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    I have a large cave system (partially submerged) that serves as the lair for a bronze dragon. The problem is that it is so large and empty after I put in the shipwreck and treasure pile. I need ideas on what else to put in there.

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    Ideas:
    an underwater garden maintained by an intelligent giant octopus.

    A giant underwater ravine. Going down through it, you find interesting sights.
    These will be in order of going down. The dragon has not searched the ravine.
    • A hostile party of sahuagin.
    • a crashed Apparatus of Kwalish. There are two dead pilots inside. Also some magic item junk. This may needed to reach the lowest areas.
    • Giant crabs around geothermal vents.
    • an Abyssal Eye fish.
    • A strange cave area that appears to be a gathering place. A religion or investigation check tells you tat this is some religious shrine. All references to a specific deity are scratched out. On an altar there lays a sacrificial dagger (stats: Rakdos Riteknife) If the party lingers, they are attacked by kuo toa.
    • More geothermal activity, and a sunken treasure chest filled with platinum and magic items.


    Outside of the lair, there may be Crabfolk prowling around. There is a very low chance they are hostile.

    Pirates stashing loot in a cave.

    A giant eel. It is actually friends with the dragon.

    Above the lair, an amphitheater. Where the dragon used to disguise itself to attend festivals and plays.

    A shark pit. Why not. The dragon accidentally dropped a favorite coin in it, and will be grateful if it is returned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prince Vine View Post
    I have a large cave system (partially submerged) that serves as the lair for a bronze dragon. The problem is that it is so large and empty after I put in the shipwreck and treasure pile. I need ideas on what else to put in there.
    A large, south-facing cliff overlooks the deep, wide channel between the mainland and a pair of small islands which sit on the horizon. The cliff face angles back at about five to ten degrees from vertical, and at its base the great oceanic waves crash into and roll over piles of stone which have sheared from the cliff and crashed into the sea.

    Behind this cliff is a kidney-shaped chamber with a large dias centered on the shorter, inner wall. The outer wall is pierced with 12 narrow but tall windows which are tunnels through the rock angled so that from the dias one can see straight out to the sea. From the outside they appear to be nothing more than cracks and water-carved imperfections in the broken cliff.

    The true purpose of the windows can be seen from the dias. Each window is arranged in an arch, low on either end and high in the center, which frames the sun as it crosses the sky. The bottom of the windows are just low enough to allow the winter sun to shine on the focal point of the dias, and just high enough to catch the summer sun as it passes each window in turn.

    Each window is wide enough to allow the dragon to squeeze through, and each is fitted with a native-stone door which, when closed and barred, will defy the wisest rogue's ability to detect that it is anything but a part of the cliff from the outside.

    The walls, ceiling, and floor of the chamber are rounded and there are no sharp corners. The only flat spot is the dias, which rises about eight feet from the floor at the center oe the chamber and merges into the back wall.

    Because every surface is covered in pure white plaster it is difficult, at first, to see that what at first appears to be imperfections in the finish are actually bas-relief decorations. They form a continuous mural on every surface, and tend to show aquatic scenes. Only the dragon knows that what to humans appears to be a fantasia is its memories of places and people it knew.

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    A library.

    A giant sculpture of a coin, for no obvious purpose.

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    A big and fancy altar dedicated to the god of that dragon for social ranking reasons (just like the treasure piles)?
    A small house with someone who never sleeps and always keeps a crossbow pointed at the entry door?
    A lot of huge circles of protection against varied alignments for interdimensional study?
    All the far realms within the caves because nonsensic space occupation is a thing for the far realms?
    An hundred dogs because the dragon did pick up an harmless cute looking dog as a pet then the dog made puppies that were then adopted by the dragon and so on?
    Engravings of dwarves killing random things with random things (sometimes the same kind of thing as what is being killed (example: a dwarf killing a titan by bashing it with another titan))
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    Quote Originally Posted by D&D_Fan View Post
    Ideas:
    an underwater garden maintained by an intelligent giant octopus.
    Only if you put it in the shade of the shipwreck.


    Generalizing what a dragon might keep in or around their lair is, of course, as foolish as generalizing what a humanoid might keep in or around their house. Ask yourself questions like "Who is this dragon?" and "Why are the players visiting?", and think about what sort of features that implies.

    A few basic suggestions:
    • A coral reef. Because coral reefs are awesome.
    • A village inhabited by underwater allies/friends of the bronze dragon.
    • Some kind of cave or construction full of air, for when air-breathers come to visit.
    • The skeleton of some great sea monster that attacked the bronze dragon's lair. (Those are a pain to clean up.)
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    Pets/Livestock - A collection of exotic fish, frogs, and bats. Bronze Dragons can speak with animals, so they make useful guards and company.

