Heart of Artifice Temporary--Kharas Alone

[Rystil Arden]

"The Baron is a great man--I'm sure he can help you. He brought this entire nation into prosperity, and he is always helping us with public works. I'm sure you'll hit it off really well!"

 

[Velmont]

"Perfect. Thanks." Kharas will wait teh tea time and go visit the Baron.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Liliara stays and talks for a while--she is still excited to have a Spark stay at her inn. Eventually, tea time is fast approaching, so Kharas heads to the castle--better to be a bit early than to be late. A servant leads him to the seneschal.*

"Ah yes, you have the appointment with the Baron for tea, yes? Mr. Kharas Mroranon. Muri, please lead our guest to the sitting room."

*The servant bows and leads Kharas back through the castle to a large oaken door.*

"The sitting room is through here, sir," the servant explains, then bows, and takes her leave.

 

[Velmont]

Kharas enter the sitting room, opening the oaken doors.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Entering the sitting room, he sees several comfortable chairs seated across from each other around a large and beautiful carpet with an intricate swirling pattern. Each chair has a side table next to it that could hold a plstter for tea and crumpets. The Baron sits in one of the chairs, sipping at his tea. He is a man in his early thirties, with mid-length ash-blond hair, a steely keen expression that seems to analyse everything in his gaze to glean every insight, and a stylish and expensive outfit. He wears a pair of white silk gloves emblazoned on the back with the same Lesser Dragonmark of Making sigil that can be found on the servants' livery. Of note, though Kharas gets the hunch that the other people in the city are constructs (though his contact with Liliara and others show that they look and act like ordinary people, and their skin feels like skin, not metal), the Baron seems to just be human.*

"Ah, you must be Kharas, our unusual visitor, no? As I wager you know already, I am the Baron ir'Spiras. You wished to speak with me?"

 

[Velmont]

"Yes, thank you to receive me. I've heard good things about you, and you city is a nice and peaceful city, too sad Sharn isn't like that. If I am here it is because I was following the trace of four kids. They have dissapeared in Sharn. Me and some companions have followed there trace up to a place where a device bring me to a floating island not very far from here. It might be possible they have done the same and came here. I would like to know if you could help me to both find these kids if they are here and if you know a way to go back to my homeland. Any kind of help would be welcome." expalins Kharas

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Sharn? The name sounds vaguely familiar, but maybe I'm thinking of something else--maybe Shar. What is this Sharn of which you speak? It is not in any of the known kingdoms. Are you from another world then?"

"But how rude of me," he gestures to a seat, "Please be seated. I'll get you some tea."

*A tiny spherical Clank with an arm carrying a tray scurries out. It uses the arm to pour tea from a teapot on the tray into a teacup, and then offers the teacup to Kharas.*

"Now then. I don't know where your homeland lies, so I am afraid that I do not know how to reach it. And as far as I know, there have not been any strange otherworldly children who have come to my kingdom either. Can you explain how you came to be here a bit better for me?"

 

[Velmont]

Kharas remembered he has sworn to Elizabeth he wouldn't speak of it. "I must tell I am not sure how I reach this place in the beginning. All I know was a device that looks like a teleport circle, but it wasn't one. At leats, not exactly one. I wished to find the kids and i appeared on a floating island not that far from this one.

So it wasn't very wise to use an unknown device, but the result is I am here. But I am quite sure there is a way back to my homeland, as two clanks appeared in Sharn. A woman find them in her house and react by destroying one of them. What make me sure it came from here is that it was made partially in Thelanium, and that cannot be found in my world. Also, one more thing that tell me the kids could be in this world, it is the clanks was found in the bedroom of one of the kids. That make a lot of coincidence. But that doesn't mean they would have come to Spira. I was told there was three other city. If they would be in one of them, would you learn it?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I see...an unusual story. Into the rabbit hole or some such, I suppose. If you saw clanks, then perhaps there is indeed a conduit between our land and your home. If children came through it and ended up elsewhere, it is possible that no one found them yet, or if it didn't seem too extraordinary, I suppose they could have shown up in Fantasia, or Esperal, or Brillia and no one felt it interesting enough to mention it to me. Or if they came very recently, it may have been after the last time I visited with dignitaries from the appropriate kingdom."

 

[Velmont]

"Can you tell me more about the other kingdom, and also about the Heart of the Artifice? Knowing a bit more about them might help me to know where teh kids could have gone... or maybe who kidnap them, as that was our first suposition after we found the four kids missing." tells Kharas.

There suddenly have a strange theory that appear in Kharas' head... all things here seems so easy, so irrelalistic, almost as a dream... could it be possible this could be some kind of dream... four kingdoms, four kids... if the theory would be true, would that mean this guy was one of the kids... would it be Peter? That sound so crazy but things are so irreal. But ti would also expalin why Spira's symbol would be the lesser dragonmark of Making, teh symbol of house Cannith.