The World of Layonara
Character Development => Development Journals and Discussion => Topic started by: Pibemanden on July 31, 2005, 05:15:00 PM
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*A battered notebook filled with scratches and burn marks, when you open it you see that many of the pages are stained with blood. But the writing in the book is that of a wizard, a hastily scribbled headline indicates a new event in the life of this strange wizard…* Hunting for cougar and the events that followed
I was sitting on the benches in Hlint, like I normally do when I am thinking of what to do. A dwarf asks for my assistance with some smelting, I help her by casting bull’s strength and cat’s grace. Suddenly a half-giant announces that he’s going on a trip to hunt cougar, I enjoy hunting and joins a hunting party consisting of a drow female, an elf, one half-giant, Spungle, and a wizard whose race I couldn’t determine/remember. We head out to find a cougar and only one because the drow had a problem with me enjoying hunting. Well we got the cougar after some running and a ambush in the broken forest and an attack while running by some griffin nests, cursed the necromancers who are responsible for these beings, then the other mage suggests that we go clean a cave of its inhabitants of ogres. Everyone agrees that ogre hunting could be fun and we head out to find the cave. We are attacked by harpies on the way to the cave, but nothing exceptional and we do fine in the battle. We also get attacked by another cougar on the way; we kill it of course displeasing the drow drow who has a problem with hunting. We arrive at the cave and goes down into the darkness. First we encounter a skeletal ogre, some necromancer apparently though it was funny to mingle with the bodies of ogres. After a short battle we emerge victories, we continue deeper into the darkness and fights our way through the many ogres into a chamber filled with bat guano and some minerals. The other mage chisels some of the mineral of while the rest of the party rests a bit. We decide that the resistance of the ogres are no match for our skills and goes even deeper into the cave. We get ambushed by a huge group of ogres as we progress, and we begin fighting back. But unfortunately some of the ogres have spotted the drow and me as easy targets, so they run past Spungle and goes straight for the archers. While I and the drow are trying to run more and more ogres join the fight, after being knocked unconscious twice my soul returns to soul mother. Later I was told, that I, when I woke up from being close to death didn’t realise that I was invisible and tried to attack the ogres who immediately spotted me and brought me down again. When my soul returned from Soul Mother I found myself back in Hlint, moments later Spungle Appeared, Spungle was too affected by his recent passing that he could go with me back to look for survivors. I went to the campsite outside Hlint, here I rested and meet another female drow, She helped me get back to pray by my grave to gain my former strength. On the way back to the cave I meet the drow who wanted the skin of a cougar in the first place, so I knew that someone survived. After praying at my grave I talked the drow into showing me where garlic could be found near Hlint, and together we went to Sielwood to gather garlic. On the way back to Hlint I had my second encounter with Soul Mother, when I meet some stink beetles who spotted an easy target and killed me with their gas. Luckly the Drow helped me once again getting to my grave and praying by it. When I returned to Hlint I meet the elf female again, she told me that she too had been in the hands of Soul Mother and the other drow and the mage survived the battle fleeing from the cave while invisible.
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Helping a paladin to find friends in Hlint, after saving her from death by goblins
Sitting on the bench again watching the world go by, I suddenly see a wounded female paladin enter the west town gate. She is hunted by some red-light goblins; I get up and ready my crossbow shooting one of the goblins right in the heart while another, whom I later learned bore the name Na~Hani, take care of the second goblin. When we’re done fighting we go to see how the paladin is doing, she says a few words and collapses. We carry her to the Wild Surge Inn, we but her on a chair and I go look for Ayla who I recently saw in the back room making some food. I find Ayla and make her tend to the somewhat wounded paladin, after getting her story about being ambushed by the goblins and running back to Hlint, she takes a small nap in one of the inns rooms. I have by this time learned that she is a paladin of Toran and her name is Rowena. We go outside because Rowena is a bit scared of the drunken regulars of the Wild Surge. We head out to the benches because Rowena want to get some friends in Hlint, by the benches is four figures two I know, Klugger and Reef, and two unknown, a mage and some other guy wich I don’t really remember. After introducing Rowena to the people by the benches Klugger and the mage decides to go to the Broken Forest with Rowena and me, so we head out to put a stop to the undead plague in the forest. On the way to the forest we kill of a couple of ogre bandits. When we get there we fight the undead back to the ruins just before Sielwood. After doing that the party breaks up to go separate way, I go Sielwood to gather garlic and the rest of the party heads back to Hlint. When I am done getting garlic I head out to the goblin caves west of Hlint to mine some greenstone. While there I decide to call upon my friend Horthat the fairy dragon, I wish for him to help battle the goblins who’re setting up ambushes on the Hlint-Port Llast road. Mostly as a test of his fighting skills so I can find out whether he can protect me while getting garlic, greenstone and aloe. He manages fine with my help and I decide that I will call upon him when I need some assistance gathering components for my alchemy work. The result of this day is lots of greenstone dust, some garlic and 2 mystery minerals, that turn out to be Feldspar and Garnet.
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My first step into death on a trip to Sielwood and a cave in the said wood
I started the day by going for some sand and trying to make Horthat kill the kobolds camping there after they attacked me, this didn’t work out as planed and I had to run and then kill a kobold with my skinning knife outside Hlint. Back in town I go look for help getting the sand and find Na~hani. I ask him to help me mine sand and we agree that we’ll go after I have rested at the Wild Surge. When I return at the benches Na~hani was talking to two other people who turned out to be Maelstrom and Reasta. They where going to Sielwood to find a necklace which was lost by a bard. We, Na~hani and I, decide to join up instead of going for sand. Another elf the one from the cougar-hunt joined in. When we got to the caves we where meet by kobolds and some bugbears, we managed fine and when we where done cleaning the cave of hostility Na~hani left. The rest of the party decided to kill some birds for their feathers we found their nests and killed them swiftly. On the way back to Hlint I ran a bit too far and didn’t notice the kobolds that made an ambush and killed me. My soul got some severe scratches in the hands of Soul Mother, but it returned to Hlint. I got into talking to Rowena and a male. They had been out getting cobber and where killed by the goblins who live in the deep caves. Rowena had to go, and later my senses powers told me that I had to go, because someone was waiting for me. I returned to the party and we went out to so I could pray by my grave. Unfortunately I where killed twice and the party almost died on the trip. I really hate those spiders… Note to self; don’t go to Sielwood again unless invisible… Back in Hlint I made some glass vares and ended the day at the inn.
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Dreadful information and taking the consequences of it…
Trying to use Horthat help me dig up some sand I die again, I use invisibility to get to my grave too pray. Back in Hlint I meet Na~hani again, he wants to discuss a matter of great importance with me. First he apologised for his behaviour before we went to Sielwood, he talked about not killing the creatures living in the cave just for fun. I had to tell him that I backed his views and I didn’t need an apology, he was glad to hear that but then he talked to me about a thing that had been worrying him for some time. He is apparently a follower of Toran, which I got the feeling of when he talked to Rowena when we rescued her. He had been saved by Toran once and feels that he’s now in dept to his deity. The gods apparently have problems, maybe related to a dream I once had, with people wanting to become gods themselves and had massive armies behind them. I felt bad listing to Na~hani and suggested that I should try to help the gods by finding some god to pray to. He agreed that this might help, and I too suggested joining a god’s clergy to help spread the word and save some people who are severely injured in battle for a good cause. I began my quest to help people by healing a half-orc which helped me dig up sand. I spend the rest of the day gathering stuff for making healing potions and making a few of them…
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An uneventful day, where I visited Soul Mother twice…
I started the day by getting some garlic and made some more healing potions. Then I went to Rangers Vale in Sielwood to get some bandages because I knew they where cheap there. I then tried to mine some greenstone together with my friend Horthat the fairy dragon, but we both died… When I had returned to my grave to pray and got back to Hlint I joined a party set up to go mining in the Haven mines. We got trough the first level without problems, but the second level was too hard and Maelstrom and I died. I returned to my grave and then healed Spungle, I am really happy to help people get healthier and thinks that I will be a good cleric…
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About earning money and getting killed in a crypt…
I sat on the bench as usual, suddenly this man approaches me. He wants to sell me some very expensive things, a ring and some clothes. I say to him that I can’t pay for the things, and he tells me about how to earn money by gathering things for other people who are making varies things. Maelstrom joins the discussion and I realise that I can earn a decent coin doing this. After Maelstrom and the other man left, I got invited to talk to a wemic. We talked a bit, the along comes this woman who wants to go to the crypts to get some money, I agreed to go based on the fact that the undead plague needed to be cut down a bit. We fared well down there, until I ran out of bandages and healing potions… Then the wemic almost died, and I died… I returned and made the wemic invisible, then got killed on the way back... Note to self: Never run out of healing again…
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The scared elf and hunting for bear
I started my day at the bench waiting for fighters to help me mine greenstone. I meet Klugger and Spungle who where looking for cobber which could be found in the same cave as the greenstone. We agreed to travel together and got off to the red light cave. I got my greenstone mined and followed the two half-giants deeper into the caves. Here I got killed because I ran too far ahead and ran into a couple of goblins. I returned and prayed at my grave, I then returned to Hlint to avoid further deaths that day. I talked a bit to the wemic Jautuaza whom I meet yesterday. We talked a bit about my alchemy luck and then suddenly someone shoot an arrow against us. It turned out to be an elf that apparently was afraid of Jautuaza. The elf had a almost mute companion who got her down from the platform and close to the vemic. That helped and they got along fine. Meanwhile I made some healing potions and returned to the campfire outside Hlint. There I meet Rugo who helped me get even more greenstone, I then in return helped him get a brown bear hide in the High Forest. This day I also meet Orrin again, I healed himm and got some scrolls in return.
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Going trough Sielwood without invisibility, but with an army…
The day started on the bench and ended in Fort Velensk … I meet a dwarf, Vig, who was keen on adventuring and wanted to go to the Hlint crypts together with me and a mage named Robert. We meet a lady just before entering the crypt, Her name was Jil…, so we went down I the crypts with a party of four. On the second level a fighter named Mongo joined us and helped a bit. When we got back to Hlint a small group of people joined us making the party even bigger, we then decided to go to the Sielwood to test our skills against the vile creatures who prevent a safe passing through the woods. We did just fine and with zero casualties we ventured trough the ruins and the broken forest. Now we decided that the time called for some topaz mining, and we hurried to the cave near fort Velensk the one with the ogres that wiped the entire party out the last time I was there. We fared a bit further in the caves than last time, but at last we where rushed by the ogres and the entire party, except Jil got killed. We returned to pray at our graves and I ended the day at a inn in Fort Velensk.
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Opening a resource store and the consequences…
I was on a trip to Benhagen Mountains and didn’t get killed, thanks to the great clerics I journeyed together with. I got a lot of money from this trip and where happy to have attended this trip suggested by Kaizer. Then I opened my own resource store selling the resources close to Hlint. The store is running ok, but lacks customers until today where I meet a guy who has given me and order for elderberries, 800gp a box really something to get me started. Then I have been on some small trip in Hlint and the surrounding areas together with some of my friends, Jautuaza, Orrin, Rugo and Robert. I am pretty bound in Hlint right now because of an order from someone named Amber which hasn’t been delivered yet. I have talked to a guy named Joe about buying a house and we agreed to buy one as soon as we have got some other interested people and raised some more money.
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Becoming a faithful of Lucida
I was visiting spellgard while I was looking for a house for Joe and me. While there I decided to visit the local temple, which happened to be a temple of Lucinda. I spend some time studying the tomes of their great library, and I talked a bit to the priests and the other people at the temple. Then I decided that this was the faith I had been looking for my whole life. And from now on I will place all my prayers to the Lady of Spells Lucinda. I have talked to some people about this change of faith and have only gotten positive responces, except for the halfling who thought it was silly to give up being an abjurer for being a cleric of Lucinda. Any way I would like to spend some more time in the temple than I do now, but have been forced to stay in Hlint because of my pack being too heavy for me. I have sent a warning to the ones who have orders that if they don’t get their stuff soon I will sell it to someone else.
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Settling down...
I have been very busy gathering things and crafting molds and glass the last few months. I have become quite good at it and are currently trying to craft crystal rods that I can sell to the people that enchant these. I have decided to quit adventuring and become a full time crafter, if I use all my wake hours making stuff I'll soon become much skilled in glass making and alchemy. I have also been doing my duties as an initiate in the church of Lucinda. I have healed and helped a lot of people. I use most of my time crafting though, so I don't see that many people in desperate need of help. But I usually help the people in and around Hlint. I used some time to discuss my skills with some of the people I meet, that really helped me see my potential as a mage. But I still have no intentions of becoming an active adventurer again. My goals are to advance in the church of Lucinda and some day get to own a house from which I can conduct my business.
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The protectors
After finishing of some deals in Hlint I return to the temple in Spellgard. I have since my last entry healed a couple of really injured people in Hlint, they where all pleased to have been helped and some even gave money to the church. I went back once to restock my bandages and give some money to the church along with the money I received for healing. When I was in Spellgard I meet some kind of knight wearing Lucinda’s symbol on his shield. I approached him and asked if he was a faithful, because it's strange for me seeing a knight being faithful to the Lady of spells. We talked a bit and he revealed to me that he was a paladin in the Lady's service and that he also was a spell user like me. He told me that the ranks of paladins where small and only a few where committed enough to both focus on the melee part of combat and still be able to choose the right spells to prepare for combat. I was really interested in knowing more about his order, but he was in a hurry and had to assist some of the church’s Clerics in a journey to another isle. I hope to see him again or some of his order, until then I will try to study the library’s of Spellgard and talking to the clergy to find out more.
