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"To Thr. Jesam Zewel,
"... When you reach Kelamir you will find a tower
of iron like a needle with three spheres of glass at its base. Each
sphere is a cell hosting living fires. Each must agitated in
its own manner for only in their most volatile states will the tower
provide the required essence for the High Lady's ship. Arrange
the ship in the square at the tower's base and affix the hoses and
cables before releasing the essence. Once the ship takes shape,
all voyagers must be in place and all cargo secured beneath the gondola.
The captain will know when to drop the tower's anchor and will
guide you across the mountains to the great north city. Seek
there the monarch of that land and deliver our Lady's message to him.
All haste be with you, for an Ortori attack is imminent. Amra
bless and deliver you safely.
"Surrezin, Chamberlain to the High
Lady Elesea of Taldàna"
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Family Troubles
9 Eren 653 - 11 Eren 653
Tressta is warned by her sister
Tallyssa that her husband-to-be and father may have hired
people to kidnap her. Jak and Eréus stand vigil
over a fallen knight. Tressta and Zildara are attacked
in the outer Temple gardens. Tressta is captured and
carried away on a horse. Jak faces down and captures
a would-be-kidnapper but forgets the battle that transpired.
After hearing Tallyssa's testimony Dammon shifts into
Owler shape and persues Tressta. Dammon encounters a
flying wizardress in a tree. Dammon rescues Tressta from a
treehouse and returns with her. Word is received that
Tressta's father has been captured in Evermith.
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From the Notes of Tressta:
Day
One (9 Eren 653)
- Morning
- Tallyssa is waiting but is her handmaiden;
meet sister at noon
- Rest of group waiting for High Priestess to
help with travel arrangements
- Tressta tells group and they agree to go with
her; Knight goes to check it out; He says if
they arrive and see him sitting in cafe to turn
back
- Jak tries to find Dammon; Finds him and tells
him; Dammon won't leave Temple
- Jak, Zildara and Tressta set out to cafe;
Eréus across street
- Tallyssa arrives and sits; Since Tressta arrived,
father and husband-to-be avoided people; Tallyssa
asked about--in contact with foreigners (rough
man from [Saranth]) aiming to capture me; Sered
(husband-to-be) emotional wreck; Mother is ill
but OK; Go back
- Meet with priestess--no arrangements yet
- Knock on Jak's door; It's Eréus; Says
Jak expressed interest in knighthood; Will try
and help Jak best he can because something has
occurred that Jak ought to take part in, dressed
in finest; Will be a vigil--someon's died
- Laérd Luréu of Naddal died in
battle and brought back
- Vigil not in Temple but in a distant place
- Tressta spends evening with Zildara; Goes
back to room
- Amran Temple has strong but odd relationship
with military--initially blessed but then rejected
as outcasts; Armored men and women are ignored
- Evening, In the Gradens near vigil
- Man steps out of a shadow; Tressta turns to
run; Man pulls red glowing sword and chases
Tressta
- Tressta hears female speak in a different
language like a spell is being cast overhead
- Zildara sees man chase and then sees female
floating in the air, cast and Tressta freezes
(but can hear, see feel)
- Eréus hears something and tells Jak
something is amiss; Jak runs out; Eréus
follows
- Tressta is grabbed, sacked and hauled away
by two people
- Zildara sees two men with Tressta; She tries
to move silently and follow; One man stops to
face Zildara
- Jak is running amok and finally sees them
(Tressta and man)
- Jak approaches; Man drops Tressta over garden
wall and pulls out spear
- Man with red blade is not Uren (Bu-Ortor);
He viciously slashes Zildara; She is hurt terribly
and casts "sanctuary" but Bu-Ortor
fells her
- Eréus yells but is blinded by wizardress
- Bu-Ortor with red blade hits Jak; Jak hits
back hard
- Man hops over wall and grabs Tressta
- Tressta is secured to horse
- Zildara is down and in pain; Eréus
still groping blindly about
- Jak tries to follow footsteps but then tries
to follow Tressta; Meanwhile Tressta tries to
wriggle free and yells as rider spurs horse
on
- Jak jumps onto a horse to follow
