The World of Layonara
Character Development => Development Journals and Discussion => Topic started by: iceyfire on September 06, 2007, 02:07:28 PM
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*This book is written in Dark Elf, so it is readable by only those who can speak it*
I escaped... I dont know how but i managed to get free of those ruthless slavers.......... *The rest of this paragrapth is not ledgible due to blood droplets*
In the cover of night after an ambush i was able to take cover in the woods, and after many hours i stumbled upon a hut.
I needed to get a disguise to protect myself from these savages on the surface, i cant survive without deceit it seems....
I took a robe made of red that was hanging from a line, and a bow by the well, one day i may repay them if i ever pass this way i may....
Anyway, from what i can tell... i am near a place called port Hempstead, i dont even know where the temple is from here, i will have to find some locals who are not out to kill me...
Granted my race does give them reason, but i have not given them a reason personally... although they have certainly given me reasons.
Anyway... i must observe the locals further... they will surely hurt me if i am discovered, i must be cautious, i do not want to die just yet, and if this is truly port hempstead then i am probably in the worst place possible for my kind....
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I have been madly practicing my bow skills... its hard in the sunlight, i feel so weary during this time... how can the surfacers stand it?
If only the sky was still covered in dust, then im sure things would be quite reasonable.
Today, anyway, i managed to sneak into the port town to see for myself what was inside... i was starving and needed a good meal and some drink...
Picking up what loose change i could find on the streets i scrapped together enough for a meal, the keeper of the inn did not seem to question my state of which i was covered completely, dont think he cared since i payed good true to him.
Anyway, back in the square i spotted a strange man, whom it seems Ilsare has blessed with the ability to draw women in on a whim, he seemed to have the attention of two beautiful ladies, this is strange however, in my old home it was the women who had two to three males to serve her whims......
Surface mating practices are weird indeed!, even this talking, clearly he wanted to be with them both, and they clearly seemed interested so, im not sure why there were not progressing any further....
I must study this further, i was going to but... i saw something i really did not expect, another drow but this one was in plain view of all, needless to say i fled, i did not know what to expect... somehow i thought it was some kind of trick to expose myself to them.
Anyway tomorrow is another day of learning.
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I write this day in haste... today it was very strange, i was minding my own business watching from the trees when a strange man came up and introduced himself to me...
Claiming to just want to know the reason i was hiding, he introduced himself as Salaron, a strange man indeed...
He seemed different from all the others somehow, i think he could even sense something was off with me considering the way i dressed.
Anyway we got to talking about various things, when suddenly it started to rain, and well i guess i got a little frightened by the lightning, i pulled him close... & in that moment our eyes met for the first time, and well the reaction was not what i expected....
He just looked at me and said, "You dont have to hide the fact your a Dark elf from me you know...."
I half expected him to kill me right then and their, begging for mercy not realising he meant me no harm....
I dont believe it, maybe some of these surface dwellers are ones you can trust after all.... very few at least, i will have to stay in touch with this kind man.....
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Another day of practicing my skills of blending in with nature, observing the movements of the surface dwellers & bow skills.
A day i did not expect however, who would have thought i would run into another open minded person...
Rodlin was his name, and he was quite the person i must say, we sat and we talked for what seemed to be an eternity, and well needless to say he gave me some useful tips in my archery skills, and he has rekindled my interest in the weave, i believe i must find a way to infuse my arrows with magic... Perhaps that kind of way is the best way to refine my combat skills..... i must go find one of these servants of lucinda and gather more information on it...
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Today i met a strange monk by the name of Ash, needless to say he was an interesting fellow, upon our meeting we were interrupted by a gruesome little kobold that demanded all of our true!.
Needless to say i was not willing to give it up, and seemingly neither was he, this outrage caused me to chase after these pathetic creatures and destroy them one by one, this monk Ash also seemed to be swayed into dealing them his own justice.
However it did not end their, we met up with a strange half giant i think he was, who also seemed intent on demonstrating his prowess, perhaps another one of those surface dweller procreation techniques, needless to say i was not really swayed.....
Upon destruction of their camp and leader, the giant went his seperate way and ash spotted from my injuries my skin....
Strangely his reaction was that of a concerned friend.... he tended my wounds and asked me... "Are you a Dark Elf, and are you going to kill me"
Ofcourse i denied that i was to kill him, i just stated i was different from the rest of my kind, an exile.... that i follow the great archer of love...
He did seem content with my answer and we went about our way, however the day did not end their, we managed to meet more people of little consequence, and went on an adventure of sorts into a area litterly packed with taint and undeath....
