Qau

More mining colony than town, currently ravaged by the toxic ore (since ~69 Akhet 2484)

S48:

29 Peret 2485

They continue to Qau. They see burned refugees walking downriver as they sail Edgefinder up. Ukund, a lady dwarf with curly gray hair, a burlap cloak, and a staff, is sitting sullenly at the dock when they arrive. She takes them to the overseer's office. Atur is a thin, stressed-out looking dwarf with burns on his forearms. He and his sons (Sahur and Sennacherib), were the first to find the toxic ore. He was only hit in the arm, but the rest of them were hit in the head, and succumbed to a sort of madness. Any who succumbed to the madness have not emerged from the mine. The party agrees to go in to save the dwarves surviving inside. Padubast asks for a map, and Atur gives it to him.

Atur: a straight arrow overseer of the dwindling mining colony. Thin and stressed. Scar on right forearm.

~50 Peret 2485 - party investigated underdark via the crevice, were almost killed by a Death Worm, fled again. Corpse of a mad dwarf/derro was their.

See also: the primeval dwarf