The Red Palm sign is described as a black backdrop marked with a red goblin handprint. Session 01
The cave has two known entrances, one of which is badly broken. Session 01
Large statues stand above the cave approach, though at least one is broken. Session 01
The surviving entrance is marked with a cloven hoof. Session 01
Two goblins circle outside the cave.
The earliest surviving notes indicate pairs of goblins made patrol passes roughly every fifteen minutes. Session 01
A goblin boss there has a wolf he took into the cave.
The earliest surviving notes describe that larger goblin as better armored than the others. Session 01
Inside is a small pool of sparkly liquid.
The earliest surviving expedition notes place that liquid in a room to the far right within the cave. Session 02
A sample of the liquid was taken from the cave in the earliest surviving expedition notes. Session 02
There are secret doors within the cave.
One old statue there bears a cloven hoof.
Rubble lies throughout the site.
Crohl Ba’an was once a two-headed ogre mage.
He tried to overtake his own people and join a band of orcs.
His people fought back, but they were unable to kill him.
Instead, they put him to sleep.
A cure to wake him was entombed with him in the cave.
The liquid in the cave can be used to resurrect Crohl Ba’an.
History
Cloven Hoof Cave was once a tomb for the ogre mage Crohl Ba’an.
After he turned against his own people and sought alliance with orcs, they rose against him.
Unable to kill him, they placed him into enchanted sleep.
Crohl Ba’an warned that a great catastrophe would one day come and that only he could prevent it.
Because of that warning, his people entombed him with the means to wake him if such a disaster came to pass.
The earliest surviving expedition notes describe scouts watching the cave from hiding, observing Red Palm patrols and a larger goblin with a wolf returning inside. Session 01
Session 02 adds that infiltrators in goblin disguise reached the inner chambers, found many sleeping goblins, took a sample of the sparkly liquid, and escaped after waking the cave inhabitants. Session 02
Those same early notes record that the liquid’s purpose was still unknown at the time and that the sample was later left with John Harrison. Session 02
