Place: Ukiah's Cabin

Really not any place in my High King's Sword novels, this place is vital to my original novels (which may or may not be edited someday far in the future). This is where the Chosen meet each other and learn that the Gods are out to use them. Always a momentous place when the Gods ask you to die in there stead.

Ukiah, a mage of immense power, made this cabin of fine fir timbers with his bare hands for his love, Dyani Blackwolf. For all intensive purposes the cabin is one room, though a small side room was added when Amber was born. As one walks in there is a fireplace to the right of the door, the small room off to the right. The table Ukiah made (with magic, though he didn't tell Dyani that) sits near the fire. There are also five chairs, none of which truly match each other. Straight across from the door is a small niche big enough for a bed fit for two people. The bed has four posts which look like trees stretching upward, the canopy magical so as to appear as the foliage of trees.

The small room is separated from the rest of the cabin by a embroidered silk drape, though it is thick enough not to be able to see through. A single person bed and a chest lay inside, a single window looking out.

Underneath the heavy, woven rug in the middle of the cabin is a surprise. Without the aid of magic or knowing it is there, one can not see the hatch to a basement. In this basement are murals of elves in everyday life and a room four times larger then the cabin itself. Inside lays treasures of elven life gone by. Everything from magic items to the mundane. Ukiah tried to save us much as he could of Dyani's people as they were being killed by Shaniko and his minions. This room is extra dimensional, and can not be detected by normal means of finding a hollow places underground.

Some good roleplaying uses of this might be the party is looking for elven artifacts, they are lost in the woods near Willowdale and find Ukiah who can help them find their way, or they just find the building abandoned and use it for shelter one night. If you bring Ukiah into your campaign, be careful. He is, for all intensive purposes, an immortal, granted long life by the Gods and more powerful then some of the minor Gods. To anger him is truly to bring down the wrath of the Gods. Despite all his power, he is a kindly old man and will help if he can. He is dead after the time of the Chosen, but his cabin is still there, a place for Targon, God of Magic, to escape to on occasion.
Tomorrow: Some History