Into The Wilds

While playing cards in Ma'akdi, Shael Ash meets Kiha Tiadas. Becoming close friends and traveling companions, the two leave together that night.

While in jail for several months, awaiting to hear what the Guard Captain wanted to do with them, Shael Ash begins having visions. In them, Corellon offers is aid if he swears service to him. Despite insistence by Shael, Corellon doesn't agree to aid Kiha. In the end Shael agrees anyways and leaves Rusatar- setting sale for Tolara.

Mala'kai Avirotka is born in the city of Orlona, the Monarchial capital of Faelkarstone- an island kingdom located just off the eastern coast of Olienn.

Ceiba Lanael is born in the Dryad villade of Gillia- located on the border between the Ajda Wet Forest and Nang Kap'ahu Delta in Tolara's Talaina'vao region.

While wandering the forest, Aneirin e'Mylel discovers a portal. upon investigating, he finds himself transported to the Archfey Irmethe's realm in the Feywild.

After their exposure and subsequent exile from Faelkarstone, Mala'kai Avirotka and his family relocate to the small village of Keskala in the Talaina'vao region of Tolara under different (more common) identities.

After falling in love with and revealing his nature to Eline Dhalis (the daughter of Jurian Dhalis, Clan Dhal's Tinkerer, with whom he lived), the two break up and part ways. Mala'kai Avirotka leaves the Stronghold to continue traveling.

After tracking down poachers near her village and dispensing justice, Ceiba Lanael decides to try the eco-bounty hunter life. After returning to Gillia, she packs her things and leaves to explore Talaina'Vao on her own.

Ceiba Lanael manages to track down a poacher catching animals and selling them as exotic pets, but keeping them in horrible conditions. Unfortunately she injures him severely during a struggle, and he later dies of his injuries.

Shael Ash is saved from a bandit attack by Kod Zuzagar. Under Corellon's guidance he decides to follow Kod, hiring on at his post office in Keskala; officially his position is to escort postage during runs. But Kod and Shael's real work lies in their smuggling business, moving goods and people across borders. Feeling compelled to help out those less fortunate, the majority of their personal cargo consists of escaped slaves trying to settle down in a safer place.

Guided by a map obtained from Marlena Bormann, after four days of travel from Keskala the party discovers the ruins of an old military outpost in the Kogria Mountains; the outpost was originally built by the Dasmiiran Clan Batrun in the early days of Tolara, but lost during the Siege of Greibaurum in 5996.