Old Owl Well

Old Owl Well is a an important point on the Triboar trail, mostly known today for a well of potable water and a moderately defensible ruin that makes it well-known spot to rest on the trail. The exact age of the site is unknown, but it is said to extend back to the age of the Netherese Empire. A recent disturbance investigated by a group of northern adventurers led to the discovery of an ancient lich's resurrection altar.

The Altar
The altar domonates the western room of an excavated area. It features an ornate mantel whose principal element is a stone skull-shaped convering surrounded by twisting decorative elements in the shape of what may be smoke, serpents, or geometrically abstract tendrils. That altar is made of dumortierite inlaid with onyx and chalcedony, though the color has faded with age. The skull carving is made of an unidentified brownish-gray stone.

The main feature of the altar was an elevated platform which was discovered to have use in human sacrifice. Garaele, priestess of Tymora, was involved in such a ritual near the time of altar's disovery.

The altar displayed a prominent draconic inscription, which read as follows

Resurrection comes but once a while

A lich's breath a maiden's smile

Arthindol again walks free

Uniting here these sacred three

Her body stabbed upon this place

Her shadow shorn to shape the shade

The final form is fickle, tough

A mage's touch shall be enough

He that cuts and he alone

Can sit himself upon the throne

But wary be to that try

In the maidens form he shall not ride