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The divine favour
I has sitting on the bench in Hlint, talking a bit to Acacea who where searching for a puppy she saw by the benches. Then these two old men joins me and begins talking about who old they are, the one that seems to be the oldest walks slowly towards the town gate and disappears. Acacea and I talks a bit more to the old man, then suddenly Acacea drops a stink bomb. This causes the man to have a heart attack, and falls to the ground. I run around town trying to find someone to help me, but no one seems to notice me. I then try on last time to wake up the old man I end up breaking his arm not making the scene look nicer. I then thought that the only one that could help me bring this man back to life was the Lady of Spells herself, so I prayed to her that his old heart would start beating again. Then a miracle occurred the old man started breathing and his heart began to beat again. I bound some bandages around his arm to make him feel better, and helped him get up on the bench again. He later recovered from all his injuries and was very glad that I helped him. I told the clergy at Spellgard about this event, they where very excited about it and said that if I could make Lucinda revive a person at my current status as an initiate I will become a great cleric. I then told them about the paladin I saw and that I wanted to know more about the duties of a paladin before I made my decision about joining the clergy. They tried to convince me that being a cleric would be the best for one like me, especially after me telling about the dead old man. But at last they directed me to the paladins training facilities. There I talked to the paladin I met before. I told him about how I was fascinated by the skills of the melee fighters he then told me that if I wanted to join it shouldn’t just be about being a melee fighter. I should be willing to sacrifice my life for the protection of the weave if I was that I would indeed become a paladin some day. He then asked me a bit about myself and I told him about my spell school of choice, abjuration. He was very happy to hear that I specialised in abjuration as I could become a member of the same chapter as him. Before I left Spellgard he told me to get a sword and begin training while travelling with friends, he told me that it might be very hard to hurt someone with the sword before you get more experienced and that I should train for at least a month before I could use the full potential of the sword. I then left for Hlint to train and to make sure that the adventures that travel through the city will be cured of their wounds.
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When undead attack…
I was walking through Hlint when suddenly Mith came running around, on fire. This was just a sign of things to come because as I walked down the north road Hlint was attacked by undead from the crypts. Garenth, Talon and me defeated the foul creations but Garenth was touched by a wraith in the process. He soon after passed out and began having visions. He saw himself buried surrounded by scratching hands on his coffin. He kept hearing a voice saying the name Kobal. I have decided to contact this Kobal to find out whether he knows something about this attack. I have found out where he lives and has sent him a letter with some questions. These happenings were indeed strange but even stranger were what happened when I was walking from Spellgard to Hlint the other day. Suddenly I was transferred into another plane. This was what I was told by the people at this place at least. The people I knew that where at this plane was Ayla and Rolf. I told them what happened but soon after I had finished my tale I was standing in Hlint. Apparently I must have found some shortcut from Spellgard to Hlint that involves some plane walking.
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Joining the ranks of the paladins
After some time of training with my sword and some time spend in Hlint I was assigned to find out what happened and what caused the undead to roam the streets of Hlint. I had called upon the citizens of Mistone to help me; especially the Lucindithes. I got some answers and some said that the might make it but it ended up being Ayla, Tia and me that where going. We hoped to get some people in Hlint to help us out. As we marched for Hlint we meet a bard who is coming from the moors just east of the town. He approaches us and we see that he is very frightened and has some scratches. He tells us that he has been attacked by some undead creatures in the moors and that he tried to use his invisibility spells but they all failed. I send him off to Hlint and talk the party into investigating this presumed disturbance in the weave. We enter the moors and find that it’s only the regular lizardmen that inhabits it. We are just about to leave and go back to our investigation in Hlint when we spot some ghouls that are walking around in the moors. We soon find that the undead are coming from a rift in the moors that comes from a recent movement in the earths crust. After some though we end up going down into the rift and find ourselves in an old structure. We make your way to a chamber inhabited by a psychotic male that tells us that he is trying to summon the master. Most of his talk doesn’t make any sense at all. When he is done talking he tries to attack us with a spell but end up turning himself into a ghoul. He attacks and we slay him at once. He had made some kind of summoning circle before we arrived and it seems that this is the course of all the disturbances in the area. After taking a brief look at it I decide that it might be broken by casting dispel magic. I try and succeed in destroying the circle. Then in a flash we are teleported back to Spellgard and I am told to report back to the paladin order. I tell them what happened and why I didn’t help the citizens of Hlint with their problem. After giving a full report the head of the order tells me that I have proven myself worthy of joining their ranks.
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ATTACK ON MISTONE
Mistone was attacked by Bloods forces today; it was horrible wave after wave of trolls, giants and constructs. Soul Mother wanted a piece of me too, really not my day The teachings in Spellgard
After joining the ranks of Lucindas protectors of the weave I have been training in some of the things that my branch specialises in. I have been training both my arcane and fighting skills. In the arcane classes they teach me to cast my spells without moving. This art is very hard and might take some months or maybe years to master. Meanwhile I try to train my combat skills to become a better frontline fighter. When I am done doing these classes I hope that I am able to strike faster and more precise than I did before and be able to cast my spells without failures. I have also met a fellow protector, Maelker, who serves the pure combat part of the protectors. He seems that he is just as keen on defending the weave as I am. We travelled a while together and retrieved the ashes for the little girl in Krandor together with some other Lucindites. We also found some very strange spiders that apparently resided near a tower outside Krandor. We never discovered the true nature of these beasts but I have heard that they usually is found in the great rift, a very hostile area on Dreagar.
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A sort of vacation to Saudira
I was having some time off from the temple after days of guard duty and decided to visit some far of place where I could get some rest and maybe some new experiences. I decided to go to Saudira which lies in the middle of the desert on Dreagar. I was kind of enjoying life in the local inn and didn’t really think that anything interesting would happen. Then suddenly the town gets filled with some adventures that are just passing by. A man runs towards some of the adventures that happen to be members of the more shunned races of the world, goblins and dark elves, he accused them of being responsible of the disappearance of his son and later the accusations also include the disappearances of other people that used to live in the town. Some of the adventurers talk the man down and makes him understand that it isn’t the drow or the goblin that took his son. Things turn out for the worse when a local law enforcer that is clearly a toranithe comes by. He also accuses the drow and goblin for kidnapping all the missing people. After talking him down too the adventures suggest that we could help the man, Peter, find his boy. We also found out that two of the people who disappeared were digging in some ruins trying to find a big treasure which no-one has ever heard of. We decide that the two treasure diggers must have found something that had made them disappear. We searched their house/shed and found a secret tunnel leading from their shed to a place in the desert not far from their dig site. We made our way through the tunnel which was full with rats were rats and were cats. When we arrived in the desert we where attacked by some one who was apparently guarding the ruins. I fell twice trying to get to the temple, but luckily I was resurrected by some of the clerics in the party. When we arrived in the ruins we where spotted and the guards began killing the kidnapped people. We saved two of them but all of the others where dead and we left them there. We also found a very interesting crystal that apparently was enchanted with some very strong magic. Several party members where drawn to it including me. When I looked into it I saw all the happiest moments that I could remember. I couldn’t let go and kept staring into it. One of the party members that weren’t drawn to the crystal threw a cape over the crystal and I was freed of the magic. We got out of the cave and then suddenly a gnome member of the party rushed out of the cave and encouraged us to run as fast as we could. We escaped to a place a bit away from the cave and found out that there had been an explosion that where caused by the gnome that had shot an arrow towards the crystal. We soon got back to saudira and reported what we had seen and what had happened. The towns people where sad but understood that we could have done nothing to prevent this. Shortly I set out to get back to Spellgard and got there some days later.
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Almost done with training
After long hours of honing my combat skills in the desert against the snakes and trying to get my arcane spells cast without the usual gestures. I have finally arrived at the point where I can begin to pray to the Lady and have a chance to receive those gifts from her. Besides from that I’ll when I have finally mastered the arcane and combat knowledge begin to work as a true paladin in the Lady’s service. My next classes will be on the subjects; elven and advanced alchemy. These two classes will help me in my work as a defender and as a scholar of the arcane magic. Elven will be good but also hard to learn for me; not only because many of the Lady’s followers are elves, but also because most of the really good books on arcane knowledge is written in elven (at least the ones at the temple). I also need to expand my alchemy knowledge to make a larger variety of potions to aid me in the heat of battle. *In the margin is written* Remember to get some more information on the angels tear story
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The death and wake of a dear friend
I can’t believe that Ayla is dead. She who has helped so many people overcome their first difficulties with finding friends and maybe given some advice on how to live their lives. I am also deeply affected by her death and had to go to her wake which was held outside blackford castle. I told her would be husband Gier, Skarp’s brother, that I was really sad that this had come to pass and gave him my condolences. The wake was attended by a large number of people. Most of them I knew in but also some strangers. Everyone was gathered to remember the great woman Ayla for her great deeds and good advice. A couple of hours after the wake had started a priest of Aeridin joined it and explained that Ayla’s belief stated that she would be all right even though she had died. It made me light up a bit and I walked from the wake sad but at the same time determined that this wouldn’t put me down for a longer period of time. I’ll always remember Ayla for helping me and I am sure she is well where ever her soul is now although it was sad to see her leave this world so early.
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Making progress
I have finally mastered the art of still spelling and can now cast freely in my armour. This blessing comes together with my promotion that makes me suited for both guard and field duty. I look forward to joining the others of my chapter in combat. I can also use this progress in my part time job as a glass maker to get sand from the desert so I can fill in my order quicker and get some better equipment. I have received my lightning enchantment for my short sword from Rolf but I am still waiting for my new armour from Skarp. I am now beginning to embrace the elvish language and truly come to understand it in all detail. But it’s going to take some time. Perhaps even years… But I hope that I’ll get better at it soon so I can continue my arcane studies and become a better user of the weave. I have also on a side note been to the Dire woods and found out that it was not at frightening as I thought as the group I was travelling with took no casualties.
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Wild magic
I was travelling near Fort Hope because I got a little bored in Hlint. I soon found myself in some mountains and a hilly forest. This forest was filled with small strange humanoid creatures. I travelled deeper into the mountains and got into a very dark valley. I tried to cast light but nothing happened. I then tried again hoping that my arcane spell wouldn’t fail. I was turned into a chicken when I cast the spell and soon realized that this was one of the wild magic areas that I have been warned about and have tried to be in before. I don’t know the source of this weave destroying area. But I’ll use some time to find out more about the area when I see Dearon again. I am almost sure that he mentioned that there was a strange area in those mountains. *Storold mumbles after writing this part of the entry*Hmmm… Better get done with the assignment in elven… What was I to write? Oh I remember something that I have to do in the near future. *Written in insecure and incorrectly elven* I must be sure to protect the clergy at all cost. I just saw Roxx’s gravestone in the blood desert so I must speak with him to find out if he needs protection.
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The search for Roxx
I was asked by a priest who I meet in Hlint to go find Roxx. I did try to find him but he was hard to track down. Therefore I had only one option which was going to his house. While I was on my way I was accompanied by Mapleseed who helped me get there. I slipped a note under Roxx’s door. --- Dear Roxx You have to report to Blackford castle for questioning immediately. The clergy wants some information about your usage of the weave. *Signed*Storold, defender of the weave --- And then returned to report at Blackford Castle and was told that I could forget this case unless Roxx didn’t answer back to the upper clergy. I later meet Roxx and told him that he had to report at blackford later. This was also reported to the temple at Black Ford castle.
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Talking to Celgar
I talked to Celgar today. He told me the history about the wild magic area in the mountains near fort Hope. It seem that some drow have opened a rift to a shadow plane. The drow who did this are really strong and can’t be beaten anytime soon. Therefore I’ll think more than twice before I will try to go there again. I have been making some progress in my elven class. But I still have a long way to go before I have mastered the elven language. My alchemy class is also going very well I have learned to make many new potions and will soon begin to make other than cure moderate potions.
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Regular defence training gone bad…
I was told to go to Lellion to join an escorting mission so I could train my abilities in this art. When I got there several other had responded to this assignment as well. We where told by a man to go to Ravens watch to find the man we where going to escort safely between the Barbarian Islands the man who we where going with was Joseph. We took him to the place he was headed and where told to stay out of a small cave where he was going. Some went in, invisible, and tried to make sure that he stayed out of trouble. This didn’t help much though as he was killed when he entered the cave. We all got back to the man in Lellion who turned out to be Joseph’s brother. He told us that Joseph’s daughter had been kidnapped and the people he was seeing in that cave was the ones that had done it.
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A lot of dying… And talking to Celgar again
I was travelling together with Zan, Spungle and a bunch of other adventures in the broken forest and the old ruins. It went pretty well until we got attacked by some spiders and beetles while our party was off guard and not expecting an attack. I was killed and a few others fell too. When I returned to the site the party was scattered across the forest and again I was slain again. I though I was going back to the temple yet again instead I began feeling the life-force returning to my body. As I opened my eyes I saw Celgar standing next to me. He had apparently used his divine powers to bring me back to life again. After the party was gathered again we marched towards the campfire by the temple in the woods. Celgar told us that we needed to be better at tactics and not scatter as much as we did when the spiders and beetles attacked. *Storold sits for a while and then goes to the library to pick up a book on tactics in elven. As he returns he mumbles*Better train two skills at once instead of just one.
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Learning the ways of the weave
After talking to Daeron about knowing the weave and its use. I got a new scroll from him a very dark one… I can’t use it right now because the writing and enchantments make my head hurt. Maybe with some more arcane training I’ll be able to cast it as a counter spell. I didn’t pay for the scroll but Daeron said that I could do him a favour later. Although I don’t know what he’ll ask of me I am sure it will be something that I can learn a great deal from. But anyway I then began to purchase some of the lower circle scrolls to get more knowledge of the weave. Some of them where offensive spells that can potentially kill your enemy. I think I once wowed never to use them. But now it seems to me that the Lady will keep me on the right track and I’ll be safe from going insane with a desire for power.
