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Ugly Duckling

One of the pair of rotund thugs, with faces even a mother would struggle to love, who serve as The Swan's muscle at the Soul Brokers' hidden archive beneath New Arcanum. Fighting side by side with mace and heavy crossbow, they are far more dangerous together than apart.

Featured In Modules

This lore entry is featured in the following adventure modules:

  • Ledger of SoulsWhen the delivery girl Kori crash-lands her flying gondola at the party's feet, her undeliverable brass cylinder—addressed to ring three, one-hundred-and-twenty degrees, "but there's nothing here"—proves to be the missing piece of the Soul Brokers' hidden archive. Following the swan Kori saw vanish into a canal culvert, the party plays her remembered melody (F-A-C-A-D-E) on a chained pan flute, defeats the water-jug scale guarding the inner door, and finds a brass clockwork counting machine binding the Ledger of Souls—the master tally of Aurelian's debtors, friends, and materiel. The Swan and his Ugly Ducklings bar the only way out, and a flying gondola chase through New Arcanum's canals follows, with Kori proudly at the tiller. The Ledger's first page names Aurelian's Spire as the seat of the whole operation.