Isle of Balduran North

Lycanthrope Island North is the northern half of Lycanthrope Island, a small island somewhere in the Trackless Sea. It is here that the crew of Balduran's ship, Wandering Eye, landed looking for fresh supplies while on their return voyage from Anchorome. While on the island, Balduran made note in his log book that both the original crew and the crew he hired in Anchorome were beginning to exhibit the initial effects of Lycanthropy (unbeknownst to all of them).

"...original men seem quite shallow in the face, quite different from the pallor of the new recruits, but all are most definitely ill..."

- final entry in Balduran's logbook

Not long after landing the curse struck without warning and fighting broke out between the werewolf-infested original crew and the wolfwere-infested hired crew. During the battle Balduran had the ship beached and scuttled so no one could leave the island. When the fighting reached a standstill, the chaotic wolfweres took residence in the ruins of the ship while the werewolf clan withdrew to the southern end of the island. It is here, in the ship, where Karoug resides.

During the fighting, Balduran disappeared and no one knows what became of him. Dradeel, Balduran's guide, was knocked out by a wolfwere and when he came to the battle was over. He searched for survivors and found none.

"I awoke in the dark, several hours later. I crawled painfully back to the beach. The ship was half sunk in the surf, a huge hole in her side, as if a giant had punched through her in a rage. There was a smoldering fire on the deck and in that sickly light I could see the bodies of the ship's crew, gutted and hung in the rigging like so much meat"

- Dradeel

When dawn arrived he came upon an ancient village and took shelter in an abandoned hut. He discovered a cave below the hut and to this point he has survived on water from a freshwater stream and a peculiar sightless fish for the past three hundred years.