Legend of the Thief of Shuldraina

"'O! Tkulthe and Hafthure!' He called to the heavens, to the sky and the stars whose patronage brought down Sossofurwhath, missionary of the sky, who preached of the outer realms and demonic entities presiding over nether-kingdoms of dank and despair. 'The prophet Sossofurwhath claims you hold sway over every part of our world. Show me his teachings were not the rambles of a madman and send forth some aid for this heist!'"

-The Thief before entering Shuldraina

The Legend
The legend goes that the Duck was being held in the fortress-city of Shuldraina, in the deepest black iron chambers. Word by bird came to the hunchback king that the Duck was in danger, he he put all his men to guard it. Around that time, a cultist peasant is told by a stranger in a bar of the sacrilegious imprisonment of the Duck. The peasant embarks on a quest to rescue it, and before entering Shuldraina, prays to Tkulthe and Hafthure. He enters and discovers the catacomb vaults are heavily infested with guards. To draw them out, he lights the city on fire and the guards rush out to put the fire out. He slips into the catacombs and is caught unawares by guardsmen. He attempts to escape through the fire, but is cornered by the hunchback king and his guards. Believing he has failed, the Thief chooses to burn rather than surrender. To celebrate their protection of the Duck, the king and his people have a extravagant banquet. As they reveled, the Cadaverous One rejoices outside the walls of hallowed Shuldraina, for he was both the sender of the warning and the sender of the Thief, and while the Thief burned and the guards extinguished Shuldraina, he had snuck right under their noses and stolen their most sacred treasure. Thus the Duck was lost, and this was the first in a chain of events leading up to the War of the Duck.

Historical Analysis
As a legend, it was not completely believed until scholar and history professor Martin Silverstein did an extensive study of the myth. As the War of the Duck and it's loss truly happened, he concludes there was indeed a thief. Archaeological evidence shows that at the time the primordial city believed to be Shuldraina in the myth was abandoned, it had not yet recovered from a large fire. There is evidence to prove this myth then, yet Silverstein is doubtful of the existence of a manipulative "cadaverous one" pulling the strings in his favor, and rather it is more likely the Thief was successful and snuck out of Shuldraina via the sewage tunnels.