- Jak sees other man jump wall and he confronts
man; Jak charges but man casts "forget";
Jak suddenly has no idea of what transpired
in the last minute; He sees man is hurt (stuck
by spear) and Jak is hurt so Jak attacks; Man
submits and Jak clubs his unconscious
- Eréus calls out; Climbs over wall and
meets up with Jak; They go back to Temple gate
with unconscious Bu-Ortor; Temple attendant
binds man
- Jak and Eréus try to talk but they
find it hard to communicate; Jak calls Dammon
and Zildara is found
- Temple attendants begin casting on Bu-Ortor;
Priest asks who sent him and Bu-Ortor says "Sered
Dassur"; Priest asks why and Bu-Ortor says
"To retrieve Tressta, his wife"; Priest
asks what's been done to her and Bu-Ortor says
"She's been taken to Wyme'er" (city)
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Day
Two (10 Eren 653)
- Nightsdeep
- Dammon changes into an animal and flies and
flies out to search for Tressta
- In the countryside
- After a while; Dammon notices a robed woman
sitting in a tree; Dammon then hears a voice
say, "Far away from the forest for an Owler"
(she casts [whispering wind]); Dammon's familiar
joins him; Dammon changes into the form of a
big burly sailor
- Dammon moves toward wizard and calls out to
ask where Tressta was taken
- Dammon casts [ice storm] at her; she's tossed
out of tree but she manages to hover and then
she bolts
- Dammon pursues for some time
- Dammon sees a saddled horse and a woman fetching
water in the dark morning hours; Dammon changes
into a black snake and sends conscious to scout;
Dammon sees woman is crying and checks out farmhouse
- He sees two men; one eating and one lying
with ichor coming out of his head; hears more
crying
- Man eating at table looks like one from battle
- Tries to see if Tressta is there; Changes
into a squirrel and climbs up and in to thatched
roof; Sees Tressta laying and tied up; Tressta
is unconscious
- Dammon the squirrel gnaws the ropes off; Tressta
is bruised about the head; Dammon hears children
sobbing and female trying to reassure them
- Dammon the squirrel goes out of house and
down to front door; Changes into Uren, gets
staff and taps it once on the door to cast [arcane
lock]; Changes into squirrel and goes back up
to rafters
- Female wizard trying to open door; Dammon
changes into Owler and bursts out from the roof
with Tressta in his claws
- After an hour of flying; Dammon lands with
Tressta and changes back to self; Wooded area
with roads but not much inhabited
- Dammon tells situation, then changes back
into an Owler and goes into woods; Finds a camp
but goes to rocky outcropping; Tells conscious
to be on lookout and changes into big sailor
- Rest
- Dammon changes into Owler and flies for a
while longer, back close to town; Changes into
a horse and Tressta rides into town
- Jak tells High Lady's representative about
Tressta's family's attack
- Temple sends message to bring Tressta in;
She's upset about Tressta's situation
- Dammon and Tressta approach Temple; Tressta
dismounts and leads Dammon in as a horse
- Jak talks to prisoner; Poison pulled off him
- Temple attendants "interview" Tressta
and they bring Tallyssa; Temple attendants then
interview Dammon who is fairly truthful
- High Priestess searching for captors and also
to seize and return with Tressta's father and
Sered
- Dinner
- Eréus appears with eyesight intact
- Zildara healed
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Day
Three (11 Eren 653)
- Morning
- Tressta receives word that father is in custody
and being brough to Temple; Sered is still missing
- Tressta wants her mother to come
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Navigation
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People
Introducing
Bu-Ortor:
Following the Rape of Taldàna (and other
Ortori invasions) into the Lands of Amra, the population of
Bu-Ortor within the city-state has grown significantly. Though
few first generation of Bu-Ortor are accepted into Uren culture,
it is not uncommon within the region to meet people with distinctly
Ortor features which have been passed down through the generations.
These malformations are more common in rural areas than they
are in the cities of Taldàna.
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