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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 3954780" data-attributes="member: 2209">"Bloodwhisker mentioned that his band swore to the master and claimed that others would soon follow, led by the Gannus in their moonstone mines. He believed his master would favor his clan.He was boastful that only moonstone could harm his family and that he kept enough with him so that he would not fear them. In his boasting he did not seem to realize he was anouncing his vulnerabilities. His band had been carrying a trading mission's worth of moonstone when they came upon the master, he demonstrated his power and they agreed to serve him.His master empowered him somehow with fell protections, what seems a lesser form of what we fear the Eye of Night can further empower when combined with other such tools. With his master's blessing, he said, only magic moonstone such as the blade he wielded could kill him and he no longer needed to fear other Gannus or those armed with moonstone or their moonspeaker's concoctions. He ranted about how if he had gone back he would have killed his father Awrenc and taken control of the clan and their mines, but that the clan would undoubtedly bow in fealty to the master and be his first servants thanks to BloodWhisker's glorious service.When the master and his horde made their way to me and we fought I had prepared with potent fire wards upon myself, my badger companion, and the various animals I had summoned to combat him. He was able to suppress my ward, though I do not know how, and then burned me while I was vulnerable. While I had placed many druidic battle magics to enhance my animal guardians, they fell to his minions as I writhed in his flames.I gathered that empowering Bloodwhisker was apparently not a thing lightly done, even when the master had the Eye of Night back in his possession. It was only after he found that I kept regrowing after being burned to the ground and that the gnawing rats Gannu commanded could keep me cut back enough to be perpetually contained that he performed his ritual to empower Bloodwhisker. After performing the ritual with the Eye the master seemed drained. I believe it severely disturbed him that he could not kill me or destroy my druid staff with his fire and he was willing to pay dearly of himself to insure I did not rise against him again.I have poured my power into this staff over the years, it is a thing of potent living magics that is bound to me. I am bound to this realm however and cannot bring the staff out to confront this master to recover the Eye of Night. I can grant my staff to a champion, however, who is willing to quest and work to recover the Eye of Night and restore it to my guardianship here. It is my living magic, and can grow to work for one I grant it to. Over time it will adapt to attune to the bearer and serve their purposes just as the bearer learns to unlock its powers and perhaps adds their own into it.You four have done well here on behalf of Zallon. You did overcome this twice cursed Gannu. If you agree to seek out the Eye of Night and return it to me I will make you my champions, and bestow upon one of you my staff. My cloak also holds some protective charms and this too will I grant to my champions, should you accept. Third, the shipment of moonstones lies here as well, you could use it to craft weapons that would be proof against other Gannu should you desire to do so."</blockquote>

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