The Legend of the Pied Piper

The medieval folklore of the German town of Hamelin holds that the Piper of Hamelyn used his magical pipe to rid the town of its plague of rats by leading them into the sea to drown. When the townspeople refused to pay, he allegedly used his magical music to take away the children as he did the children. According to one version of the legend, he took the children into the sea but rather east into the Transylvanian town of Brasov. There, he gifted the children with musical instruments and special abilities in return for spending their existences spreading good to counteract their parents' transgressions. On Gothic Earth, the existence of a Neutral Good qabal known as the Heirs of the Piper trace their origins back to this take on the legend.