A villager from the distant northern hamlet of Parrin's Field comes to Acryn seeking hunters to bring down the beasts that took their child.

They cannot offer much, just a small purse pulled together by their neighbours and the thanks of a grateful community.

The party travel to Parrin's Field, seeing off a group of deserters and managing not to offend Green Thomas and his band as they go. There they learn that whilst unknown in Acryn, the village is actually relatively well known in Margush as the subject of a bawdy ballad 'The Flowers of Parrin's Field'. It seems it was also incorrectly placed on the map by the lovestruck cartographer who penned the song, following his short fling with the villager mystic Tanya, an adherent of the Dreaming Ocean.

Looking for the child snatching clawfiend the party make their way to the monastery of the Balancing Monks, whereupon whilst Hadyn is busy earning the chief monk's respect with his sure footing in battle, Ragnar attempts to study the Monk's methods of personal perfection and ends up getting pushed off a cliff!
Saved by a hastily quaffed Death Ward and healing from Anabel, Ragnar is shortly joined by the Traitor Priestess as she is overwhelmed by hallucinations leaking from the misty clouds covering the valley below. Hadyn gets everyone back on their feet and they set off looking for the Fiend.

Instead they find themselves coming to another, more idealised version of Parrin's Field, and visiting the tower erected there they discover that the cartographer Anwe is responsible for the kidnapping. Slightly mad and obssessed with the Flux-version of Tanya he found here, he has been using his own powers to try to stabilise the region, however the strain has grown too much, and he has stolen the child Haley, in the hope of creating a permanent guardian for the village he inadvertently created.
The party persuade him to come back with them to the real village, and try to find a consenting individual to shoulder the burden with him. In the meantime whilst he is away, Ragnar will take on the role of dreaming observer through the flux-Tanya's faux miracles.

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