Zephyros

Zephyros is an eccentric Cloud Giant wizard who resides in a tower that floats above the clouds and who has a debilitating fear of combat. His tower was attacked twice in the time the party traveled with him.

## Travel to Triboar

While the party was exploring the remnants of the Rassalantar, the caravan town, Zephyros appeared with his tower, descending to the surface on the hunt for legume seeds as a spell component. Delighted at finding small folk who were interested in chatting, and hearing that they were traveling north, Zephyros offered the party a ride through the clouds as opposed to overland, as the road had been largely torn up and destroyed.

While atop the tower, Zephyros appeared unaware and shocked at the heightened Giant violence in the past several months. He informed the party that the ordning- the hierarchy of the Giants- had broken. When questioned about how this could happen, he explained that the ordning was more than just an arbitrary political or social standing; the ordning was an ordinance dictated by their god, Annam, thousands of years prior and that was felt in the very blood of all Giants. How and by whom it could have broken, however, was a mystery.

Zephyros also told the party his fears that the castle that attacked Nightstone could have been Lyn Armaal, the home of Countess Sansuri, Lord of the Cloud Giants. He told the party that she was lofty and ambitious, and believed the gods had left her a trove of hidden secrets. As for what use she had for the Obelisk from Nightstone- a relic from the Ostoria that long since lost any magic it may have had- Zephyros had no insight. He did, however, have a very hard time believing that Countess Sansuri would be working alongside the other kinds of Giants as the party had suspected.

The Giant was delighted upon the arrival of Beaker, Scrap's family pigeon. He was fascinated by the bird and believes him to be vastly intelligent and a keeper of ancient mysteries.

## Final Encounter

The party spent over a tenday of travel with Zephyros, who spent a large majority of the time haphazardly leafing through several books and searching for something or someone with his crystal ball. Towards the end of their journey, the tower was attacked by a group of cultists and kobolds determined to destroy the giant in the name of "Malazan". While the rest of the party fought the cultists and kobolds, Silix and Tressymé went to wake Zephyros from his prophetic haze and protect him from the leader of the cultists. The cult leader disrupted Zephyros by cracking his crystal ball, and then caused significant damage to the giant.

As the party successfully picked off the last of the cultists, however, a storm erupted around them and an enormous blue dragon approached, causing the cultists to flee. The dragon destroyed the tower and went to attack those remaining on the cloud. Zephyros, normally very fearful of combat, jumped in between the party and the dragon and launched his companions off of the cloud and taking the full force of a lightning breath attack in the process.

## Trivia

* Zephyros' favourite food is pierogies
* He did not know what a pigeon was, but refused to admit it
	+ He subsequently became fascinated by Scrap's family pigeon, Beaker; he believes the bird to be vastly intelligent and a keeper of ancient secrets