When St. Birgit roamed the world, performing wondrous deeds for the Green Lady, men often accosted her, begging for her hand in marriage. She was desired because she was a miracle worker, a niece of Duke Ulthar the Loved, and a true beauty. But she had to rebuff every suitor because the Green Lady ordered her to marry only a man from beyond the Bitter Sea.
Though St. Birgit was cool with her suitors, she did fall for a knight who wrote odes to her green eyes. He nearly romance her in this glade, but St. Birgit remembered the Green Lady’s command. Mad with frustration, she lifted her fingers and granted the knight the part of her he adored most - her eye. Her horrified suitor tried to clean the wound, but found no water. Hearing his cries, St. Birgit struck a stone with her staff, creating a mighty spring. He washed her eye socket with the spring water and the bleeding ceased. The anonymous knight is believed to have kept her eye.
Today, St. Birgit’s spring lies within a defiled temple. In the anarchy that followed Gore’s collapse, Dead Tiamat cultists seized the temple and fouled the waters with sacrificial blood. The cultists are few in number, but they defend their temple with illusions and misdirection provided by a deranged alumnus of the Indigo Academy.
Hooks
- What else did St. Birgit do? Did she ever marry a man from beyond the Bitter Sea, or anyone else?
- What became of her plucked eye?
- What is the cult up to? How did they manage to hire a gnome from the Indigo Academy?
- Can the spring’s healing properties be restored? How?
