Welcome to Waterdeep, City of Splendors! You're summoned by Volothamp Geddarm, famous explorer and raconteur, to complete a simple quest. Is anything ever really simple though? Experience a grand caper, pitting your skills and bravado against two nefarious organizations as you go on a hunt for the greatest prize of all.

This adventure concerns a once-proud fortress that fell into the earth in an age long past. Now known as the Sunless Citadel, its echoing, broken halls house malign creatures. Evil has taken root at the citadel's core, which is located deep within a subterranean garden of blighted foliage. Here a terrible tree and its dark shepherd plot in the darkness. .

Forty years ago, under King Azoun V's reign, Cormyr fought the Shades of Netheril and succeeded in driving them off. Netheril and Cormyr maintain an uneasy cease fire to this day. Near the end of Azoun's reign, He signed the "Suzail Writ", which bound the king by law and gave free folk inalienable rights- notably trial by jury of peers. The Suzail Writ restricted the nobility and elevated the common people. Most nobles have accepted the new status quo, but a few still scheme to gain influence over the throne (or to gain the throne itself) and thereby return the noble houses to prominence. King Foril remains a strong proponent of the Writ. A healthy fear of all that is shadowy, and the memory of the destruction of Tilverton, keep Cormyrians on their guard. One fact is certain: A direct confrontation is building. For more than a century, Cormyr's rulers have offered generous land grants to adventurers willing to tame this area and carve out civilized holdings. You are adventurers that can lend a tremendous amount of aid to the overstretched Cormyrian military and your group begins the Land of Purple Dragons campaign as one of four groups sent north into the Stonelands to defeat spellscarred goblins, gnolls, orcs and other brigands, hopefully, to establish a new foothold between the Storm Horns and Netheril. It certainly won’t be an easy task. Before any such settlement can even begin, the bandits and monsters must be dealt with—and once that initial task is done, the danger will only increase. As you struggle to foster a fledgling settlement, and expand its farmlands, your group is destined to face ferocious beasts, strange cults, and even the mysterious fey denizens of Faerun. Can you tame the Stonelands and forge a lasting settlement amid such opposition? Who will survive? Who among you possesses the makings of a true hero?

Old hatreds die hard, but sometimes it is necessary to set aside petty, personal disagreements for the greater good. The hag, Jeny Greenteeth, is wise and may prove instrumental in the troubles that lay ahead. Your task will not be easy, however, the dark forces of Barovia have agents everywhere, and eyes from beyond the grave no doubt watch your every move. Part six of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts