Zundle

The now-vanished village of Zundle is marked only by a pump and a sagging, open-walled cowshed used by many travel- ers on the Way of the Dragon. The pump and shed stand on the west side of the road at the southern edge of the Ring’s Forest. I mention Zundle for two reasons. The practical one is the prevalence of garnets in the rocks here. Many an idle or poor way- farer has spent a profitable day or two pry- ing gems out of the rocks to sell them in nearby Suzail. Gemhunters should beware, though, since a mimic or other creature able to hide has taken up residence among the rocks and begun dining on humans! The other reason I mention Zundle is that it is famous—or infamous—in Cormyrean lore as the fabled home of dull- witted bumpkins. “A real Zundle party” is often used to describe a disorganized or boring event, dinner, or affair. “He’d cut quite a dash in Zundle” or “All the boys’d be after her in Zundle” are terms used to describe someone very dirty, disheveled, or dressed in ridiculous costume.

“Are ye sure ye’re not from Zundle?” is used in place of “Are you crazy?” or “Do you really believe that? Well, you are an idiot!”

The folk of Zundle are believed to have been a bit slow-witted. The village was ulti- mately destroyed after an unusually bright troll who’d mastered a smattering of the common tongue by eavesdropping on camped wayfarers convinced Zundle’s lone cattle sentinel to douse his fire one night, since it was hurting the troll’s eyes. The obliging idiot did so, and he was promptly swarmed by two dozen trolls. They didn’t quite kill him in their haste to get on and devour the rest of the sleeping village. The sentinel fled to tell his tale, and the Purple Dragon patrol he met galloped to Zundle just in time to find a village elder obligingly telling the bright troll all the hiding places, cellars, and suchlike that he could remem- ber while other trolls scrambled to check each one in turn.
Rumors have circulated that years later a renegade priest of Waukeen once buried a temple treasury he’d stolen from Westgate in a Zundian paddock shortly before pursu- ing temple agents caught up with him. But, in truth, this could never have happened, since after the trolls were slaughtered, the village of Zundle wasn’t rebuilt.

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