Fourth Letter to Home

Dearest Mother,
 
I am having this letter delivered directly to you by a member of the Goldtongue family to make sure you receive it as quickly as I can without showing my disgraced face at the estate. I have yet to earn my father’s approval yet and I do not wish to show my face at our home until he approves of me. I am deeply sorry for making everyone fear I was dead. I have been in the feywild for what is for yall the past 40 days but for us was less than a week. I want to think you for all you thought me about the feywild because it came in handy. I wish I had more time to tell you the full story of what happened in the feywild in this letter but I am currently traveling back to Frandyln and when you receive this letter, I will be waiting for you at the Lily Café which we both so loved going to. I will be staying at that café all day with my friend Nomag waiting encase you want to see your disgraced son. I will fully understand if you do not come. I know you are a busy person and I know a lot is happening right now with those strange gnomes that are coming into our world. I have seen gnomes before that are not feral beasts like when I was in Strixhaven. I do not know how I feel about having more of those gnomes in our world because I have not had the best experience with gnomes from other worlds.
 
But enough about gnomes, I am sure you want to know a little about what happened in the feywild. We were tasked with helping an elderly warlock who had lost connection with his patron in the feywild. He sent us to the Witchlight Carnival and told we should be able to find a path to the feywild from there. It was an amazing carnival except for the fact they had no alcohol in any of their drinks. Still I was able to enjoy myself some. I even won a poetry competition. My friends races snails that moves at amazing speeds. Some of them even rode dragonflies, but that did not last long because of an accident. We met the leaders of the carnival and learned that the patron we were trying to find out about was also the one behind the carnival and something had happened to her and 3 hags had taken over the operation of the carnival they helped us get to the feywild and that is where things went crazy.
 
We entered the feywild and everything you told me was right. Things are strange there and you must be careful of what you do or say. They do not use real money but almost random objects as currency. Two of my friends had some bad things happen to them when talking to a fey merchant. One lost her balance regularly in exchange for a unicorn’s horn and one lost his ability to talk in common in exchange for information. We meet a trapped fierydragon which we saved from the largest snakes I have ever seen. We also go attacked by a group of harengon. I quickly went into action mode and cast fireball on several of them. Father would be proud of me in that moment because I incinerated 3 of those thieves with my first fireball. Nomag was able to catch him by his scarf and after talking with him we were able to get the information we needed. We later found the city that the first hag controlled. We helped a few people there and I received the title of Crooking Sage. Because of my knowledge of the feywild that I learned from you, I became the groups’ spokesmen for talking with other fey. I negotiated safe travel for us in that city after we stumbled into a meeting that was planning a cue of their leader. We did face that hag and I thought we would have to fight her but she offered to release the archfey we were trying to find if we brought her a picture from one of her sisters. We left her lands on a flying balloon.
 
When we entered the lands of the second hag, we were unsure how we would get this picture from her. We encountered a few strange sites. If we meet in person I will tell you everything about it but I am afraid I would not be able to give all of it justice in written text. We ended up helping this strange creature that was disguising itself as a child. He gave us information on finding a unicorn. I had never seen a real unicorn up close before. They are truly majestic creatures. That unicorn told us that the horn my friend bought was that of her mate and that it could free the archfey we wanted to save. After meeting with the unicorn it was attacked but we stopped the attacker and got some more information about the archfey. After all this, we went to the second hag’s city. There we tried some fey candy. It has many strange effects on us. I was turned into a butterfly for an hour. Nomag was made as big as a human. And various other things happened to my other friends. We finally meet with the hag she was willing to give us the painting if we did her a favor. First she wanted us to turn in the creature that was disgusted as a child because he was taking the children she had enslaved to work for her away from her. We were unwilling to do that. She then wanted a unicorn’s horn that was stolen from her. We knew we could not give that up. She finally was willing to give us the picture if we ruined the plays put on by her other sister. We agreed to that and left her land.
 
Finally we landed in the last hag’s lands. We meet a man that was cured to spin items for people using all the gold he had cheated from people in his life. Each of my friends received different magical items like a cloak of protection and bags of holding. I also received one of the bags of holding which has served me well in the feywild and will serve me well after it. We ran into many problems in this hag’s lands. With a lot of work, we ended a feud that was happening because two groups believed the other was working for the hag when in fact never side was willingly helping her. They allowed us to get into the hag’s tower safely. During the travels into the hag’s tower, we met someone that tried to cast animate object to fight us. I was quick with my new spell and counterspelled it. I am thankful for you telling me I should learn that spell quickly as I could because it saved us a lot of trouble. We ended up getting into the hag’s tower and we got forced into one of her plays. We did well enough as improve actors that they let us have free run of the tower. This was a huge mistake on their part because that let us get to the controls of the tower and we destroyed them. The tower began to shack and we decided to jump for our lives. I let one of my friends jump into my new bag of holding and fly out. Two others flew out the window together. But Nomag had no way to fly. Our druid somehow changed into a set of wings and he tried to jump out the window using them. It went very bad for them and they almost fell to their death if not for some giant swans that caught them and flew all of us to the archfey’s Palace of Delight.
 
When we landed we were grated to an amazing palace that was frozen in time. There was a river in it that was frozen that the unicorn’s horn unfroze for us. We found a box from the feirydragon we saved that had a chine of opening and a thank you letter in it for us. That cline helped us get to the heart of the palace to where the archfey was. When we got there I recognized her as the old lady that once saved my life as a child. We freed her with the horn and she then freed the whole palace. And to my amazement, the great wizard Tasha was there frozen in time with the archfey. I wish I had talked with her more and learned some of her magic. I had already learned one of her spells the hideous laughter one, but I wish I could have told her I was a great fan of hers and that I wanted to be as great as her one day. As a reward for saving the archfey, she freed my friends of any curses we had and released us from any feypacts we might have entered into. As a parting gift, the archfey offered us a wish. We all stool there amazed by this. We did not know what to wish for. I thought to myself, what if I wished for a powerful staff like that of the magi? We all discussed a little but we did were unsure. She told us we could return us to our home if we wanted. We decided that this was the best idea because we had no idea how to get back to our world from the feywild. She sent us home and when we returned to Dewbreak, we learned we had been gone for 40 days. I read our letters and knew that first thing in the morning I had to travel to make sure you knew I was alive. So I talked Nomag into coming with me because the trip might be a little dangerous and you know I hate being alone. I cannot fathom how hard it must have been hearing that we had disappeared. I can understand father wanting to have a funeral and forget about his disgraced son. Thank you mother for not giving up hope in me and still being willing to talk to me through letters. I hope one day to regain father’s love. I will try my hardest to never let you fear my death again. I will write back often as I can. Even if we just spend a few weeks in Dewbreak between adventures, I will send you something to let you know I am fine. I love you mother. I miss you and father and the rest of the family. Please send my best regards to everyone. I do not know if father will be willing to hear about my exploits in the feywild but please try to let him know. Maybe knowing that I now have a noble title in the feywild will help him see that I am doing good things for our family. We made a major impact on the feywild and made some very big friends in that archfey and Tasha. If we ever go back to the feywild we will be treated as honored guests. Not that I am hoping to return again. If for any reason I suspect I might go to the feywild again. I promise I will try my hardest to warn you so you know I might be out of touch for a very long time. Once again, I am sorry for letting yall believe I was dead. Nomag and I will be at the Lily Café all day today waiting for you. Again I understand if you cannot make or do not want to come but we will be there all day hoping to see you.
 
-Your Son,
-Fip Goldscale.