The Chapel of Larithyon

This weekend my wife and I went on a little road trip into the Eastern Townships. This bucolic little area is full of neat places to explore. One place we visited was a small mountain that had a chapel built on top. As we explored some of the trails I felt as if I'd wandered into some sort of enchanted rocky woodland. It got me to thinking, who builds a chapel on top of a mountain anyway? As I thought about it I  imagined a cleric of Saint Cuthbert who built a wilderness chapel years ago in Greyhawk's Stark Mounds. Being in the wilderness it became a ripe target for the enemies of Good. 

Background

This chapel was built by Larithyon, a human cleric of Saint Cuthbert in the Stark Mounds. Here he worshiped his deity and battled evil. He collected many religious works that are still to this day preserved in the library. After his death he was interred by his acolytes and his magical mace hidden behind a bas relief. Much later the chapel fell into disuse. It became a site of pilgrimage until the Giant invasions of 583 CY. Today a mindflayer and his minions have taken over the site and use it as a base to raid for fresh meat and brains. The Gargoyle (located at 2b) and the mind flayer have a truce but are not actually allied with one another and for the right price might be willing to reveal the mindflayer's secret lair in 4g.

Chapel Grounds

1a. A number of small mountain trails lead down the mountain.

1b. An Intellect Devourer runs around here (MM 191)

The Rectory

2a. Grimlock Shaman lives here 

2b. Secret passage down to (4f). Gargoyle Guard Post (on roof)

The Chapel Proper

3a. Grimlock lookout post (MM 175)

3b. Defiled Altar

3c. Stairs down to (4a)

3d. Grimlock Lair

The Crypt

4a. Stairwell

4b. Crypts

i. Larithyon's Crypt

ii. Bones and rubble

iii. Empty Crypt 

4c. Bas Relief of Saint Cuthbert fighting Iuz hidden within is Larithyon's magical Mace

4d. Ancient Library containing many religious and sacred religious works 

4e. Mindflayer Laboratory 

4f. Secret entry from Rectory (2b)

4g. Secret Mindflayer Lair (MM 222)

Map by Dyson Logos