Connects to: 16.16.08 and 36.11.
Green iron mushrooms make the finest rations in the world. When you dry them they pack tight and travel light and you can live on nothing but them and water for weeks on end. Because of this they are a valuable cash crop for the farmers that live near here on the edge of the Kingswood. Which is a good thing, since the backwater villages along the fringes of the territory pledged to the City of Shuttered Windows need all of the cash they can get.
However, these farmers never farm it in their fields, for it only grows on bodies of those who have been hung from the branches of the trees of the Kingswood. Recently nine sisters were hung together and their brother just barely escaped and has just recently arrived at Castle Tarengael (16.16.08), where he hopes his story will be able to make Princess Elandra cry.
Connection:
- The nine sisters were Traxas, and thus possibly werewolves, who were accused of seducing local farmboys (36.11).
Hooks:
- Who’s collecting these mushrooms exactly?
- Why are the mushrooms so picky about where they grow? Does eating them cause any side effects?
- Why did they hang all nine sisters, that seems rather mean, even by the standards of murderous mushroom farmers.
- Do the elves care at all about this?
