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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 1309237" data-attributes="member: 100">The Riddle of Midnight - The Gem of Miransil's Love - Post #10<quote to be inserted here>While Baau and company went about the hustle and bustle of their preperation, Vorden came to me with questions.  His Lorebook was filled with information, lore he shared with me freely.  It told of his time in the Dark Tower of Theros Obsidia and of his journies with the Gnomish folk upon the Pellurian Sea, what the Gnomes call the Ebon."I took a stone from a burial mound and Karhoun's...you ancestors were angry, are angry with me.  This is understandable and I want to make it right.  Whose mound was it, just east of Baldrin's tomb?"I smiled.  "That is Bjorn Silverhand.  He was a brutal warrior in the First Age, when the Dornish first arrived on Eredane and made terrible war upon the Fey Folk, burning down the Erethor and laying siege to the Witch Queen's City."Bjorn Esben was a brutal fighter and always in the lead of his army's charge.  He lost his hand in a battle and fixed a six-fingered silver hand upon his wrist.  It was made from the Elves' Lore, althought Dornish Sorcerer's claimed to have contributed to its making.  The hand was given to the humans as a naming gift, upon their arrival to Eredane but the Northman took the Elves' gifts and made war upon them, not understanding the Fey Folk's customs."When Bjorn was fighting in the Plains of Eris Aman, he clashed steel with Alrin Hoard-breaker, the Wood Elf who contributed the most craft and lore to the Silver Hand.  Alrin was known for going about Eredane and reclaiming his gifts because he was the most generous when the Dornish first arrived and was the most wrathful when these humans took steel and fire to the Elves and the Elf-kin."Bjorn returned to his keep, Karhoun Keep, a broken man.  While the Dornish Kings made peace, Bjorn began to die a gray death from a long suffering infection in his wrist."Bjorn's wife, Freylina, was consumed with anger.  She crept away at night, leaving Bjorn in the care of her sisters and carried her longbow into the Erethor.  While the Witch Queen tended to her groves, Freylina fired her bow at the Elvish monarch.  The Witch Queen killed her with her own hands and sent Freylina back to this keep, with full honors."Bjorn died a gray death, while his wife was ushered into the Feasting Hall of the Valiant Dead.  Some say that Bjorn's wife did him honor but others said differently."Making that spirit pleased will not be an easy task."Vorden asked me where the Silver Hand was and I confessed I didn't know.  When he looked in his Lorebook, he found fragments of the same tale from the Elven perspective.  This tale told of the humans, stealing artifacts of Elven power and how Alrin went across Eredane and gathered his works and makings to him.  On a statue in the capital city of the Erethor lies what appeared to be a Silver Hand.  Vorden closed his book and thanked me.When Baau came to fetch Vorden and begin his quest, the Scarlet Prince asked, "Were you aware how dazzling our history is?"Baau shrugged, "I am aware that Laeli left earlier and has a six hour head start on us."Jurev joined in, "My brother is good with animals.  There are some wild ponies north of here, he commented on them to me upon our arrival.  If they can summon mounts, they will be impossible to catch on the northern steppes.""First I must see to the arming of the heroes," I announced, "Come to the great hall and I will see that my guests do not leave my keep empty-handed.  Never let it be said that the Great Wyrm of the Fortress Wall was an inhospitable host."</blockquote>

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