The storyteller Linzi left Galt years ago, hoping to perfect her craft in the fabled domain of Pitax. However, it wasn’t long before she realized Pitax’s reputation as a center of the arts was more propaganda than reality. While she could sense the city’s artisans struggling to produce original work, the overwhelming regime of suppression and meddling put in place by King Irovetti made that difficult at best. Instead of learning new stories, Linzi learned the value of resistance and rebellion in Pitax. Inevitably, these themes crept into her artwork, and when a raunchy limerick she wrote about King Irovetti became unexpectedly popular, she was expelled for “impudence toward persons of the highest esteem.”
 
Linzi wasn’t daunted. She felt she’d learned all she could in Pitax and headed east with a new goal: to find notable heroes who could serve as inspiration for what she felt would be her masterpiece: a gripping tale of adventuring triumph in the face of starkest evil. Her journeys eventually took her into the hinterlands of Brevoy, where she caught wind of Lady Jamandi Aldori’s call for heroes. Here, Linzi realized, was the opportunity she’d been waiting for!