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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capellan" data-source="post: 1378231" data-attributes="member: 6294">Kull's 11th Report - Part 2I gave the creature my name and explained my purpose.  It knew of Quoitine, but did not know where it could be found, except within the elemental plane of earth.  However, there were other matters on which it was able to give me more useful information.First, I should explain that the wizard Gamist had told me that the reason he believed the substance could be found in this area was because an adventurer named Swain had found some there, about ten years before.  I asked the creature if it had heard of this man, and it replied that it had: the folk from the village by the sea sometimes spoke of him, though it had not paid much attention to what they said.I bade the creature tell me how to reach this village, which it did, and then asked what it might know of the other settlements in the peninsula.  It said that the Lord Gwebli was 'a good, but troubled man', and that it felt there was something amiss in Penrhys Castle, though it could not say more than this.From the tales of the locals, I knew that the Hero's Marker had rested in this place for many decades, so I asked the creature if it remembered the time before the land had been consumed by the marsh.  It said that it did, and was even able to tell something of what occurred:According to the creature, several hundred years ago some of the 'little people' - by which I believe it means humans - became followers of a 'great and powerful wyrm' (doubtless a dragon of some kind).  The wyrm sought to control the area, while the humans did its bidding.  The creature remembered that the wyrm's servants came from the sea, and had a great fleet of ships.  The 'land small folk' fought these people, and set up watch-posts along the coast.Clearly, these watch-posts were the ruins that I have been exploring.  From the old documents I have found, these places were built to protect against marauding pirates, and were from the same period as the creature spoke of.The creature also said that when the land-dwellers came to build their most powerful fortress, they called upon it for help.  It said this building - which it called 'the Beacon' lay north-east of where we currently stood, near the coast.  I marked this on my map, for I intend to visit this place as soon as is possible.Though now in ruins, the watch-posts I have explored offer a strong foundation for the building of new and powerful defences for this land, and I asked if the creature would agree to help in their reconstruction.  It said that it would, in exchange for a boon - such as a small portion of any quoitine I might find.  These seemed fair terms, and I agreed to them immediately.Finally, I asked of the wolf beside the cairn, and the creature replied that it had destroyed the beast, when the wolf attempted to disturb the resting place of Belanere, an ancient hero it had once served.The creature's words were slow and halting, and questioning it took several hours.  By the time I was finished, the late was fading, so I determined that we would camp where we were for the night, and travel on in the morning.  During the course of the night, we heard wolves howling in the distance, but they did not approach the hill, no doubt due to the fate of the last of them that did.When dawn arrived, I decided not to continue to Penrhys Castle, as I had originally planned, but to seek out Lord Gwebli, and learn what it was that troubled him.  From the creature's words, it seemed this man was the most senior noble of the region, and it would be a sound tactic to win his gratitude, in case the quoitine proved to be on his land.  It would be less trouble to have his cooperation in its removal, than to take the substance by force.</blockquote>

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