Auramkil in 579

Field observations

The party took a short trip to Auramkil at the insistence of the grey elves in AK 579, where they learned:

• The Elite Guard was still in charge of the passes through the mountains and used charmed monsters to help defend their outposts.
  
• The Nirduk clan was clearly a force to be reckoned with. Common folk in the area between the mountains and the city feared them and were very obsequious around them; there were some hints that the clan was extracting protection money from them. Other people (such as the highway robbers the party encountered) utterly despised them. The Nirduks were in charge of the guardposts around the capital itself.
  
• Since the remains of the Empire were supposedly civilized, killing people brought down the wrath of the authorities. Highway robberies and similar encounters were carried out with nonlethal attacks; once one side was subdued, magic items would change hands, and the parties would continue on their way. (Fortunately, the robbers that beset the party were smart enough to surrender when they figured out that we didn't know the local customs and were actually trying to kill them.)
  
• Some high elven magic/tech (such as the extradimensional tunnel network that was used to spirit the party out of a Nirduk guardpost) bears a strong similarity to drow magic/tech (such as the capsella network housing one of the seven gates to the drow plane).
  
• The government was detaining a number of political prisoners, including Demos Remen.

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