Following the victory at Glitterhame, the party returns to Blassingdell to only find the whole village destroyed by the Black Dragon’s acid breath and Rava missing. Chok Rah, the barbarian-monk Half-orc, joins the party for Chapter 3: Forge of Fury. Bors the barbarian leaves to go tend to his clan elsewhere, to not join the quest to kill the dragon. Inside the Foundry, after a long and bloody affair in the entrance room, the hunger bear is revealed as a victim of lycanthropy and unable to turn back to human form. Priwen ultimately releases him from his human form.
After the encounter in the main room of the foundry, the party encounter Pweli, the duergar mage who has been serving Itzlot, the black dragon, for years. With an extraordinarily exceptional deception check, Pursey the tabaxi, convinces Pweli to show the party to the lair of Itzlot, the Black Lake.