The Echoes

"Lolth... Free me from my madness... Please..." - A pleading Drow explorer after having travelled too deep.

At a Glance


Twenty miles beneath the surface The Echoes earn their name from the pitch-black tunnels that reflect a mortal's own sense of emptiness back into their heart and mind. The Echoes are far from empty, however, and are home to the most dangerous creatures of the Underdark.

The Purple Worm is the realm's most dangerous inhabitant and the quiet tunnels of The Echoes can quickly become replaced with the thundering roar of a Purple Worm eating its way through the tunnel.

Over the years few mortals have dared to explore into this realm. Those that have complain of a lingering madness at the each of their thoughts. This pervasive gloom has been described as "profoundly disorienting". With no sun to cue cycles of sleep, adventurers become drowsy and unnerved, and those who do disappear into the Echoes and return do so changed by the hauntings of lonliness and paranoia.

Heroes who dare to find their way down through The Echoes will take note that the walls themselves seem to perspire and forgotten halls and doors have veins across them that bleed when touched. It is not a sane place for mortals to travel, and at the base of it the two gods Lolth and Torog continue their sibling rivalry.