Says a parrot sitting on a treebranch upon which Jace is draped over, having suddenly appeared in a flash of white light.Ages ago, the evil sorcerer Malicoran summoned forth a slave army of djinn to build for him a hidden citadel deep in the accursed forests of Ooop. At the heart of this citadel he forged a terrible weapon, a weapon with but one purpose.
To blind the eyes of the gods who had spurned him and his power.
But before he could complete his work, the gods sent of flood pouring into the citadel, drowning the sorcerer and leaving the final step of his work undone.
Now the undercrypt remains, forgotten, until now...
In spite of the colorful tropical bird, he finds himself in an oak woodland that is pretty clearly tended to, judging from the relative lack of underbrush. Several deer munching on acorns perk up at his appearance, watching him warily. None too far away rises a large mound covered in sod with a ruined stone structure atop it that's choked in ivy. That probably isn't what he's interested in, though.
What he's interested in is the large doorway built of sandy brown stone in the shape of a great leering monstrous face, its open maw the door.
The face looks kind of like a dog.
But not really.
The portal stands open, though if he were to look close Jace would find the corroded remains of copper hinges that once held the dusty remains of a oak door that has long since been devoured by beetles. Of course, he would have to get out of the tree to actually do that.
The parrot side-steps closer to him and begins beaking at his hair.