We spent a few hours taking care of these creatures and ended up at the fort...
Upon our splitting of the spoils, one of the party seemed to catch a glimpse of my face.... she was outraged and started to yell and scream at me... asking what was wrong with my skin, Ash juimped inbetween us and i fled into the woods....
I do not know whether to call this a good or bad day..........
I do hope Ash and i will cross pathes again he was one in a million thats for sure.
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Well now i content with my current skill level in my archery, i think i will seek out a lucindite to teach me about the weave, i have been told those types are only to happy to teach all of their secrets with little worry of their uses.... Perhaps i will find a way to use the weave to combine with my arrows.
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Feeling strange, met a man named eander, sold me a very sturdy bow.... I do hope i will meet him again, then again its probably better we dont meet again, he will only hurt me like the rest have.....
I find him rather intriguing, and he seems to be a archer himself!
Other then that planning to make more arrows, with strong wood i find.
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The events recently have been aweful, *Splotch of blood over this spot of page*.
We had all started an adventure to the dragon Isles or so they say, i only saw baby drakes which are not really worth mentioning as dragons....
Anyway, i had much practice and learnt how to channel the weave into different aspects of my ability...
Earned some true aswell, up until that point it was good.... The scary lady was with us and well i decided to confront her alone after the adventure had split up.
We got into a heated argument when i asked her why she had chased me off earlier..... needless to say things got bloody and i ended up her prisoner headed back to the fort.......
I was humilated, bruised, spat on, however she did not allow them to do more then that to me... which i suppose is somewhat humane.......
It is the only reason i let her live when it all turned in my favor..... We were boarded by a another ship which had a dark elf on board..... She was watching the entire event back on the mainland, and well she was not about to let a useful..... one perish at the hands of human justice.
So she killed them all except the lady and burned the ship, she however did not offer much in the way of sympathy for me.....
She however did tell me that i was now hers, that when the time is right i would be doing some kidnapping for her...
How i do loathe such things, but i suppose its unavoidable lest gain her wrath.
Needless to say, when i next awoke i was at the fort, so i quickly made my escape to recover elsewhere as that lady was very close by.......
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A both good and bad list of happenings have occured since my last entry.... i have progressed further into my studies of the weave....
However the most important thing is that the man i have been dreaming of....... Eander, we had a very interesting adventure and well needless to say we have become very close... i think he does like me for me...... i can only hope..
However with good comes horrible consequences, upon my investigation of the goblin caves near hlint with a party containing eander, we had encountered another who knew of me.... and seemingly needed my services....
However this one threatened that without making a deal to do as he asks, everyone... including eander would die, that i would bathe in their blood..... I cant say i find this to be a good choice.... but i must do what i must do......
Only for him....
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Since that meeting i have met him numerous times.... and well upon the final meeting before i go on my mission that he had planned, i well met up with a rather interesting person.....
Alantha the Dark elf weaver i have heard of only in song.......
She was different from what i expected, so very kind.... so very smart, she had some very useful advice to offer me in regards to my problem, i guess i let myself get carried away in this endevour and blind myself to the fact that i was to become a tool that would be used agani and again......
For one who would sooner kill me then release me from his service.....
Regardless we spent a long time talking, and well needless to say she has inspired me to continue my learning into the weave, and that i must fight for my own rights to leading my own life without interferance from any aspects of my past.... especially if i am now matriarch of a now dead house......
Time will tell how this situation ends.. i can only hope that it end with me and eander happily living out our days without any more interferance....
I hope...
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I guess i revert back to my own nature once again..... not completely but here i stand perfrom acts for this dark elf, most for his amusement..... i now realise i have now broken two of our social taboo's......
To treat any of the surfacers as equals..... and to act in the name of love....
I guess i really am different from the others, yet i can still perform the same acts i did in the past when i used to live in my own home, with the same state of mind...
The same calmness, i can do these acts for my new master, it just depends how long it takes for them to catch me......
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I had a strange occurance this day when i followed shiff on one of his patrols, firstly a big storm..... then all manner of rats and snakes came from seemingly nowhere.....
I fell, but when i returned all manner of demon came from every direction.... the skys where burning, and hideous creatures of all kind were appearing, however so many more had gathered.....
So many strong adventurers, shiff among them, they managed to drive them off...
However thats not when the oddness ended, we peered behind us and saw a rather strange fighter venture up from the path, looking for shiff......
Seemingly wanting to protect his family, needless to say it was not long before he ran and i had to take out on of his legs with a arrow....
