Agents of Ereworn.
The first floor of Castle Ereworn is mostly empty apart from a simple wooden stool on which sits King Corbin flanked by Diarmuid, The Boar, and the robed form known to them only as Strawberry. Two battered shields mounted on stands stood outside an embossed bronze door leading into the northeast tower. Newly woven tapestries deck the
walls, interspaced with the glass filled windows . The tapestry on the west wall seems
far older than the rest. It depicts a figure in a white robe, performing some sort of ritual before a huge crystal. After several months in Ereworn the three men knew this tapestry celebrated Elvaron’s life and deeds.
A gigantic stained glass window depicting a sword and a river comprises the east wall.
Beneath the window is a raised plinth. An ugly gouge in the centre of the plinth suggests that something once stood here, but has long since been removed.
King Corbin apologises for calling you in so early then a serious look crosses his face.
" Several of the shepherding holdings in the Grey Hills have been reporting losses recently, I thought it to be wolves now that game is returning to Ereworn but it seems not. It seems one of the headmen sent word with his cousin looking for assistance beyond our borders."
" I blame them not, its been a long time since any of Ereworns folk could look to their rulers with anything but fear. But I aim to change that, and with that in mind I ask you to head to Ceann Caorach and see whats troubling them."
" The purging cleansed Ereworn of the demons influence, but not all evil was of its making."
The talk of demons and the cleansing matches many of the tall tales among the castle staff that you have heard over your time here but if such wild and fanciful tales are true and the impossible deeds you have heard were performed by King Corbin and his companions and their fallen friends are not allegory then there are no signs of such about the place....though from the work being done to the castle the previous lord, one Duke Darian did not keep up the place well.
Beathan: since coming here you have been called upon both for your knowledge of medicine and for help in translating certain tomes...some rather darker than you were comfortable with. You sometimes find yourself staring at the hulking Diarmuid, despite his savage almost wild ways...there is a certain...kinship...
Deise: King Corbin has not spoken with you overly much but has asked to know more of Cornumbria to the south and Strawberry, the birthmarked young sage, has utilised your talent for remaining unseen to keep track of rumours and gossip amongst the staff.
Sir Uthen: KIng Corbin eagerly absorbs your tales of court and the interactions of the nobility of Albion, isolated until recently he is eager to have Ereworn once again be a vital force in Ellesland and to reopen proper relations and trade with her neighbours; indeed he sent Diarmuid and Strawberry north on such a mission to the pagan land of Glissom almost a year ago.