[sblock=For Egon]Boddynock was vaguely familiar with Haedirn, they met in passing several years ago when Haedirn was traveling in Tethyr. The elf wizard stopped by the Scheppen family manor as the gnome's mother was a customer of the elf, purchasing a few potions and other alchemical emulsions guaranteed* to renew health, vigor, and beauty. His mother also enjoyed the poems Haedirn wrote for his betrothed, an elf maiden whose name Boddynock couldn't recall at the moment. The sorcerer remembered that the elf wizard maintained an unusual keep not too far from Port Kir, somewhere west along the coast. He never learned what was so unusual about it, although his father said it was fit for a gnome.
*These claims have not been vetted by the Tethyrian Agricultural Ministry.[/sblock]