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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 395269" data-attributes="member: 2012">PRELUDE: THE ALLIANCE (PART I)From the Journal of Bactra Redwind, son of MinonusThe Great Forest, West of Woodknot:It is now early fall and the janbrook trees are just starting to turn. Yet, none can enjoy it with the scent of war in the air. Day after day, the ogres come closer to conquering the Eastern Shores and the Kingdom of the Silver Leaves. The situation has becoming more desperate as the weeks pass. Both Jeddar and Dvalin stayed behind in their respective homelands to help defend Silverleaf and Milo. There hasn't been any news from them, not an encouraging sign. Dabuk says a prayer to Rillifane each day for them.We have been in the Knotwood for only a few days and tensions are rising amongst my people. Patrols are sent out every hour and fortifications are being built. The Therani Clan Elders have declared martial law and all available resources are being confiscated. It was this that has left me cold to my own people.I was shocked and humiliated when the Clan Elders' elite guards surrounded me and ordered me to relinquish the relic. I couldn't believe it. There wasn't anyway for them to have known about it, even Dabuk hadn’t known I still possessed it. Someone in my clan has betrayed me, I'm certain. But who?To make matters worse, they have also declared Eiithinia’s Rest off limits to all but them and druids dedicated to the elven gods. Dabuk was irate and heartbroken. He refused to believe that the clan elders had the right to deny him from entering his own mother's grove. My father and Dabuk's half-brother, Joshian Ironchild, had to restrain him from charging the sentries guarding the grove.We left my home of Woodknot that same day, Dabuk swearing to return and force the clan leaders to rescind their declaration. Regardless, we have a mission to complete for Carl Tigerstorm. Carl has sent us to make contact with a distant western city-state called Onaway.While some contact has remained between the west and the east, there hasn't been any formal contact since the end of the Second Ogre War some forty years ago. There have been rumors of some sort of new government controlling the city-state but no one knows for sure if it is benign or not.Carl wants us to make contact with this new government and determine whether or not they pose a threat to the Eastern Shores. If this government turns out to be good to its people then it the city-state could prove to be a valuable ally.Fortunately, we won't have to go it alone. Mesik, Thessa, and Hougwarth have all agreed to come with us. Also, Dabuk's father, Garth will be going to act as emissary and to judge whether or not the people are good and decent.Regardless, the trip will not be easy. The lands around this city-state are said to be extremely dangerous and filled with evil humanoids and vile bandits.There is a slight chill in the morning air, as the sun rises in the distance. Our clothing rippling in the gusting fall wind. It isn't going to be easy to stop the advancing ogre hordes if it snows early this year...</blockquote>

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