Scholar Ebbin wakes up to find his two guards still sleeping. He is in the old burial hills south of Darujhistan and is researching the area, unlike his fellow scholars, convinced that there remains more to be found there. He rouses the guards and after drinking his tea decides to go down the well, the mouth of which is perfectly circular. As he descends into the well, he accidentally drops the lantern that has been providing light. In the darkness, he is able to discern along the edge of the inner wall of the well, lustrous flickerings that are the remnants of wards made by warren magic. Searching for signs of an opening, Ebbin discovers a tunnel along the lips of an inner curved wall that lead into the tunnel. He goes back up to get a source of light. By the light of a candle Ebbin sees