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Lands of Deepearth	-	-	-	DSG

Geography: This multitude of natural caverns includes some
of the largest chambers in all of Deepearth. Soaring ceilings
reach 1,000 feet or more above the floors, and caverns over a
mile wide and a dozen miles long are common. Many cavern
floors are cut by deep, wide gorges, several of which have been
bridged. Numerous excavated tunnels lead off to the sides of the
caverns, and in some places fortifications and the ruins of large
cities are evident.
Several streams provide the area’s water supply and some of
the caverns contain small, deep lakes. Although the caves once
contained many elegant formations, they now have a barren and
beaten look. Stalactites and stalagmites have been broken, and
many of the bridges have collapsed. The debris of battle lies
everywhere-broken weapons, shattered war machines, and
thousands upon thousands of skeletons.

Denizens: Nothing lives here anymore, although it is obvious
that these caverns were once highly prized by a number of races.
The skeletons include those of drow, duergar, svirfneblin, and
derro. In fact, other subterranean creatures who left no
skeletons-pech, cloakers, and illithids-also fought and died for
control of these caverns.
Although intruders do not encounter living things here, there is
still danger. The spirits of the fallen warriors wish their battlegrounds
to remain sacrosanct, and rise up to oppose those who
tread there. Wights, wraiths, spectres, ghosts, and skeletons
marshall their forces to attack trespassers. Each of the huge
caverns contains a single lich that commands the many undead.

Resources: Air and water are plentiful, but food is unavailable
unless characters carry it with them.

Unique Features: Each lich presides over a collection of the
valuables that undead minions have harvested from the battlefields.
The undead have had centuries to perform this task, and
have done it very well. Consequently, characters searching the
battlefields find nothing but broken weapons, useless armor, and
other wreckage.