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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 98415" data-attributes="member: 114">The next day, as the company continue on towards Bellhold they hear pounding hoof beats behind them. A man and a woman on horseback pull up within hailing distance, and a raven lands on the mans shoulder.“I am Darra” he calls out. “I have a message from Alkanar and Lysander”.The raven takes the scroll in its beak, flies over and drops it into Azrin’s hand, before returning to its master. The message is genuine, the pair have passed all Alkanar’s tests and so they are welcomed into the company.Darra is from the Sword Coast, down in the south east. His long blonde hair is tied back, apart from two braids hanging down by his temples. He explains that he was once involved with the Cabal, some years ago. The woman known as the Blessed had taken him under her wing with promises of understanding and control of his growing sorcerous powers. At first things had been interesting, but he had become increasingly disturbed by the way that the Blessed was taking his studies, and the studies of those others who had joined the Cabal. Shortly after moving in to the bookshop in Knightsbridge he started hearing insane mutterings and gibbering from the cupboard under the stairs, and saw a townsperson captured and sacrificed. He escaped not five days before the company assaulted the bookshop and broke the power of the Cabal in Knightsbridge.However, not many people escape from the Blessed. She is wanting to start up another Cabal and in the last few weeks Darra has occasionally noticed the signs of someone scrying him. He is deeply concerned.“And that is why I want to throw my lot in with the heroes of Knightsbridge”, he finishes. “You have defeated her once, you are my best chance for escaping her foul clutches. Also, I know of her powers – I can be of use to you”.His companion, Syl, is a young woman from the neighbouring nation of Morannan. Like many of her countrywomen she has long dark hair gathered in a widows peak at the front. A grey cat rests on her lap.Born and brought up in Morannan, she has been seeing a lot of strange humanoids around at night while she was “out walking”. On top of that, she was recently doing a job for someone when she discovered some very unsavoury goings on. Furthermore, her own life was endangered if anyone found out about what she knew, so she decided to escape across the border into Lythau, ending up in the town of Knightsbridge. She and Darra met and recognised a sort of kinship of spirit, so they started hanging out together, looking out for each other. And now she is following him, and them, to Bellhold...</blockquote>

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