Locations · first: DDQ E1
The Underworld
The Underworld is reached by stepping into a rune circle in the Temple of Wraiths, and the party falls into it DDQ E1·01:59:12. Brennan describes an endless alien waste with floating broken stone platforms joined by writhing bands of pulsating blood streams of magical energy DDQ E1·02:00:19. He says screaming spirits of death swirl in a tornado during the fall and that the heroes walk on the surface of Death itself DDQ E1·02:00:19. He says the land is decaying as though it were once the living body of some vast cosmic entity DDQ E1·02:00:19.
The Underworld is the realm of the dead below Kelvorda, entered through the Temple of Wraiths DDQ E1·01:59:12 DDQ E1·02:00:19. Its platforms and deserts, some hundreds of miles long, float in an endless void, and the wind asks to drink your life away DDQ E2·00:02:26. It has no sun or moon DDQ E2·01:37:53.
The River of Sorrow keeps the dead within it through a magic of eternal loss, and leads to Hollowgrave, the last waystation at its edge DDQ E2·00:17:29 DDQ E2·00:04:55. Kerwyn says the Goddess of Death reigns there, unworshipped by the living but worshipped by the dead DDQ E2·00:50:54. Her Tower of Tombs stands in the center of the Underworld DDQ E2·01:50:21.
By episode
DDQ E1: Queens on a Quest
- The Underworld — "an endless alien waste", with floating broken stone platforms joined by "writhing bands of pulsating blood streams of magical energy" — 02:00:19