A simple plan: Teleport into Witchthorn's glade a week before the deadline, pick a fight, win, and free ourselves from the obligation to deliver vile merchandise to said Verdant Prince. The exploding box of excrement we handed over in place of our price was Durthen's idea, and I had little to do with it, I swear.
Mercifully, Witchthorn wasted little time berating us, and there was little feigned shock on either side, merely a contest of might making right.
Witchthorn's enchanted circle captured Durthen early on, and Witchthorn himself proved terribly hard to pin down, instead throwing his ensorceled Verdant Reavers and Oaken Guardians at us. My usual approach of staying rooted to the spot become all too real as one of the reavers entangled a large area; subsequently I got stomped by one of the reavers when I couldn't move out of the way fast enough. Maybe next time I'll dimension door a little sooner and save myself the pain.
No Ocelot for this guy -- he dodged most of our attacks and all of our spells, and hurt Livia and Durthen terribly. He almost turned me into an animal, too, but fortunately by that point all my companions had the mobility to chase him around, and he dimension doored when his last servant fell.
More pragmatic than most of our opponents, he returned to offer a deal: he'd release us from our oaths in exchange for breaking off the attack. I'm almost impressed! He ended up alive, and didn't give us any reason to come hunting him again. He might not even bother to send attackers against us, although I wouldn't be surprised if he uses us to get rid of a future pest, now that he's seen our growing skill. All in all, the outcome seems a viable compromise between fulfilling our oaths, and killing him just to get out of them. Witchthorn is still out there, but he's far from the worst evil this world has seen.
Malakar's new destructive array of spells are imposing, to say the least. I may have to reserve disintegration for walls and such, leaving the utter demolition of creatures to those more qualified.
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