A few days' journey to the southeast of Brightshore at the convergence of the Ava River and a smaller tributary lies a massive ruined city. It is surrounded by a field of bones that have also contaminated the nearby Ava River.

Two expeditions to Min Lue have been made in recent months. The first encountered a phantom who called himself the Guide. He told the adventurers that the city once fought two evil masters of magic, Kalad and the Duke of Shadow, and their legions of undead. The city was protected by an artifact called the Eye of the Dawn, but it was eventually tainted and stolen by the Duke and the city fell. Kalad cursed the spirits of the city to relive the day of its downfall every new moon for eternity.

The second expedition encountered the Duke, his elven servant, and several skeletal sentinels with skulls aflame. The Duke, a towering creature of shadow, was apparently casting some sort of time-bending ritual to reclaim “what was his.” The adventurers discovered that a large crystalline object of powerful evil and shadow was powering the Duke's ritual. They were forced to retreat as the ritual was completed and the Duke and his minions began to give chase.

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