Cauda in venenum (Mission Notes)

Executor: Aerivandor Rhydane

We received an urgent request form House Taif, written by Dowager Simin itself. The objective was to collect a powerful ingredients to create a potion for the ailing Lady Feray, betrothed of Prince Rivahn of Gerohdin. The party had to collect black lotuses, grown in the high altitude nests of rocs, and candypop blossoms from the orchards of Bihir Summerglade.

Climbing the mountain, the party faced two stampedes of goats and wolves respectively. Able to keep their kills to a minimum for the goats, the party decided violence was the ultimate solution for the pack. With careful combat and judicious manuevers, they were able to defeat the rabid wolves and Avariel harvested a pelt from the winter wolf.

Clever and stealthy, the party aided Avariel to pick the black lotuses with the roc none the wiser. Going to the orchard, they were able to solve 9 of the 10 riddles and were rewarded with as many candypop blossoms. Proceeding to Prince Rivahn’s territory, they met Lady Mariam Taif who created the potion to heal her cousin. There they saw how tortured she was. The family has used magical means to separate her from a sweetheart. Whether she will ever forgive her family or continue with the marriage to Solace remains to be seen but love is truly powerful to defy even the most powerful of magics available to us mere mortals