I tell you Ambeline, we're going to strike it rich! \n\nWe've finally hit upon a scheme to make a lot of money for very little effort. It's perfect!\n\nWe farm the lynx, harvest their furs, and sell them up north. They always need more furs up north, and there is a lady who is willing to pay top dollar for 'em! \n\nNo more hunting expeditions ranging up and down the coast, we'll never have to leave our camp. \n\nWe've got the cats, and a good location. Now we just need more meat.\n\nWith any luck, we'll be home sooner than expected, and with more wealth than we'll know what to do with.\n\n\nLots of love, \n\n~Your Dearest Geoff

A New Venture

Geoff's First Letter

My dearest Ambeline, you were right, it was too good to be true. \n\nJust when we thought things were going so well, Caryn showed up. \n\nWho is Caryn? Good question. We soon found out. \n\nSome crazy lady who believes animals shouldn't be hunted! Who believes that? \n\nSaid we better stop what we were doing and move along, or there'd be real problems. \n\nI told her it was too late. We weren't leaving, we had a good thing going here! \n\nThat's when told us what she did to Reynard. Pushing him into the lynx den. She wasn't messing around. \n\n\nHope to get out of this mess,\n\n~Your Dearest Geoff

Unexpected Visitor

Geoff's Second Letter

Hah! Caryn has no idea the scope of what we did. \n\nSure, she took out Benet, and Piers. But she still doesn't know about the wolves. \n\nOh, she suspects something, but she's so short sighted, not like us. \n\n We weren't only here for lynx fur. We've been flooding the local wolf den with alchemical concoctions to make them more violent. \n\nThey were already getting that way from having to compete with the lynx for food, but now they are a real menace. \n\nThey are so dangerous, people pay us to kill them. So we get paid twice, once for their deaths, and then again with their furs. \n\nWait, I hear something outside. Is it the snarl of a wolf? Did Caryn lure one here? \n\nForgive me, my love, but I have to check.\n\n\n I hope this letter makes it to you someday if I do not return. \n\n~Your Dearest Geoff

Sabotage

Geoff's Third Letter

If you have found this note, you have my thanks. What you have done was not pretty, indeed, it should not have happened at all. \n\nBut there are some people in the world who only know how to take, and never to give. \n\nIt was a hard mercy you gave those wolves, a mercy I couldn't give them myself. \n\nThe balance of Restless Shore has been restored. Now I am off to see justice done in the jungles to the northwest. \n\nThink of me, someday, when the alligators of Reekwater run free. \n\n\n~Caryn Berzs

The Fur Trade Chapter - NWGuide Database of Lore

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