An old dwarven outpost on the northern side of the Spine of the World (better known as the Icewind Dale) . A tower on the outside, and once there was solid doors at the entrance, but only the hinges remains. To the left of the map is a secret room which was used by the dwarves to fire crossbows against anything on the outside. A pit-trap is on the inside, and is usually hidden.

This place was soon taken over by kobolds, and for a while they thrived here. They even built a kobold statue (the oval room to the middle left). But a roaming lesser vampire seeked shelter here on a particular cold winter, and he managed to turn the whole clan into vampires. Now he commands them on raids against the villagers of Ten Towns, hiding from the sun in snow-storms.

I made it a particullary nasty end-battle, where loads of vampiric kobolds keeping the players occupied, while the vampire hid behind pillars, then used the shadows and his insane sneak-skill to sneak up on unaware players and backstabbing them, then run behind a pillar and disappearing again.

My first experiments with mapping realistic lightning, this map was made in Dundjinni and then imported into Photoshop. The technique is quite easy once you understand the theory behind light. Maybe i should make a tutorial showing how to do it?