Paths of Legend - Tragedy at Silvergard

[Helfdan]

Valen nods in acknowledgement. "What know you of the Silvergard plateau, master elf?"

 

[Amaury]

A silver dragon! An old one! Master didn't speak much about these legends.. I wonder if the illness of that Dragon, the Dagger, these creautres coming from elsewhere and these undeads are all connected.. A greater force of Evil taking control of the Silvergard plateau.. but why? Invasion? Johen thinks for himself.

He looks at the young dragon and wonders if he is a parent of that old dragon. His scales look more copperish.. but the light is bad..

"It might be the plague this young dragon is refering to.. It doesn't look natural too me.. Maybe we could share part of your travel to the plateau as it is roughly our direction..." adds an evasive Johen. "Valen and I are Tureni and used to forests but times seem dangerous.. We may be safer in numbers.." he proposes.

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Wha' 'bout our big lizard, lad?" Muzdum asks. "He ain't be healin' any fast"

 

[Yttermayn]

When the elf's origin occurred to him, Aohdan looked back at the elf. "You are a high elven elite archer, yes?"

 

[Jemal]

"Just how can you know what I seek, if you've been imprisoned? How did you escape? How do you think I would find you a body?"

William steps forward a little with each question, staring resolutely into the ghostly womans eyes, until he is inches from her.

"And why should I believe a ghostly spirit who seems intent on body snatching?"

 

[Arkhandus]

"Interesting....but I still intend to send Shraezek on his/her/its way, to look for help elsewhere. We obviously cannot stymie the advancement or symptoms of this strange plague he suffers, but I doubt it is a threat to our kind for now; I think we would have already heard of it before if it were dangerous to humans and such, since we're not as resilient as dragonkind." Alaric says. He lets Shraezek go ahead and rummage through his belongings, as long as it doesn't start breaking vials and flasks of alchemic material.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Of Elves and Dragons

The elf nods to Aohdan, "Yes. My group are high elven archers, aspirants to the path of the arcane archer. We fought in the Shadow War, then returned home, but found ourselves returning to this land when we learned of the Dragon of the Silver Spire's illness."

Turning to Valen, the elf says, "Only what little of its history we learned during the Shadow War. That the settlement there was founded by Lord Aluan Velestri, he who would become the Shadow Knight, but was overrun by the orcish hordes shortly after Velestri stepped down as Lord. The Silver Arrow was rumored to have been found somewhere on the plateau."

Addressing Muzdum's concern, Johen's proposal of travelling together and Alaric's intent to send Shraezek somewhere to find help, the elf says, "If you would permit one of my group to travel with you, the rest can escort the young wyrmling to the human city of Azgund and keep it safe."

Of Paladins and Ghosts

The ghostly figure shakes her head, "I seek not to steal a body but to reform my own. The Dagger will help me do that. I have sensed its presence here in these mountains, in the hands of a young Tureni man. I know that the man and his group seem to be headed to the plateau. If that is your destination as well, then I can guide you there by following the call of the Dagger. As to my escape, a series of fortunate circumstances, nothing more, nothing less."

 

[Amaury]

"Interesting.. and what is that Silver Arrow and Shadow Knight?? They seem important to you.. I know little about this period.." he asks.

To the proposal of accompanying the wymling, Johen is a bit surprised that these elves would be ready to such a thing and leave their original mission: "Sorry if I sound rude but I thought you were searching for ways to cure the illness of the dragon?... how can you afford to spare fighters to accompany this young dragon.. Personally I wonder if he might not help you to understand what's happening to dragons.. maybe he can bring us somewhere where the disease started, or give us clues as to what happened and when.. Surely that would help in your quest.."

 

[Arkhandus]

"Don't tell me you don't know who the Shadow Knight is. We've been traveling with a priestess of the Shadow Knight this whole time, in case you've forgotten." Alaric says to Johen, gesturing in the direction of Norali. "Anyway, it's not important. I don't think they have any information that would help us with finding out the situation at Silvergard. And I suppose we can trust them enough not to attack Shraezek as soon as we've left, so we may as well let them follow him/her/it for as long as it'll tolerate them." Alaric continues.

Looking at the elven stranger, he says in Elven "What exactly is your group doing out here, anyway?"

(OOC: And y'know, Alaric never told anyone he was sending the dragon to Azgund. Why does everyone seem to know it, even strangers that just walked into camp?) -_-

 

[Yttermayn]

"We obviously cannot stymie the advancement or symptoms of this strange plague he suffers, but I doubt it is a threat to our kind for now; I think we would have already heard of it before if it were dangerous to humans and such, since we're not as resilient as dragonkind." Alaric says.

Aohdan thought for a moment, and then paled visibly. "Maybe we have heard of it." Aohdan paused, as if he dreaded the next part. "Maybe it turns people... undead." A shiver rippled down Aohdan's back and across his withers. Aohdan didn't seem aware of the reaction of his own body.
He was quiet for several moments until the elf's reply, and Aohdan asked "Which of you would be accompanying our party?"