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Darkness in Sielwood
I was travelling trough Hlint and decided to stop at the campfire where I meet several people whom I knew. I was gazing to the sky when someone said that birds where leaving Sielwoods. We talked a bit and suddenly a ranger appeared. The ranger said that the Sielwood had been taken over by a strange darkness and the temple inside was under attack from shadow coming out of this darkness. We went to the temple and were told that the darkness came from an area close to the temple. We found a small cave in this area which we went into to find the cause of the darkness. We found a portal leading to a library where we expected to find the cause of the darkness. Most unfortunate I was teleported back to Spellgard for guard duty and couldn’t help solve this mystery. I later talked to Lan and Elladan who looked deeper into this thing and found out that there was a spellcaster behind this. They have tracked him down to a place on Rilara and I think I’ll be able to join the group in their efforts to get the man responsible for this punished.
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Travelling at sea with a purpose
I have heard rumors of ships returning to Fort Valensk with entire crews killed and filled cargo holds, and I was determined to try to find out what caused this especially because it could have something to with the weave and therefore my duty. Many others where interested in this as well so we decided to rent a boat to take us to sea. The only thing that proved problematic was to find someone willing to sail the boat for us when so many sailors had been killed. We eventually found a crew willing to take us to sea but the only thing bothering me was the self appointed leader being a Toranithe… And of course the crazy halfling Taislin who costed us 1500gp extra because he began talking of slinging fireballs onboard the ship.... We found a ship sailing the sea quietly but when we approached the ship we found that the crew where dead. We found out that the ship had sailed into some kind of fog and then where attacked by a ship filled with some kind of undead. A day later a fog came close to the ship and suddenly we spotted a ship moving in the fog. The ship was filled with undead creatures that attacked our ship at once. We quickly slay the undead creatures and were free of the fog not long after. The only lead we got now is the name of the ship that attacked us, Icy Maiden.
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Cleaning Noy’s name
After the event that happened when a group of adventures and me were to escort a man from ravens watch to somewhere on the barbarian isles Noy, Josephs brother, was still being held in Lelion for the murder that happened back on the barbarian isles. The only thing that really annoyed me about this trip was the fact that Tre was coming… She had earlier that week tried very hard to charm me with a spell of hers and was already from the start trying to make me angry before we even left Lelion. The trip was kind of hard as the gypsies who killed Joseph where well armed and had joined forces with the local gnoll population. We fought hard and eventually Tre died to some kobolds that attacked us for no apparent reason. I don’t really like Tre but seeing her dead in no-man’s-land was a bit too much for me so I encouraged people to move fast so we could get her body secured and then bring her to some kind of healer who could help her. Unfortunately we ran into a man who could heal her but asked us to give him 200gp for doing so… I had though out a plan to get Tre into the Lucindite faith if we could just get the body of the island, but that is a long story… We eventually captured the leader of the gypsies who admitted killing Joseph but he told us it was part of a much bigger scheme involving witches and people from Karthy. We freed Noy when we got back to Lelion and got our revard of 8000gp for cleaning his name.
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Seeing Tre again
Some time after the events on the barbarian islands I saw Tre in Hampshire. I was there to buy some alexandrite dust from a man named Rashar. I tried to ignore her and stay invisible just to avoid being charmed and spotted. I did fail my attempt to stay hidden but I didn’t talk to her because I knew I would end up saying something stupid to her or she would begin insulting me and my faith again. Preparing to help
I have spent a whole week preparing myself to help Tia with her advancement in the church hierarchy. Lots of time reading and talking to various people around Spellgard. This gave me a unique chance to get a little more into the faith and also getting to know some of the scholars and priests that live in Spellgard a little better. I now have studied the written elven language enough to begin my training in actually speaking elven. This might take a whole lot longer that learning to read elven but I’ll be worth it in the end as most lore is best told in the original language. But I am almost late for classes so I better run now…
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The illness in Drake
I meet Tia outside Leilon where she and Jharl where talking while she was cooking some fish. It started to rain as it usually does in that part of Mistone and Tia invited us into her house where a man named Samir, a halfling named Briar and another man called Ma’er joined us. After we had talked for a while a messenger from Spellgard knocked on the door. She brought a message to Tia which said that she where to report in Spellgard at once. We travelled there and Tia went to see one of the nightwovens the rest of us stayed in the temple. Unfortunately Ma’er got sick and had to be left at the temple while the healers tended to him and Samir had to leave because of some family business. But after a few hours Tia returned she had been questioned by the nightwoven all the time we had been waiting for her. She told us that she had been given a mission that would take us to Drake. Apparently the local population had been infected with a strange illness and Tia should try to heal them if possible. The trip to Drake was quite easy as no-one who tried to stop us except the goblins outside Spellgard who where no problem. When we got there both me and Tia sensed that there was something that was unbalancing the weave in the area. Also the people that died to the disease got turned into skeletons that attacked us. We where told by a man who was slipping away that the red splashes that where present in the city came from the nearby forest. We investigated the forest and found that the disturbance in the weave was centred in a cave very deep in the forest. We found a almost dead dwarven wizard in the cave he told us that the thing causing this was deeper within the caves. We travelled deeper and discovered an apparatus that seemed to channel some kind of necromantic force. Apparently the device was out of alignment and needed to be repaired. But this repair was beyond our skill and we decided to go back to Spellgard rather than try to destroy it. We meet some priest on the way back who told us that they where searching for us because we had been gone for far too long. They got the mess cleaned up and we returned to report in Spellgard. Tia was rewarded for her efforts to find the cause of the illness and will be official threadbound after the Rites of Affirmation.
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Helping a ghost
I was travelling to Pranzis for some strange reason and found myself involved in a mystery about a ghost in one of the local inns. The ghost was a young woman who had spend some time after her wedding at the inn and was killed on a journey together with her husband to Saudira. She wasn’t killed on the same spot as her husband though. But was dragged to some cave and killed by some kind of giant witchdoctor. Her soul where then bound to the room in the inn and she could get back to her beloved husband again. We set out to the desert and eventually found the cave after a lot of though fights and a couple of deaths including me dying three times but we where successful and the woman’s soul where free to leave this plane and return to her husbands side.
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Learning a bit of elven
I have spent some time in Spellgard together with some elven mages who have agreed to help me learn the language. Although they are pushing my endurance very hard making me listen to them talk for a very long time and then begin just to reveal some of the words they’re using to me I still progress in my learning step by step. Sometimes though I am so lucky that I find some more friendly teachers who spend much more time on trying to make me understand what they are saying but this happens very rarely. I hope that I may be able to speak the language fluently in some moths from now as I don’t have the greatest understanding of the pronouncing of most of the words and still struggle to understand even some of the simplest words.
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Finding the sorcerer behind the darkness …
I travelled to Karthy where a party where going to find the sorcerer behind the darkness in Sielwood. He should be hidden in a tower somewhere by a river on Rilara. We had talked to the sorcerer’s apprentice who told us where the sorcerer lived and gave us a key so we could enter his tower. We found a hidden entrance inside the tower which led us to an underground maze of tunnels the journey to the bottom of this maze where very toiling and I visited Soulmother once because of a venoms scorpion. I then began to use my healing skills I learned when I was an initiate in the church. We finally found the lair of the sorcerer and found that he had made a device to make shadows. We destroyed the device and found the sorcerer who attacked us on sight and where therefore swiftly killed by us. I then returned to Spellgard and found the city preparing for the up coming Rites of Affirmation… I simply didn’t have the power to go on more that day so I got to bed early instead of joining the celebration.
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Demons attacking Mistone
After a short trip to Dregar I returned to Mistone and heard the news of Xandrial’s return to the abyss. His return had for some reason made the part of his army that stayed behind go berserk and attack random places on Mistone and properly also other continents. The adventures are having a hard time travelling the lands as do I have just walking the short way to Spellgard without being attacked by a demon. I went demon hunting together with a large crowd and eventually got some of the demons banished for some time. I also got some nice background information on the bloodwar along the way and now knows a bit more about the problems that Blood is causing.
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Training language skills a bit more
After the invasion of demons on Mistone I finally got some time off to study elven together with my mentors. They sent me out to speak with some of the elves who live in Spellgard. Although I understood what they where saying to me I had a real hard time talking to them as my memory of the elven names for things is very bad. But I tried to do my best to do what I was told and got some stories about the elven families who live in spellgard. Now at least I know some of the people who live in the same town as I do. After I was done I went to study in the library to gain some more knowledge about the Bloodwar.
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Finishing the business about the lost ship crews
I travelled a bit more with the party I earlier mentioned who where trying to find the reason for the disappearance of several ship crews in the waters around Fort Velensk. The information we had led us to believe that we could make the ghost ship disappear if we found the body of a young woman, or more precisely her remains. Apparently there had been made a curse against the captain of the ghost ship which made him sail the seas as long as he was separated from his love who was this young woman. The curse had been ordered by the woman’s father who didn’t like the idea of his daughter running of with a simple captain. We searched the Krandor crypts for the bones which should be all that where left of the woman now as she lived many human generations from now. We found her grave empty; the reason for this was later explained to us by the local undertaker. Apparently the crypts where frequently visited by grave robbers in the past and to secure the remains of the family the woman belonged to the bodies of the family members where buried at sea when we couldn’t go looking at the bottom of the sea for the remains we when to the Mist temple in Lelion. We where told that the local clergy could remove the curse if they could get something which belonged to the captain so we set out to sea trying to find the ship again and where successful in doing so. We found a ring in the captain’s quarters which we returned to the temple we where told to go sink the ghost ship one last time to end the curse and so we did. After finishing the job we went back to the man who helped us by lending his boat and crew to us. His reason for doing so was that he was part of the woman’s family and didn’t want his families reputation to suffer if word got out about who started this mess. Because the curse which where laid opun the captain was ordered by his family and as we later found out his ancestor lied to the clergy at the Mist temple to make them curse the captain. Mist had her way with this man as she sunk two of his ships as the curse was lifted. We left the man to his grief and went to Fort Velensk to get the reward that the local ship owners had gathered for us. I took my part back to Spellgard and donated it all to the temple there. All in all this was a job well done and there has been no further attacks on the ships down in Fort Velensk as far as I know.
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Getting a little absent minded
I had recently begun to find it hard to remember all the people who are walking up to me and saying hello. Some of them are surely just being polite and are properly not friends of mine, but others seem to be someone I am supposed to know. Recently I meet a young lady dressed in almost white colours. She seemed to know me and introduced herself as Ayla at the time I didn’t recognise her but curiosity let me to go back in my journal to find that I once knew one Ayla who had been killed some moths prior to this meeting. I then though about who she had returned from the realm of the dead and decided to ask some of the higher rank priests about this. They told me that soul mother had been defeated and some of the souls she claimed had returned to walk the lands of the living again. I have had other things like this one happen to me where I just faked knowing the person I spoke with and hoping not to be asked about something that he or she told me about when I saw them last. I hope this weakness in my mind is just passing and wont end up making me unable to work at the temple.
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Meeting another protector
I meet another protector this day. Matilda she is called she seems like a nice person who might guide me on my path to become a better protector. Right now I am struggling to remember anything besides my spells and have a really hard time remembering the rules of the church. She told me a lot about the ogres and goblins who shouldn’t for some reason be allowed to cast their spells. When I told her about my failing memory she told me that some woman whose name I have forgotten now could help me. She apparently had the power to see into peoples minds and maybe she could find the origin of the troubles I am having now. But sadly for the moment I am left in Hlint where I struggle to find any of the people who I used to travel with. Even if some of them should come by I would properly have forgotten about them. Maybe I should seek Matilda out and ask her about that woman again. If my current condition can be helped I should do what ever I can to make my memory better and larger that right now. Even the slightest improvement will be bliss. But for now a cure seems very far away as does my past except for the things that has happened within a week which is still quite clear to me.
