black gold

Exploration Stage: Riverside Abode
From: Martha
Description: The magic that turns people into birds is a special kind of magic, and it's not an easy thing to unravel. For example, I don't sense any soul at all in those birds. Perhaps a part of their soul has been transferred to something else. Perhaps it is in the brooches that Miss Peacock mentioned. One of them has something to do with Saracens, I believe. Look for it.
Completed: This brooch has a portrait of a young Saracen in expensive clothes. This is the ...... prince! But I guess he's not the first in line. He is now languishing in the princess's cage.