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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 2198024" data-attributes="member: 6521">Note to all: I've updated the first post in this thread with links to all the maps currently available. I should also mention that I apparently goofed on the locations of the Tourne letters, and need to update the big map at some point (technically the mistake was in the Tourne map, as I ended up sizing the empire smaller than I'd originally intended, but it's just much easier to change the world map <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )doghead:[sblock]On the continental map, they're in the region marked "Free Cities", having just crossed over the mountains from Bethel. On the map of the Free Cities, they've travelled from Eivanrach through Emmethrach and are now somewhere between there and the Glades of Sesphar. Hopefully that's enough info to sort things out, and not so much that it just adds to the confusion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for why he'd head over the mountains, if he'd stayed at Yattro's station for a while, he would have encountered another group of travellers. Reclusive sorts, but oddly interested in what sort of people had passed through recently -- enough to arouse suspicion. Out of some concern for his former companions, he may have chosen to tail them as they crossed the mountains. Despite some difficulty in following their tracks, he eventually finds the group, but dead, victims of an apparent ambush. By this point, most of the way across the mountains himself, it would make sense just to continue forward.Reaching Eivanrach, near penniless, he'd be quite inclined to take the orc job, as you said. He completes that, hears that his former companions have passed through, and takes it as an indication that perhaps his path is more the same as theirs than he had previously thought. Following that thought, he eventually manages to catch up with the party.Anyway, that's one line of reasoning / sequence of events that could explain his return. Feel free to add or omit whatever you like, just let me know about any significant details which might have an impact on the setting. Definitely let me know if you do decide to take the orc job, as I think there will be some questions the party will have for you if you do, and it'll look better if I try to fill you in on the answers beforehand. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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