Shadow Run

Mention of the Deep will strike fear into many a heart, but there are places within this vast system of underground caverns inhabited by dark elves, deep dwarves, and nightmarish creatures that can frighten the boldest adventurer as well as the simple villager. One such place is called Shadow Run. Rumored to be one of the oldest areas of the Deep, Shadow Run is supposedly a gauntlet of traps created by some of the first dark elves.

Even the most skilled adventurer has good reason to fear the Shadow Run. The traps in this underground corridor, no matter how skillfully disarmed, seem to reappear soon after being removed. Adventurers' tales say that the traps hold the souls of their prey, binding them to the trap to catch others.

Constantly shifting in layout and location, Shadow Run also defies any intrepid cartographer; there has never been a map created that shows a way through the deadly gauntlet, or even where Shadow Run actually lies. Many believe its very existence is naught but an old wives tale, while others claim that the corridor collapsed in on itself years ago. No matter the truth of its existence, Shadow Run belongs in the books of legends, if not for the lives it has claimed, then for the mysteries that lie beyond it.