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Training and recovering
After a temporary loss of memory I have rested at the paladin quarters in Spellgard. I can now remember some of my distant past, I remember something about a mage but I have no clues as to what role this mage had in my life. I have met a lot of new lucindites in the months that have passed. They have helped me get through my crisis as I have been doubtful about my faith and the job as a protector. I have been training my language skills a whole lot more than my combat skills in the first part of my recovery period. I spend countless hours listening to elves talk and sometimes trying to answer them in their own tongue. My biggest accomplishment to date is a perfect translation of the wow of the protectors. It took me nearly a whole week of thinking and writing and then throwing all the work in the trash again because it wasn’t right. After this I have been trying to learn some new spells and make some progress in my arcane studies and have been most successful. I have learned to cast the lowest level spells without components and can now almost cast them at will. After all this my fighting skills seems even worse than ever. I have been falling so many times that I don’t even bother to count anymore. So that led me to become even more depressed and willing to drop my position as protector of the weave. But after meeting two twins who both worship Lucinda and watch how full of life they where it made me realise that there is more to worship than being a guard and having duties. It’s rather something that shapes your life and becomes part of you and not just part of your day. Besides from these things I have been making a lot of potions for the Stone effort. We will strike soon and I look forward to doing at least some good. I was given an iron long sword by Ael who is one of the leading forces in the effort. I will use most of the time before the attack on practising with this sword with the techniques Matilda has taught me over the past few weeks. Maybe I’ll finally be able to turn the tide of battle rather than just be lying down within the first minutes of combat. *There is a piece of parchment added in the book with a text written in blue ink* Lady of the weave, I heard your call and I will answer. I vow to be your servant and protect those who serve you. I shall defend your faith, your faithful and the weave to the best of my abilities. I shall seek out those who corrupt the weave and bring them to justice. I shall accompany and protect those who work in your name. By my word, I am yours --- Cilwa eo anira amailela, E irailmw aeym nyilcc illw E amecc illlaamam. E eleam ane fa aeym laamelillan illw tymeananyan anirelaa amire laamela aey. E lairilcc waoalw aeym oileanir, aeym oileaniroycc illw anira amailela ane anira falaan eo sa ilfeceaneala. E lairilcc laaan eyan anirelaa amire nyemmytyan anira amailela illw fmelv aniras ane quylaanenya. E lairilcc ilnynyestyilla illw tymeananyan anirelaa amire amemn el aeym lilsa Fa sa amemw, E ils aeymla *Signed*Storold, protector of the weave
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Training and getting a mentor
I have spend most of my time training and haven’t been travelling all that much. I have spent some time together with Matilda who has taught me a lot about the faith and combat. Maybe someday I’ll be able to become part of something greater than the Spellgard guard. I have been helping the fair city of Prot Hampshire together with a band of adventures. The city had a problem with their lighthouse and we had to travel all over the world to get the things needed for restoring the device that powers the lighthouse. We just recently succeeded in this task, and now the lighthouse shines bright again. Just before we went into the lighthouse Matilda accepted me as her squire and told me that she would teach me if I stayed alive through the entire process of going down to the device that powered the lighthouse. I succeeded in this task and now I have to stay alive and don’t do any foolish things for the next months. This gives me a lot of time to study as I don’t really travel the world that much as I used to. So I have been using a lot of time on my elvish training and have spent countless of hour speaking with some of the elven mages in Spellgard. Right now they’re trying to teach me how to cast the fifth circle spells without any somatic component. It will most defiantly take longer than if I just asked them to do it in common but this way I will also get a lot better at speaking elven. *Below is written some arcane words and some elven descriptions of what they do*
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Successful in some of the training
After long studies I have finally been successful in stilling the spells of the fifth circle after learning these spells I can now protect the mind against dangers and provide a strong protection against the elements I have some other spells as well but they’re not as useful to others but me. It has been a while since I have seen Matilda but I haven’t died all that much and have stayed out of harms way for some time although I did die because of a planar that decided to show her power in Hlint. She appeared suddenly in the middle of the street and killed me and Rhynn but all that business is about power and the destruction of planes and I won’t write more about it here. I have also been close to death while searching for some lost adamantinium in the Serpent Mountains on Dregar. An ancient beast had appeared because the dwarves who owned a mine in those mountains dug too deep. This beast turned people into stones slowly and was apparently controlled by some evil mastermind who trapped it near the surface to make use of its powers.
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Guarding a lot and some other things
After some time sitting in Hlint, gathering aloe, ginger and greenstone and digging sand in the Blood Desert, I have been assigned for a lot of guard duty since my superiors seems to be thinking that I have to much to spend on the things of my own choosing. So now I’ll be guarding almost 16 hours a day and won’t get much time away from the temple except some of my unfinished business which I have been allowed to participate in. *The first letter is a bit shaky but the writing becomes calm again after that* I have also heard some disturbing news today. Apparently Matilda has been killed by the giants on Dregar, the ones that live in the small camp in the outskirts of the Drift Lands. Barion told me this when I was at the Raven Trades house delivering sand. He had dispersed all the giants afterwards and made the roads safe for a while at least. I hope that Matilda is safe now and won’t get hurt by those nasty giants again. Last night I had a very strange dream – I saw a tower burning, it seemed somewhat familiar but I can’t recall having seen a tower that lays that deep within a forest. Maybe it is something from my past from the time before I became a protector, but I can’t know for sure since I don’t remember all that much… But now I am off to guard duty anyway, so I’ll have plenty of time to think about the tower and what made it seem familiar.
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The tower in the High forest
I found out by listening to rumours and asking around in the tower that a mage tower had been burned in the high forest. Apparently the wizard who owned it was a rather evil one who was trying to hide from something but then lost it and attacked a Toranite expedition. The toranites spend the better part of a year tracing him and his tower down so they could remove the treat to the commoners of that area. I had to swallow my pride and go to the temple of Toran in Fort Llast. I tried to ask them if they found anything noteworthy while they where tracing down the wizard, like his name or some of his notes. They told me that the wizards name was Ghac but that they had burned his tower to the ground together with all the books and notes that Ghac had. So I learned nothing more here than a name which means nothing to me. But now I must go prepare, I have been told to stop my guard rounds and try to do something other that sitting around. When I asked them what I could do they just told me to remember why I was even part of their order and what the purpose of being so was. So I read the notes that I have kept here in my journal and understood that I have to play a more active part in the faith than I have done the last few years. So now I am going to the Silent watch for some time and will be trying to learn more about the area than I know now from brief trips to check out if the disturbances are still there.
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The journey
*The following text is loose bits of paper which are added to the journal by using primitive glue* Day 1: I have finally gathered enough food and healing supplies for the trip. Also I though that I better tell Matilda that I will be away for some time so I’ll be writing her a letter explaining everything and then send it to Blackford with one of the clerics who have business there. I will be leaving together with another protector who will follow me to Fort Hope, we will be riding over the desert to Raxwell and ride north around Lake Derius and try to avoid the Broken forest on our way to Fort hope. This will be the first time ever I have to ride somewhere and I hope that I’ll be good at it even though I have only trained riding for a very short time mostly due to my arcane studies. I am leaving my journal here just in case something bad happens and so I don’t loose it up in the Silent Watch. Day 5: After a long journey through the outskirts of the desert I finally find myself in Raxwell. The trip was quite uneventful and the only thing that bothered us where a couple of small snakes and scorpions. I am quite sore after riding because I never really trained that skill for more than a full hour at a time. But tomorrow our journey takes us around Lake Derius and beyond so there is no time to waste bed time for me should be around now. Day 8: After a short trip through the forest where nothing else that the normal animals where seen we find ourselves in Fort Hope my fellow protector took the horse and went north to Spellgard using the road through the broken forest. I will spend the rest of the day at the Caring Hope Inn meditating and preparing my gear for the journey. Day 11: I can see the outskirts of the mountains now, I have been moving in the very outskirts of Far Reach Forest because of all the rumours about missing people and because I know that Satyrs live there. So far my journey has been almost relaxing but much hard work awaits me, I still need to get into the mountains and try to move around there unseen. Day 15: I enter the mountains, black clouds are hovering above and the rain is pouring down. Lots of thunder is heard around here and the mountains look really evil. I hope that my rations is enough for the trip, but if they aren’t I am just going to starve for a while until I find some proper place to look for food. I would rather not eat or drink something that comes from these mountains. Well I better be going into the mountains now… Although the place seems a bit too scary for a person like me I don’t feel the fear in my heart. Day 23: I have seen most of the mountain range outskirts around here now, and I feel confident enough to go deeper. Nothing has really been attacking me yet but I have seen some animals or at least I though they where animals. But they ran away before I could get a closer look at them. Whenever I try to focus on the weave I feel that something is wrong, but I can’t put my finger on what and my spells seems to be working fine down here. Day 30: I have now been over some of the first peaks. The darkness is everywhere in there and the weave seems disturbed. One of my spells accidentally turned me into a chicken but else I have been doing fine. Except I feel that something is spying on me. I can’t really see anything but I feel it someone’s eyes are on me. But I am soon running out of supplies so I need to move closer to the lake to gather some food but it will properly take some days to do so. Day 45: After stocking up I am back in the mountains. Now I have gone so deep that I almost don’t know my way out of here. The whole place is weird I have never feel a so strong disturbance of the weave in any place. The eyes still seem to be on me but I haven’t seen anything yet, although I though I heard something the other night. So creature is running around for sure. I can only hope it is not hostile. Day 50: I have pushed far into the mountain range now. I have a slight idea of how I get out of here and will try to get out soon. But the storm is increasing and the noises of the creature are growing bigger. So I am afraid that something bad is going to happen soon. Day 56: I can’t find my way out of here and the darkness is growing and so is the storm. I don’t dare casting a spell because I feel that the weave is greatly disturbed in here. And I barely sleep now because of the hunger and the noises. I still think I can make it out of here if I just try hard enough*Blood stains fill the rest of the note* Day ?: An arrow struck me before I could finish my note. I managed to get out of sight of the unknown shooter but sadly for me it seems that I am being followed. I can’t afford to rest and I am desperately trying to find a way out of here. But for now I’ll try to get some rest in this small cave that I have found. *The rest of the notes are rather strange and doesn’t have a date* The wound is getting worse but I think I can manage to get out of here now. It seems that the forest is near. But I don’t think I’ll find any shelter in there but at least my stalker might stay up in the mountains. --- I finally escaped to the Far Reach Forest my stalker seems to have stayed in the mountains. The forest is really dense and I find it hard to get through this place. I still haven’t found any food and I am running out of water fast. So I need to find something eatable before I push too far into this forest. --- I found some berries but they don’t taste all that good and I don’t know what kind they are. The wound is still bothering me as it won’t heal up properly. I think I have seen a lake nearby maybe a few miles away so I will try to make my way over there now to get some water for my canteens. --- Disaster struck while I was washing the wound. I had take off my armour to do so and didn’t expect that anything was following me. But suddenly I heard something behind me; apparently a spider had snuck up on me while I was taking my armour of. I casted all the protection I know of and fought it. I won and wasn’t really badly hurt from the fight only a few scratches and the poison didn’t really bite on me. --- --- I have now stayed in the Far Reach Forest for almost three weeks. I have found some food and I am preparing to travel back through the Silent Watch again. I don’t want to take the way through the Far Reach Forest home since I will just be disturbing the place too much and I really don’t want to get too close to the satyrs. There will be no need for unnecessary bloodshed and chances for me to get killed. --- I have finally gotten back into the mountains. The way up here was fairly hard due to the dense forest. But now I am standing here again. There are no signs of my stalker so I guess it will be a pretty easy trip back. I just have to remember not to cast any spells up there. --- I have tried for a very long time to move east but all my attempts have failed. It seems as if the peaks are a lot harder to climb than they where to decent from. I have to try moving more south west to find a passage. --- I have given up on the peaks. I simply just can’t get up there, what is even worse is that I have lost myself in the storm and darkness. I think I can’t move north from here but I don’t really know where the paths will take me. I hope to return to the Far Reach Forest where I can try to figure something out. --- I have returned to the forest. But I have moved west so now I am close to the ocean. I can see a tower somewhere on the horizon but I don’t want to get any closer to it. I hope that a few weeks rest here can give me some ideas as to how to climb the peaks and get out of here again. --- After some time thinking I have found the solution. I have to loose my armour, although it makes me feel safer I simply don’t have a chance to get out of this mess with it. I’ll be leaving it here and bring my shield and my knowledge about the protection part of the weave. --- I have been doing very well in the mountains. I can climb the peaks now and I am making great progress towards Fort Hope. Maybe I’ll be home soon. --- My stalker has returned, I am trying to avoid it but it drives me deeper into the darkness. I am trying to rest in short intervals and I protect myself when ever arrows are fired against me with my shield. --- I have lost my stalker it seems… But it seems as if I am close to something really powerful and that might be the reason for it leaving. --- It got me… I am badly hurt and barely managed to escape*The rest of the page is filled with bloodstains* --- I can see the low lands now but I don’t know if I’ll make it down alive. I have been trying to cast one of my really strong protections without its component but it didn’t last all that long. --- I have escaped, but at what price… I can barely move and I feel my life-force slipping away. The arrows and the blade was poisoned and I can’t clean my wounds properly. I hope that someone will find me before thi…*The pen seems to have slipped*
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Coming home
I have finally reached Spellgard and I am recovering rapidly from the bad experience. People have a little more respect for me but I don’t know how long it will last since I am far too weak to do anything right now. I have decided to stop wearing armor and instead begin to focus more about the teachings of the weave and trust my abilities. I look forward to coming back to Hlint and see all my friends again. Meeting a new friend
I have stayed in Hlint for a while now and I have tried to help where it is needed. Sadly most of my attempts to do so fail. I tried to help a young women get to her grave but sadly everyone who went with me died. I have though had a little success as I helped Barion’s new friend Sa’kura with getting her grave in the crypt in Krandor. I have also met a really *A lot of words have been scratched out*… Well a nice elf, Nyyana. Sadly she was with me when I failed the group and every one was killed. But she doesn’t seem to be taking it too personal and she really helps me get happier when I am down. I have also show her Shoufal, she said it was beautiful but it was a bit too cold for her so maybe she could use some protection from the cold. I am trying to show her some of the uses of the weave and she is quite good at using it she might just need a little training to get the last things right. But it is good to be back in Hlint and with all my friends…
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An important decision changed
I have been spending a lot of my time in Hlint recently; I have been with Nyyana and her friends most of the time. I have taught her a new spell, endure elements, and she seems to have a talent for learning magic. If she trains more she might have a chance to become a great caster or at least wielder of the weave. I had decided not to help her more but when I went to Hlint to tell her I meet her together with some of the people who will be helping her find her family again. One of them could see what was bothering me and told me that I should not be afraid of it… I decided to leave Mistone for a while to seek danger and perhaps answers, but sadly none of it was found on my trip with some of my friends and some know heroes of the world to Xantril. I even lost part of my sould there to it put me in a even worse situation than before because I let several people down by dying, Matilda to name one, the man helping Nyyana I promised to keep safe and return in one piece for her sake. It is all so confusing I hope that there might come some sort of solution to all my problems soon. The world has changed too… Blood is gone and the sky has fallen grey, it seems like everything works towards the end of this world and the existence of the Dragon called. Espacially since the dragon that called us is dead now and the chronomatic dragons have come out of their hiding… This world is going to be a evil place soon I better prepare Nyyana by teaching her what I know and try to be there for her, maybe I’ll even tell her about the thing that bothers me some day..
