Perilous Gateways
Portals of Lantan
By Jeff Quick

Lantan is a near-mythical island out in the Trackless Sea where gnomes invent wondrous things. Strangely, although the island’s name is known throughout Faerûn, almost no one who wasn’t born there has visited. Lantanese traders usually sail to other ports rather than accepting traders in their own port, and no commonly known portals take travelers there.

Of course, there might be some commonly unknown portals operating under everyone’s noses. Take a look at four portals that travel into and out of Lantan, and meet the people who put them there…if you can find them.

• The Welcome Gates
• Lantan to Samarach
  
• The Lamstrand family portal
• Lantan to Pirate Isle

Statistics and supplemental information:

• Vale Sounders, the ultimate home defense system
• Silky the Cat, a familiar without a master, seeking bloody vengeance
• Gimlet Watersprecht, "retired" gnome pirate

About the Author

Jeff Quick is an award-winning game designer and editor. He has written and edited game products for Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf, and he served as editor of Polyhedron Magazine, senior editor of Star Wars Gamer, and editor-in-chief of Star Wars Insider. He is currently a freelance writer in Washington State. Astonishingly, all of the above is true.

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