Chapter 4: Dragon Season - Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Chapter 4: Dragon Season. Gold makes people do strange things, and Lord Neverember's hidden cache of dragons is up for grabs. The Stone of Golorr knows where the treasure vault is located and how to get inside, and much of this chapter focuses on the characters' hunt for the artifact. The challenges before them depend on the villain (or villains) that you selected to oppose them. Whatever the season, a villain's goals are simple: obtain the stone, find the Vault of Dragons, and claim the treasure within. Setting the Stage In chapter 3, Lady Gralhund's nimblewright took the Stone of Golorr and fled with it. The nimblewright delivers the artifact to a location and leaves it there for the main villain or villains to retrieve: If Xanathar is the villain, the stone is delivered to a mage named Grinda Garloth. She owns an apparatus of Kwalish and lives in Mistshore, a seedy neighborhood built on a dock in the Dock Ward. If the Cassalanters are the villains, the stone is left in their family crypt in Waterdeep's cemetery, the City of the Dead. A halfling necromancer gets to it before the Cassalanters or the characters do. If Jarlaxle is the villain, the stone is delivered to Fenerus Stormcastle, a lamplighter in the Trades Ward. Fenerus has a criminal history and is currently in trouble with the law. If Manshoon is the villain, the stone is brought to Thrakkus, a dragonborn butcher in the Field Ward who chops up bodies for the Zhentarim. Finding the Nimblewright If the characters can't pick up the trail after the nimblewright escapes with the Stone of Golorr, they might turn to the City Watch, the City Guard, or a friendly faction for help, which comes forth in 1d4 days. If it occurs to none of the characters, an NPC suggests that the party visit the House of Inspired Hands to see whether the priests of Gond know a way to find it (see "Nim's Secret"). Thereafter, armed with Nim's nimblewright detector, the characters can sweep the city. But by the time they find the nim...