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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5930486" data-attributes="member: 83822">Mules, lions and ostriches—what a great collection of mounts! (And is that a subtle reference to Don Quixote in his name?)The Mage Slaves of Udenyr (more for 00.02.01) The Thunderhead of Skullreach is rightly feared along the Bitter Coast. People talk in hushed tones of the powerful mages Udenyr keeps enslaved to his will.In fact, none of Udenyr’s captives are truly wizards. The first slave is a druid of the Saltwood. He has refused for thirteen years to cast even a single spell for Udenyr, but it is not for his magic that the Pirate King keeps him here. When the druid was young, he fell in love with the dryad who tended Broderick’s Grove. She gave up the heart of her sequoia for him to craft a didgeridoo. When Udenyr captured the druid, the giant threatened to destroy the didgeridoo. The dryad reluctantly came unto Udenyr, who has her perform weather magic for him. So deep is her misery that clouds follow the Thunderhead wherever it goes.The rest of Udenyr’s collection of ‘mages’ is made up of musicians and bards that Udenyr hoped could use the didgeridoo to summon Old Leviathan. The most recent arrival is a miserable young man who pretended to be the poet Trimueil to woo a lady and is thoroughly regretting his decision. Hooks: Is Broderick’s Grove coping without its dryad? Is anyone searching for the captives? How can a dryad give up his or her tree’s heart without dying? Why does Udenyr want to summon Old Leviathan?</blockquote>

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