| 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  |
Children of Sin Feyd is judged and sentenced to one year's labor building Eironhold. Endren learns of Ortor near Eironhold and accepts Jak's offer to explore reports of the Minions of Danok at Oddon. Scouting mission devolves into Battle at Oddon Dam. Company meets Thr. Enthor and retreats into Oddon Keep. With the repeated words, "I Feyd", "Am sorry for the wickedness that breathes within me", "Wish for my evil to leave", the thief's judgement was complete, and he was taken away for a year's toil among the stonecarvers of Eironhold. The group's remainder took a tour of the keep and were told of a matter of urgency to the South. A rider had rode North just a small time before, and told Endren that the Minions of Danok were moving from town to town, torturing people, and burning their homes. Endren, torn by decision to send troops to the South or maintain Eironhold's defenses against the possible Ortor attack, was pleased when Jak offered his (and the group's) services. Pleased, the paladin offered each member of the group a small sack of gold and a riding horse with which to make haste to the South. While a team of Ogdar were summoned to accompany the group Endren and Dammon entered the tent for a private conversation. After this meeting, the Ogdar arrived and the party left with the day's failing sunlight along the stony road southward. Three days journey to the South they descended from a low mountain pass into the valley beyond where a burning town poured black smoke into the morning sky. Racing downhill, moans and yelling were heard from the trees. Townspeople, weak and dehydrated were found tied in the tree branches, left to waste and die. Further along the road, men were found crucified on posts, their wrists nailed to the post tops. With every turn, the suffering grew. Finding many townspeople under guard in animal pens near the outskirts of town, the group tethered their horses and ran to high ground. From this vantage they were able to see the pen guardians, and sacrificial ritual taking place on the levee above the town. Kaithah and Mishara's arrows rained down upon the prisoner pens, scattering the red robed guards, while Jak and the Ogdar charged with spear and clubs down to the dam, where they were met with formidable resistance. The priest performing the ritual stopped the procession of peasants being lead toward his knife, and wove a spell. Jak was frozen in place, soon the Ogdar were cut down at his side. Dammon and Kaithah were soon contending with a soldier racing toward them up the hillside. The demon winds soon were howling through the wizard's skull, as streaks of lightning fired from his fingers. Despite his blistering skin, the warrior reached Dammon and cut him down, only then turning on Kaithah, who with a strange song and blast of colors sent the man falling backwards. The bardess closed quickly on the fallen man, and ended his fervor. Meanwhile, Mishara began a flurry of arrowshots onto the levee, forcing the gathered minions to retreat to the far side. A few would fall before the priest and some of his followers were able to find refuge behind the corner of the keep wall. Following, Mishara and Kaithah found the Minions regrouping on the keep's far side. Deciding it better to regroup themselves, they returned across the levee, only to be hailed by a armored man running from the keep. The man met with them and introduced himself as Thara Enthor of the Order of the Iron Knights. Under cover by the archer and bardess's bows he ran back onto the dam and retrieved the bowl of blood which they dumped into Damtown Lake, before retreating into the woods and collecting the wounded. The group found Jak's battered body at the base of the Oddon Dam, having been pushed off during the conflict. After trying to recruit the Portage Merchant Guard who had barricaded themselves in their station, ignoring the chaos about them, the Thara Enthor offered to take the group into the keep, and decide what to do further from there. So, gathering their horses and racing across the levee with a weakened Jak in the saddle, and a delerious Dammon draped across his, the group reached the Dock Entrance and were admitted into the white, grey, and red courtyard of Oddon Keep. 11 Oct 1997
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