    Trophies - Dragons are apex predators, so it makes sense for them to display animal or humanoid relics that mark out their strength and competence.

    Petitions, letters, or offerings - Many humanoids will seek out Draconic patronage, so just mark out that that’s happened.
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    Quote Originally Posted by White Blade View Post
    Trophies - Dragons are apex predators, so it makes sense for them to display animal or humanoid relics that mark out their strength and competence.
    Humans are predators too yet most humans does not have trophies made out of creatures.
    It all depends on the individual personality of the dragon: if it is a dragon proud of their victories then it is more likely than if it is a dragon that stays in a corner and reads all the books they can get in which case their trophies are more likely to be rare books.
    It would not be odd to see some sort of exposed trophy but not necessarily one made from a former living creature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noob View Post
    Humans are predators too yet most humans does not have trophies made out of creatures.
    It all depends on the individual personality of the dragon: if it is a dragon proud of their victories then it is more likely than if it is a dragon that stays in a corner and reads all the books they can get in which case their trophies are more likely to be rare books.
    Have you ever been to a good ol' boy's house? Even where the woman of the house does not permit taxidermy in the house there will be photos of the successful hunts. Even in the small town convenience and grocery stores their are trophy photos of family and friends.

    I have been considering the idea of collections, but what would a bronze dragon collect?

    Anchors. From ancient carved rocks with holes in them to massive iron fluke anchors the collection fills a gallery, with each display having a plaque detailing where it was found and as much other information as is available.

    Pearls. Boxes of ordinary ones. Huge ones set on cushions on pedastels, mother of pearl, seed pearls, pearls set as jewelry, and so on.

    Shark teeth. Big ones, little ones, megadont teeth and the teeth of the sharks which prey on megadonts. Teeth marked for use as money or set as jewelry or tools, or weapons.

    Ancient artifacts which were obtained new and kept for their utility or attractiveness which are now all that remains of the culture which made them.

    Anyway, without knowing the dragon it's hard to know what it would like.

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    An Airy Water Room in which both air and water breathers can breathe and move comfortably. It is decorated with living corals, and reef animals move through the room and along the walls going about their business.

    The ceiling is pale blue in daytime with a hot bright patch that moves in immitation of the sun's daily and seasonal movements. At night it fades to black with pinpoint lights all over and an immitation moon traverses it in phase and season with the real moon.

    If the lair is not in tropical waters this room will be tended like an aquarium, perhaps by the previously suggested octopus.

    In the center of the room there is a lounge area with furniture suited to land dwellers and with comfortable seating arangements for sea dwellers.

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    What if there is an evil intelligent shark that also lairs in the deeper part of the extended lair.
    Specifically in the deep ravine.
    The shark has some minions which are more sharks that are still sapient, but not as smart as the leader shark.

    He and the octopus have a rivalry.

    Maybe you first meet the octopus when you can aid him in defending his garden against an attack from the shark.

    The dragon won't intervene immediately because they enjoy watching the drama between the two.

    The whole thing is probably really arbitrary.

    What are they fighting for? Will you take a side?
    Whatever party is going to figure that out.
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    A large blowhole which jets water fifty feet into the air during heavy seas and is a churning maelstrom at the best of times is also an entrance, from both above and below the waves, to the dragon's lair.

    Sea Lions drag up on the rocks near the seaside entrance, which is a deep, v-shaped channel leading to a cliff beneath which the entrance and blowhole are found. They do not work for the dragon, but they do provide guard services by their presence.

    A male Giant Eagle, (Osprey,) has built an aerie beneath an overhang near the top. It has yet to attract a female, (it is a young adult,) but it has a cooperative agreement with the dragon and will warn it of approaching danger or even defend the entrance if it can.

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    There is a dangerous kelp forest near/in/under the lair.
    This kelp forest is special, since an aquatic variant of assassin vines known as Assassin Kelp hide in the forest.
    In the center of the forest there is a sunken ship. It contains some powerful magic items.

    At the very deepest and most secretive point of the map, there is a crashed alien spacecraft. In it are two long dead aliens, laser weapons, and energy cells. This is a secret, nobody else knows of it.

    There is an intelligent otter merchant. He sells trinkets he finds. Among these trinkets are some items of value.

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    A small network of cave apartments outfitted with beds, closets, etc. For the use of the Bronze Dragons Human allies, patsies, visitors, and even potentially lovers or themselves (As many have polymorph last I checked and half dragons come from somewhere)

    Quite possibly servant quarters...If they have guards etc those guards will need kitchens, a place to sleep, etc.

