Campaign 3, Episode 16: The Terrible Fate of Sir Calder (The Dragon Elf Chronicles)

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**The Terrible Fate of Sir Calder** is the sixteenth episode in campaign 3, and the second episode in The Dragon Elf Chronicles.

Duck Team investigates the Shiverblight hoard! Calder fakes his death, Callie puts on the performance of a lifetime, and Sol sings a frog dirge.

## Plot Synopsis

Duck Team investigates the Shiverblight horde after saving it from mercenaries. There, they find a thick stack of bounties amongst which is the mysterious egg that Callie had given away to Glen. They also find one for the Helm of Ultrus, a giant conqueror and king from the Frigid North, and the group are able to locate the item behind the ice of the lair. Calder excavates it, and puts it on. He immediately begins hearing a voice, commanding Calder to help reclaim Bahumia for the giants. Callie casts *Protection from Good and Evi*l on Calder, allowing him to remove the clearly cursed helm, but he looks gaunt and sickly without it.

In the messengers’ quarters, they find a stack of correspondence with the other elven factions, where they discover that the blue dragon elves are attempting to hunt down void elves and are threatening to punish people who harbor them. They also learn that the green elves are holding a secret meeting with other factions behind the backs of their allies, the blue dragon elves, in two days at the old red dragon elf lair. After collecting the information, they head back to the Shiverblight fort to report their victory against the mercenaries, and Sol and Callie lie to the Princess Shiverblight, telling her that Calder died, in an attempt to disentangle him from her allegiance. The deception works, and they join a funeral procession back to the Princess Shiverblight’s lair.

Meanwhile, Calder witnesses a strange interaction trailing the group in the woods. Galcard, the captain of the Shiverblight guard, and a few other cold elves pull away from the main procession and conspire with elves in black masks. Based on the context, Calder is able to assume that the mysterious elves are not actually the void elves they are dressed as, but are rather involved somehow with Glen's order. Callie theorizes that the green elves could be pretending to be void elves to sow discord among the Blues without exposing themselves to retribution. Back at the Shiverblight horde, the princess gives Callie and Sol some treats! Callie gets a Luck Saber and Sol a Cloak of Displacement. After a strange lie that Callie and Sol are married, they are able to avoid pledging themselves to the princess, and reunite with Calder and later Ellzor or at the top of the mountain.

Ellzor reveals that they are part of the deep elf royal family by way of bonding with Igneous, the daughter of Queen Umberspore of the deep elves. They travel through the cave of via dragonell and meet the Queen who promptly sends Ellzor off to their quarters for disobeying her. However, the Blue Crew is invited to stay for a feast after she learns that they saved Igneous.

## Quotes

* "I am her lady and she is my lord." -Sol, in an attempt to convince the Princess Shiverblight that they cannot pledge themselves as her knights.

## Music and Sound Effects

* "Grenade" by Ljudmann at Freesound.org.
* "Orchestral Royal Theme Fanfare" by humanoide9000 at Freesound.org.
* "A Wizard's Tournament" by Emily Axford.
* "Tundra Trudge" by Emily Axford.
* "Cursed" by Emily Axford.
* "The Fairy" by Emily Axford.
* "Water World" by Emily Axford.
* "The Ruins of Cragwater" by Emily Axford.
* "Gunvar" by Emily Axford.
* "Young Love" by Emily Axford.
* "Tarragon" by Emily Axford.
* "A Fairy Remembers" by Emily Axford.
* "Lilith Litrix" by Emily Axford.
* "Rats!" by Emily Axford.
* "Secret Basement" by Emily Axford.
* "Crash Landing" by Emily Axford.
* "Demigod" by Emily Axford.
* "Heed the Mushroom's Call" by Emily Axford.
* "Waltz of the Blue Top" by Emily Axford.

## External Links

* Headgum
* Spotify
* NADDPOD Subreddit Thread