Features
- Naros has an embassy in the Shuttered City, itself twisted like Naros was.
Supendar and the Dryads
What most do not know is that Supendar was not a true lich but a mighty dryad who had been planted before the fall of Bergolast (38.28). Such a creature does not give into death easily and when the great tree of the dryad began to die, Supendar worked an ancient magic that stopped time itself within the borders of Naros. Death too was stopped and the full moon hung still in the sky and its moonbeams fell upon the trees of the Drymea, where the dryads frolicked with their lovers.
Elsewhere in Naros all those who had been asleep when Supendar’s magic spread across the land remained so and did not wake. The waking men and women of Naros declared war on Supendar and sought to break the enchantment that the dryad had wrought. Finally a band of adventurers infiltrated deep into the Drymea and fell upon the tree of Supendar with great axes.
Feeling death coming upon it at last, Supendar worked a second great magic. The wall between this world and that of fairy are stronger in some places than others and in few places is the wall weaker than in the depths of the Drymea. Taking advantage of this, Supendar’s magic conveyed all of the dryads of the forest into the land of fairy, along with the men of Naros and the life of the land, so that only undeath and the nightmares of those who had lain dreaming lay behind.
When the men of Naros found themselves in the land of fairy they despaired. The dryads, at first greatly confused by what had happened, began to see the purpose of Supendar’s last act. The humans of Naros had hoped to take axes to all the dryads of the forest, so great was their anger at Supendar, but they now found that the only ones that could hope to guide them back to the mortal world were the very dryads that they hated so. Taking advantage of this, the dryads had the Narosi haul their trees across the land of fairy so that they could be transplanted far away from any who had been angered by the magic of Supendar.
Although some of the dryads ended up scattered across the Shrouded Lands (32.05), the bulk of them were indeed transplanted to The Dryad Grove (05.14). One, known as Laughing Sam (01.05) was driven mad by his journey through fairy and refuses to remember what has become of Naros.
It is unknown what happened to the men of Naros, though some claim that their voices can be heard in The Dryad Grove.
Hooks
- How did the time stop magic work exactly? The moon stopped, people were unable to wake up, but they were able to walk around and do things and even fight a war. How?
- Where did any of the other dryads who got separated from the main lot during the march through fairy end up?
- What happened during the journey of the men and dryads of Naros across the land of fairy?
- What happened to the people of Naros? Supendar’s magic sent them into the land of fairy and the dryads came out again and were successfully transplanted. In order to do this it seems that the humans must have hauled the trees of the dryads, what became of them?
- So now Naros is full of undeath and nightmares, has any of this corruption leaked through into the land of fairy?
- What sort of metaphysics does the land of fairy have?