The cleric has a wand case with a long metal haft inside of it that is probably the haft of the Hammer of Life. Alzar flies up and can’t see any more manscorpions here, but there are some other creatures. There are a pair of gorgons about a mile away. Gorgons can only hit with melee attacks and can breathe, small clouds of petrifying gas that can’t get more than about 20 feet or so from them. Alzar can easily just fly above them, out of range, and use his Trombash of Returning to kill them. The Carpet is faster than they are running in a swamp. After killing them, Alzar finds a collar on one with the pommel of the Hammer of Life on it.
He flies back and notices frost crackling a short distance to the north. Alzar follows and the air gets increasingly colder as he approached. There is a sting to the air, and pools have been frozen in the swamp. There is a block of ice with the hammer head frozen inside. Guarding it is an oddly shaped creature
A Hydrax
It’s the one that looks like an ice crab
Alzar makes his Sage Knowledge check and…
Here we go - -2 AC, 12 HD and 60 HP, 2 attacks for 1d0 each and can detect, dispel magic, use Ice Storm, Wall of Ice, and Web three times a day each, and then is immune to lower level magic. It is from the Water Elemental Plane
Roll for init as Alzar closes… It wins and casts Web (Free Action) nothing. Alzar names the plane, and casts Power Word Banish, which works automatically and it is gone. Alzar’s axe hews into the block and grabs the head of the hammer, and when he brings the pieces together they snap together.
Alzar has reassembled the Hammer of Life.
He grabs the Hammer and flies back to the stone on the island. After an hour or so he arrives. He lands, heads in, and them hammers the stone. A resounding crack can be heard, and the stone is destroyed. On the ground is:
Deathstone Fragment - User will be cursed and lose 10 max HP; can control up to 50 HD of undead, with half level of ability. Curse is transferred if given away.