So, the PCs find the strange land-bound ship in the Shimmerglens and, after some serious wiping at muck and moss, discover its name to be the Celestial Monarch (I don't remember now why this name popped into my head as I was desperately casting about for something (usually I change my favorite band names into things like inns, e.g. Jets to Brazil = Griffin's Flight to Waterdeep, Modest Mouse = The Humble Rodent, Built to Spill = The Leaning Tankard, etc.)). Anyway, the bard makes a ridiculous bardic knowledge roll, and suddenly I'm forced to come up with a story for the ship: Assuming the ship was named after its most prominent passenger, I declare that the bard has heard tales of a faerie queen of the First Realm that, as part of a pact with the humans of this world, wed one of the Linnorm Kings. The fey queen lived with her husband dutifully until the end of his mortal life, then packed her belongings onto a ship and set out into the expanse of the ocean and was never heard from again. My thinking is that she eventually ended up setting up shop in a foreign land, setting up a gate to the First Realm, and eventually we have the Shimmerglens.

My questions:

1) How long ago could something like this have happened? Could this be a story from Thassilonian times, or are Linnorm Kings a relatively new creation? I ask only because the PCs are determined to discover what area the nautical charts refer to. If they are pre-cataclysm, I have no problem telling them that they are impossible to place by anyone living. If younger than that, then it seems like someone should be able to figure them out. I could just make them maps of the Linnorm coast, but as I think about it, maybe it should be a chart that supposedly leads to a nautical route back to the First Realm, the faerie queen's passage home after fulfilling her end of the bargain with the humans. Sadly, the charts were mislabeled (on purpose?) and she was lost to the swamps. Hmmmm. Thoughts?

2) Are nymphs immortal? Could Myriana be that same faerie queen? After meeting her, the PCs already believe she is Queen of the Swamp and seemed truly moved by her desecration and death.

3) As a side-quest, I ran these PCs through Wingclipper's Revenge (Dungeon 132), in which they received a token (two-headed coin) from the Grey Man, which they can use to call in for a favor from the fey at some point down the line. Any thoughts on how to tie these two elements together?

I ask because I am frequently impressed by the creativity of folks on these boards. Any help is appreciated.

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Celestial Monarch (I don't remember now why this name popped into my head as I was desperately casting about for something (usually I change my favorite band names into things like inns, e.g. Jets to Brazil = Griffin's Flight to Waterdeep, Modest Mouse = The Humble Rodent, Built to Spill = The Leaning Tankard, etc.)).

GENIUS! I am so going to be doing this now. Love the idea.

So, the PCs find the strange land-bound ship in the Shimmerglens and, after some serious wiping at muck and moss, discover its name to be the Celestial Monarch

Am I the only seeing an possible Desna connection here..

Celestial Monarch ...butterfly.

Arcesilaus wrote:

So, the PCs find the strange land-bound ship in the Shimmerglens and, after some serious wiping at muck and moss, discover its name to be the Celestial Monarch

Am I the only seeing an possible Desna connection here..

Celestial Monarch ...butterfly.

Beware the Monarch!

MINIONS!!!

Venture Bros. reference...please pardon me. ;-)

ElmoFromOK wrote:

Arcesilaus wrote:

So, the PCs find the strange land-bound ship in the Shimmerglens and, after some serious wiping at muck and moss, discover its name to be the Celestial Monarch

Am I the only seeing an possible Desna connection here..

Celestial Monarch ...butterfly.

Beware the Monarch!

MINIONS!!!

Venture Bros. reference...please pardon me. ;-)

Venture Bros. is awesome!