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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyOne" data-source="post: 1022547" data-attributes="member: 858">--Being an excerpt from the Chronicle of Graves, by Ghano The journey along the Janek river proved eventful for Preda and her remaining retainers. The Bucha a'Lei, the "Wood of Spirits" has long held its reputation of fear and disappearance, a place shunned by all except its inhabitants, the Ashaad(1).  Into this great wood the boat containing the four companions and their charges drifted.  Their first landing proved costly, for four of the group, intent on scouting the area came upon a crumbled ruin beyond the river.  Here it is said they ran across an apparition that chilled the blood and sent all fleeing into the woods.  One of Preda's armsmen was lost at this time, his trail the next day being followed deep into the woods.  The accounts hold that Fintain and Nado, in search of the missing man came across a hunting party of Ashaad.  These huge men, each sporting a wooden mask demanded a tribute.  Had not the quick-thinking Nado bartered their way past these barbarians, this tale would have ended more quickly.  Eventually, the two warriors abandoned their tracking and returned to the boat.Throughout the next day, the boat continued its course down river.   They were to come across a pool warded by a single large figure, again according to all accounts of the time, an Ashaadi shaman of some sort.  This figure, brandishing a spear demanded the boat make an offering to a "goddess" of the river or risk the deity's wrath.  This Preda freely did, tossing great riches into the pool.  The shaman made a mark on the boat and so they continued on their way down river.(1) It is the general contention among sages that the Ashaad were a remnant of a non shipborne people, a precursor group who had fallen deep into barbarism, their remnants inhabiting the woods that had once covered the northern Hollow Lands.  Little knowledge, even at the time of these events, remained or remains of their mark in the history of the west.</blockquote>

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