A Song of Ice and Fire

by Nepheri

The warm tavern and the people able to live gives me hope. I had already placed Lavia next to me, and I wasn't even thinking about anything in particular when I first strummed her strings, lightly trying out a melody. I tried out some words with a simple structure that allowed me to build on them as I went along.

My song starts with how we arrived alone to an even more lonely city. Ice holding both life and death hostage and no raven but my own. Amongst people of glass, we found light drawing the cold into the world. I sing of my companions and sighting a frightful dragon. Ice in the creature's lair, creating see-through covers over snowy seals. The magic broken, life and death returned and ice thawed.

The melody turns from a cold sorrow to a smouldering tale of righting a wrong. I sing of the distraction that let us escape the dragon's lair and see warmth throughout the palace and the city. The dead may die and find their rest as the living live and may follow their fate. My song declares the vision from the Raven Queen, showing the dragon's demise, and portrays our mission back to that dangerous foe. With a crescendo, I tell of the tunnel we collapsed in order to slay our ice-cold prey.

Towards the end, I give a line or two each to those who are to thank. Ellywick, fearless hunter. Dworik, resourceful and wise. Phennyr, loyal and strong. Vax'ildan, a watchful protector. I give a thank you to Kynan, who risked his life to give us a winnable battle. With gentle caress of the frame, I mention Lavia, with us in spirit when she can't be in the flesh.

The applause after my final note caught me off guard and I look up. An attempt to tell Lavia about what had happened seemed to have gathered most of the tavern. I need more to drink. And there seem to be some festivities coming, which I'm looking forward to. The tension leaving me as I see off of these people moving makes me so happy I can barely keep myself from crying.

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Business...
11th of Uktar, 1489

I'm ready for you, Raven Queen
2nd Uktar, 1489

You killed my father, now prepare to die
2nd Uktar, 1489

Dust to Dust
1st of Uktar, 1489 DR

Redbrands I

Arrival at Phandalin

Daddy Dearest
1st of Uktar

Day after
30 Marpenoth, 1489 DR

Lawful Stupid
29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR

Saving private Rupert
29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR

Dead to me
29 Marpenoth, 1489 DR

Close to Harvest
28 Marpenoth, 1489 DR

Recovery

Insane Plans

By the Book

Dead feelings

Disposed

Dead Necromancers are the Best Necromancers

Catching up

Shipping

Friendly or Not

Unexpected Meetings

Worlds Collide

A very different city

Festive Thornhold

Thank you, my Queen

Friends. Right.

This is awkward....

Landslide

Dangerous Gnoll-age (sorry... the puns are spreading...)

Cenceptions

Seduction

Wave Echo Cave II

Wave Echo Cave

Return to Phandalin

Rest in peace, Declan...

Crisis of Faith

Thundertree II

Thundertree I

Path to Thundertree

Orc hunting

Redbrands III

Redbrands II

Far From Home
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Cold
Tal'dorei, day 2

Life, interrupted

Hot and Cold

The Dragon's Lair

In the afternoon, we plan!

A Song of Ice and Fire

Celebration

Relief is one hell of a drug

Flight and Flutter

Freedom of Movement

At dusk we... do something?

Pray for a quick end to our deception

Catching up

Fall

Lizards in a hole

Not Today

Released

A broken soul

Skyfall

Acid Falls

Roped in

Faith in Friends

Insight into Emon

A Calling

Hypothetical 1: Healer (Ginny Di video)

Hypothetical 3: Matchmaker (Ginny Di video)

Hypothetical 2: Villain (Ginny Di video)

For my Beating Heart

Hypothetical 4: Prison guard (Ginny Di video)

Hypothetical 5: Bard (Ginny Di video)

Plagued Possibilities

Visits in the Cloudtops

A Song of Ice and Fire

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