Adventures in Feather Falls
In 1987 the Forgotten Realms grey box was released. As far as I know it was the first product to include a calendar and more importantly, for purposes of today’s story, a listing of “current events” that could be used as adventure seeds. One of the events mentioned was the death of the wizard Cholandrothipe, the wizard of Feather Falls . His murder was blamed on the Red Wizards of Thay. But what motive did the Red Wizards have for this crime? No “canon” answer has ever been provided so I would like to present the following scenario… The Red Wizards killed Cholandrothipe – this is accepted as fact. Again, we ask why. What reason could they have had? An investigation into the murder leads us to the first possibility once we look into what is known of the victim. Cholandrothipe was a powerful magic-user. We know this because he was able to cast spells allowing him to shrink riverboats down to a...