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## From the ITG:

* Oranzer is the governor of Stormhaven.
* Sevella Shalon is the governor of Granger.
* Renzel is the Warlord as well as MageLord. He is in charge of Sky Fleet.
* The Elven hierarchy has three main branches – supposedly equal, but generally one is ‘ascendant’.
	+ Spiritual Arm – headed by ‘Sister’ Sorlor
	+ Administration/Governance Arm – headed by Oranzer. Currently pre-eminent.
	+ Military Arm – headed by Renzel.
* Eliezure is rumoured to be the Spymaster.
* Rasten is a bit of a ‘black sheep’, but would still be supported by the others if needed.
* There appears to be an emerging cult of Wyldwood worshipping Elves.

## Clarification

Vinmira would have said about Onwen’s Avatar: **The Avatar was powered by the manifestation of Wyldwood that was tied to it. Now that the Avatar has been released, the manifestation is free to choose a more appropriate champion (eg equivalent to the First Sword of Shana) rather than the layabout druggie priest it had been bound to for the past 26 years.**

## Secondary skills:

* Darrell to provide full set of skill trees.
* Druids gain their Druidic language skills immediately.
* The magical skill books grant immediate knowledge/use of a new skill (but cannot be used for languages)
* Normal character-progression skill learning must be taught or practised – though it may be enough to have used the related skills sufficiently, or been taught, during the preceding levels.

## Item trade:

We agreed the deal of a +2 Longsword (for F.) and 12 +1 arrows in exchange for the +1 spear and +2 dagger of venom. The broker took 6 of the arrows as his cut. Joshua also acquired an appropriately large shield for Brokev.

## Herbalist:

We found a (Perceval) herbalist and came to a business arrangement with him. We took him to the villa and showed him Onwen’s laboratory and gardens.

He said the Clans have similar recipes to the ones we showed him, but these are a lot better, and more complex to produce. We agreed to sell him non-exclusive rights for 8gp per recipe (we felt it important to forward the recipes to Wyldwood in Tobar unencumbered), and 30-40gp for the contents of Onwen’s lab (ie the mid-way preparations and surviving equipment.) We agreed that Q. should use a Skill book to learn Gardening (ping!), so that she could later learn Herbalism, which the herbalist would teach to Q, including basic poultices etc. The herbalist would also teach Q. about the plants in the garden, harvest the Asarum that was ready, and take cuttings of the others plants. The Meldorian Tree is known as a fire-starter, but the Meldorian powder preparation seems to have all the inflammatory agent removed. He may be able to work out what it does by working on the intermediate preparations – would take about 2 weeks. We will also pay him 2gp and shared rights to do an assay on the cinderoak poison residue found in the Dagger of Venom. We also may provide some doppelgänger parts to him as Polymorph potion ingredients.

## Reports/Doppelgänger pieces:

Vinmira took a copy of our reports with him. The party distributed the reports and pieces of doppelgänger to Wyldwood (via the Dunes) and Shanah temple authorities, and just a piece of doppelgänger to the Universal temple authorities.

## Francis

visited the consulate (after doing some training with his new sword at the Temple of Shanah) to establish himself, and find out any info about Riverside and his family. During his time there someone let slip that Torgan had been recaptured by Alveran forces.

## Brokev

visited Oosda’s mother – she lived in a ‘largish smallholding’ that seemed to be doing OK. There wasn’t much ‘political capital’ to be gained, but she did know that a Cynod Bird was a large Gannet-type bird with a distinctive cry.

## Garaf

started working his way through the spell book learning the spells. We did offer to teach the Interesting Times Gang some of them, but they declined as they had a ship to catch.

## Umar

visited the Citadel to see what bounties were on offer: The Sallahan bounty had been taken by ‘a single dwarf dressed up to the nines’. Two new bounties were posted that evening – one was another Owlbear hunt, the other was to hunt down some packs of ‘large dogs’ that were decimating the local sheep population (taking out 30-40 sheep at a time) – their tracks sounded similar to those we had seen around the farmhouse. The reward was 2gp a head (though a tongue will do!).

The party will probably take the dog-hunt bounty, though Q. needs to stay behind to work with the herbalist.

## And finally:

The lemon sorbet and ice-cream recipes worked!