We were in the Misty Forest, on our way with Alagartas and his entourage to Landrach’s - his father’s - village. Suddenly, we heard cries for help! Shan and Thoredim rushed to check it out and what they found was an Elf named “Galin”, trapped under a big tree. After some efforts, Posmet enlarged himself and freed him. Looking around, we saw footsteps of Entlings and finally, Kaiya noticed that the “tree” was an Entling in fact that decided to move when she threatened it with a torch. Turned out this was a test: Galin, the druid of Alagartas father’s village wanted to know if we were helpful people and asked the Entling to lie on him. This test seemed to have convinced them of our good intentions, but it certainly helped nothing to better our mood towards these elves. Galin told us that the green dragon, named “Chuth” lived here for millenia, but just started to be aggressive recently.
In the evening we reached the settlement of “Altand” - similar but bigger than Alagarthas’ village. It was dominated by a gigantic Oak “Palace” in the center. This is where Landrach lives. As we climbed the Oak, Alagarthas told is that this village was also attacked recently, but the cultists mysteriously broke off their attack and left … why? We learned that the former Arch Druid, Galin’s predecessor, was killed in the attack, as well as Galin’s wife. This put Galin under a lot of suspicion from our side, even more so as he seemed to carry a heavy burden although we were not sure what it was.
We reached Landrach’s throne room and found an unexpected guest: Reidorff, the druid of the Emerald Enclave that we got to know during our hunt for the last Green Dragon we slayed in the village of Thundertree. After the official discussion is done we manage to talk in a small round, just us, the king and the prince plus Reidorff. We learned from Reidorff that we are well-known among the cultists nowadays and that they are preparing a strike against us. As we told the king what we learned about his son, he wasn’t too surprised although heartbroken. He suspects this was driven by his son’s unlimited thirst for power. What is more, we could confirm that the son has the green dragon mask, as it was a family heirloom. Finally, we voiced our suspicions against Galin, as he was the one to gain the most from the cultists’ attack on this village, seeing that he now was the arch druid.
The King permitted us to interrogate Galin with the “Zone of Truth”, in which all lies he tells would be known to the caster of the spell, Thoredim. In the interrogation it came to light that Galin indeed made a deal with the cultist, that they would spare the village if he gave them warden spells to protect their lair. Not all was lost with him though, what he did was only for the protection of the village and his intentions were indeed good, though his means were very naive. Eventually, we led the King know of Galin’s doings but asked for mercy towards him.
Now, all that was left was to plan how to get the dragon and Naeronvain out of their lair…