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--- dnd:campaigns:waterdeep:xundia [2024/11/03 16:30] – [BOQ] ken
+++ dnd:campaigns:waterdeep:xundia [2025/06/05 11:39] (current) – [BOQ] ken
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 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 Urtos III [[Phylund]], which reveals [[Urtos's secret]]. Many sections are badly water damaged.
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   -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 (which Clerics would recognize)
+  -REVEALED crypts with sketches of werewolf and Malar symbols
-While in Chult, xundia might hear about local cult of Malar, near the ruins of Tamoachan (TftYP p61) They came from the north long ago ravaged the city and left toward the rising moon. If she follows that lead she will find a poetry book about Malar.
-  - musing of a family curse (Urtos III came to beleive that lycanthrope ran in the family bloodline)
-  - journey into the secret passage leading  to the subterranean River Sargauth and eventually the [[fountain of ngalish]]
+At this point the book becomes more "poetic"
+tucked between the pages is a Silver Ring of Silvering. The following are all revealed in Episode 17.
+  *wild natures, as well as the grace and amorality of predators.
+  *revered among druid circles as the hunger and hunting instinct of beasts
+  *hunting, stalking, bloodlust, and bestial savagery
+  *spurn The Balance of nature that druids and other nature
+  *deities sought to uphold
+  *Beastlord was the epitome of the dark, bloody side of nature
+  *It is ever the way of nature that the strongest should rule.
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