The air in the cavern is hot, and the red-orange glow of molten rock illuminates the walls of the chamber. Strange shapes and shadows appear to<br/>writhe within these walls, vanishing and melding and merging into one another. Though they could just be distortions due to the heat, it seems for a moment as if you see one slide wriggling down another's throat...<br/><br/>As your eyes adapt to the sting of brimstone in the air, the shapes on the walls can be seen more clearly. They bear the distinctive swirls and sharp lines of dragonmarks, though they do not resemble any marks you recognize.<br/><br/>The great altar is carved of stone, and you can see, now, that it is in truth a great stone sarcophagus. Carved with draconic imagery. it stands along the far edge of the magma rift. The great slab bears two object, a tall sceptre and an amulet of some kind. A third space is only made more obvious by its emptyness...