The Fire Rift

Autumn 9th Day in the month of Jessica 1371

Long had Fidlthid sought to destroy the silver ring given to him by Morcarat. So, down, the heroes delved in search of the Fire Rift, whose flames could smite even the most powerful magic device. Beyond a foul, mold-covered crypt, they found a massive stair winding down around a deep shaft. Down they went, further down than ever before. 

The stairs eventually came to a massive portal of stone wrought into the maw of a leering demon. A smoldering firelight came from within. The stairs wound down further into the darkness. Within the cave, the heroes slew fire-breathing reptiles and red lizard men who threw javelins tipped in sharp obsidian. 

They came eventually to the great rift of fire. Across it spanned a narrow bridge of stone and on the opposite side was an entryway gleaming with white light. Fidlthid destroyed Mocarat's ring which succumbed to the leaping fire that filled the rift. Across the bridge, they went and slew two beings of magical flame called to this realm by powerful sorcery. 

In the chamber beyond the bridge, they seized an ever-burning torch of white light and a heavy brass brazier set upon a tripod. It took two men to carry the large brazier, and Balthazar, one of the henchmen who bore it, fell to a lizardman's cruel javelin

Nevertheless, the heroes surfaced and set about learning what they could of the mysterious objects once ensconced deep within the fiery cavern.