Atop the Tower of Vandomar

After resting in the lower reaches of the wizard's tower, the group climbed the stairs and located the door to the upper levels.  Covered over with a thin sheet of ice and magically warded, Dora deactivated the alarm ward with an arcane focus power.  Confident they could enter without danger, the pulled open the door and were met with a gust of cold air.  The room was unnaturally cold and filled with various blocks of ice that seemed to contain humanoid forms.  One even appeared to be a demon of some kind.  Sarcophagi and tables spread throughout the room drew them in to inspect further.

What they first believed was a statue, turned out to be a blue-faced creature, caked in icicles and frost.  It turned towards them, welcomed them and said, "Please stay, let us remember this moment for ever."  Unwilling to simply strike first, the party asked if he was Vandomar, to which it confirmed that "He once was but was now eternal" The ice contained various invaders that entered the tower as well as several paladins that fell during the siege of the tower.  They decided to leave but Vandomar simply explained they could never leave but would become permanent parts of his display.  Immediately afterwards, four blocks of ice smashed open and coldspawned mummies lurched towards the party while Vandomar began blasting the party with cold spells from afar.  Thorm charged at the tower's guardian while Edhas dropped a psychic zone over the area.  Meanwhile, Sir Loin, Dora and Wyndham tried to hold off the mummies.  In the midst of the battle, the presence of another card in the deck appeared as a glowing gem stone.  After Wyndham's Dazzling Ray destroyed the wizard, the group believed it was in the clear.  It quickly became obvious that the greater threat was the four mummies that pushed the party to its limit.

After clearing the room of danger, the group located a set of scrolls that contained notes about the rift in the planes caused by an item of chaos that linked the Feywild to the Material Plane.  It seemed to be the proof Berrian was searching for.  Additionally, Vandomar was looking at a large white tome that could only be the Winterbole Codex.  Unable to read the entire book, a quick look inside seemed to focus around planar contact and more specifically the Plane of Carceri.  It mentioned the fall of the Nerathi Empire and the betrayal of the Nerathi emperor, Magroth the Mad.  Betrayed by his own deathguard, he was trapped in the Carceri Plane, held by the Chained God, Tharizdun.