Turns and Travels
First Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC
After some thought you decide Tyene has a point about the Starks, you have been putting off the meeting since your tense meeting with the Lord of Winterfell at the Wall, but it has to be done and if you can order the papers to write about Aerys the Mad King you can deal with some of his legacy face to face. Being honest with yourself, Lord Stark is not the one you are most wary of meeting. Perhaps the years have brought some peace or wisdom to Lyanna Stark, if not... well you will deal with that bridge when you come to it. At least with Robert dead at the Lannisters' hands, not to mention the manner of it, you can present a common enemy to Eddard.
Before you can set out however you look into other news of those meddling with powers of the Far North. The wounded fey lord of the Indigo. Alas there are no clear answers to be found and no easy paths into the depths of the Feywild. It is no accident that you find upon your desk the most strangely composed report of your entire life courtesy of Glyra. It appears to be entirely written in limericks, the last of which is:
So let me seek the bloody mask,
High and low, deep and far
I knew you would never ask,
I'll look beyond the farthest star
Thankfully before you can decide if you should congratulate or scold her for somehow breaking into your solar and sneaking the page in the middle of a sober Inquisition report you come upon a more promising discovery. Hearing of the danger of the shards of summer falling to the cold beyond Winter the Lord of the Wild Hunt has vowed to search for the Mask and those who yet serve it. Given that those of the Indigo are oft share their souls with beasts and other shapechangers you suspect at least part of the offer is motivated by a desire to recruit some of them to his service, but you certainly aren't going to object to the help simply because it is self-interested.
By contrast finding glamor-weavers who do not wish to be found in the depths of the Feywild, even ones who have just lost their monarch, is likely to prove harrowing upon treacherous paths, though here too you receive unexpected aid. Renly Storm, gone from Sorcerer's Deep for almost three months, found his way back to the material realm in the wake of the upheavals of the Breaking of the Summer Court with news of where the most likely paths of flight are.
The young man seems different somehow from when last you saw him, though you cannot put a finger on any one feature transformed. Perhaps there is an inner light to his features that was not there before, or perhaps the blue of his eyes shines brighter, or his manner is more poised. He has not found the answers he sought, still less the true Renly Baratheon, but he seems convinced that the Court of Illusion holds the key. You do not have the heart to tell him that you might have destroyed those answers in one bloody ritual. Rather than merely bidding him good hunting you ask him to record the tale of his journey and bide a while here that he might set off in stronger company.
Renly Storm Gains 2 Levels (Cavalier); Lamora Gains 2 Levels (Arcane Savant); Venny Gains 4 Levels (Rogue); Cryl Converts all Warrior levels to Fighter
Someday you might even have the time to read those tales. You shake off the weariness before it can take hold and continue on into the evening. In less ethereal news Astral Currents has seen the expected increase in profits from the Terminus in Vialesk, allowing the trade of three spheres to now mingle and flourish in Sorcerer's Deep. When the spirits of air, earth and water name the world under the sun the Garden it speaks to more than ancient myth and tale now, it speaks of what it is becoming.
Astral Currents grows by 21% (Regular Growth + Vialesk Branch)
Looking out of your window into the realm soon to grow you consider where to best assign your assets in the days to come for there is always more work to be done.
[] Write in plan
OOC: As I was witting this I remembered Renly and company and rolled for them for the past two months (since I had not done so since the second of the month). You guys got lucky with more assets to throw at fey problems. On the other hand you did not get lucky in actually finding the Violet Court before the start of the month so it kind of balances out.