To the bar!
Following the meeting at the Trading Post, you all decide to find a drink. Being heroes, decisions like these can hardly be made without a pint in hand. With that in mind, you all exit the poor woman's trading post having crowded it for a while. You are in luck because across the small square there just happens to be a tavern, and its open even! Piling in, you find yourselves in a small room with only just enough chairs for all of you. The bartender, who had been cleaning one of the glasses, is rather astonished at the number of people who have just piled into his establishment in the middle of the afternoon. He busies himself with the drinks that you order as you get down to business (but not without that pint firmly in hand).
Nalya lays out the entire story up till now, covering even the events that Michael and his companions accomplished prior to when she met them. Her story begins with a tale of an Angel-child delivered to a small town a few weeks to the south. When Michael and his companions had arrived, the child had been kidnapped by unknown forces. Tracking them to the woods, Michael and company fought hard against bug-like ogres and a blue ogre who wielded magic. Victorious in their rescue they returned to town with the small boy named Arithel.
Nalya met them there having been led to that village and indeed those heroes, by prophesies laid down by her ancestors. Her village lies on the far side of the mountains to the west. Its traditions are very ancient and as such remember times that most have forgotten.
About 1000 years ago, the legends tell of an apocalypse that decended upon the world. Led by the No-god, vicious and foul armies devastated the kingdoms of the Three Seas. In the end the tide was turned back by valiant angels fighting with the Thousand Temples and the Schoolmen. Now most have forgotten those ancient times even the churchmen and sorcerors.
The prophesies tell of nine signs that will herald the return of the No-God and the coming of the Second Apocalypse. She begins to list them and the first few sound more like astrological mumbo-jumbo than anything else, such as the constellation Celebra will be in the houses of both Gon and Malvor during the first equinox, etc. Things start to get more interesting when she tells of the Holy War. While there have been holy wars before, to have one coinside with all of the events outlined presages dire consequences. The fifth sign speaks of angels being granted a life on within the kingdoms of the Three Seas. She points out that Arithel is only one of many such angels which now live among us.
The final four events have not yet come to pass. The first details several bastions of evil being re-opened by the unsuspecting. That is the sign that the current party is going to investigate, at an ancient temple located in the forest. The second says that a nation will fall, the third that war will open again in heaven and the last speaks of the air turning to poison.
"We must move quickly, for not only do we need to find out if the sixth sign has revealed itself yet, but we must also do so quickly. For we need to alert those in power of the threat. People will not believe us, thus the need for tanglible proof."
"Well there you have it, our quest laid bare. Now that you know what this will entail will you join us?"