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Inside the crypt
*The page is filled with blood and tears and is almost unreadable* I left her… I shouldn’t ha… All this pain…I must ret.. Not now… Later when I am done.. When will I be done, never? .. It is all so dark… no light… no light at all…
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Many things happened over the last few months
I left Nyyana, then I came back, then Abi committed suicide, I hated Nyyana for a day or so because she was being rude. I told her I didn’t love her any more, then she changed back, I leve her again, I tell her I love her, she tells me I am the second person to tell it to her, she can’t choose either of us it seems. That is basically what happened. Sadly the outcome of all this is that I am more torn than ever. I can’t decide what to do. One part of me feels like leaving her so she can be happy with the other person. Another part tells me that it is wrong, because it would hurt her greatly. I could also just tell her to choose me, but that would really be stupid. And I can’t get her to do anything else than she has done so far… So I guess I am just going to stick around and break myself as I told Abi I would. I won’t like what it will become after staying like this for a year, but leaving her will also twist my soul. I just wish that she could make up her mind and I could leave or stay with her. This is unbearable and I will break at some point. I just hope I will be able to hide it from Nyyana, because she won’t like it to end like this.
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Speaking about Nyyana
I have spoken to AnnaLee and Matilda about my feelings for Nyyana they where both telling me to do the same thing. Stay with Nyyana and offer her all you love. I just don’t know if it is right, but I haven’t heard Nyyana’s response to my feelings yet. But I don’t think she will choose and it will cause more pain than she want to that is for sure. But if she chooses she will hate herself for the rest of her life for hurting the person she didn’t choose. I think deep down she is afraid of having history repeat itself but I can’t be the judge of that. At least I hope she will find happiness somehow if not with me then with someone else. Nyyana’s choice
Nyyana finally seem to have made up her mind. I have been waiting for this for a while now and I am really glad to see her answer. *The answer; “To Storold”, is written here* Her answer answers as many questions as it rises. But I can’t be anything else than happy for it. I will continue work and do anything as I used to do before I meet her. But I will be spending all the time I am able to, within reason, near her. She makes me feel… I can’t really describe it, whole maybe. I feel like I was only a golem before I meet her, grinding my way through hordes of enemies without any purpose. I have asked her to go out with me on a picnic, almost like we used to do back when Abi was alive. But I don’t know what is getting to her, she seems distant. Not really responding the way she wants to. She told me she would like to go somewhere public, while I had selected High Lake for the trip. I must speak with her again to see if she has changed her mind. Nyyana’s choice part two
After seeing Nyyana again and talking to her about the picnic I understand what she was really trying to tell me. She doesn’t want to love me or give me a chance of getting her to love me. She has been hurt and needs to recover now, only time will tell how long it will take for her to be ready. She had agreed before to let me try and find a way to her heart but she seems to have changed her mind. I almost got to telling her what I think of the whole situation but I realised that I would like what I would turn into if I did. She doesn’t need to know just so it will hurt her more. At least not if it will change her from the lovely elf she is now and into a shadow of herself like she was just after Abi committed suicide. But I really leave it to her now to decide when she is ready for my return. Returning as a “Friend”
After a month away from Nyyana I meet Lady Eldárwen and Alleina. I was trying to avoid questions about Nyyana but when Eldárwen asked me how Nyyana was progressing I couldn’t get around telling them that I actually left her. They talked me into writing a letter explaining how I felt and that I would like to return. After a week or so the letter was done and I got Alleina to bring it to Nyyana at the Freelancers tavern. Nyyana accepted that I could return as a friend an that we should avoid situations like the one that caused us to move away from each other. What the future will bring I don’t know, but I hope for the best.
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A dream like experience
There have been many things happening over the last few months, I don’t really feel like even writing about some of them because they are still too hard to even think about. The strangest thing happened while I was travelling with some Lucindites and a few other people… We are investigating something but I am still gathering information trying to figure out what it is all about. But we entered a dream like world, it all seemed real, but I know it weren’t. We faced five different dreams which tested us in several ways. At first it all seemed harmless since we where just playing along and everything seemed okay to us… But when we entered the third dream we began to move into parts of the mind that not all liked. Foul things where done there, but I am sure that it was all worth it and that since it wasn’t real would affect anything. What really happened in the dreams I wont write here as it was one of those experiences that shouldn’t be put down on paper but rather stay fresh in your memory forever, and for that we got a small talisman to remind of what we learned from the dreams. But before we could reach our goal we had to pass some kind of mirror… It seemed harmless to me when I first looked it over as it seemed to work like any normal mirror. But that was before I was put in front of it getting ready to travel through the mirror and to the other side and the reward for all our time in the dreams. I stood there and expected to see my, at the time, rather strange self appear on the surface of the mirror. But instead the mirror kind of entered my mind twisting the image and turning it into something rather unexpected. I saw my more normal self standing at a crossroad, many paths lead into the darkness which I couldn’t see through. I was taking a few steps down every path and returning looking even more confused at the crossroads. After some time the image turned to me and asked me: “Is this your real self?” or something along those lines… It really hit me hard and I had to take a few moments to gather my thoughts… I kind of wanted to lie to the image and tell him.. No that wasn’t me… But nothing good comes from avoiding the truth so I ended up nodding to his question. He then gave me a bit of advice which I am still thinking about, I don’t want to draw any conclusions from it really… But at the same time I want to try an use it… It is hard, I feel many hard choices are ahead of me and I don’t like making a single one of them…
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It has been a while and many things have happened
Well first of I want to make a note telling myself not to jump on ships leaving Arabel ever again, only thing that episode ever got me into was trouble. Lia…*Storold stops and thinks for a while* Well she is dead now, and I don’t really want to speak bad about those who has passed away. But I was expecting more from her, from what her friends told me about her. But it all turned out to be, well strange and she meet her end, probably by the hands of the people she was so desperate to serve. Luckily we saved both Lillian and Ralinda from the drow, but they are marked for life now by what happened to them. So all in all that was a really bad experience but we sorted most of the trouble out in the end. Other things that has happened… Daren and the lich, oh yes that was bad to. But solved now, made me think a bit about other things than just the trouble that the evil part of that lich was causing. But he showed up in Hlint and went bezerk for some strange reason. But the other part of the lich, never had I meet such an evil looking creature with such a sad tale, turning to lichdom to keep his promise to his love. But he lost it as he turned, and ended up destroying more than he mended. Good thing that he became split and seemed to have made peace with his love again. Sadly many died in the effort to bring the evil lich down for the ritual, but we won and the lichs soul now rests in piece I hope. AnnaLee… Well she seems to have gotten herself into a lot of trouble. But I am trying to be there, but many things are keeping me from it. I helped getting part of the key to a plane that might hold some answers for her and might be able to bring us closer to the solution of all the problems. But there is still a long way to go. And the path isn’t easy, many fell trying to get the first part of the key I heard. But I have seen the portal now, and I heard that the biggest problem will be getting back from the plane, but I am sure that the other people who are helping her will find a way. Zan… Well she seems more busy than before she left for the forests, but she seem to be happy with Cymeran who has gone a long way in his faith now. She still needs to be up to date with things since we never finished our talk in the maze. But she is surely a great support and I am sure she will find that the choice I made was good. The trade, well now I am official part of it. It took a while to figure out if this was a good idea, but with some help I came to the conclusion that I can help them and still stay true to Lucinda. They don’t really seem to mind that I put the weave before their company and therefore I am sure that my membership will be both beneficial for me and them. The choice…*Storold sits back and tries to regain focus* Well I can really tell if that was a good idea or what, but I feel that there might be some light at the end of the tunnel now. Although I am still very confused with the answer I got. But people are telling me that I should just keep going as I said I would. But I don’t want to force things on people so going on will be a really hard challenge… But not impossible… I hope it will all work out, but one thing I know… I wont leave, not again, not this time.
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Working and studying harder
After having a lot of time outside Blackford I seem to have missed a lot there so now I have to work even harder to catch up. So right now I have no time for helping at the trade, travelling the world or just settling down for a while in Hlint. I just picked up learning elven again, it is quite hard to learn how to speak it. But with some time, which I certainly doesn’t have now, I will be able to get far with it. So far I almost know how to say hello and goodbye. I know the words, it is just hard to say them. I found myself in quite a dilemma right now, but I have been encouraged to stay on the path and not be too afraid of what might happen in the near future. Right now I feel like things are progressing in a good way… But it is hard to tell really for now I just hope that things will not change since I like the way it is going right now.
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What became of my dreams
After some time reflecting about what has recently happened I feel like I both lost and gained a part of myself. Gained might be the wrong term though, maybe rather remembered something. Although I now see that my choice was a silly one I still struggle to understand what it means to me. Some would say that I am denying myself something by choosing something that will never be while others will understand that there is more to it than friendship. I regret though the period of doubt and the troubles it caused others. People became afraid, wanting to leave is a great leap, and also the whole faith thing. But I remember now and I will never even doubt again. The things that happened had nothing to do with my faith rather my faith in myself. Now I just hope that I can be forgiven for my doubts by Lucinda. For now I am glad that I have found what I looked for. Not in the way I thought I wanted it but rather in a place where I thought it would be silly to look. I will never be good enough and I know that, but for now the feeling I have about it is that no matter what happens and what I am, I will always have something that matters just as much as my love for the weave.
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Dreams again
What happens when you actually stand before your dreams and try to touch them? You get burned and walk away? Do you try again... This time knowing that you might burn the last part of your soul out? Or do you turn away dreaming other dreams wandering different paths? That might happen... But what happens when the dream comes back...? Stronger, brighter and more promising than ever. I wish I knew, I truely wish...
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Many things have happened over so little time...
I have seen many strange things these days heard of even more. The seeds, Storans... Everything is just not right, or is it. So times you seem to loose part of the outside world but in doing so you gain something inside yourself. Some time getting there just takes a good beating or wacking as some would say. Thinking about it that was what I needed, someone telling me what I was missing and what I was trying to get. I think I have now finally closed a very long chapter of my life and this time I think it will stay closed. Friendly feelings doesn't disappear but neither can they keep on draining a person for what he should be. I don't blame anyone but myself for what has happened to me, but looking back from where I am now only a few days after I can't say I am sorry I choose what I did. I might have been a little too sure of that everything would work out no matter what, but some things are just too messy to work out in the time I have left here. So I better stay out of that unless it is something that will be to the benefit of anyone. But as I noted before I might be too lucky, seeing that I can sit here and write this today with a big smile on my face knowing that I have gained way more than I ever lost I feel like the luckiest man alive, and I hope it will stay that way forever.
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Great succes and all the things that followed
I can now finally say that I have found happyness in my life, something that changed my life completly. I have finally found someone to share my life with. I thought what happened that day at the lake was just a dream, but when I saw her again in Hlint I could see in her eyes that it wasn't so. Looking back at my life I can see now that I wasted a lot of years looking to wrong places for the missing piece in the puzzle of my life. Although I find great joy in magic and my duties this is beyond that. I still remember what I am suposed to do, but still I know that I am now complete. I can't wait to see her again so we can spend even more time together, just doing things like getting stuff that one of us needs or just sitting together. But for now I better prepare for the trip to Storans, and find out to go after than...
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A conversation at the Arms and some random thoughts
Well if you asked me a year ago if I would ever be so happy as I am now I would have said that it was impossible. But for now I better focus on my work too, I will try to spend as much time with her though. But still I have to train my enchantment skills... I think I payed my last visit to the Arms a few days ago, I can't really return after what happened. I feel that people should rather judge people for their actions than their purse. Seems that the only way you can make a difference in this world is by burrying some town or country in trues and claim that it is all going to a good cause. If that is the way people feel I would rather stay away than walk in an be looked down opun. Maybe if some of my friends ask me to go I could endure it for a while, but staying there just because would be silly. I have other places to be and other people to see who actually care about what I have done and not what true I have spend. But back to enchanting, I still have a lot of training to go I feel. But the reward will definatly be worth it.
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She said yes!
I don't believe I could even ask the question when I had planned to do it, I was almost shaking as I was about to ask but when I looked to her and she took my hand I could feel that this was meant to be and not like the other times I had loved someone. She just makes me feel so happy and special when she is around.
Now I am busy preparing for the wedding but everytime I see her and hold her in my arms I feel that it is all worth it, I am getting the best woman there is. No one I have ever meet and will ever meet can match her. She is just so special to me.
In other news I spoke to Kathrien again, it seems that she doesn't hold anything against me after all. Jharl on the other hand... Well I don't know but it matters little I will answer him if he need something or wants to talk.
I spoke to Matilda and she said I had finally completed my training, I have found the meaning in my life and that is not only to defend the weave at all costs. I have other things that are equally important, most of all Mylindra the woman who made me who I am now instead of the shadow I was before. Maybe in time there will be others, maybe even a familly, my own that I will have to stand up for.
After this I began to focus on my arcane research again since my focus have been revolving too much about my faith and too little about my research and training. I now see my true calling in serving the weave while I care out my place here in life. And that place I have found now, by Mylindras side.
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Becomming a father... I guess I have to get used to the thought now even though Mylindra hasn't felt anything yet. My long experience as a healer tells me that she indeed carries a baby inside her.
The wedding was wonderfull and so has all the days and nights that followed been. I have finally found the happyness I have been wanting all along, and with our new house everything is perfect. We even have the room for the baby prepared and lots of room for the child to play in when he or she grows up.
I spend most of my time reasearching these days, the next steps I am going to take within the realm of Abjuration wont be easy. Especially not when I spend a lot of my time on training with weapons too I want to master both but so far I have only managed to master the art of abjuration to the extend of some of the top mages in the Broken rune. Disjunctions and banishment seems to have become part of my every day life now...
I guess it helps a bit too that I can now study and home and test my spells without the constant fear of the Pranzis autorities. I live in a nice and quiet place now where I can practice my magic in peace without any laws forbidding my passion... Although it brings me great pleasu to see the wards and spells of others fade I must though still remember that it isn't the only thing in my life, so I spend a lot of time with Mylindra often reading together with her during the evenings by the fireside. Although we study two different things we can still have a lot of fun doing it together as none of us ever feel lonely while we are studying.
