the

immense multilevel compound f illed with

monsters, traps, and treasure is as old as roleplaying

games. Indeed, the very f irst campaigns were set in

megadungeons—compounds that seemed to have little

other purpose than to provide eager adventurers with

a near endless maze of rooms, hallways, and caverns

to explore. Megadungeons can take a variety of forms

and appear in numerous styles—the only thing that a

megadungeon really requires in order to be called such

is to have a large number of distinct interconnected levels

associated with the site.

Golarion has its share of megadungeons, but the sheer

scope of these vast compounds makes detailing them a

daunting task. A single level of a megadungeon can itself

constitute the contents of an entire adventure—indeed,

we’ve done just that in our Pathf inder Module line

more than once with The Godsmouth Heresy . With some

exceptions (notably the ultra-high-level Gallowspire),

megadungeons make ideal adventure sites for all levels of

play. They start easy, but the farther you delve into them,

the rougher and more dangerous the encounters become.

Of course, the deeper you go, the better the treasures

you f ind, so there’s always something to lure adventurers

further into peril!

In Dungeons of Golarion , we look at six of the most famous

and notorious megadungeons in the Inner Sea region, but

we make no attempt to provide exhaustive details. Just as

we provided in-depth presentations of six cities in Cities

of Golarion and six ruined adventure sites in Lost Cities of

Golarion , this book presents similarly detailed overviews

six dungeons. In two cases (Candlestone Caverns and the

Red Redoubt of Karamoss), we’ve even provided a relatively

well-stocked sample level for immediate use as a quick

way to start up a campaign set in that dungeon. But in the

other four entries in this book, we merely give you the map

of the sample level and leave its “stocking” to you. This

allows you to develop that level as best f its the needs of

your campaign. These levels are quite large and expansive,

and can easily be the focus of several sessions of play.

OTHER DUNGEONS

The six megadungeons presented in this volume are

by no means the only ones in existence in the Inner

Sea region. They aren’t even the largest! Several other

megadungeons ripe for exploration found throughout the

lands of the Inner Sea are listed below. Each dungeon is

INTRODUCTION

site of some import in ancient Osirion, recently came

to the Pathf inder Society’s attention when an entrance

to a previously unsuspected branch of catacombs was

discovered below.

House of Oblivion (Thuvia) : The towering House

of Oblivion, said to lie somewhere within the trackless

sandy heart of Thuvia. Built over 7,000 years ago by a

mad pharaoh to lure the powerful f iend Ahriman to this

world, the House of Oblivion’s multiple “dungeon levels”

exist not below ground, but above it, in the sprawling

wings of a vast structure that is unlikely to fully reside

in this reality.

Ice Spire (Lands of the Linnorm Kings) : This ancient

ruin near the southern extent of the Stormspear Hills of the

Linnorm Kingdoms is relatively unassuming aboveground,

but the frozen dungeons below take on increasingly alien

architectural styles the deeper one explores.

Kaer Maga (Varisia) : The so-called City of Strangers

lies perched atop the Storval Rise in Varisia, a haven to

a wide assortment of scoundrels and malcontents. Some of

the dungeon levels below Kaer Maga, built by Runelord

Karzoug over (it is said) even older chambers, are

accessible from the exposed face of the cliff side, but most

are hidden well away from the light of day.

Savith’s Tomb (Mwangi Expanse) : The legendary

Azlanti outpost city of Saventh-Yhi, said to lie somewhere

in the Mwangi Expanse, has yet to be located. But ancient

tales speak of a site within this city called Savith’s Tomb,

where the city’s heroic founder was laid to rest at the

bottom of an extensive dungeon f illed with traps and

strange guardians after her fateful last battle against

Ydersius, god of the serpentfolk.

Silver Mount (Numeria) : One of the great legends

of Avistan is Silver Mount, a massive, scarred edif ice

that looms over the skyline of Starfall. The countless

technological treasures hidden within are well guarded

by the Technic League, but even they have just scraped the

surface of fully exploring the wondrous and dangerous

chambers within this crashed starship.

Sphinx Head (Osirion) : Numerous dungeon complexes

exist in Osirion—but the chambers said to lie below the

Sphinx Head are among the most intriguing, for many of

these chambers contain no air at all, making the dungeon

particularly dangerous and diff icult to explore.

Spire of Nex (Absalom) : This impossibly tall tower

looms just north of the city of Absalom, a soaring

monolith f illed with dozens of linked pocket dimensions

created by one of the most powerful spellcasters ever to

weave magic along the shores of the Inner Sea.

Temple of the Ravenous Moon (The Shackles) : This

mysterious ziggurat stands high in the peaks of the Terwa

Uplands, a structure of bone-white stone marbled with

veins of blood red. The Hurricane King himself has sent

two expeditions to explore the extensive dungeon chambers

within and below this ancient ziggurat, but to date, none

have returned to report what they found within.

Urgir (Hold of Belkzen) : This orc city, capital of the

Hold of Belkzen, is built over the ruins of one of the

dwarven Sky Citadels. The numerous dungeon levels that

lie below it connect eventually to the Darklands, and are

themselves infested with rust monsters, duergar, and other

ravenous creatures.

Well of Lies (Nex) : This extensive dungeon complex,

thought to have been built by cyclopes, was partially

explored by Nex himself. Most scholars

agree that the discoveries

Nex made while exploring

this site played a signif icant

role in his rise to power—what

treasures remain here in chambers

deep beneath the ground one can

only guess at.

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