    A room with extra large war game pieces. In 3.5 at least it was mentioned that Bronze Dragons were fascinated by War. so having a "war game room" be that something rather like Warhammer with just as complex rules or something more abstract like chess is more up to your willingness to paint the picture, tone, and personality of the dragon.

    A large rock or exposed coral that is spiky and rough which the dragon uses as a scratching bar to get those hard to reach places between the wings, stubborn scales that need to be shed, and cleaning in general. The area underneath this outcrop (which may be natural, worked, or brought in from elsewhere) shows the obvious detritus of such grooming.

    A long trap hallway that is very easy for the dragon to defend using its lightning bolt breath weapon. Also enjoys a bit of target practice from time to time here. So this area is massively scarred by marks of lightning bolt strikes. As a result in a few places the rock has picked up strange magnetic and magical effects. Probably nothing more than hair on arms stands up, charms on a chain float at an odd angle, and maybe a (-1) penalty to aim magical rays or something. Small amounts of metal smelted from the surrounding rock (too little to be useful ore) can be collected and can help lower the cost of magic items with electrical and some force powers if you lean that way.

    A pond of mercury. was a gift from a friend/rival copper dragon who lost a bet to give the bronze dragon "water of the earth sea" Bronze Dragon is not full sure what to do with it...but it acts a nice mirror right now...may make a good stand in for water in a giant model one day, is fun to play with as it flows light water but is heavy enough to interest the dragon is how it feels.

    A claw tending station. Its a spot where the dragon can chill and if it has servants get a manicure to get the blood and grime out of its claws. If it has no servants like that the places has bits of soft wood, raspy stones, sharkskin, etc that it can use to make sure it has that nice polished scale and claw finish that sets metallic dragons apart from their chromatic counterparts.

    A Library. Probably in human sized form...local history, royalty and nobility, war histories, travel logs from friendly traders even generations ago how human measure things are all likely to be favored subjects.

    May collect figureheads from sunken ships for example or gifts from ship captains that they have provided alliances or aid to. (Sure most of that protection money/bribe/thankyou gifts end up in the treasure pile some of the more sentimental value ones may be held elsewhere.

    May also collect breaks of giants squid/young Kraken, shells of giant crabs or clams, etc.

    Also really matters how inhabited this stretch of coast is. What are the dragons relationship with its humanoid and draconic neighbors. What is the climate like?
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    What if the bronze dragons lair is staffed by good aligned aquatic kobolds.
    The kobolds would have an entire wing of the lair where they lived, and worked.

    There could also be a room where there is a massive shard of blacks tone. When asked, the denizens of the lair are confused, and don't recall seeing it. It can only be entered once, when the party goes there again, it is gone. The dragon seems intentionally vague when it is mentioned.

    There is a whole section of the lair located deep near the bottom that has been flooded and buried beneath rubble. Only the dragon remembers it, but doesn't think there is much of value there to begin with.
    The sunken region can be entered easier through the ravine. It is filled with strange rooms with strange symbols on the walls, and disturbing bas reliefs, strange items can be found here. You later figure out that this is an ancient temple do a dark sea deity. kuo toa can be found here.

    There is a room in a far off part of the dungeon containing a large beautiful crystal on a pedestal. As it turns out this crystal is an egg. What is in it. A Lhurgoyf? Who knows?

    On the beach there is a washed up De-Luxe Expresso Machine that is badly damaged, and likely beyond repair. What? Why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by White Blade View Post
    Petitions, letters, or offerings - Many humanoids will seek out Draconic patronage, so just mark out that that’s happened.
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    A Library. Probably in human sized form...local history, royalty and nobility, war histories, travel logs from friendly traders even generations ago how human measure things are all likely to be favored subjects.
    Addenda to this: the library/study chamber should have a permanent spell effect that keeps excess moisture from the room - anyone entering feels themselves and the air around them instantly become drier.

    Lots of regularly-spaced Continual Flame (or equivalent) spells cast into special decorative mountings that can be opened/closed to control the amount of light.

    Bas-relief carvings of portraits of the dragon's family, gilded with actual bronze for the scales, gemstone eyes, ivory teeth & claws, etc.

