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His most interesting part is about to take center stage, as it were.
When I first started the game, I had a bard in the party, so I started brainstorming on a story involving Drokkus. He's tied to several people in town - he's got a rivalry with Ameiko, and he's romantically involved with Sir Jasper Korvaski. It's also mentioned that he often heads in to Magnimar to find new material, both in performers and librettos. Since I already planned on the party heading back for Lyrie's trial, I began to set up my master plan. Sir Jasper and Cyrdak go into Magnimar for different reasons - Jasper's heading there on official mercantile reasons, while Cyrdak is on the hunt for new plays. He'd heard about an estate sale, so he ends up with a trunk of books and scripts. Once he's back in Sandpoint, he begins cataloguing them. Eventually, he finds one that captures his interests.
Unfortunately, it's The King in Yellow.
Cyrdak had heard of the banned play, of course, and while he had heard about the sheer banality of the first act, the second was...eye-opening. He finished it a few days after the PCs leave for Magnimar the second time - towards the end of Book 2. Once they arrive back in Sandpoint when Book 3 begins, they'll find out that Sir Jasper is worried for his lover, and hopefully they can find Cyrdak before complete the inspiration that the play gave him.