Chapter 10: Hold of the Storm Giants - Storm King's Thunder

Chapter 10: Hold of the Storm Giants. Before the dissolution of the ordning, the influence of the storm giants was so great that lesser giants were compelled to abide by their decrees. The storm giants, reclusive by nature, did their best to discourage lesser giants from destroying the civilizations of the small folk. The death of Queen Neri and the disappearance of King Hekaton have left Maelstrom in disarray, allowing evil giants to run rampant. King Hekaton saw signs that his eldest daughters were unfit to claim the Wyrmskull Throne, so he made his even-keeled youngest daughter, Princess Serissa, his rightful heir. She has taken her place on the Wyrmskull Throne, but with the ordning shattered, she doesn't have the power to keep the evil giant lords in line. She relies on two storm giants for counsel: her uncle, Uthor (Hekaton's younger brother), and the wise, matronly Iymrith. Unfortunately, neither of them has much respect for small folk. In that regard, Princess Serissa is alone. Like her dearly departed mother, Princess Serissa believes that small folk are cleverer and mightier than most giants give them credit for, and as a child, she visited their shores in the company of her mother and has great affection for them. In this part of their mission, the characters use their conch of teleportation (obtained in a previous chapter) to teleport to Maelstrom. Once there, they must make their way to Princess Serissa and win her confidence. She wants to believe that her father is alive. She also wants to believe that the characters are resourceful and strong enough to find and rescue King Hekaton, despite what Uthor and Iymrith whisper. If the characters convince Princess Serissa that they can help, she shows them a clue found near the corpse of her mother: a wooden coin that leads the characters into conflict with the Kraken Society (as discussed in chapter 11, "Caught in the Tentacles"). Standing in the characters' way are Princess Serissa's siblings, Mirran and...