Legend 35 - The Cynod Bird

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The 'Netters Sister... 
In a small troll village south of the Drake Cliffs, the residents had 
started to fish in a shallow bay. Being too dense to swim, trolls 
normally stay clear of water, but the teenagers in this village were 
remarkable in their anti-traditional mannerism. The teens would wade 
out into the bay and standing in the water up to their chests, the trolls 
would fling around a net to capture their tasty meals. Immediately upon 
capturing something, they would bite up the heads of the fish to as to 
insure there was no trouble getting it to the dinner pot, as well as to 
enjoy a quick immediate reward for their efforts as is the practise of 
teenage trolls everywhere. These odd trolls were sometimes called 
'netters' by the rest of the villagers, who would make fun of them but 
still share in their meals. 
One of the Netters had a small sister who always wanted to join her 
brother netting, but was too short to go to the waters his height allowed 
him to obtain. No amount of pleading and temper could dissuade the 
brother from his usual spot. 
One day, seeing a fallen meldorian tree in the bay floating by with a 
small Cynod Bird asleep on it, the sister jumped on the trunk and floated 
out to her astonished borther, who scratched his head wondering what type 
of magic this floating was. 
Suddenly the Cynod Bird woke up and took flight squawking past the sister
in a violent lerch. Started by the noise she fell off the log and was 
drowned. 
It is said to this day that the cry of the Cynod Bird brings ill luck 
to trolls.