For now though I must do what I can to secure my family and make sure that the house will be the best there is suitable for raising all the children that Mylindra may desire. But however I must not forget my commitments to the weave and Lucinda, as we agreed on from the very start of our relationship, duty always comes before pleasure.
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The last week has been... I can't really say, odd, new to me... Usually, I just walk the lands unoticed. But somehow people know my name where i go, I like this since I know I have helped a lot of places. However it seems that, I haven't really been living up to all of the ideals that I should have...
Leadership, what is that, I guess that some seem to think it is the opposite of what I am showing from time to time. For now though, I am trying to get that past me...
My past haven't been the best for stepping up for myself, but it seems that people have a feeling that it is what is needed now. Maybe I even do myself, I can't really tell. For now I feel a lot of different things, lost, without guide... Matilda said I am ready, but am I ready for the truth?
I have my wife behind me, but is that enough. In the end it might not really be about who is behind me or who isn't all comes down to what I think myself... Just so hard, the past is years ago, but now it just keeps sneaking closer and closer.
Will I stay like this, or will I do as I could? Would it change me?
I guess the only things that really changes who you are are the things you let yourself be changed by. Wheren't I told that, the weave is ever changing why not embrace the change I am going through now, why not let the past be what I should learn from and not what I should live by every day...
Answers, answers I will never get if I just sit down... But who knows... What will happen if once in your life you take a stand...
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The twins are born now, two healthy boys Ethan Alexander and Jonnathan Tristen, I never thought I would find myself getting up late at night tending to my own children making sure that they are comfortable through the day annd everything. However this is one of the happiest times of my life, I would like to spend some time with them seeing them grow up and I hope that my life will allow that to happen. However there are many things I should get done now.
The church, the rift, Zoraje, the drow, the other drow and the people I am to guide. All this I have to do something about, maybe I should pick up something else too but I am still unsure of this. Right now my focus should be at my children for a little while before everything goes crazy. For now I am still waiting for a reply from the church, the hand is still a mystery and everything else just seems to be comming along slowly. I just hope all this work will allow my children to grow up in a more peacefull world and give them the freedom of choice I didn't have when I was young.
*Storold puts down his journal and goes to watch his children sleep for a little while before heading off to bed himself*
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It is spreading... My arm might never come back to normal, and yet what I did turned out to be all in wain. I guess in the end I won a personal fight but lost the fight against my enemy. But I still await an answer from Raven as to what to do with the arm.
Speaking of nature and druids, I took the boys out on a walk in the forest showing them the paths my mother showed me when we were finally reunited. They really enjoyed it and fould the calm animals of the forest facinating and the berries and nuts tasty. But I told them not to go out without mommy or daddy for now since the forest is a dangerous place, the bugbears roam right outside our door when Horthat isn't eating them.
And speaking about the children, they are soon going to be big brothers, Mylindra is pregnant again... At first she was really upset about it but it seems that she is very happy about it now. I am really happy about it as well of course a mouth more to feed means more work but after the time we have had the twins I can see how many joys children bring to your life as well.
Other than that I am still busy helping people out, a few more have come forward asking for it and I do my best to help them out. But I have to have this hand fixed before I am as usefull as I would like to be. Also I miss just holding my boys in my arms while I tell them a story or have Mylindra in both of my arms, even after so little time without being able to do that...
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After some time it is almost at the elbow, I can't even stay at home now because Mylindra is worried sick about it and want me to stay with her in Blackford untill a cure is found. But well, I still have to help my friends but now in turn I will have to ask them for help as well. I don't really feel comfortable with doing so but it is the only right thing to do.
I have a lot of time here though so I might as well get some research done and talk to some people. But I am not sure how much is known here and how much I will have to actually travel there to find out. Maybe in time I will be able to bring Mylindra and my friends along to scout and map the area.
But while I am here I might as well send the letters out and prepare for the meeting which hopefully will be after my hand is better. Otherwise I would have a very weak case and the fear that I might be armless would drive people to shrug me off. But well I can only hope for the capable healers here to find a cure before it is too late...
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Waiting... Just waiting for someone to come up with something and a specialist to come in with a cure for me... Several times have I traveled near Olist Obinn and other drow cities but no sign of Nahe around there. Raven still hasn't replied so I fear that she might have given up too... At some point I gave up myself too... But a talk with Mylindra and a promise to help no matter what from her helped. Also it helped talking to Tristan and Sala about my progress, soon I will be ready to take some more steps along the way.
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Really... I must be going crazy now. I feel so helpless towards many of the things that are happening right now... People are not directly demanding things from me but still trying to push me to do what they think is right. Saying I am not who they would like to see me as. Well pity for them, if they have issues with my life I suggest they take a look at their own and see if they are getting anywhere to where they want to be. However I feel like I am up against something I do not wish to challenge, and if I do... Well I would probably end up breaking more than a create. However... Soon letters will be posted and choices will be made, if everything happens after the plan... But will the plan hold, only time will tell...
The twins and Mylindra are are pretty fine, although Mylindra has been feeling pretty bad due to the little new one and her scarce food intake over the last few days. But well she is recovering and she would g fishing with the boys this morning which I think she did to get even more fish. I guess I should be gathering friut for her, but I have a few outstanding things I would like done before I start looking for apple and pear trees.
I talked to Tristan too... And even though he felt rather sad by my words and actions he could see that I had a smal point and he would try to help me the best way possible... But to what end, I don't really know if I should just give up but then again that would be the easy way and no one wants to have people doing that. But do I want to do that myself, that is the question.
Probably no one will be able to answer that before everything is over, however I know that eventually I will figure out the path I want to walk and walk the path blessed by Lucinda.
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More and more things are happening... And still the danger creeps closer to my torso... It is at the elbow now and Mylindra looks serious when she talks about chopping the arm off.
She is getting bigger, the boys are getting bigger. I finally dared to look into their eyes again when I talk to them, they are a little uneasy when I they look at the arm but thankfully I can distract them with a small game or some magical trick. They are not really progressing, but still I know that it is the best not to push them further on. They will be no where near mastery of what they do before they are adults and have a family of their own.
I still have many things to do but information I thought I would never have has found its way to me now. As soon as I get my hand fixed I will travel to Spellgard again and have that meeting with the warder. I don't know what she has to say but I will soon find out. I would really like to see Eldarwen first but she seems nowhere to be found. Probably busy with something important.
Other things... I have been asked to help out with a rather magical business involving some orbs.. I don't know what to make of it yet but it seems like a rather important task. Other than that I have been asked to show up in Arnax for some rather important.. I am still puzzling with what it might be but it seems connected to some persistent rumours I have heard lately.
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I have been cured... It turns out that it was a very good thing that we found that hiden groove. The tiefling who lived there was appearantly able to cure the curse with her blood... And what do you know it turns out she was Nah
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I have been cured... It turns out that it was a very good thing that we found that hiden groove. The tiefling who lived there was appearantly able to cure the curse with her blood... And what do you know it turns out she was Nah
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My hand is cured... After something as disgusting as when the curse was transferred to me when it happened, but after all I can be there for my children and my wife now. Shar a friend of Angela and Alantha helped with this, we found her in a hidden groove in Wolfswood long time ago... It turns out she is Nahes sister that brought back some painfull memories for her but thankfully she was still willing to help me clear the arm and with some of her blood I was able to recover over some time...
The twins have a little sister now, little Sarrah, she was born in Leringard just like them... Sala, Ralinda and Tyrian was a great aid and during the birth. They are godmothers of Sarrah now for their help... The boys are growing up too, they are close to five years now and really growing up to be healthy young boys. I am not sure when I should take them to Spellgard but they will have to do with Vehl for now since I don't want to risk any burned furniture.
The children I have been taken care of in Vehl are doing fine... Except the lonely boy, he has fallen seriously ill and I have to see if I can find something usefull in Spellgard...
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I found the cause of the illness and the boy is feeling better now due to some unexpected help, I am still confused about the whole thing but as long as the children are happy I can't complain.
Other than that I have come by some information that might help me in the search for someone who commited a crime against the weave, if I will be succesfull in finding this person and get her judged in Spellgard only time will tell but so far I am optimistic.
Our own children are growing up fine too... It is quite scary that the boys are almost six now, and Sarrah one yet old... Well I guess time passes quickly and they are all a wonderful blessing to Mylindras and my life. I just wish I had more time for them but now I am spending most of my time in Spellgard working and training.
The boys are growing more and more fond of magic, so I guess I should bring them to Spellgard some time soon... I am just afraid of loosing them too early so I would rather keep them close to me and teach them all that I can before sending them there to learn. Sarrah... Well she is still too young to say anything about but she is a wonderful girl and I am sure she will become something great in time too..
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*Storold sits at home writing his journal on one of his days off, the boys have just run out into the forest with their grandmother and Sarrah is playing on the floor in from of him.*
It has been some months, many things have happened. Alantha, Angela, Jacc and all the others have returned, they bring news of a succes but their own failure. I do not know if my decition to stay had made things harder or easier but I can only say that I learned a lot of things during this time that I wouldn't have learned otherwise. I truely hope that their succes have made what we fought so hard for the last years possible. But only time will tell I guess. For myself time is something that just passes each day with more joys and sorrows, thankfully most joys since I still walk the path of the Lady.
Further more, we saved the children... Sort of... At least we saved most of them, but sadly around 30 of them died in the fight plus all their teachers. But the monestary held and we got the main dwarf so to speak... What became of him, well.. The former ruler of the monestary showed why he was know as an evil man before, he clearly had no intentions of showing mercy to his defeated enemy, he ordered him killed immidiatly which not all agreed to but Angela... She just shot him in the neck like he was some kind of animal, no mercy shown at all. I know it was to be expected from her but it still made me rather angry however the anger soon faded, or got redirected...
When the dwarf feel and the innitial confusion stopped spheres like the ones outside fort Gorge appeared and soon time stopped its normal flow, Iriliax appeared and took the two special children, broke the boys neck and threw him away, took the girl and used the ritual we saw him perform before in his own mind.. The result, one dead boy a scared girl and a new lich was born or unborn whatever you call it. While he had the time stopped he managed to kill Krakaria himself too with a dagger right into his chest, that became the end of an era in the Krakarian monestary, from that day forward the Krakarians are no more, at least not in the pure line.
After this we prepared for hunting down the lich, who escaped without doing more harm than he already had, how to do this I do not know but the new leader of the monestary decided to give us some aid... But what kind of aid was this? Angela ended up horriblely cursed, if this was the intention of the new owner of the monestary I can only speculate since he did not agree with not showing any mercy to the dwarf, all I do know is that what I saw there was horrible and if this was deemed punishment then he was far out of line like the now late Lord Krakaria.
Me... Well I got some kind of helmet, curious to its use I went to the library to research on it, and on Angelas curse too however I did only find the story explaining it no clues about a cure, what I found was a story about a conjurer of all possible things. Having read that part I decided that I better just put it in our display case at home for now, I have little desire to wear something which have little use as most things linked to conjuration do have, sure they are part of a wonderful weave, but that weave offers little for me.
*Storold closes his book and slides down on the floor to Sarrah and talks to her while she plays*
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*Storold finds some time alone while Mylindra and the children are traveling to Western Gate to see the new Cathederal being build there. Storold sits himself in his library and writes in his journal while the autum wind carries the dead leaves through the Forest of Fogs outside*
The children are growing up way faster than I thought possible, the boys are soon ready to begin training in their skill. I am not really sure what to do with them, I really want them to stay at home with me instead of having them move far far away to learn the self control they need the make good use of their skills. Sarrah, well she is little Sarrah still, the boys are good at taking care of her when Molly and me needs some time alone.
I have been working on some new weave lately, but I don't really know if this is the path forward. I remember back some years ago I had different plans. But well plans and persons change, I have changed myself during the past year without the full favor. For better or for worse well I can't really tell sometimes I feel bad about what I am doing others I find joy in the work that I have accomplished.
I have tried to take Salas advice and have planned to make a pilgrimage, not to Spellgard or Blackford. But to Audira of all places. This is where Matilda first saw the circle of eight, I guess I miss her some especially now when I could really use her advice to guide me back to the right path, towards perfection in Lucindas eyes and towards the greater wonders of the weave.
*Storold sighs quietly and looks out of his window at the leaves tumbling around on the forest floor*
Autum, closing winter. I guess that is where my life is going to. Even though it is hard to admit it. I felt the Gatheres touch again when I fell to Milaras men.
*Storold shifts a little in his chair looking uncomfortable around*
I haven't told Mylindra yet, I will have to soon. But she has much on her mind herself. Seems her time is running low too, but she shouldn't give up like that. The Lord Protector has plans for her here than he wants to have completed before she goes to serve him.
On the lighter side of things Angela has agreed to teach me with my rapier. I really hope that she through that can give me the focus that I need to enchant, poke and keep on my feet during a fight. She is the best of the best of the fighters who use a rapier for their combat. Nothing can hit her while she fights and her focus on hitting her foe is unbreakable. If I can just reach a small bit of what she has done so far I will be succesfull in my task with learning about the focus between body and rapier.
*Storold closes his book and walks through the kitchen taking his rapier as he heads out to the forest with the cloak covering his back and his hood far down his head as he walks out to hunt for the comming days.*
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*Storold walks around in his library while Mylindra is at the church with the children. He smiles looking out at the light green spring forest and the flowers slowly breaks from their rest underground.*
The children are getting really big now, and well there is a new one growing in Molly now. I guess one can't control ones future as much as one would like to, but we are both looking forward to seeing this new face in our family. Jonnathan and Ethan has spend a lot of time with me so I could show them some new magic or some new part of the forest and how the snow and ice were there.
