4. The Aldonar Tombs
The Aldonar people were the previous inhabitants of Wolfhold. One half of this race (The Necromancers) went on to become the Dymwan whilst the other half (The Elementalists) warred with Halmadon’s Heights and the Tower of the Sun. After a climactic battle the Aldonar were left without enough status to hold a tower and appealed to the Dymwan for aid.
The Dymwan convinced the Elementalists to place themselves within tombs to be preserved using alchemical techniques. They then promised to awaken the Aldonar when the forces of Good were no longer as prevalent on the plane.
A demi-plane was especially constructed, to house the Tombs of the Aldonar Royalty, while the rest of the Aldonar were embalmed in the many hundreds of barrows that still, to this day, surround the Kern Valley. Thus, when the Halmadonians arrived to finally destroy the Aldonar, they found what they thought to be a mass grave and returned home, believing their work to be concluded.
What happened to these tombs in the early years of the Valley peoples occupancy of the nearby towers and the tales of the Staff of Doom are left to the Heroes of the Valley who were there to tell.