Edge Of The Dynasty

Today I am nineteen. The masters agree that I have reached my potential here at the monastery and that I am ready to take my next steps in my training. Ayleth has given me this journal as a gift to record my thoughts when I get my task from the masters an...

Where to begin... Last night I had my vision, Master Klembor met me at the sacred garden amongst the moonpools. Once there he instructed me to drink a red fluid from a glass vial he produced. Blood; the taste of copper was strong on my tongue. I was told...

I leave tomorrow, my fate is set. I must find the man in my vision, the reason for this is not clear however this is often the case I am told with these visions. One of the masters spoke that he heard chatter of creatures matching my description of the li...

I left. Ayleth took a long time to come around. Eventually I got her to begrudgingly when I said I'd write whenever I could. We spent the morning together discussing what life was like outside the monastery. I sometimes forget she never had lived outside...

I took a detour from my path to pass by my old home. Even all these years later I can still remember the way back, unfortunately it seems such woulds are not easily forgotten. I did not go in, if I did I do not think it would do me any good. I have left t...

I have set up camp for the night a few miles outside the city gates. Master Klembor was right, the guards merely say the necklace and let me pass. Indeed some just saw the way I was dressed and moved out of my way. Even if the rest of the world has forgot...

In the morning light, the snow melted making glistening dew on the grass. On the path ahead stands a forest and before that a small town. I shall not make it there before the night is done so tonight I make my camp under the stars. In the distance I can s...

I arrived in the town soon after midday. This town has a single tavern, clearly they are not used to travellers coming through. Indeed everyone was watching me and when I bought a room at the tavern the keeper served me with a degree of caution. Neverthel...

I have entered the forest, as soon as I did I felt a childish desire that I could not shake. I climbed the nearest tree I could. These are large trees, much bigger than the saplings we occasionally have planted in Doturim and almost matching the great tre...

I entered the clearing in the afternoon, only climbed three more trees today. I have left the forest now and I can see in the distance another town just before where the clearing ends and the forest begins again. I shan't make it there by the end of the d...

I made it to the town! This one does not have an inn but a local family has taken me in for the night. Unlike other townsfolk, these ones greeted me when I came and where very hospitable. They seldom get visitors here and are eager to hear tales of life i...

The forest begins yet again and I have many more days before I am out of the Sorovan Dynasty. I climbed another tree and found a bird's nest concealed within the branches. I found three feather, these ones are ornate with gold detail on them. I cannot rem...

It has been a week since I have departed. Where I am I can barely see Voturim and just beyond it Voturiss, the top spires just barely poking out over the horizon. Out of the forest, the landscape is barren and a clear road up to the border. It will requir...

The weather is getting worse, what I took for the storm dying down this morning was just an intermission between the last one and a much heavier one that took of a couple of hours later. Now my progress has slowed to a crawl as I have had to put back on m...

I was definitely not headed in the right direction. It was hard to see in the blizzard but I am headed straight back to another forest, not the mountains as I am suppose to be. It is hard to keep bearings but this means I must have taken a wrong turn some...

The blizzard is now starting to clear leaving me in thick, knee deep snow. Just over the horizon I can see the gap in the mountains that I know to be the mountain pass at the border however I am food and still at least a couple of days from it. I can feel...

So hungry......

I stumbled into the town in the afternoon. I immediately went to the nearest inn and had the largest plate of food I have ever seen. The plate was devoured within minutes after which I ordered seconds. For anyone who did not know my situation prior to thi...

This town being close to the border is more prosperous than those I have seen before. While under the rule of the Sorovan Dynasty it sees the likes of traders and foreigners to this land wishing to do business. While not allowed to pass the border itself,...