    Quote Originally Posted by sktarq View Post
    A room with extra large war game pieces. In 3.5 at least it was mentioned that Bronze Dragons were fascinated by War. so having a "war game room" be that something rather like Warhammer with just as complex rules or something more abstract like chess is more up to your willingness to paint the picture, tone, and personality of the dragon.
    A large table with an accurate, to-scale, 3D model map of the surrounding region. Figurines made of brass, pewter, gold, ivory, etc. are placed on the map, representing various forces & key powers of the region - this may be an accurate representation of the current situation, something historical, or just a wargame scenario.

    A pool of magically steaming-hot fresh water, large enough to accommodate the dragon. There's a shelf carved into the wall holding flasks of scented oils & glass bottles of rare salts. And a giant yellow rubber ducky.

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    A large pentagonal room has hundreds of bronze mirrors of immense size arranged in a funhouse maze. The path through the maze is a rough circle which is twenty feet wide and thirty feet high, and the smallest mirrors are at least ten feet across the smallest side.

    Like a funhouse, the mirrors distort images, making the viewer appear taller, thinner, shorter, fatter, etc. There may be clues scattered about the lair that otherwise make no sense, such as, "You must be thin to go in." This clue indicates that behind a mirror that makes the viewer thin is another chamber or passageway.

    There is a cul de sac at the far end of the circle which appears to open into the space behind the mirrors inside the circular path. The space is lined with mirrors and is roughly forty feet in diameter. The largest mirror in this space reflects the character of the viewers. The adventurers have about five minutes to look around before the Wall of Force that divides them from their mirror images falls. What happens then depends on the true character of the adventurers.

    When the Wall of Force falls the mirror images know, and they will have a surprise round to do whatever their true nature dictates. If the PCs are murderhobos the images will attack. Otherwise, it's up to the DM. The images are physical manifestations whose purpose is to keep hostile beings from entering the mirror chamber and exit from there to the dragon's bedroom/hoard. The images will not leave the two halves of this chamber, so retreat is a viable option for the adventurers. After a single round without a viewer the chamber resets.

    Other mirrors set around the outside ring lead to other treasure, magic items, laboratories, and so on.

    Aquatic-themed practical jokes may be behind some, such as an arm which slaps the opener with a fish, or an aquarium dumping its contents of 99 goldfish and the water they swim in onto the lock-picker as she succeeds in picking the lock.

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    How about... a wall, shaped as semicircle, engraved with a large amount of dragon runes? Mystical writings in secret dragon language that reveal the inner workings of dragon's mind...

    "Day 2047 of human-only diet. Haven't had a sheep in years. Ate two humans - the one in tin can tasted terrible - bland, chewy, too muscular. The other was better, came with some condiments and spices in a small bag."

    "Day 2189 of human-only diet. Broke the rules today, almost felt ashamed. Ate an elf. Tasty!"

    "Day 2200: end of human-only diet. Did not lose enough weight to leave the grotto. What a waste of time. I'll try ork-only now."

    "Day 2217: end of orc-only diet. Tastes like pork. Old pork. Couldn't get the taste off, had to eat four elves just to get rid of it."
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    Even good dragons can still eat humans.
    There is a comic that has dragon's favorite ways to eat humans, humanoids, and demihumans.

    I still like the idea of ancient draconic runes that are little more than a diary for the dragon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by D&D_Fan View Post
    Even good dragons can still eat humans.
    There is a comic that has dragon's favorite ways to eat humans, humanoids, and demihumans.

    I still like the idea of ancient draconic runes that are little more than a diary for the dragon.
    To be honest: dragon's diary could contain rather "big picture" view of events. Kingdoms collapsing ("Well, there used to be a kingdom when I last went to check and it's not there..."), natural disasters, wars, origin of ruins ("I hated that tower. Crushed it."), famous heroes ("I hated that hero. Ate him."), artifacts...

    ...so yeah, not really his diet, but maybe historical events from perspective of nearly immortal reptile that is able to comprehend languages if he decides to and may or may not go check what those pesky humans in those small irrelevant cities do once in a century.
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    Instead of having an adventure, from which a cool unexpected story may rise, you had a story, with an adventure built and designed to enable the story, but also ensure (or close to ensure) it happens.

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    I don't know if there is a confirmed personality for the dragon in question.
    Even though though bronze dragons are supposed to be good, This dragon we have come up with while coming up is probably not a good example of the species. He is overall just pretty negative.
    If he isn't really a jerk, then he might just be very oblivious to what he does.
    He eats people, destroys things, and commits other actions that aren't typical for good aligned beings.
    If we are indirectly giving this dragon a personality by making his lair, then we should also add some positives.
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    Some people collect ships in bottles. Others collect scale model ships. This dragon has a large cavern full of full-sized ships.

