Zephyros' Castle

Players bade farewell to the town of Nightstone as they headed down the Triboar Trail following their heroic intervention of the attack on Nightstone and the subsequent rescue of her citizens. Not far from the gates, they were descended upon by an enormous floating tower standing atop the billowing clouds of the Savage Frontier sky.

Ascending the 1000 stairs to the stratospheric oddity above, the players found themselves face to face with an eccentric, but seemingly peaceful cloud giant wizard by the name Zephyros. Picking through the jumbled narrative of the oft-confusing and ever-confused wizard, players gathered that he believed them to be somehow intertwined into the fate of giant society. A divine decree, set down by Annam the All-Father, made to "wake the Giants from their complacency and reclaim their respected position amongst the greater races of the Forgotten Realms," has shattered the ancient ordning of the giants and left all of giant-kind to take it upon themselves to prove their worth to the All-Father hoping to improve their standing amongst their own ilk.

Zephyros' belief, gained through his use of a conjure divinity spell, is that a group of small-folk adventurers will somehow influence this unprecedented upheaval of the otherwise orderly society of the giants. Zephyros believes that the players are the foreseen adventurers. Given this, Zephyros felt obliged to assist the PCs in their travels but was careful not to offer so much information as to influence their future actions in any way.

During the 11 day voyage to the town of Triboar, the caste was the victim of two attacks. The first saw the PCs rolling for initiative against agents of the Cult of the Harrowing Hatred, an evil organization set on "restoring the world to its primordial state." Second was a force from Mythril Hall, the legendary home of the dwarven Queen Dagnabbit. Using a dragon as a distraction, the dwarven force team infiltrated the castle with the intent of hi-jacking it for their own purposes. The Clanless Baha'Zul, unable to deny the feeling of comradery he felt for the dragon, decided to approach the situation with the rarely used diplomacy check, successfully convincing the dwarves of Zephyros' harmlessness and avoiding the conflict altogether. Baha'zul even gained some potential friendship with the Lord's Alliance and an invite to meet with Mythril Hall's Queen Dagnabbit.