Chapter 2

You are in the middle of introductions when Syndra enters the room I see you met each other already, good!

Sharagwyn recognize the voice, but can't recognize Syndra looking at the old human woman.
The rest of you has that feeling Syndra has aged at least some 10 years since you last saw her 3 days ago. She looks old, tired and exhausted. A guard is helping her to the pillows.
The death curse you must have heard about has struck me. I don’t know how much longer I’ll last before I perish. Clerics have no help to offer. They’re stymied by what is happening
After character try to ask questions all at once, she hushes them and continue:

You know I was an adventurer years ago. What you didn't know - I died once and was raised from the dead. I have since closed the door on that stage of my life.


She also shares grave news - everyone of the 6 PCs in the room share something in common - your most prominent parent has also died and been raised in the past. Syndra believes the curse will also affect them.

My contacts in the Harpers have learned that the cause of the death curse is a necromantic artifact called the Soulmonger. According to their sources, the Soulmonger is somewhere in Chult.

She also explains that she have learned this on the first day of arrival, hired everyone she could and made an attempt to find Soulmonger in the jungles. They failed and she is the only one who survived and was able to magically return back to City. Nevertheless death curse affected her ability to restore spell casting powers, so she will not be able to teleport you back.

If you choose fastest ships you may still have a chance to meet your parents before they perish.

Young man, I just told you cleric magic can't help, didn't I? You see, common people call it a curse, but it is not a curse at all. Curse affects individuals. What we have faced is an artefact affecting whole world. One must destroy the artefact to stop it's effect, I'm afraid. But first of all we must find soulmonger. Could you even imagine what does this mean?
Working from dozens of sea charts, log books, and explorers’ journals, I assembled everything known about the current state of Chult into one map.

Unfortunately Syndra do not have any more info about the artefact. She were hoping to use magic (Locate Object spell) to find it, but even that spell required caster go get within 1,000 feet of object... so this was rather desperate attempt to discover artefact from the beginning. Probably more thorough research could provide better results even if take months.

Although Syndra is really happy about PCs willing to help finding the mysterious artefact she reminds of the complications:
Chult is a peninsula ringed with mountains and choked with rainforests. Enormous reptiles, savage goblins, and an army of undead prowl its jungles and ruins. Mapping the place has always been nigh impossible, and nothing is known about the region’s current geography beyond a few miles from the coast.

On the bright side Syndra also expects that the characters will find enough treasure in Chult to make them as rich as kings, should they succeed at exploring the continent and even if they fail to discover Soulmonger.