Connects to: 00.02.02 and 00.06.
Overview
The air here is thick with the smell of salt water from the nearby ocean and the woods are filled with coastal creatures. Most of these are what one would expect, but several more unusual magical beasts dwell here as well. Strangest of all are the rumors of those who have seen a particularly large shark swim upriver to this wood from the Warbling Coast. Some even claim to have seen the creature crawl from the water onto a far bank, transforming into a grotesque, mutated ogre (26.01.03) and walking off into the woods. Among more civilized folk these are simply rumors, but they are in fact the truth! The ogre, Zuc, an afflicted wereshark, makes his home in a cabin deep in these woods.
Connections
- Zuc was infected by the King of Salt and Brine, a great wereshark that swims through the Ocean of Bitter Regrets.
- A local druid has been enslaved by by the great pirate king Udenyr (00.02.01).
Hooks
- Some people say the treasures that wash up on nearby beaches all end up in the woods sooner or later. Maybe there are still some in there.
- Who is Zuc anyways, and why has he only been seen from a distance? Perhaps he eats those who get too close…
