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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  |
Oddon Keep 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. Lord Yurander sat upon his throne and asked questions of the strangers. He asked each their name, and from whence they came, all the while clutching tightly to the black metal sword upon his lap. Granted his "welcome" to Oddon Keep, Thr. Enthor and Chamberlain Felze showed the group to the tower while others went to the locked library. Those in the old tower found it armed for war, with every foot of wall space occupied by racks of weapons, arrows, bolts, and spare blades. Gargoyle shields along all the turning hallways and spinning staircases, all waiting for a war. Jak and Mishara soon established the first plan, a preemptive attack on the amassing forces outside the keep. Commanding twenty crossbow men, the soldiers crawled out along the battlements, looking down upon the street bonfire and the shaven heads that milled there. On command, they rose their weapons and the Minions screamed, fell, with few running for cover. In response, a column of flame fell from the sky and the air was thick with the smell of charred flesh. The soldiers quickly retreated to the confines of the tower. More than ten Minions lie dead in the dark street, three less soldiers defended the keep. Hours passed. Alcerra soon arrived in the courtyard, having found access to the Yurander family crypt. Learning of the soldiers' fates, she was led to the blackened corpses. After separate rituals she explained that their service was not quite ended and with an ancient prayer summoned their bodies to motion. Two skeletons and a zombie shuddered upright, and were given passage through the front gate with the command to destroy all that they find. Some screams were soon heard from the nearest homes where the Minions were thought to be hiding. Jak arrived from the library where he had gone to visit Dammon. In his hands he carried a large black tome. He explained that Dammon had been taken into the book, and to help explain opened the book and disappeared in a flash of white light. After some debate at this late hour, Alcerra cast a sorcery upon the tome. The book flashed, opened, and closed, expelling an older man in the robes of Path. Four hundred years had passed since the appearing priest had opened the same book. After some discussion he was escorted to the Lord of the Keep. The group decided that they would experiment more in the morning. Come morning Alcerra, prepared the proper spells and summoned more prisoners from the pages of the Black Tome. The first released, a pale and thin dark-robed woman, sought immediate escape from the Keep draining the life from a guard on her way out the front gate. She was quickly pinned dead to the road by Mishara and Kaithah's arrows. Others to arrive were Gladia, a poet of Taldàna,and Idus, a wizard from Lanàdus that claimed to have found the book on a body in the ruined City of Ildûn. Idus, learning of the impending siege sought refuge in the keep to "prepare" himself. Finally, a knock at the front gate introduced a stranger seeking Dammon. Instead of a greeting he was met with questions and finally an offer to look into the black tome. He opened the book without effect. At this point it was explained what might have happened and seeing the intent, the man uttered arcane words and vanished. The last heard was that of the book snapping shut again. And so was lost Dammon, Jak, and four soldiers, before the siege began. 8 Nov 1997
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Navigation People Thr. Enthor
(Ftr7) Introducing The Yurander Family:
Orun, the patriarch, has been a widower since 643 DR when the Lady Dallah
Sunarran died. Their children Orun II, Sunddon, Lisilla, Antasya, and
Derreth live mostly in Oddon Keep but often travel to countryside kurum
and holdings within the City. The inheriting family of Lord
Orun II and Lady Tulana Verata have four children (two surviving); Seric
( -650), Fasha ( -652), Corrus "the Black", and Tool. The
second family of Sunddon and Lady Salmaras have one child; Alla. Aunt
Lisilla's husband Urvil Temmast died in 652, and of four children only
Pamala survived birth.
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