Mai-Faddah's Flying Castle
by Håvard
INHABITANTS
- Mai-Faddah (25th level Magic-User)
- Symonne (3rd level Magic-User) - Apprentice to Mai-Faddah
- Taiador (2nd level Magic-User) - Apprentice to Mai-Faddah
- Alwyn (1st level Magic-user) - Apprentice to Mai-Faddah
- The Amazon Warriors: These are 40 powerful female human warriors (F1-4)
- Ruby Golems (4)
- Diamond Golem (1)
HISTORY
Mai-Faddah's Mai Faddah is best known for his creation of a Clockwork Dragon (AC11), a variant of the more well known Mystara constructs known as Drolems. May-Faddah has lived in his castle for decades if not longer. Years ago, he started working on developing his Clockwork dragon, a process that has required a lot of research and experimentation. Early on, he learned of the incident at Balfour's Landing where a magic user created a Drolem that malfunctioned and caused a lot of damage (LoZompatore placed Balfour's Landing on the Jungle Coast of Davania, named after an Alphatian Ship Captain).
Several people are hunting for the inventions of Mai-Faddah, including Mistress Curare, the leader of a Thief's Guild whose emnity Mai-Faddah had incurred while staging several raids on the treasuries of various thieves in order to obtain the gold he needed for his creations.
TIMELINE
Mai-Faddah creates his flying Castle
Incident at Balfour's Landing
Mai-Faddah begins his research into Drolems
Mai-Faddah decides to use clockwork mechaninisms in order to develop his flying dragon construct
Mai-Faddah sends his amazons to stage raids on various thief guilds to obtain the gold he needs to give his construct golden scales
Mai-Faddah discovers a method of creating Clockwork Dragons that are immune to Rust Monster attacks (supposedly)
Guild Master Curare hires scholars used by Mai-Faddah in order to recreate the plans for the Clockwork Dragon
Mai-Faddah rents out his Clockwork Dragon to various parties to get some extra income
QUESTIONS:
1. What is Mai-Faddah's background and how did he get his Flying Castle? His name sounds vaguely Arabic, so I am guessing Ylaruam might be an appropriate home for him? Alphatia is also quite likely? What about his assistants? I suppose they could come from a number of places?
2. Where did he get his Amazon warriors? Did he get them from Pelatan?
3. Where is Master Curare's Guild located?
4. Ruby and Diamond Golems are new monsters? We need stats!
5. Who created the Drolem of Balfour's Landing?
Note: we did discuss some of these things in this thread a while ago.