The Lost City of Nuyah Part 2

The Lost City of Nuyah
The streets are made of stone, laid in intricate patterns, mostly geometric shapes, though it appears each street has it's own pattern.  Dirt and rubble cover the streets, small animal prints here and there in the dust.  Tools and wagons lay strewn upon the road ways, as if people just left them and walked away.  Most are in poor shape, (wooden handles falling apart at a touch, wagons leaning to one side because a wheel is broken, etc.).  The sound of dripping water can be heard but no living beings seem to be present.

The first major structure anyone would come to from the miners entrance is a large archway of stone with writing carved into it.  The language is familiar but not instantly recognizable.  As people go under the archway the whispers begin.

Anyone walking anywhere in the ruins will hear whispers of voices saying anything like, "Go back", "He is coming" or "help us" or any variation there of.  There is no visibly living people to actually talk, so the source is unknown, persistent, but not constant, at first.

For the GM, this is the first hint that something bad happened here.  For your knowledge these are trapped souls of the dwarves that lived here.  A wizard trapped them in the archway to give him power for his dark spells.  There is a way to release the souls, (though not bring them back to life), so they may continue on to their gods.  The writing is in an ancient form of dwarven, so anyone with the ability to read dwarven should be able to decipher most of the sign that says, "The City of Nuyah" or the City of Stone.  Anyone with a very high dwarven lore skill would know a little about the city.  The city was said to be abandoned because of a plague and that no one should go there if they didn't want to catch the plague.  The truth, which your players will not know yet, is that a dark wizard cast a horrific spell that sucked up all the souls in the city, from child to oldster, and placed them in the archway to serve as his focus.  Delightfully, the wizard died shortly after when the dragon that was friends with the city ate him, but was unable to save his friends.