Really im not sure if he was lieing about serving another forcefully, or if he was telling the truth.... but when ones family is concerned shiff should have let me torture the truth out of him....
I cant believe im finally beginning to enjoy these acts again, in some way i might consider it a form of art but i doubt other ilsarians will accept that, nor my father for another....
I must walk this path alone, i will walk it alone, now i must continue practicing with the weave, soon i know i will be able to infuse my arrows with little problem.... i know it....
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My studies continue, weaving sure is difficult, but i am confident in my ability to be able to master at least a few schools of magic.....
As i do im sure my power will become very formidable indeed, still i search for a arcane archer to help me to learn this ability quickly.....
For i am sharp with a bow, adequate as a arrow maker, & adept at weaving intermediate spells.
Perhaps i should put out a call for a master in this regard.... maybe i can pay this master some coin so that i may learn from him.
I question however, how does one become a arcane archer, what does it specifically entail, perhaps if i look into these questions more closely i will find a answer to my problems and failure in this regard....
Also, eander, my love, many nights i spend thinking..... thinking about the future, thinking about the possibilities....
Is it really fair on him, to bestow my problems onto his own?, for associating with one of my kind... surely it binds him to my fate, letting down my guard for just a moment....
Also what if my dark master decides he does not want my services anymore, and he puts me in the spotlight for all the acts he has been commiting with my hand helping.....
I really do not want to expose alantha to my problems, he seems to have a keen interest in finding out about her.... what will he do?, i dont believe he really only serves himself, he has strange ties of information & power that seems bestowed upon him somehow...
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*Some of the text is hardly ledgible due to some water or perhaps tears blotting the paper*
I knew this day would come, yet i did not expect it to end the way it did....
I was captured outside hempstead and brought into public display, the only reason i can think of that i lived through it was because of the efforts of Rhynn, Bear, and Shiff......
I would be dead if not for them, as they stood by me through the thick of all the garbage being thrown at me.... and the senseless accusations...
I will have to be more careful in future lest my luck runs out...... however it feels strange to have such caring friends out their looking after my neck....
However this Drea character is of some interest i will have to keep a closer eye on her, she does not feel right........ I must continue to move away from that city, lest any angry mobs catch up with me.... i will write more later.
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As time goes on.... more and more occurs, some of it good.... most of it bad....
I mean the past weeks i have spent on several adventures, and well not even they could prepare me for what i faced these recent days....
I met drea again... and needless to say she continues to play mind games with me.... i cannot really tell what she is planning or thinking...
I mean she is as deceptive as a dark elf is, or is it maybe i am getting soft because of my life on the surface.
Needless to say she seemed content on playing games with me... was it blackmail.... i am not sure, i went with it, i really dont want a repeat of what occured in hempstead recently... i dont think i could handle that....
The strangest thing she blackmailed me with... she wanted my hand in marriage, official marriage.... why? I love eander... yet the way she spoke to me i felt compelled not to refuse....
I do not know why... and well needless to say we went on a search for a priest, and ended up at the ilsare temple in hlint....
The priestess and calise were all to well onto her game... i unfortunately played along with it as best i could not wanting to incur her wrath....
Needless to say by the end of it she had abused them both... and nearly got me kicked out....
However i appealed and told them the truth.... i guess they took pity on me and saw what i really felt in my heart... and needless to say in their mood they even saw fit to bless me with the protection of a divine angel...... to protect me from drea.... i feel asthough a burden has been lifted from my heart.... if we cross paths again the angel with attempt to kill her.. i cant say i know how this will turn out... time will tell.....
Anyway besides that my skill with the bow steadly improves, and i still do my best to infuse my arrows with this magic... i guess its going alright, but i cant say for certain if i will ever master it....
I mean being the master of firing a bow is one thing but imbuing it with magic is another...
Perhaps i can find a trainer to help me with this, maybe one would be willing ot pass on their skills, i will spread word of my need of one and see how it goes.
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Having already left my notes of my need of an master in the way of the arcane, i have been biding my time here at the crossroads.
However i did not expect what happened this day....
I was going about my usual fishing when i met a lady named El'anna, and well needless to say it was quite a interesting meeting, we talked for what seemed like hours about various topics relating to the redemptress, till i seemingly hit a chord on something... i told her of my recent trouble in hempstead.....
She was off as fast i could finish the sentence, and well by the time i caught up to her she was already eyeing the town, its laws and deciding it was her responsibility to change the laws their.
At first she was content just looking around inside for the one in charge but eventually she came out under escort and then demanded that she be arrested...
Needless to say my suspicions of her being a dark elf were true indeed, and she reveal herself demanding her arrest.....
