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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1759129" data-attributes="member: 4441">*After a meal, the party can set up watches.  But despite the activities of the day, the night it quiet.  In the early dawn, the wagons are packed and Heliad readies himself to leave the village and join the party.  The travels from the village are quiet, and Father Parab seems glad to have the extra protectors in the light of the vicious bandit attack.**Traveling the next four days, sometimes you sleep in the village greens of small villages by the name of Applebriar and Hogsford, and sometimes you sleep under open stars.  The terrain growns slightly more hilly as you push slightly to the southwest, and the weather the smallest bit warmer.  There seems to be no retaliation as of yet from the bandit chieftain, which is all to the better by the pilgrims' way of thinking.  You can tell that the attack frightened some of the younger members.**Along the way, Jabin is able to acquire some rare herbs from the village herbwives, and completes a complicated magical ritual one night that binds him and his purple-furred "blink bunny" as master and familiar.**On the fourth day, the wagon trail stops at the slightly larger town of Hillsburrow, and is met by a messanger.  The messanger seems to be a druid to Fianna's eyes; dressed in a finely-tanned bear hide and carrying a silver sickle.  Conversing with Father Parab, eventually both come and speak to the group.*"I have found there is a small shrine to Dolora Of the Hills, one of Eldon-Asha's progeny, not too far from here.  I wish some of my people to go there and make their offerings, and I need to ask some of you to go with them.  Since I have found myself with a surifet of guardians, we both can afford this.  Mother Iray will take half of the pilgrims and go do Dolora's shrine with some of you, and the rest will proceed to Eldon Asha's shrine as planned," he explains.  Eventually it's decided that Zaphira, Jabin, and Azure will go with Iray, while Heliad, Fianna, Kani, and Ashlie will remain with Parab.**After good-byes are made, Mother Iray's party separates from the main party and winds their way into the hill.  After they are out of sight, the mysterious druid comes to talk to the guardians separately.*"I go by the name of Old Oak, younglings," he says with a smile.  Old Oak proves to be an old human man that looks as tough as an old boot.  With leather skin, iron-gray hair and beard, and muscles and stature to yet put some young men to shame, he presents the quintessential picture of one of the Elder druids.  Mistletoe and holly crown his hair, seemingly rooted into it, and he wears a heavy leather glove on one hand.  "I had a warning to give to you.  There is an evil wind blowing, one that comes from the southwest.  Someone does not wish you to reach Eldon-Asha.  I do not know who, but I may know why.  Eldon-Asha is one of the strongest of the small gods, said to be one of Grumbar's own children."*Fianna and Heliad would recognize that Grumbar is the god of elemental earth, as well as solidity, changelessness, and oaths.*"The pilgrimage that Father Parab is making would bring substantial power to Eldon-Asha, enough to help counter the too-swift changes being made in society and nature, things wrought by the Powers of Air.  They seek change without support or grounding to back it up, and Father Parab hopes that he will be able to sway the mood of the people back with Eldon-Asha's help," Old Oak explains.</blockquote>

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