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Desert Dungeon Entrance | Terracotta Necropolis Part 3

Added 2025-06-24 22:49:36 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone! Today we bring this Desert Dungeon Entrance, which is meant to be the Terracotta Necropolis Entrance, although it can be used as the entry gates for any dungeon.

Terracotta Necropolis

This is Part 3 of our Terracotta Necropolis mini-adventure, and the entrance that goes deep into the Necropolis, where the party can explore the ancient dungeon ruins and fight the Terracotta Summoner and their Terracotta Warriors army.

Dungeon Entrance

You have been traveling for days through the scorching desert. Your water reserves are low, and you are thirsty and exhausted. When hope begins to fade, a silhouette breaks the horizon, casting the first shadows you've seen in miles.

It's real, it's the ancient ruins of the Terracotta Necropolis the archeologists spoke about back in the city. Some say that there are powerful artifacts inside, others that there is a Terracotta Summoner raising an army of Terracotta Warriors.

As you get closer, the temperature lowers, and you see the magnificent structure. The closed gates and facade are carved from the stone itself, and they lead deeper into the dungeon.

Two shiny rivers flow from over the cliffs. You can see every detail of your face reflected in the polished river. Just when you are about to drink from it, one of the archeologists warns you -Stop! That's not water, that's mercury. It's actually a flowing mercury river, and it filters through the sand into the ground.

There they are, the group of archeologists have set up a poorly made camp between the ruins and canyon cliffs.
They welcome you and hastily give you some water. They have been trying to decipher the hieroglyphs on the door for weeks since they discovered the site. The word is spreading and bandits and raiders won't be far behind.

A glimpse of a reflection in the corner of your eye catches your attention in one of the mercury waterfalls: a secret passage behind it, an alternative entrance. This is just the first of many challenges ahead.