Connects to hex: 16.16, 36.04 and 39.08.
Long ago there was a family of woodcutters and their daughter, Syla, often wished that she had a brother of her own. Image her joy when, despite her advancing age, her mother bore a beautiful baby boy. She cherished the child and took him with her into the Kingswood when she went to chop and gather deadfall. The young boy grew up bright and cheerful and was the joy of his family until a warg down from the Grey Mountains ate him up.
Syla, stricken with grief that she had been unable to protect her brother, set about hunting down the warg and at the very foothills of the Grey Mountains, where the orcish warhorns echo from peak to peak, she caught it and split it open with her sharp axe.
She entertained a mad hope that her brother would somehow still be alive within the warg’s belly but, alas, it was far too late for him. Nevertheless, she gathered up his splintered bones from the warg’s gut and set off into the Kingswood in search of the Hierophant, for Syla had heard stories of her great magics. After weeks of searching Syla found the Hierophant and fell weeping at her feet and the old elf took pity on her and returned Slya’s brother to life and the boy leapt with many happy ribbits from the Hierophant’s hands. Even today the descendants of Syla’s brother can be found along the banks of the Witchwater, but now are difficult to find outside of a few secluded bits of riverbanks since the previous Duke of Thring (16.16) sent his knights at great risk to gather the talking frogs so that they might be used for a great sorcery.
Connection:
Hooks:
- How did Syla react to her brother’s reincarnation?
- What great sorcery did the previous Duke of Thring use the frogs for?
- Are the frogs really intelligent anymore? How well do they talk?
