According to legend – during the War of the Heavens, a Celestial Angel named Zenafal, who had been struck down plummeted from the heavens and was impaled on the jagged tip of Redstone mountain. It is believed that the blood of this Celestial Angel seeped into the stone of the mountain, and the droplets of blood created these unique red stones within the miles of caverns located inside of the mountain that would come to be called Redstone. The mountain became a major attraction as people from all walks of life wanted to see these magical red stones themselves; wizards sought to study them, clerics wanted to identify them; but any attempts to remove these beautiful, luminescent, humming stones from the caves, resulted in the crimson stones to turn to simple rocks.

The caves within Redstone stretch for miles, going up and down – they say over 90% of the Redstone caves have not yet been mapped. What many reported is that the further you go inside Redstone caves, the more it reacts to any form of magic. Simple spells such as Light were reacting like Fireball spells, and everything seemed heightened. Explorers also noted that their own sense of unease reached levels they simply could not explain.

Truth of the matter is, no one knows for sure what makes the stones in Redstone behave the way that they do; but one thing is certain, the further you go into the caverns, the more disorienting it becomes as the stones seem to react to the presence of people, and the deeper they go, the more they seem to wreak havoc with magic and people’s imagination.

All of this is due in part to the fact that deep down, the unique structure of the Redstones also wreaks havoc with other portals; and one such portal was cracked open – a portal to an area known as the Shadow Fell. This is an area inhabited by the darker side of fairies and unicorns; here such creatures as hags and nightmares dwell – and it’s the darkness seeping out from that realm into the caves that tampers both with magic and the emotions (usually the darker or more fearful side of emotions).

The legend of the woman in Redstone, who could not have a child, and so she had run into the caves to get lost and perish is a true one. (This is first mentioned in The Arrival Session 13). When she fled into the cave in hopes of dying, she’d managed to run much further than most had ever explored, her mind already broken by her desire to die. She’d reached the portal to the Shadow Fell, where she was captured and questioned by one of the hags – and eventually devoured. The hag used her own magic to take on her appearance and appear in Redstone every few years to lure children away – and the fact that witnesses keep claiming it’s the same woman and she hasn’t aged – has led many to believe the Redstone caverns are haunted – especially after the “vampire heads” of the aged children began attacking shortly after their disappearance. (It’s actually Vargoiles that the hags are creating)