Maure Castle

(Background) April 7, 1203: Seeking help from a powerful group capable of surviving the dangers of Maure Castle, Messalina an emissary to the Citadel of Eight, has contacted the group hoping to hire them for a mission. She has been in contact with a covert member of a secretive society of explorers known as the Seekers, and has relayed information regarding a fellow Seeker named Kerfane who disappeared about twenty-five years ago after having lived in a ruin near Maure Castle for nearly a decade. Messalina is offering a bounty of 10,000 gp's if the party can venture into the ruins to recover Kerfane's journals, which presumably contain a wealth of information about Maure Castle. Messalina assumes that the dungeon is uninhabited, but relates the place's reputation for surpassingly deadly traps.