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--- dnd:campaigns:waterdeep:xundia [2024/10/20 22:38] – [BOQ] ken
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 ===BOQ===
 Xundia purchased a mysterious book from Old Xoblob Shop. It is unreadable except by use of Comprehend Languages spell.
-It is written in a stilted dialect of Chondathan crudely encoded into the High Drow runic alphabet. (this would be nonmagically decipherable only by a Mage of Candlekeep, and [[npcs#Renaer]] or [[npcs#Volo]] would suggest as much)
+It is written in a stilted dialect of Chondathan crudely encoded into the High Drow runic alphabet.
-Xundia's Book Of Quests (BOQ) is actually the diary of [[malmac#Urtos III]] Phylund. Many sections are badly water damaged.
+Xundia's Book Of Quests (BOQ) is actually the diary of Urtos III [[Phylund]], which reveals [[Urtos's secret]]. Many sections are badly water damaged.
 Xundia can use a spell where each hour spent reading the book leads to a different clue or hook.
-Points 1-3 are already known by [[npcs#Renaer]] and [[npcs#Volo]]
-Wait, what if Urtos is Strahd!!!
+  -REVEALED - mother and "uncle Prendergast" (Aridarye's secret lover Prendergast Brokengulf.), called a bastard,
+  -REVEALED - father's affliction - [[npcs#Renaer]] knows about Urtos' lycanthropy, and his exile to Phylund Lodge (in Ardeep Forest), but [[npcs#Volo]] like most folk believes the faked death.
+  -REVEALED - exile (following his father, Urtos III also went to [[Phylund Lodge]].
+  -REVEALED crypts with sketches of werewolf and Malar symbols
-  -<del>mother and "uncle Prendergast" (Aridarye's secret lover Prendergast Brokengulf.)</del>
+At this point the book becomes more "poetic"
-  -<del>being called a bastard but "I know the truth"</del>
+tucked between the pages is a Silver Ring of Silvering. The following are all revealed in Episode 17.
-  -father's affliction - [[npcs#Renaer]] knows about Urtos' lycanthropy, and his exile to Phylund Lodge (in Ardeep Forest), but [[npcs#Volo]] like most folk believes the faked death.
-  -my exile (following his father, Urtos III also went to [[Phylund Lodge]] but found nothing.) Nobody knows this but Renaer might figure it out.
+  *wild natures, as well as the grace and amorality of predators.
-  -crypts and a family curse (Urtos III came to beleive that lycanthrope ran in the family bloodline)
+  *revered among druid circles as the hunger and hunting instinct of beasts
-  -sketches of werewolf and Malar symbols (which Clerics would recognize)
+  *hunting, stalking, bloodlust, and bestial savagery
-  -supposedly there was a tribe of panther-men, followers of Malar, near the ruins of Tamoachan in the jungles of Chult. (TftYP p61) They came from the north long ago ravaged the city and left toward the rising moon.
+  *spurn The Balance of nature that druids and other nature
-  - [[fountain of ngalish]]
+  *deities sought to uphold
-  -Werewolves of Barovia (Ravenloft p201)
+  *Beastlord was the epitome of the dark, bloody side of nature
-    * a small and ancient kingdom in Faerûn, located inland from the Sword Coast, where the river Iblis met the Svalich Woods.
+  *It is ever the way of nature that the strongest should rule.
-DotMM, and Candlekeep
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