*He slowly puts the pen down and takes out a book that is by now rather worn but you can tell that the wooden cover makes it more resistant to the beatings it has gotten.*
I have been working a bit too much on the blade for my taste lately, and I feel that some of the determination I had in my abjuration research is slipping. I sort of wish to return to that for a while and put the rapier behind me, but then again I will never reach the level of skill I should have to actually enchant my blade. But I want to master the inner mysteries of abjuration too, I can make wonderful wards that protect my friends and myself, but it just seems that the ones trying to pierce them are always a step ahead of me.
I have worked with Angela on my fencing but it always seem that what I try to do end up wrong. But I make small bits of progress every day, and some day I will be as good as most of the people who has never dedicated them solely to one weapon. But I have a long way to go and I will never know before I reach the end of the road wether I succeded in my goals or not.
*He stands and walks a bit around the room gently touching the two sticks Jonnathan and Ethan picked up in the forest a few days ago. He seems to sigh to himself and smile at the same time before reading some of the books he has, waiting for Molly and the children to come back from the church*
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*Storold stands out in his barn with "mister Golem", slowly he works with a piece of sandpaper and some walnutoil while he mutters something about should have been a goranite. Ethan and Jonnathan are playing around him while they are trying to find some new hay for the cage in which they keep their rabbit. Storold has so far been able to remove the rust on one of the legs and oil the knee slightly he smiles and dusts off his hands looking back to Ethan and Jonnathan...
Then all in a sudden the golem pulls him off the ground and shakes him holding his leg. "Arghhhh!!!" Storold hangs looking rather frustrated as Ethan and Jonnathan laughs at their father and the golem while Storold curses "by Lucindas blue underwear.. Put me down!! Now down on the ground!". The golem tosses Storold into a stack of hay leaving Storold laying upside down grumbling a whole lot much to his childrens amusement.
"I shouldn't be wasting my time on this..." Storold starts removing hay from his hair and clothes and he gets up. "But somehow I just feel that I have to help you and make you find your place too, and that is surely not as a rusty golem..." Grumbles and picks up the sandpaper and oils again and starts scrubbing off more rust polishing the golem.*
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*Storold stands out in his garden, the children playing tag around the house. Infront of him is mister Golem, now with both his legs finely polished by Storold. As Storold watches the golem stand there moving its arms a little, Mylindra walks up and places a hand on his shoulder smiling to him. "So this is what you have been spending so much time out of the house on." She looks at the golem a little sceptical. "Yes this is really neat, I am sure it will be usefull in the household and all, just watch..." Storold gestures to the golem and walks closer "Now Mister Golem show Mylindra that you can be usefull and please lift me up so I can look on that leak we have in the roooooffff..." Storold is lifted up to the roof of the house and he looks a little concerned around as the golem holds him steady. After some time Storold gets the roof fixed and Molly seems rather impressed with his work and also of the golem that helped. "Now that might actually be useful.. But how do I control it?" Storold still being lifted by the golem looks back at Molly. "I don't think you can, it seems to only obey me.. You know the all powerful wizard." He grins and winks to Molly who looks up to him poking her tongue out at him before she grins to the golem. "Throw Storold in the pond please mister Golem" Nothing seems to happen initially and Storold grins speaking to the golem. "Now please set the all powerful wizard down Mister Goleeeeeemmmm!!" Storold flies through the air and lands right in the middle of the pond spluttering and grumbling as he gets wet. Mylindra and the children watches giggling as Storold walks up from the pond and grumbles looking up at the golem. "Whatever was that for?" the golem just shrugs and lifts Storold up shaking him before dropping him amusing Storolds family even more as Storold curses and grumbles during the treathment.
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*Storold walks around in the empty house slowly tidying up after two days searching every corner of the Forest of Fogs. He tries asking Horthat again and again if he has seen anything, but the familar was busy bothering giants while Storold was away.
After cleaning up the house he colapses on the couch and doesn't wake before past midday the next day. When he does he goes to remove the last bits of rust on mister Golem trying to get a explanation from him but since the golem can't talk this doesn't work at all.*
Storold: *Stands on a stack of hay taking the last rust of the "face" of the golem working carefully at that*So you don't have any idea where they went?
Mister Golem:*Just looks at Storold not really showing any sign of a response*
Storold:*Sighs and shakes his head* I don't suppose you do anything other than hanging around in my barn all the time anyhow...
Mister Golem:*Seems to move his arms rather disapprovingly and launches a blow in Storolds direction*
Storold:*Falls back tumbling out of the way just in time landing on the hard floor brumbling a bit*Okay okay.. This isn't your fault but still what do you do besides cause trouble for me?
Mister Golem:*Seems hurt and starts walking towards the open barn gate with his head low*
Storold:*Shakes his head a little*Don't go now... I didn't mean it like that, you are the best golem I could ever wish for.. Please lets just forget about this, I have lost enough of my family this week.
Mister Golem:*Turns back slowly and lights up in the "eyes" slightly walking towards Storold picking him up giving his a firm shake before almost choking hin in a huge golem hug*
Storold*Gasps and grumbles mumbling something about a grazy golem...*
*Storold travels to the newly constructed temple in Western gate and later to the temple in Vehl to check if they know anyhting but both give him the explanation that sh ehasn't been to those two places since she went missing. After this Storold visits and talks to friends who knows nothing either except they suggest scrying which after a talk with some of the diviners at Spellgard is impossible since Storold doesn't have any of her personal belongings.
After this Storold packs some of his books and leaves for Spellgard abandoning the empty house to his familar and the golem. Not returning the next few days.*
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*Storold smiles to himself sitting in a room in the Leringard Arms enjoying a quiet moment*
What can I say, moving from Clover to Clover..
*Storold chuckles lightly to himself*
Well that was what it took to make me feel happy again and satisfy my inner ilsarian. Well maybe also a bit my inner xeenite but that is a whole other story and one that shouldn't be writen down but kept in loving memory of the nights here at the inn.
Which reminds me that I still have to move away from my beloved forest. I hate Rael for what he did to Clover. Doing this was entirely wrong and some day he will be stopped in his Weave hating ways. One might be able to defeat the mortals that one faces. But in the end the eternal powers will win and the Weave will flow freely in Pranzt once again.
For now though I am pleased with my office and the chores I have in Spellgard and as long as the temple remains neutral I wont do anything hostile towards Rael. Right now my greatest concern is finding more information for Gerimen but sadly that has been proving rather hard, but maybe some day I will be able to send him a new letter, if not them I will just send an empty one.
For now though I better prepare some dinner for Clover and a nice hot bath, I already miss her even if she has only been away for a couple of hours.
*Storold hums to himself and goes to clean the room and prepare a bit of dinner for Clover in the kitchen before making a nice hot bath*
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*Storold hums to himself sitting by his desk in Spellgard taking out an old worn journal.*
It has been a wonderful time I have spent with Clover in Leringard. I have been happy again and I have learned to love one woman for what she is rather than stepping onto the path that I took some steps on...*Storold looks at the paper making some heavy dots just staring* I am just happy that I have a bit of normality in my life. I have done some stupid things and I have failed some people I should never fail.
*Storold sighs quietly and looks at the paper for a while before starting to write again*
The Lady however have I never failed and she will remain the force that I build my life on, she has brought happyness into my life with the wonder of magic and the freedom to make some mistakes as long as you don't go against her very words. I have even done that, but she forgave me after seeing that my mind, body and heart were working for her and her Al'Noth.
*Storold smiles a little to himself and looks to the cealing mumbling a few words to create a light in the beginning dark*
Matilda was around Hempstead I heard from one of my friends, Pallena. I have seen her far too little after I left Blackford to train at Spellgard again, she was sitting where I used to be, but alas I was out gathering or spending time with Clover. I have to seek her out for advice, even if she said that my training was over long time ago. Her sitting on my bench is almost like a sign from the Lady that something should be said openly and maybe be shared with other protectors too.
*Storold glances to his rapier and the newly aquired shortsword looking rather sceptical*
I have almost completed my new house, although things got a little chaotic when I had to sell the landplot in Stort and buy a new one close to Point Dart. This is going to be wonderful I am sure, a little nest for Clover and me to live at for the rest of our lives, and that is the way it is going to be now, it can't be changed, this wont be like before...
*Storold looks a long sad moment at the journal*
My boys are all grown up now, I sent them down to help Alana after Tarile died. I hope her soul is in a good place now looking down at how much good Alana is doing and how far she has progressed in her training. Soon all of this will be over and I have to figure out what to tell my boys to do.. Or well they have their own lives but they are still mine, my small boys, two big men looking at their father with pride when he tells them about his latest adventure. Although they are still the small boys from back when I was happy living in Clover.
*Storold looks thoughtful out the window*
I wonder where my two other children are, what they have made of their lives. I miss them so but will I ever see them again? After these years, well it isn't likely, but I can only hope that somewhere out there they are watching the same night sky as I am now.
*Storold smiles somewhat happy to himself*
However I better get home now, Clover is waiting for me and she said that I shouldn't be too long so I guess I better finish the last paper pushing and get home.
*Storold closes his journal and puts some papers away. The finally he takes out a book and mumbles a few words disappearing from the room.*
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*Storold sighs to himself and pulls out his journal from his desk dipping a quill in a nearby inkwell*
Idiots.. That is what I want to call them and do call them, just not to their face. After all that I have done for me they do this to me, even if there are a few speaking in my favor what good will it do? But well they can do as they please just don't expect me to voulenteer to help anymore...
*Storold grumbles to himself and shakes his head*
But well the world isn't centered on me and many bad things are happening out there, Khul is being taken over by the dragon cult it seems, but still there is no word to suggest a cause of action. My best advice is the strike at the root of the trouble, but that is easy for me to say since I wouldn't be doing the striking anyhow.
*Storold looks out the window towards the grey city of Spellgard the yellowing leaves and the setting sun makes the city shine in a grey orange manner and it brings a small smile on his face.*
[strike]My[/strike] Our house is completed but still I lack the furniture to make it perfect for Clover, when I have everything ready I will allow her to see it not before. I think however that I have to open the shrine soon, just I need to figure out some appropriate decorations besides the illusions I made to make it look nice.
*Storold sighs to himself looking to a box in the corner*
I have the plans and the materials for the ring, but I still don't feel ready for it yet and well... Many don't know who she is and with the words of Eghaas and Eldarwen I am not really sure it is a good idea to ask right away either.
What makes it even worse is that I haven't told her yet, so there is potential for even more grief and sorrow. Can her poor heart take it? She feel in love with someone who is away most of the time and when he comes home all he has is tales of missery and death. Sad but that is how it is, thankfully she still has the energy to cheer me up.
*Storold smiles a little to himself humming a small tune as he flips through a small note book*
Daemon Mount is holding a seminar soon, at least he said he would. I am kind of figuring it will be rather boring and a new long talk about lets do some containment and wait a coupe of thousand years while I study this. I hope it isn't but chances are that is his stance, if so I guess I will have to do what I did before, take matters into my own hands and get the problems solved.
*Storold eyes the paper and puts the quill there again by as the muscles in his face start to strain and his grip on the quill tightens he decides to write another day. He puts the quill down and takes out a book mumbling a few words before the office is empty again.*
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*Storold sits in his study in his new house. He looks sadly to one of the corners where there are some bits still left from the broken golem.*
Many things has happened lately... Milara appearing in town, a man threatening me with the sword of a dead lich and the broken golem, the poor broken golem.
I sent it to repairs but I am still very sad about it. Mr. Golem seemed a bit saddened about it too, but it doesn't seem that he really understands the other golem which seems to be able to talk too.
Somehow it got caught in the battle against Tethulas and not it is all smashed up by the mages working for the man who spoke about taking my body for some sort of use.
*Storold sighs and looks around listening to the noises of the house*
I am really beginning to feel lonely here on Dregar. No people coming and going like in Leringard, just myself and mr Golem out here in the hills. I really miss Clover a lot these days. Strangely enough it is only her and I really need to see her soon.
I have been able to track her down and everything should be ready for the vacation and everything. I just need to be sure that she wants to go and all that... Just it feels so odd if she wouldn't. We love eachother, we have just had some rough times and things have been keeping me far more busy than I thought I would ever be.
I really hope she will fogive me
*Storold closes his journal and goes to check in his library for something to read looking for a long while at the empty corner before moving on.*
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*Storold had been lingering around town for quite some time although he tried to hide the fact that it was in fact him walking there by wearing his ordinary clothes as opposed to his usual chain mail and cloak revealing that he was indeed a protector of the Al'Noth. When the sun starts to set on this early spring evening Storold seems to have found what he was looking for or rather has found his way there since he knew where he was going over a week before he ever went there.
He had been working up to this moment for at least a month, after all which had happened between them it all came down to whether he dared to knock on the door or not. Storold hesitated a bit and thought about how it had been before, before he focuses on the door again. How much they have had together, how much it hurt when he had to leave for a whole year, how little time they had together after that. When he came home to an empty room the first time, last time he had seen her. All the things he had done after she disappeared a saddened expression passed his face as he did that.
As he stood close to the door a woman approaches from the town clearly heading for the door of the house, she is carrying a basket with groceries from the market. Storold doesn't notice anything since he stands looking at the door in his own little world. The woman looks like she is going to drop her basket for a short while and just stands there looking at Storold. After a minute of silence she speaks softly looking at Storold*
"St...Storold?"
*She says with a trembling voice looking hopefully at him. Storold turned slowly and looked at the woman speechless for quite some time just standing there staring at her.*
"Clover...?"
*Storold smiles brightly at her and moves closer to her holding his arms out. Clover drops the basket with groceries on the street and embraces Storold.*
"I missed you a lot love, please don't let me stop you in what you are doing.."
*Clover eyes Storold with teary eyes*
"Are you just dropping by for a bit of fun before you leave for one of your "adventures" again"
*Storold looks pained at Clover and smiles a little*
"Actually I was planning on going away but not alone..."
*Clover makes a face at him*
"Inviting one of your female friends with you are you..?"
