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The World of Teréth End - Chronicles - Othic |
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"Too often days swiftly pass / Weeping in the evening grass / There just is not enough time / Forthings you dreamt you'd do / The hours still drift by. "Too many years, too high a cost / Too many lessons earned but lost / And still you complain all the time / Cursing the days before you / Lamentng the days gone by. "And finally laying in your bed / Staring skyward, nearly dead / It all floods back one last time, / The chances that you left behind / But alas there's little left to do / ... but cry." Dirimoran song  |
The Old Gatehouse Dammon rides an owler high into the battlements of the Old Gatehouse. The group crawls through the ruins in search of their comrade. Dammon meets a "friend" in the darkness. A company of unfriendly Dwürden instruct the group to leave. Cogham's chest is found and thieves are confronted. The Giant Ship is found and the lifedusk harvested. The owler swooped from the battlements, bowling through Kaithah. The group scattered, but the monster continued after her chosen prey, again lunging through the air and landing on her fully. Arrows and spears wounded the creature which tried to retreat to the air, but not before Dammon leaped upon its back for a ride up and over the gatehouse wall. The group scaled the wall, found its nest, and finished the creature; but found no Dammon. On the next day they ventured down into the ruinous keep, to find their missing companion. Three floors into the keep, they found their friend sleeping in a hallway near a large door. Waking him they proceeded into the room where Dammon found some strange Dekàlan writings, a map-like picture, and a small black talisman. The group began to further their exploration but were confronted by strange Dwürden that forebade them continuing. Back into the failing daylight of the outdoors the group continue northeast along the wall. Half-way through the next day the group encountered a group of disorganized thieves around a section of wall and a tree much like the one Jak was searching. After some combat, and the submission of their leader, Aras, the man gladly offered the tree to them for free in exchange for his release. Jak climbed the tree and found what appeared to be the chest he was searching for. Aras fled into the forest, making quick-work of Jak's "knots". After another night and a day's travel, the group came to a seaside harbor where they found a ruined ship sticking from the waves, about 100' feet from shore. Adae and Kaithah agreed to swim out to the wrecked vessel in search of Dammon's lifedusk, the first true step in this quest of wizardmaking. The tides and currents were very strong and difficult but the two managed to reach the ship. Waiting for dark they then went below deck and located a mold, which Kaithah nimbly collected, which they assumed to be lifedusk, before returning. Whilst swimming back to shore, Kaithah was caught in a riptide and smashed against several stones, some of which she was able to gain purchase of, others which she merely received a beating. Adae swam out to save her and together they were able to reach the beach in relative safety. Camp was moved from the beach to the clifftop to avoid the rising tide. Dammon explained that speed is now of the utmost importance, so the group should rest well this last night, and make all haste for Oth with the morning's first light. 14 Oct 1996
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Navigation People Aras (Rog3) Introducing The Old Wall: A day's journey north of the City of Oth stands the crumbling ruin of an ancient stone curtain wall. The wide barried is interrupted every half-mile or so by the remains of squat towers. Almost 700 years ago the wall was constructed to establish ground between the Dekàlan troops and the Elve of the Elder Wood. The wall was destroyed in the End War and those that could not retreat to the City, were summarily slaughtered. When the armies reached the City of Oth, they found the capital unguarded except for a skeleton crew of soldiers manning the City Wall. |
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| Ref. PHB (Player's Handbook), © Wizards of the Coast  |
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