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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 1223915" data-attributes="member: 6783">Welcome to CorleanFive days had passed since the foray into Garlstone mine.  The kidnapped Semheis was not found but a lair of Treshans had been routed.  It was a mixed victory at best but no one felt up to pursuing the Treshan who had fled from the fight.  The constant fighting had left them wounded and short on resources and no one knew where those dark tunnels led.Instead the decision was made to head back to civilization and stock up on supplies – and that didn’t mean Milbourne.  Rastifer’s trading post was all well and good, but they needed more specialized goods and the items they had captured over the last two months would give them the means to purchase them.  It had taken only a short while to sort through the stuff of the defeated Treshans.  There hadn’t been much in the way of coin and only a modest amount of jewelry considering the banditry they had been engaging in; but the amount of magic was disturbing.  Ten items radiated magic of varying strengths – the most intriguing of which was a miniature ceramic cottage.  According to Jallarzi, the little model radiated a strong aura evocation magic.Best of all (or was that worst of all?), they had found evidence that the missing Jelenneth had passed through those caves. One of the bandit guards had worn a silver signet ring that had the letter ‘J’ inscribed on the inside of the band.  Kestral was sure that the ring matched the one described to them by Andren.That night in the Baron of Mutton with barely restrained grief, Andren had confirmed that the ring was indeed the one he had given Jelenneth.  Further a blue cloak that the party had taken from the body of the Treshan priestess was also Jelenneth’s.  It seemed that the young apprentice mage was indeed gone.Afterwards they had to decide where to go.  Blasingdale was closest but in the end they decided that the town was too small.  They had a small arsenal of magical weapons to sell and they all had their reasons to go to a bigger city.  In the end they decided that Corlean would be a better choice.  It was only four days away from Milbourne by horse and they would be able to stop by Thurmaster and have Tauster identify some of the captured magic items (Jallarzi now had the ability to do so but she lacked the pearls to actually cast the spell).Thus and then, some four days later the five friends found themselves approaching the City of Silver, Corlean.The Laren Mountains define the easternmost boundary of the Shtaran Empire.  Like most of the mountains on the continent, the peaks are high and are nearly impossible to cross except at a few passes.Towards the northern end of the range a branch of the mountains splits off and runs westwards for nearly four hundred miles.  This daughter range is appropriately called the High Mountains and in the last three hundred years only one navigable pass has ever been found.  If there are any other paths through these mountains no one has seen fit to share it with others.  If a traveler doesn’t wish to go through the mountains for some reason they can travel westwards and go around the far west side of the range.On the other side of these mountains is another two hundred miles of forest and tundra before a traveler makes it to the North Sea.  Also on the other side of these mountains are some of the richest producing mines known to the Empire.  Some three hundred years ago the Empire sent its own colonists north to find, open, and work new mines and found that the native barbarians were not appreciative.  In the course of protecting their colonists the Empire also annexed the few free city-states that already existed in the north.  The city of Corlean actually started out as a military outpost to field the troops that were to head northward to protect the colonists.  The outpost was built at the mouth of the south side of the pass just in case the raiding barbarians decided to head southwards.  In time the outpost grew to a town and then to a city.  The city was named Corlean after the first commander’s daughter.  In time the city gained another name, ‘The City of Silver’, after the trade routes between the north and south became established. The city also serves as the seat for Duke Devon Hilmaron who oversees the duchy of Larence.As can be seen, Corlean is many things to many people.  For the five travelers who arrived in the late afternoon of late summer, Corlean was a rest stop from a long summer of fighting; a place to relax and a place to rearm.</blockquote>

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