Which did occur, and she was taken to a al fammiliar place... so what did i do... i ofcourse rushed to her side and had myself thrown in along with her.
After a good while talking through this cage they decided to free me and escort me out the front... and take her to the trial...
being that i was in no position to disagree i walked out......
I was outside and i could not stand it.... so i waited at the gate, and watched..... for any sign of El'anna...
The guards eventually got bored of me yabbering on about her and told me to protest in silence... so i did my best to do so, and i felt why should i be fire physically when she could be receiving such punishment.... i thrust my dagger into my leg and left it their...
While i sat patiently...
The pain i felt was nothing to that i was feeing in my heart for letting this happen.... i could not let her die, those of her walk of life are very rare indeed... and they deserve to be cherished......
Protected from harm because thare are so brave standing up for any injustice.....
I passed the time discussing variious topics of life while we waited for storold and bear to sort out the troubles inside...
And eventually it seems the problem sorted itself out, a high priest came by to sort it out and we were reunited with her not suffering anything but a shot to the ego....
Today it was very trying indeed......
However it did not end their, storold, told me he had seen my notice... that he had once trained another in the arcane arts of archery.....
He offered his skills to me, to help me accomplish my goals....
In this fact i am lucky and i now walk off to join him for a training session, the fiirst of many i hope....
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Trainging with storold, most interesting, his approach to it was amazing i have to say, i am suprised at myself that i could not get this far as i feel asthough i have the power within me to do what i seek...
Today we trained by the archery target in the crossroads, he looked at how i was currently trying to create magic arrows and saw that i was focusing to much directed energy into my arrows causing them to explode... and go wrong....
Needless to say he motioned more towards focusing some power into the arrow heads, to feel the strands of the weave around me anduse them to help me do this....
Needless to say after practicing this for what seemed like hours i finall was able tot hit the target with a arrow that burst into flames at the right point.... although my concentration could definately use some help...
I was able to create my first kind of arrow of this type, true it is not nearly ready for some real tests in combat, soon i hope, i will practice what storold has taught me this time tilll i am a master, and then i will ask him for the next step.....
I am so lucky to find once such as he to help me learn about this.....
Till then i must rest, and it has certainly been a trying day....
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I have continued to hone my skills in the weave, i believe i have mastered my focusing of the weave, however i am still having trouble with attaching the strands of the weave to my arrows in a way that helps my arrows.
I have done my best to look for Mr. Jacchri, and it is yet to bear any real fruit.... perhaps its best that i continue my search elsewhere...
I do not believe i can learn much more from Mr. Storold, still i will continue my search for a master if not perhaps i can continue to hone my skills in the wild.
On another note, i cannot shake my feelings of love for Eander, i truly believe my heart is only for him, perhaps soon i will ask him for his hand in marriage, however i dont think now is the time, first i must focus my all into my studies of arcane archery.... I did however get some useful advice from a friend to visit the great library on voltrex, via blackford castle.
I think its best i continue to focus on improving my ability to maintain my weave strands on my arrows so that they will stay true, and hit the targets with full force.
However i am a long way off that.... it will be awhile.... i hope eander can understand this is something i must do....
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Drea drea drea drea drea drea, why does she act the way she does..........
One moment in time she is being nice to me, the next she is telling me about how evil i am.........
Today was no exception, she just started to make all of these presumptious comments about me... about how evil i am, comparing me to that of a child mass murderer......
I mean really am i that bad, am i just causing everyone that cares about me great pain, poisoning their souls.....
I do not know what to believe anymore.... really am i causing that much pain to shiff, eander, bear and the others just by being around them....
Granted many chase me, many want to kill me...and they usually get involved in all of that....
If i am that much of a bother wouldnt they just tell me.... i cant shake this feeling of sadness i have now, i feel asthough i am the biggest burden to them all.....
I know now what i must do... i must attain that power, i must become a arcane archer so that i can stop being a burden to them all....
Please all of you hold on a little while longer i have to do this.... i have to become strong and protect you all...
I am a excellent archer, my eyes are as keen as a eagles, i make my own arrows and i am able to restring my bow at a whim, i am slowly mastering the various circles of the arcane perfecting my defenses and using the weave to enhance my arrows... ableitly they are nowhere near what they could be, usually fizzling out or exploding early... I need to find someone to teach me, or perhaps as i am a dark elf i am only able to do this on my own....
Maybe thats my path in life... to always do things alone....
Maybe i might continue with my lucky streak and find what im searching for the easy way.... but that is not likely.....
