The letter was written in Draconic. It was dated from about four months ago. Anvil took it and read aloud, slowly :
Hennet,
I hope this letter shall be well recieved. I ask only that you put aside any acrimony that may have resulted from past quarrels. If I may be so bold, your old teacher requests a simple favor.
Please safeguard this crate, which, Onatar willing, the caravan drivers have not destroyed or lost. The workers the Finders Guild have secured are quite untrustworthy and the environment here is rather dangerous. My mind would just rest easier if it were safely out of the field.
I would of course normally send such items to my office and not bother you, but I feel I cannot leave this to Voren. He is an able scholar, but he has become rather unreasonable in recent months. I hope you would take this task as an honor, for there are few I could so entrust with items recovered from an ongoing excavation.
Though you may be weary of hearing my ramblings, I have reason to believe the figure is an actual representation of the Dhakaani Dragon. Its resting place was quite remote- a deep, natural cave. Twelve such figures- all identical to this one- populated the chamber. All the others had sustained varying degrees of damage, but the one in your possession was the most pristine. I simply had to secure it for further analysis. I needn't explain such things to you, of all people.
You will doubtless notice the second smaller sealed box. Please do not interpret this as a rebuke on your honor or as mistrust on my part. I merely wish to keep this item preserved from the elements.
While it may amount to nothing, what I have found here may shed new light on the Traitors. There will be much work to do when I get back. Much of my old findings will need to be reviewed. I shall need your cryptographic talents lad, so consider coming back to work with me.
My dear Hennet, I know that the war left a heavy shadow on your spirit. However, I feel, as I have said perhaps too strenously and too often, that your talents are wasted in idleness and mere observation of life around you. Travel and drink are fine things, but you have squandered too many years.
Please think seriously about my offer. Write if you can, but bear in mind my response may be slow. Given the remoteness of our location and the unpredictabilty of many of the clans in Darguun, I dont know when we shall be able to make back to Rhukaan Draal to meet the caravans.
You were my favorite pupil. Make an old man happy. I shall return in a perhaps two months, earlier if I can manage .
Yours,
Kasper
Hennet,
I hope this letter shall be well recieved. I ask only that you put aside any acrimony that may have resulted from past quarrels. If I may be so bold, your old teacher requests a simple favor.
Please safeguard this crate, which, Onatar willing, the caravan drivers have not destroyed or lost. The workers the Finders Guild have secured are quite untrustworthy and the environment here is rather dangerous. My mind would just rest easier if it were safely out of the field.
I would of course normally send such items to my office and not bother you, but I feel I cannot leave this to Voren. He is an able scholar, but he has become rather unreasonable in recent months. I hope you would take this task as an honor, for there are few I could so entrust with items recovered from an ongoing excavation.
Though you may be weary of hearing my ramblings, I have reason to believe the figure is an actual representation of the Dhakaani Dragon. Its resting place was quite remote- a deep, natural cave. Twelve such figures- all identical to this one- populated the chamber. All the others had sustained varying degrees of damage, but the one in your possession was the most pristine. I simply had to secure it for further analysis. I needn't explain such things to you, of all people.
You will doubtless notice the second smaller sealed box. Please do not interpret this as a rebuke on your honor or as mistrust on my part. I merely wish to keep this item preserved from the elements.
While it may amount to nothing, what I have found here may shed new light on the Traitors. There will be much work to do when I get back. Much of my old findings will need to be reviewed. I shall need your cryptographic talents lad, so consider coming back to work with me.
My dear Hennet, I know that the war left a heavy shadow on your spirit. However, I feel, as I have said perhaps too strenously and too often, that your talents are wasted in idleness and mere observation of life around you. Travel and drink are fine things, but you have squandered too many years.
Please think seriously about my offer. Write if you can, but bear in mind my response may be slow. Given the remoteness of our location and the unpredictabilty of many of the clans in Darguun, I dont know when we shall be able to make back to Rhukaan Draal to meet the caravans.
You were my favorite pupil. Make an old man happy. I shall return in a perhaps two months, earlier if I can manage .
Yours,
Kasper
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