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26th of Planting

Roots of the Humble Ogre

by Tycho Ralesh

Costing all the favors his minor and recent notoriety could garner, Tycho had the hulking, shattered bones of an old xebec tugged into position and moored next to the Driftwood. Ilias looked dubious, like the wood rot of the old behemoth would scramble down the dock to his raft while they watched. “Vaht an ogre of a ship, brother,” Ilias was regretting his offer to birth the old wreck.

Tycho barely heard him, picturing himself on the ships deck, cutting through the spray, “She’s humbled now, but she’ll live again.” Tycho turned away from the ship and to his brother, “You remember Gavin, the Dagist boy? I’ve hired him on as Quartermaster."
 
"Gavin is no boy, he is man...older than ve," Ilias was in the mood to be contentious.
 
"Yah...well...he brought Sasha, so I hired her on too.”

Ilias immediately shot his brother a look of disbelief, “Ohhh boy, here ve go! Vaht’s she...”

“Sailing Master. I’ve also got a Wood Witch...Anca... coming up from the flotilla, ma pulled some strings. I’m going to get this thing back in the water. You watch”

“I’ll vatch your gold flow down the river,” Ilias was shaking his head. “I don’t vant to know vaht you paid for it.”

“The Humble Ogre!”

Ilias shot his brother a questioning look.

Tycho was genuinely grinning from ear to ear, and not his customary, manicured smirk, “I christen her the Humble Ogre.”

The two brothers nodded their heads in approval, “Yah...that seems about right.”

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  1. Background
    1st of Readying
  2. The Fouled Stream
    20th of Readying
  3. Words with Lord Summerford
    21st of Readying
  4. I Believe You Mean Warlock
    23rd of Readying
  5. Miner Difficulties
    27th of Readying
  6. A Victory Celebration
    28th of Readying
  7. In response to Ilias
    1st of Coldeven
  8. The Winged God.
    14th of Coldeven
  9. A Patron's Favor
    15th of Coldeven
  10. A Traitor to the Folk
    16th of Coldeven
  11. The Scions of Elemental Evil
    11th of Planting
  12. A Gift to Palor
    24th of Planting
  13. First Conversations with Morley
    25th of Planting
  14. Roots of the Humble Ogre
    26th of Planting
  15. At the Temple's Steps
    24th of Flocktime
  16. Trapped in the Labyrinth
    25th of Flocktime
  17. Warmth of the Light
    27th of Flocktime
  18. The Horizons of Mind
    1st of Wealsun
  19. A Whoelsome Diversion
    3rd of Wealsun
  20. Pursuing Derider
    4th of Wealsun
  21. Rising Filth
    4th of Wealsun
  22. A Winged Shadow Flees
    5th of Wealsun
  23. The Slumbering Ogre
    7th of Wealsun
  24. Paradise Defiled
    22nd of Wealsun
  25. One Man's Salt
    23rd of Wealsun
  26. A Song of Whispers
    28th of Wealsun
  27. Lost No Longer
    3rd of Richfest
  28. Revelry and Memory
    4th of Richfest
  29. Many are the Guards who Wait
    28th of Reaping
  30. Lament
    2nd of Goodmonth
  31. The Maelstrom Blade
    16th of Goodmonth

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