I will go and find what i am looking for.... even if it kills me... first....
*A little note is left in her diary as she tucks it into a safe spot that eander knows about, it is written in elven*
My love i will find what i am looking for.... if i do not return please do not look for me... i do not want to be a burden to you all anymore, never again....
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*Wipes the dust off a musty tomb that has not been opened in awhile*
To long have i avoided returning to this book.... so much has happened to me as of late, i.... i was lost for sometime.... and the world has changed yet again for me...
Maybe i am the same person maybe i am not, i... i cant find him, i miss him, i cannot think about anything else....
Oh Eander where have you gone, i do hope you have not come looking for me....
For some time now i have been in the possession of a matriarch of one of the houses.... i care not to name which for safety reasons.... but needless to say i was doing it again, what i am good at.... i always return to that.....
I... i had to kill... *Absently rubs a fresh scar on her face as she writes this*, the leader of that house to escape.... and now i fear i put myself in much more danger then ever before.....
Still... i do not want to think about the rest, it pains me greatly to remember what i had to endure back in the clutches of my people....
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At least today went a little better, i have found myself something i did not expect... one who is willing to train me in arcane archery.....
Rain Darsus, we met on a odd stroke of luck, and he immediately took me under his wing, while i did have my concerns about his rejection should he find out im a dark elf..... they were sorely unfounded....
He based me on merit alone, and said i had great potential in my first training session, i have been working hard to focus the weave better, moving from my hand to my elbow, keeping it focused.....
My concentration needs to focus on this, i keep thinking in the back of my mind about eander.... it is slowing my mastery of this ability....
By the time i write another entry i will be a master of this, i will not give up.... until i achieve my dream....
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*Saira retrieves the book from a chest set bellow a tree in silkwood forest, wipes the dust gathering upon its cover*
It has been much time since i have been able to write upon the pages of this book it seems, so very much has happened, still i will leave some things to my memory rather then write them in a place that others may find...
Needless to say i have been training in my absence & i have almost mastered the basics of arcane archery, i do indeed still have some way to go but Rain is still willing to teach me more.
I just need to focus a little more when im letting the weave gather into my arrows, & well he also made mention of starting an academy for arcane archers, he invited me to assist in its foundation, needless to say im delighted....
Having access to the knowledge that other arcane archers possess would be most interesting, not to mention having the support of such an institution...
Ethier way i will be watching the progress on this very closely in the near future.
Other then that i have had a somewhat interesting chance meeting over a few occasions with a human known as brian.....
He is rather intriguing i must say, he seems to have a very similiar mindset to my own, which is rare, although i do follow a goddess of love most do not approve of my methods and thoughts regarding such....
Anyway.... he has really cornered my attention for the moment pulling me away from my studies with archery, not that i mind really...
I sense something dark within him, and well its nice at times to find someone not so inhibited by societies laws and social standings...
I do not think he will slow me down like Eander did, i even went as far to make a blood bond with him, so if he does betray me & my love i will most definately show him very little mercy........
Till then we shall see how this turns out....
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The training continues, i am getting more skilled working with arrows, i am able to craft iron tipped oak arrows, they allow me to focus more of arcane abilities into the arrows without shattering them.
In time im sure i will outgrow even that kind of wood and have to start looking for sources of mahogany.
However i understand what Rain has been teaching me its not about the bow or even the arrow,sure they can help in a small part to help substitute some ability, the real power comes from ones will to make it stronger...
The more i concentrate the stronger the force i exert from the bow...
The key principles i grasp:
1. Concentration, let the your will flow from your fingertips and allow it to form around not just the bow but the arrow as well bend them to your will.
2. Solidify this power, & release with maximum force.
3. Hope you dont run out of arrows because all this concentration really takes it out of you.
The most elusive part i find is what it means to be an arcane archer, sure i have the ability, but an arcane archer is a leader, a strategist, a heroe, am i heroe? Am i the wrong kind of heroe?
I do what must be done, but i really do disdain working with people who are inferior to myself.
Im sure thats probably what i need to focus more on, and i shall.... Not many people even want to be around one such as myself.....
Its strange, ni introduced me to another cloaked person, this person really seemed to give off some odd signs, my guess is she is a darkelf cleric of sorts and well those can only mean trouble for an surface elf such as myself.
I will have to manipulate till she gives in and shows weakness, before i make my move, i havent decided if it will be her i will take care of or another for the sheer enjoyment of it...
Hmmm Decisions decisions........
I wonder what rain is doing with the Arcane Archer academy plans, i will have to go and find out.
Till the next time i write, practice practice practice.