From publisher blurb:
AN EPISODE FOR FOUR TO SIX WANDERERS IN THE GWYDION SETTING
An obsidian bird with patchy wings croons to a crowd, strumming a lyre with practiced talons. This is Estori the Flightless. The stage she is on is small, and somewhat makeshift for the otherwise impressive amphitheater she is playing in. Estori pauses her song, tilting her head as she hears the notes, and moves two steps to her left before resuming. Bright sun breaks across the audience and the banners in the stadium sway in a gentle summer breeze. She sings, “Have you heard of how a single sword once lost and found can stop a horde? Yes, numbers matter, far and great, but for this tale I must narrate, how just a few can save the day. Saved soul and city in grand display…” Estori’s eyes drift over the crowd, and slowly the audience sees what she does. A scalding sun, beating down on the Great Markets, as flute music mixes in the air with laughter and the smell of baking pastries…
The Galfwyn family are prestigious nobles who fund all manner of shops at the markets. However, their main source of income is from ship building. They are one of only a few families with the means of production to quickly and efficiently build ships to contend with the threat of the Righaradach As the threat from the undead spirits has grown in recent years, so has the families already immense wealth. Saarno Galfwyn, the family patriarch has decided to keep the money and influence flowing by any means necessary.