Elkhound

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Together with his fellows Delian and Wadsworth, Elkhound was a Helmite missionary in the village of Maju, on the plains between the Chuapli Forest and the Narabatun Jungle.^[1]

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In 1362 DR, Elkhound and his fellow priests told an adventuring party hired by Bishop Devane about the priestess Mirandos,^[1] who had disappeared with a group of six Payit warriors seventy days ago, a full tenday after she had oversaw a burning of books and scrolls in Maju.^[3] Each of the priests put forward their own theories on the mysterious disappearance. Elkhound believed her to have fallen under some sort of a curse from the books and fled into the night. Wadsworth believed she'd fallen into temptation after reading something in the Maju scrolls and fell astray. And Delian believed her to have been kidnapped by Payit "savages" seeking revenge for the burning.^[1]

As proof of their claims, the three Helmite priests then presented a partially-burnt map that they had found in Mirandos's private quarters. The map depicted one of the coasts of Far Payit, north of the Bilchak River, with marks denoting the lost city of Ixtzul and a route leading to it from the north. Wadsworth proposed that the mark on the map was indeed meant to indicate some sort of lost city. Elkhound speculated it was marking some sort of tower where dark sorcery was being conducted. And Deilan theorized it was a secret base for Payits rallying together to launch an attack on the Amnians.^[1] The priests then informed the adventurers that Amnian soldiers had combed the area two tendays prior, as far south as the Narabatun Jungle, but had turned up nothing.^[2]

Having learned all that they could from the priests, the adventurers tried to take off on the horses that had been provided to them, but the three priests insisted that the adventurers leave the horses behind on the grounds that they were property of the Church of Helm.^[2]

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