# Zythan Avhoste — Your Conclave Contact *High Diviner of Halruaa | The Conclave's eyes on your descent* ---  > [!note] Correction > An earlier version of this handout named your contact **Ramius**. That was a mix-up. Your patron's contact has always been **Zythan Avhoste** of the Conclave of Halruaa. --- ## The Conclave of Halruaa Halruaa is a land of magic, where much of the ruling elite are archmages. It was founded by archwizards who foresaw the fall of Netheril, and it keeps their power without their ambitions. **The Conclave** is a secret society within Halruaa that enforces the laws on the use, abuse and research of magic. Nobody outside it knows who its members are. When a spellcaster endangers Halruaa's future, the Conclave intervenes. Usually that's a warning. Those who ignore it are never heard from again. Their diviners have foreseen that Asmodeus's scheme will unleash a dangerous soul: **the Unmaker**. --- ## Your Quest - **Find the Unmaker** in the Nine Hells and **slay it**. - **Trap its soul in the *Conclave Coin***, a special soul coin made to hold the Unmaker. - **Return the coin to the Conclave** so the coin and the soul inside it can be destroyed. In return, the Conclave's diviners will help you find the souls you seek. They will also reveal the locations of powerful magic items lost in the Nine Hells, the graveyard of thousands of heroes and the treasures they carried. --- ## Your Contact — Zythan Avhoste A Halruaan diviner recruited young by the Conclave, now one of its most trusted seers. People who know him mention his **green hair**, his matter-of-fact manner, and a **third eye that seems to open when he works magic**. He rarely talks about himself and prefers to talk about the future. He is brilliant, socially awkward, and has a bad habit of forgetting to eat. He is skilled in every school of magic, Divination above all. ### How Zythan Keeps in Touch - **He watches.** Using Divination, Zythan keeps tabs on the party and **checks in when he judges the moment right**. There's no fixed schedule. Expect him when something has changed. - **When he visits**, he can offer magic items for purchase, buy your excess **spell scrolls and spellbooks**, and, on request, **try to hunt down a specific magic item**. If he finds it, he brings it on his next visit. --- ## Conclave Perks ### Arcane Communication Each of you receives a ***Sending Stone*** and a ***Halruaan Ethereal Vessel***. **Sending Stone** — *Wondrous item, uncommon.* The matching stone is held by a member of the Conclave. While touching your stone, you can use an action to cast *sending* to that person. Once used, the stones can't be used again until the next dawn. **Halruaan Ethereal Vessel** — *Wondrous item, rare.* Two people attune to it: you and a member of the Conclave. It's a transparent case holding up to **12 cubic feet of nonliving material (3 × 2 × 2 ft)**. When not in use, it rests on the Ethereal Plane. While it's there, either of you can use an action to recall it to an unoccupied space within 5 feet. Use an action to send it back. ### Arcane Quartermasters Use your Sending Stone to request one of the items below. Place the payment in your Ethereal Vessel and send the Vessel back to the Ethereal Plane. The Conclave member attuned to it removes the money and replaces it with your item. | Conclave Item | Cost | | --- | ---: | | Blank scroll | 10 gp | | Broom of Flying | 600 gp | | Crystal Ball | 30,000 gp | | Divination spell scroll (1st level) | 100 gp | | Divination spell scroll (2nd or 3rd level) | 500 gp | | Divination spell scroll (4th or 5th level) | 2,000 gp | | Gem of Seeing | 10,000 gp | | Headband of Intellect | 400 gp | | Helm of Comprehending Languages | 600 gp | | Material spell component (up to 1,000 gp) | 75% of original cost | | Medallion of Thoughts | 350 gp | | Ring of Mind Shielding | 500 gp | | Ring of Spell Storing | 12,000 gp | | Wand of Binding | 8,000 gp | | Wand of Magic Detection | 500 gp | | Wand of Wonder | 9,500 gp | --- ## Purchasing Items from Zythan | Item | Cost | | --- | ---: | | Amulet of the Planes | 35,000 gp | | Carpet of Flying | 40,000 gp | | Ioun Stone (reserve) | 8,500 gp | | Mantle of Spell Resistance | 10,500 gp | | Ring of Resistance | 9,000 gp | | Staff of Power | 45,000 gp | | Wand of Fireballs | 10,000 gp | | Wand of the War Mage, +1 | 500 gp | | Wand of the War Mage, +2 | 9,500 gp | | Wand of the War Mage, +3 | 32,000 gp | ## Selling to Zythan Zythan buys **spellbooks and spell scrolls** only. | Item | Price | | --- | ---: | | Spellbooks | 100 gp per level of each spell in the book; +2,000 gp if it contains a 9th-level spell | | Spell scrolls (2nd–4th level) | 250 gp | | Spell scrolls (5th–6th level) | 900 gp | | Spell scrolls (7th–8th level) | 2,250 gp | | Spell scrolls (9th level) | 6,000 gp | --- *Handout — The Conclave of Halruaa | Chains of Asmodeus*