U — Udrin’s Design
The elven wizard quietly guided events toward Ulthuan. Udrin rarely raised his voice, and he almost never explained himself. To most people in Padua, he appeared to be a wandering elven wizard with a patient temperament and a habit of watching more than speaking. He studied ruins, asked thoughtful questions, and occasionally performed feats of magic that reminded everyone just how much he wasn’t telling them. It was easy to mistake his quiet presence for detachment. That would be a mistake. Behind the calm surface boiled something far more deliberate. Udrin’s choices, where he traveled, which relics he studied, which dangers he chose to confront, all fit together too neatly to be coincidence. Each discovery about Karitamen’s legacy, each confrontation with the strange forces gathering around the Avon, seemed to nudge events along a subtle path. And that path led in only one direction: Ulthuan. Whether he admitted it or not, Udrin appeared to be guiding the party toward the elven ...