    And not just any ships. These are pirate ships. Each of the ships was involved in piracy in waters over which the dragon had responsibility, and the dragon took part in capturing the ship and bringing the crew to justice.

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    What if he has an entire pirate ship hull that has been converted into a couch.
    It would be in the living room, as well as a giant lamp, on a giant side table that was once a small tower.
    The dragon likes to sit/lie down on the pirate ship couch, and watch tv on a giant flatscreen crystal ball.

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    A giant sculpture of a coin, for no obvious purpose.
    Somebody stole Batman's giant penny?

    ETA: 2E Forgotten Realms dragons often had a pit with a deepspawn. The deepspawn couldn't get out, but provided a regular, if boring, source of nourishment.
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    Huh. I though dragons liked humanoids.
    I also don’t know what a deep spawn is

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    Huh. I though dragons liked humanoids.
    I also don’t know what a deep spawn is
    https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Deepspawn

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    Double checking the lore, bronze dragons dislike killing but are very big on justice (for its own sake). Maybe there could be a display of a few military awards, with an accompanying note for how not to get "caught" in the same manner again?

    The above appears to be tied to the dragon's repulsion breath, which in the older editions compelled you to move away from the dragon for a while.

    Also, based on the description I expect that if any dragons go vegetarian its going to be bronze dragons. From here:
    Quote Originally Posted by 3.5e SRD
    Bronze dragons dislike killing animals and would rather bribe them
    The suggestions about a diary of what humanoids they eat would work nicely for the smarter chromatic dragons though.


    One thing I don't see much of is the usual rooms you keep in the house. I like sktarq's suggestions, except for the idea an intelligent apex predator would keep a bunch of poison in its home that is known to build up to much higher levels in the bodies of predators. Especially if they're going to track it all around the area.

    There should probably be a room with a chamber pot, somewhere to prepare food (unless it hunts something down and proceeds to eat it raw immediately, I guess), and likely some sort of lounge large enough to meet with close family. I assume it sleeps in the treasure pile, although I personally prefer to give dragons a nest made of less conductive material.

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    ...., except for the idea an intelligent apex predator would keep a bunch of poison in its home that is known to build up to much higher levels in the bodies of predators. Especially if they're going to track it all around the area.

    There should probably be a room with a chamber pot, somewhere to prepare food (unless it hunts something down and proceeds to eat it raw immediately, I guess), and likely some sort of lounge large enough to meet with close family. I assume it sleeps in the treasure pile, although I personally prefer to give dragons a nest made of less conductive material.
    I assume you are talking about the mercury.
    Mostly I came up with that for a few reasons...
    One mercury was a display of wealth material like gold or ivory for a long time. Aztec, Egyptian, and Chinese tombs all have been found with the stuff as a status marker. It has even been used as "water" in large models of palaces etc (where I got the idea) and is thought to have been used as a bed in another case. And this is by humans, another apex predator.
    The idea of it being a concentratable toxin is rather new view of mercury.



    Further it would be like gak or a non drying oil...it feels interesting on the skin to play with. (i recommend gloves for this....but dragons have scales) and has a high enough surface tension that it doesn't track all over very easily (my family used it for industry...it stays put pretty well)

    Plus being a water type dragon I was looking for magical water-like curiosities that PC's were not looking to steal.

    Finally dragon and poison are classically linked. Lots of this in classic myth so even that works.


    And as for food prep....I'm not sure if prep would be that normal in a metalic dragon lair. IIRC in Draconomicon it was mentioned that Bronze dragons liked to eat large fish. And metallic dragons in general were know to eat weird stuff like earth (esp gemstones-which considering their size is basically glitter) over lots of meat. Now a dragon that spends a lot of time in humanoid form (which while a major silver dragon fluff trait was pretty normal for bronze too if Council of Wyrms had anything to say about it). in fact the only dragons I remember having a thing for food prep were chromatics (Blacks like to get a good rot going, Whites like the body to freeze first (body heat issues?), and Reds like a good roast). . . But perhaps as a way to entertain guests it could be an interesting hobby/trait.
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    I suggest 2 small rival tribes of kobolds. They worship the Bronze Dragon and, since the kobolds don't cause lots of harm in the surrounding area, the dragon let them be. But each tribe wants to be the one and only tribe that worship the dragon and see the other one as a threat. So, each tribe tries to bribe the adventurers in order to wipe out the other tribe. The adventurers may wipe out tribe A, tribe B, both or none (it is their adventure and their story after all). I believe this is a good plot twist because the tribes can act either as a dungeon encounter or a village to trade and rest.
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    Cool magical odds and ends like windows which look out on different places in the world
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