Wandering Minstrel Eye

This eye can float and magically summon up elaborate music. Was it once a man? Is it cursed?

Our heroes met the eye when returning the stone idol to Goldenpoint. It has travelled with them ever since, inspiring them in combat with its music, and entertaining them while traveling or partying. As you can imagine, strangers find the wandering minstrel eye to be something between an oddity and an abomination.

Reynard told our heroes that they had a choice to either go to the Specter Tower of Sowell or save the eye, since the eye would not survive the trip to the tower. Knowing the gravity of their quest they chose to try to buy the eye a little more time by leaving him at the fox's cottage.

Reynard also said that the eye's curse could be lifted either by the warlock who cursed him or a powerful priest.

Lady Genessa told the adventurers:

”Yes, we know your floating eye friend here knew music from the book. We looked into the matter as I said we would. It was very puzzling at first. We accounted for nearly everyone who knew the song your eye played for us, and ruled out the rest for being verifiably deceased, mad, or otherwise clearly not turned into an eye. So where did that leave us? We were stuck at a dead end until we turned up a harper who had been out doing field research in the area near where the book was found, but he never returned. His disappearance was inexplicable and mysterious enough to be noted in a few verses of a song. The harper's name was Scottfard Ferisedan. Here's the catch. Scottfard went missing almost 20 years before Eburacon was born.”

”Scottfard's grandfather gave him a cat, so the story goes, that had never gotten any older in all his grandfather's days. Scottfard wondered how this was possible. He asked around. Many had gone looking for a way to stave off the wear of years and even cheat the grim reaper. This quest was typically an old man's sport. The young already felt as though they'd live forever.”

”But Scottfard felt differently. If there was a way out there to keep from aging, why not find it in your youth and put it to its best use? He even had a plan. Fairies stayed young forever. Maybe he could find their secret. He chased rumors of Fairy Circles. Then there's the bit from the song…”

Returned to the village after months away
with only the word “Eureka!” to say

He went into the fire to sleep for the night
with many eyes on him to show them the way
In the morn there was nothing where he had lay
but a flute and a lute and the song of the Faye

His feline companion withered and grey
took it last breath on the very next day

”See? Mysterious, and not much to go on. This part of the song is often taken to mean that creating music will make you live on after you're gone, a sort of immortality. Nothing about turning into an eye in there.”