She imprisoned them in the Spire, a marvelous shining structure that stretched two hundred feet into the sky, that also served as her palace. Though they were trapped in a gilded cage, it was a cage none the less, and the heroes bristled at their imprisonment.

Finally they saw signs of a civilization — a small thorp in the woods. … As they skirted around the town, they come across a young Hobgoblin girl, carrying a basket of blackberries. The girl, startled by the party, drops the basket and screams: “Monsters!”

They found the most vexing sight of all, an impossibly long, 30-foot tall, red wall of pure light, that they quickly ascertained would set anything that crossed it’s path ablaze…

They quickly discovered that the world above was full of danger … they pressed onward into the forgotten lands, not knowing that the dangers they had already faced paled in comparison to the dangers yet to come…