Ulda Golgain

An ancient mountaineer skeleton of Clan Helmnack — ~600 years dead, ~11 ft tall, entombed in knee-bend-less ceremonial half-plate — found inside the corrupted Druid's Grove alongside a second crested "tombmate." Far out of place: a northern tor-climber's corpse turning up in a southern druid grove, like the worm-skeleton before him, feeding the party's theory that ancient bodies are being dropped here from the far north.

(Shares a surname with the living New Halfwood vet Golgain — almost certainly GM name-reuse, kept distinct.)

Session 47 — spoken with (deceased)

• Speak with Dead. Silithane questioned him; he answers that he "died as he lived, mountaineering the tors," and believes the year is 826.
• The clan's secret. For a 29 persuasion he reveals Clan Helmnack's charge: the mountain's true secrets lie under the tors, and he extracts a promise that no one dig on or beneath them.
• The calendar gap. He counts 826 years since "the woman killed the emperor" — the god-slaying emperor (party guesses the killer is Euphemia / the Autark) — against the party's current 1396; the discrepancy and "tombmate" are flagged in Canon Questions.