23 Mirtul 1500 DR
Suzail - Hardhands unloading ships on
Suzail’s docks saw shaven-headed men emerge from the hold of the
Gravechant under Blue Dragon guard.
One at a time they were walked back and forth on the main deck by a pair of
War Wizards, who pointed to different places on the deck while asking pointed questions as Blue Dragons stood watch.
Just what events the crewmen were questioned about remains a tightlipped secret shared between Blue Dragons, Wizards of War, and no one else.
The
Gravechant remains under Purple Dragon guard day and night.
Elsewhere in
Suzail, the latest issue of
The Tongue of Truth has been published and circulated throughout
Cormyr's capitol. This issue includes a gripping tale that dares explain where four of Lord Daerus Haldoneir's five rumored-to-be-missing sons were kept and who rescued them.
According to the
Tongue, four of the lordlings were kidnapped by unscrupulous adventurers after being lured aboard a stolen Haldoneir trading vessel.
The broadsheet described Lord Daerus winning his sons back by making an offering to Umberlee in the form of an entire trading cog full of cargo that was sailed out onto the Dragonmere and scuttled while Undrowned [priests of Umberlee] sang to the goddess from a second ship.
Astonishingly, the Goddess obliged by sending forth a massive wave to capsize the kidnappers' stolen boat as it sailed for Westgate, drowning all aboard save for the four young lords Haldoneir, who were magically kept alive beneath the waves until they could be washed aboard a merchant's cog by means of a second, lesser wave.
The cog's captain and the four young noblemen made for the Royal Palace by night to inform the Queen of their misfortune. The nobles marched home while wearing the uniforms of Purple Dragons sent to arrest their youngest brother Eldaunar, whom they had accused of plotting their kidnapping.
Eldaunar was led away from High Oronel in chains one bell before sunrise and has not been seen since. The
Tongue predicts Eldaunar will be sentenced swiftly by Queen Raedra and dispatched to the prison keep of Irlingstar within a tenday.
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