Summary
The Adventure Path consists of the following scenarios:
| Chapter | Title | Author | Illustrators | Levels | Issue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Life's Bazaar" | Christopher Perkins | Chuck Lukacs, Val Mayerik, Christopher West | 1–3 | 97 | March 2003 |
| The player characters investigate recent kidnappings. The trail leads to a slaver operating from Underdark passages below the city. | ||||||
| 2 | "Drakthar's Way" | Christopher Perkins | Omar Dogan | 3 | NA | August 2007 |
| Small bands of goblins raid and vandalize the city. The player characters track the goblins to a hideout in a series of caves below the city that lead out the side of the mountain. The goblins are led by a vampiric bugbear, the eponymous Drakthar. | ||||||
| 3 | "Flood Season" | James Jacobs | Peter Bergting, Stephen A. Daniele, Scott Fischer | 4–6 | 98 | May 2003 |
| In this adventure the city of Cauldron is threatened by flooding during the rainy season. Magical wands of "control water" normally used to control the flooding are stolen and taken to a lair below the city. The player characters presumably track down and recover the stolen wands. | ||||||
| 4 | "Zenith Trajectory" | David Noonan | Thomas M. Baxa, Jeff Carlisle, Mark Jackson, Mark Nelson | 6–8 | 102 | September 2003 |
| The player characters are asked to rescue Zenith Splintershield, a dwarf who has been missing since heading into the Underdark to fight evil. Zenith has gone insane and is treated as prophet by the kuo-toa who captured him. | ||||||
| 5 | "The Demonskar Legacy" | Tito Leati | Jeff Carlisle, Matt Cavotta | 8–10 | 104 | November 2003 |
| In this chapter, the heroes must find a missing paladin to stop an incursion by Cauldron to nearby Redgorge. After retracing his steps through a jungle, a giant-controlled cavern, and an otherworldly maze, they must face the demonic architect of the area's strife. | ||||||
| 6 | "Test of the Smoking Eye" | David Noonan | Mark Nelson, UDON | 10–12 | 107 | February 2004 |
| Following their warning from a dying paladin to "seek the sign of the smoking eye", a mysterious plane-wanderer asks for their help in completing a series of tests to redeem an abandoned layer of the Abyss. | ||||||
| 7 | "Secrets of the Soul Pillars" | Jesse Decker | Jeff Carlisle, Andrew Hou, Arnold Tsang | 12–13 | 109 | April 2004 |
| After several assassins attempt to kill the heroes, they are traced back to the temple of Wee Jas. After assaulting the temple and fighting its undead inhabitants, they are led to an ancient frozen spell weaver complex, where a powerful oracle is guarded by a horrific undying dragon. | ||||||
| 8 | "Lords of Oblivion" | Christopher Perkins | Peter Bergting | 13–15 | 111 | June 2004 |
| An ally of the heroes is kidnapped and taken to a safe house of the Last Laugh, Cauldron's thieves guild. Once they break in and rescue him from the den of thieves, they learn of a secret meeting among some of the realm's most horrific criminals at a noble's mansion. In addition, their beholder overlord is practicing unholy rituals in the complex below. | ||||||
| 9 | "Foundation of Flame" | Chris Thomasson | Christine Choi, Benjamin Huen, Chris Stevens, UDON, Jim Zubkavich | 15–16 | 113 | August 2004 |
| The Cagewrights begin their plans in earnest now, awakening the volcano on which Cauldron is built. Spewing lava, earthquakes, and collapsing buildings require the heroes help to get everyone evacuated. Worse, demodands begin to emerge from a planar rift already building, and a certain local dragon gets riled up by it all. | ||||||
| 10 | "Thirteen Cages" | Chris Thomasson | Ramón K. Pérez | 16–18 | 114 | September 2004 |
| The heroes must march on the Cagewrights' headquarters, in the heart of a volcano, before their ritual is complete and a permanent gate to Carceri is opened above Cauldron. | ||||||
| 11 | "Strike on Shatterhorn" | Christopher Perkins | Tim Fowler, Eric Kim | 18–19 | 115 | October 2004 |
| What few Cagewrights remain must be hunted down and exterminated in their jungle retreat. | ||||||
| 12 | "Asylum" | Christopher Perkins | Attila Adorjany, Jeff Carlisle, Eric Kim | 19–20 | 116 | November 2004 |
| When the twisted mind of Adimarchus, imprisoned Demon Prince of Madness, leaks into Occipitus and begins resurrecting his followers, the heroes realize they must go to the otherworldly asylum of Skullrot where Adimarchus is imprisoned and destroy him utterly. | ||||||
During the course of the adventure, the city is nearly destroyed by an eruption of the volcano under it, which is triggered by magical forces. Shattered, but still inhabited, the city of Cauldron still exists at the end of the adventure.
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