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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1469034" data-attributes="member: 961">Chapter 2 - Part 4Thane was up early pouring through various tomes in the modest library of the temple.  Most of the tomes were religious texts detailing the rise of the kingdoms of the Kingsmarch.  But there were a few historical texts that begged to be perused, and hopefully contained any useful bits of knowledge he could find on the fist-sized emerald now in his possession.  He thought of the young lowlander soldier, whose name he still did not know, an odd if trusting fellow who kept strange company.  Of course anyone willing to actually spend time with Lain had to be odd, the woman was an anomaly for a number of reasons.  But she had paid him back, and even threw in two extra gold coins for his trouble, so maybe she was not as bad as he had originally thought. Thane smirked, most likely she was worst.“Brother Thane, you have visitors,” the voice of Brother Matrus shook Thane from his thoughts as he turned and stood smoothing out his robe.“Thank you, Brother Matrus,” he picked up the tome, and carried it out into the main hall, where both Dais and Lain were waiting.  His face turned to an immediate scowl at the sight of the night elf, who in turn just waved playfully.Lain spoke up, “Well its nice to see you too.”“Morning Brother Thane, I hope you were well last night,” Dais greeted the young disciple.“Well enough, I did some research on your gem and I could not find much, but maybe something that could be related to it.  A passing reference to an object of power called the Light of Korum, but there is precious little else on what it does or its significance beyond it being held by the dwarf lords during their early wars with the fire giants…” Thane replied somewhat pleased that he had found that much.Dais nods, “Well do you think it is the Light of Korum?”“Better yet, what is it worth, I mean to the original owner of course,” Lain smiled.“Well in the passage it mentions that the green light of Korum shall shine in the eternal darkness and bring great strength to the children of Moridrin.  Later it describes that the Light of Korum was distilled into an emerald, and is an object containing great power.  That is not to say that every emerald is the Light of Korum but its size, and latent magical aura lead me to believe it may be the object in the text or at least related to it,” Thane explained.“So I guess our next move is to find a dwarf, but well perhaps someone official?” the young soldier questioned.“Ugh, dwarves are so… so droll and boring, and serious.  Why don’t we just say we tried, sell it for lots of gold and split it, it’s more then the dwarves will pay for a reward,” she responded.“Well if anyone would know anything more then they would know,” Dais replied, “I guess we can take the artifact now and see if we can’t figure out our next course of action.”“Our next course?” Lain questioned with a look of annoyance, “look you may be all about helping others, but it’s not like anyone tries to help me.”“Well, the teachings of Alharra profess that we must strive to aid those in need, for our just rewards do not matter on what we receive but on what we give,” Thane replied in a soft tone.“Oh joy,” she rolled her eyes.“Well I would like your help Lain, your really the only person I know here in Seaward, this would be much harder by myself,” Dais replied.Lain sighed, “Alright, I didn’t say I wouldn’t help you, just wanted to know what I was getting out of it, you know.  But… we better get a reward for this stupid gem or I am never listening to you ever again!”“Sure,” Dais laughed, “well let’s get going, I think we have a full day ahead of us.”“Well if you don’t mind I would like to accompany you, sir.  I apologize I don’t even have your name stranger,” the disciple gestured to Dais.Dais smiled sheepishly, “Oh, just call me Dais, Brother Thane.  Are you sure you want to come with us, we may be the target of an assassin now, since we already slew one…”“Just call me Thane, and I am sure.  Alharra has brought you to me, and I believe I should see where your path leads, and in turn, perhaps I shall understand her will, and what it is she wishes me to see,” the pious trueborn replied with a gentle smile.“Then by all means,” Dais grinned, quite pleased that he would not be tackling this endeavor alone.“Oh great, just what I need, a clueless boy, and a goody goody trueborn,” she sighed, “I just know I am going to regret letting you come with me,” she muttered to Dais.“Letting me?”“Yes, someone as god as me, would never be caught by the likes of you, I can leave any time, I just choose to stay,” she winked, “hey since your going with us Thane, why don’t you uh, get changed, things could get messy.”“Oh of course,” Thane replied and retreated to his chambers to gather what he a proper disciple of Alharra would carry into battle, although secretly he hoped that there would be a minimum of violence.By mid morning the trio was out in the street amidst the hustle and bustle of the early morning in Seaward.  A morning breeze wafted over the merchants and baker’s district bring the scene of sweet breads and exotic spices to their noses.  The only lead they had was that they needed to confer with the dwarves to find out for sure just what they were dealing with.  Luckily Lain knew just the individual to ask, an old dwarf lore master who holed himself up in the small dwarven district.  Of course finding and gaining audience with the dwarf lord would be easier said then done.</blockquote>

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