The Game

While waiting on the ground, Brush and Whispers observe their surroundings. As the asteroid turns slowly, the illumination from the ring reveals giant humanoids frozen deep within the ice beneath their feet. They are completely unmoving and dead looking. Furthermore, they begin to suspect the jagged spires of rock are actually rubble from an artificial structure. You have the feeling that this asteroid is not natural, but the result of some massive, ancient structure that suffered a catastrophic icy explosion long ago.

Not currently. There are some cracks around though that provide deeper access to the asteroid, including the one that runs through the plateau that the Aurora is on. Perhaps you could get close enough to one in one of these cracks.

Tamara attempts to put her message into the universe, but it simply does not cast. Although the details of the Sending spell are a house secret of the Gnomes of House Sivis, Tamara has enough experience with it to know that Sendings that fail in this manner usually imply the intended recipient is dead.Brush descends into the icy crack in the plateau. Although light passes through the ice from the various brilliant sources in the starry sky there are no shortage of shadows and he is able to freely pass through them.

He discovers that he is not alone in the crack. He spies a small group of creatures living inside a chunk of horizontal cylindrical debris, perhaps once a tower. They look a little bit like kobolds but have wings. They appear to have built crude structures within built within the tower like huts, and they have tunneled into the ice to access the giant corpses to feed on.

Brush bypasses the lone kobold sentry and finds his way down to a half-eaten corpse. The skull, nearly as large as Brush's entire body, is thawed but is still embedded in the ice. He casts Speak With Dead, and the skull comes to life, a dull glow lighting in its massive eye sockets. Brush finds he can communicate with the corpse in Elvish, perhaps due to he fact that the Giants once ruled over all of Elvish kind.

SPEAK THE FIVE QUESTIONS its voice rumbles

The dead giant's voice is slow, and there is a long period of silence before it answers each question. There is something different about this spell, something more potent than any casting you've ever experienced before. Perhaps it is the proximity of the Ring of Siberys.
IT WAS A FORTRESS IN THE STARS, ONE OF MANY THAT FOUGHT THE INVADERS FROM DAL QUOR.

Before you, you see a vision of a massive floating castle, what this place must have looked like in the past. In the distance, you see other floating castles.I DIED DEFENDING THIS FORTRESS AGAINST THE DRAGONS OF ARGONNESSEN. THEY BREATHED ICE AND DEATH.

Before you, you see the last moments of this giant's life.

"YOU NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT THE QUORI. WHEN WE DESTROYED CRYA, WE SEVERED THEIR LINK TO THE MATERIAL PLANE. WE ARE VICTORIOUS.

WE CONSTRUCTED THE COLOSSI TO BATTLE THE DRAGONS, BUT THEY DESTROYED THEM BEFORE WE COULD MUSTER THEM."