Chessboard

The gate of the Great Chessboard of Paradys has rusted open, and polite clapping can be heard from within. The board is real. Its squares are as large as rooms, white and black, and two courts stand upon them in their ranks: pawns before, rooks at the corners, knights and bishops, and a king and a queen on either side.

Elves come to watch. The pieces keep their squares, and fight whoever walks onto them. Somewhere about the board is Zarek, the chess master, a wild-eyed half-elf who cackles; and it is thought that the game was his once, and that he lost more than a game by it.

Details

• Built by Exxon.
• Beware: only the pawns (level 48) and Zarek (50) are within the suggested range. The rooks are e80, the knights and bishops e160 to e200, and the kings and queens e400.
• It lies on the world map a long way north-east of New Tarsonis.