This is the introduction to a BoL adventure I was thinking of doing a while back. If it is of use to anyone please feel free.

                                        The Caverns of Xathool

Above you two fully grown Drakk, the Winged Dragons of the Mountains, circle lazily as if anticipating the end of their hunt. One would be a handful, even with a bow, but a pair, one male and the slightly smaller female, allow little chance of survival.
Grimly you tighten your grip on the sweat soaked leather bound hilt of your broadsword as your vision, black with exhaustion, meets the equally exhausted eyes of your companions. You see no hope there, no hint of a plan to win through. They are as empty of hope as you.
There seems little left to do now but stand back to back and prepare to sell your lives as dearly as you can…
 
Thirty days ago you (the characters) had entered the dark mountains of the Axos range as part of a well armed caravan, escorting the fat merchant Bel-Belias on a treasure seeking quest to find the legendary caverns of the fabled sorcerer Xathool.
Now thirty days later, you are all that remain of that caravan, and footsore without provisions or equipment save a few battered weapons, have been forced north further into those accursed peaks by this pair of hunting dragons.
And this is where this tale begins, lost and in desperate need of aid, without which you will surely die.
 
The original route of the caravan was to follow the Sham to its source somewhere in the Axos mountains where it was rumoured could be found the home of a mad hermit, Tal-Scathos, who claimed to have once been apprenticed to the sorcerer Xathool during his childhood. The rumours may or may not prove correct, Bel-Belias was said to possess a map, no doubt taken in payment of some debt. However maps purporting to show the whereabouts of Xathool’s caverns are easy to come by, and as rare as J