Dear ENWiki Reader,
What follows is a guest post of sorts, written by Ed Greenwood in reply to a request from me for examples of what sorts of clack one might hear in the winter months in
Cormyr. This post is lightly edited to fit the "heard in
Suzail" format I've been using thus far.
Forthwith, the Master of the Realms replies...
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In
Suzail, alarm has spread over the latest news of wolf attacks in wider
Cormyr.
Folk in Waymoot and Dhedluk are reporting wolf pack attacks in the King’s Forest that are growing in boldness and frequency. Six people have gone missing thus far, and over a dozen have been mauled but lived to make it home and warn others.
One account, by the herbalist Anthae Rymel of Dhedluk, claims the wolves were led by “a giant wolf that stood up like a man and snarled orders like a wolf, but pointed while doing so, as a man does.” Royal foresters have led Purple Dragon “wolfslaying” patrols, but found nothing. So far.
Elsewhere in
Suzail, folk have begun checking their coinpurses to be sure they are not holding counterfeits.
Someone in Marsember is counterfeiting coins, stamping almost exact replicas of Cormyrean mintings that can be distinguished from genuine coins as they’re lighter and have a different sheen by candelight, thanks to being made of an alloy gnomes and dwarves resident in Suzail haven’t yet been able to identify (they can readily tell the metals in it, but say this particular mix may be unique to the counterfeiter).
The coins are spreading, of course, but Wizards of War have been assigned to hunt down the source—and priests of Waukeen are conducting their own investigation that has already resulted in one of them being drowned in the Marsember harbour by unknown hands (who chopped a hole in the thick ice to do so).
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