*Storold nods slightly*
"That was the plan, yes, I had planned on asking her to come with me tonight actually, there is a boat leaving for Dregar soon and we need to be in Lor so that we can sail to Sadinia soon."
*Clover looks offended and picks up her basket halfway pushing her way past Storold*
"Have a nice time there!"
*Storold carefully grabs Clovers arm and looks disappointed to her*
"Does that mean you aren't coming with me to Voltrex?"
*Clover just looks blankly at him not really sure what to do*
"Me..? Voltrex..? Now..?"
*Storold kisses Clovers cheek while she just stands there*
"If you want to come of course, and we need some dinner before we take the boat to Dregar, if you and miss Prissy wont mind"
*Clover looks into her basket and smiles*
"I believe we should have enough for a dinner for three"
*Storold and Clover heads inside where Clover introduces miss Prissy to Storold. They enjoy a wonderful dinner at her house made by miss Prissy, while Storold and Clover walked around in town. After dinner they head out to catch the boat taking them to Dregar. They travel by horse down through the continent on a relatively peaceful trip. As they reach Lor they go to see Angela before they slip onto the ship to Voltrex.
At Voltrex they spend a lot of time visiting sights on the continent which Storold had seen years before. In the end of their tour they find themselves at the tower of water at the Northern tip of Voltrex. Storold wasn't there before but he still goes to say politely hello to the guardians of the tower before Clover and him takes some time to walk around the shallow water around the tower.
After a while looking over the bay the sun starts to go down over the ocean, the red-orange reflections hit the water where they are standing. Storold smiles to Clover and seems to want to do something but he seems to be stalling as she stands there watching the sundown. She turns slowly towards Storold as she notices his gaze and gives him a bright smile.
Storold looks rather insecure but after a short silence between them he fumbles a bit in his pocket and produces a round object. He carefully kneels in from of her in the water while she watches him with her mouth open wide not able to quite say anything.*
"Clover, we haven't really talked as much as we should have in the past. And so far we might not have had the best start, but still we made it through all this, not flawlessly, but we are still together. I would love for it to stay that way so that we can spend the rest of our life together, not just as Clover and Storold, but as mrs. and mr Doesscha..."
*Clovers eyes are sparkling but still she doesn't really seem ready to say anything and Storold is taking his time gulping once before asking*
"Clover.. will you marry me?"
*A tear forms in Clovers eyes as she looks at Storold, her voice is a squeaky whisper as she answers him*
"Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would like more!!"
*Storold carefully takes her hand and puts a sparkly ring on her finger, a closer look reveals that the ring is made from platinium with a single diamond placed in it. However Clover doesn't notice the ring, she quickly hugs her arms around Storold as he gets up and gives him a tender kiss. They enjoy their travel back to Sadinia and after retrieving a load of items sent to North Point from Spellgard they start to decorate their new home outside Point Dart.*
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]*After Storold and Clover has done the job of moving all Clovers personal possesions they sit in the livingroom hugging eachother by the fire as some slow, heavy footsteps sound through the house. The door is pushed up and a tall goldenish red golem comes dragging through the door with half a bush in its hands with roots and dirt on it. it drops it almost on top of Storold and Clover in an attempt to give it to Storold it seems. Clover is looking rather afraid and confused about the situation clinging to Storold as she looks it over...*
"Mr Golem?!.. What did I say about bringing plants inside?"
*The golem looks with a metal face at Storold just standing there with its head inclined*
"Mr.. Mr.. Golem... What is that for a strange thing Storold?"
*Clover look with huge eyes at the golem looking at the two. Storold sighs quietly and places a finger on Clover mouth placing her gently on the ground before standing to face the golem*
"Mr. Golem please... Say hello Clover and then... Uhmm can't you go hug the men running around in the hills or something"
*The golem looks oddly to Storold and pick him up shaking him while hoding him upside down. Clover watches in horror and tries to get a spell off which the golem doesn't really notice or feel at all. After a little while of Storold shouting various curses the Golem throws him sort of gently against a wall and wanders out. Clover rushes to Storolds side not really minding the golem which seems to be heading outside.*
"Storold! Are you alright!! That huge thing almost killed you!!!"
*Clover looks to the door lightning almost shooting from her eyes while she carefully hugs Storold*
"Ugh... Well it is my golem... Mr Golem..."
*Storold struggles to sit and mutters a little to himself aboutcrazy golems*
"But but.. It almost broke you!"
*Storold kisses Clovers cheek gently and grins slightly*
"It tried for over a decade now and didn't succeed so I doubt it will get that right... It helps me a lot, just it doesn't know how to do things right"
*Storold shakes his head a little and mumbles a short prayer to the lady which makes the pain disappear from his face.*
"You.. How can you.. Live with that... Thing?!"
*Clover caresses Storold face leaning against the wall with him next to her*
"It means well... I found it in a cave on Alindor.. Many many years ago, it likes me, and I can't let it go. It is a poor creature, trapped in the wrong body."
*Clover looks oddly at Storold*
"It is a golem..."
*Storold grins and pokes her*
"Don't let it fool you, it has feelings too... But well now I am feeling better and well I think we were in the middle of something..."
*Storold winks to Clover starts kissing her passionatly...*
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*Clover and Storold lives their lives peacefully. Storold is gone for some periods of time, out traveling to see his friends. In Spellgard or otherwise occupied. However he returns to Clover as soon as he can spending all the time he has when he does return.
One day near the night of flesh and magic Storold and Clover are talking over dinner.*
"Love, I have to leave for Kartherian for meeting some friends. I will be back for the seventh though to enjoy it with you. I simply just need to make this meeting first."
*Storold looks to Clover for a reply smiling to her*
"Kartherian... That is the place with slaves and that xeenite temple, why would you be keeping friends there!"
*Clover looks slightly angered by the mention of the town, but soon looks rather concerned to Storold*
"I just... Have to meet these people I sort of agreed to some time ago. I promise I will be home as soon as possible, it isn't really going to be all that fun I figure."
*Storold sighs to himself and looks down at his dinner a long while*
"Clover, I really do love you and I can't allow something like what happened years ago to come between us again."
*Clover looks at him sternly*
"You better not let something like that happen again, you should know better than doing that"
*Clover and Storold doesn't talk much more before Storold heads out in the morning towards Lor
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On the morning of the 7th of Mar Storold appears in the bedroom after teleporting from somewhere. Clover is sitting there on the bed looking rather tired seemingly not having been able to sleep for a good long while.*
"Storold! Why haven't you come back sooner!"
*Clover looks upset but soon stands and embraces Storold*
"Clover.. I came as soon as I could return, I really really missed you a lot. Please say that you are fine"
*Storold smiles a little to her and holds her out in his arms*
"What did you get yourself into now...?"
*Storold kisses her softly and sighs*
"Nothing, I have gotten myself partly out of something instead, I am sure you will be very happy when this is all over. But I really think I need to see someone who understands these things better than I do. I am just so happy that I am back here with you..."
*Clover looks oddly at him and frowns*
"What are you trying to say love..? You don't love me?!"
*Clover pushes herself away from Storold*
"Clover... You misunderstand, I love you more than anything else... The thought about living without you would be unbearable, we are going to marry. But I have to sort my past before that, I don't want to marry you and then all in a sudden have all sorts of things come up that will ruin our union."
*Storold tries to reach for Clover again but she walks backwards.*
"Clover you must believe me, I just have to find Mylindra, Sarah and the infant child which disappeared from me. Figure out what happened there... Just do something to make the past stop haunting me."
*Clover looks rather sad at him*
"But will you ever know enough to get ready to marry me, will you ever be ready?"
*Storold sighs heavily*
"I would marry you right away, but I don't want to hurt you later... I want what is best for you and I believe that this is... If you don't trust me and if I bring you sorrows I will try to be home more than I have been so far. I just want to be with you for ever and ever... "
*Storold hugs Clover tightly and smiles a little*
"I love you more than anything Clover and I will tell you all about all of my travels as of late, there is so much to talk about so many people you should meet"
-
*Storold appears in the bedroom of his house in Point Dart, he seems rather confused as he looks around at first. Then he starts mumbling to himself.*
"Clover... I have something to tell you... Clover, you know there is something we need to talk about... Clover, I might not have been..."
*Storold sighs to himself and sits on the bed with his head resting on his knees. After some time Clover comes by with a bucket and a floor mop*
"Storold! You are back!"
*Clover runs to Storold and wraps her arms around him*
"Are you alright sweety?! You seem so sad"
*Storold sighs and looks up at her with pained eyes*
"Clover, I have something I have to tell you... Please don't..."
*Clover gets up and walks towards the door.*
"Clover... I would never break my promises to you please stay..."
*Storold stands up and walks after Clover*
"Then why are you looking so guilty!"
"Because I got tempted and I am not happy about that!"
*Storold tries to hug Clover but she moves away from him*
"Love I am only human after all, I couldn't help it... But I never ever broke the promise I made to you, I just got too tempted and got involved in something I am not proud of."
*Storold places her hands on her hips and looks at Storold*
"Well you better have a good explanation for this mister!"
*Storold sighs deeply and mumbles at first to himself but soon speaks up as Clover looks at him with anger in her eyes*
"I met this... Woman, who wanted to buy a dress from me, she was rather forthcoming through the whole business process. She leaves me but ever since then when I saw her she kept touching my behind. Then some day she walked up to me and asked me to help her cook some roasts. I followed foolish as I am and watched her take off most of her clothes, after that... Well she played a bit around with butter. It got rather messy but I finally decided that it was enough when she wanted to sleep with me, after that I have only seen her once more where she was worried about me because I looked so stressed..."
*Storold sighs and looks worried at Clover*
"I don't know what got into me, it was just like I wanted to do something I knew I shouldn't do. But I knew that it would hurt you if I did it, but still I feel that what I did hurt you a lot and will continue to hurt you for the rest of your life. I am sorry that I am such a stupid fiancee, but I can't help it..."
*Clover sighs and sits down next to him*
"And what about next time, will stay with her a while longer while you play your little butter game? Will you break your promise?"
*Storold sighs softly*
"I really hope that I wont, but I guess only the future can answer that completly... All I know is that I feel lonely out there, so very lonely."
*Clover hugs him gently*
"Storold we shouldn't be together if you feel it is wrong..."
*Storold sighs quietly*
"It doesn't feel wrong now Clover... It doesn't..."
*Storold seems to come home less and less after this but when he is home him and Clover tries to live their life normally, Clover shows Storold a great support during his times of trouble up to his hearing but after that they slowly drift appart again.*
...
*One day Storold comes home and looks rather sad. He looks to Clover who has prepared a nice dinner for him and sighs*
"Clvoer..... I don't know how to say this.... But it just doesn't work..."
*Clover looks at him rather confused*
"What Storold, problems in Spellgard again?"
*Storold looks very sad at Clover*
"Us... It just doesn't... Work... I tried, but things will never be the same as when we traveled in the Breach Mountains, or when me and Samantha went looking for you. It... The magic is just gone.... I am sorry"
*Clover starts to cry and puts her hands to ehr face*
"What are you saying Storold! We love eachother..."
*Storold sighs and looks down*
"Clover please don't cry, this just isn't meant to be.. I am an adventurer, and you are a housewife... We don't fit and that wont change no matter how much we both try. I want to make it work but I know it wont happen, so please, lets part as friends..."
*Clover sighs quietly*
"As friends yes... But Storold, my feelings for you never changed, yours did, but I am not angry with you, because you are being honest with me and not just walking out... Now if you will excuse me I would like to pack my things.."
*Clover moves back to Spellgard that night as Storold stands alone in his house looking at her walk out with her belongings he sighs to himself and walks inside after a long while standing looking after her*
-
*Storold sits by his new desk in 183 Haven. He opens his journal and starts to write humming softly to himself*
I never really thought that something like this could happen. I know I have been both married and engaged before but Amanda really blows my mind. I am going to see her parents and I am a little worried about that since I don't really speak elven all that well, even though Amanda has taken quite some time lately teaching me some new words there is still a very long road till perfection. Amanda is one of the best things which has happened to me through this very hard time I am going through.
I still haven't gotten over the hearing, I am still angry and hurt by the actions of some of the people there. Sadly it is the lucindites which causes me the most hurt and anger. I almost whish that I would live several centuries so that I could see things that I know now I wont have a chance of seeing in this lifetime. But Sala was right, they broke my heart, and I can never feel the same for them again.
But anyhow, now I have Amanda to shine wonders into my life where there was just empty space. She is the one who keeps me going through this, no one else really did that to me before. Not even my friends could help me. I doubt I would ever leave the ranks of the faithful as long as Amanda is here, or well as long as Demisa doesn't get second thoughts about me, but thankfully I wont have to face her again.
*Storold smiles a little to himself closing his journal going to look for Amanda*
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*Storold sits in his study at the Point Dart house, tabbing his journal idly with his quill before opening it to write*
Well, many things have happened lately. After all these years who would have thought.. I am a grandfather now, and a respected lucindite, I am not really sure how much more I can ask for in life. Except, I really would have wished that Amanda or Mylindra was here to enjoy it with me. Sadly my path is lonely now, and I don't know where it leads me.
I am still busy traveling the world, curing anormalities when I am not with my family in Spellgard. But other than that, my life seems a a shadow of all the great adventures I had in the past. Sometimes I long for those times, other times I remember what kind of trouble they brought on me and my family. Maybe I should just be content with what I have, but I figure that a life without dreams isn't worth living at all.
On that note, Therhcha didn't stay in Spellgard, I am confused as to what the boy is up to. But I figure that if he wants to experience a life wastly different from what he was used to in Kuhl, he has chosen the right path. He is, whatever he might say about his dedication to serving family and order, free of all the obligations of a normal life. I am just afraid that he doesn't truly understand how blessed he is compared to the farmers and merchants he pass every day, but someday he will learn...
*Storold closes his journal and goes to his study looking for a new book to delve into.*