Several weeks ago, I made my way down to the land of Therendry, a Duchy of Evendarr, in order to do some research. Actually, let me rephrase that. Several weeks ago, I sent my friend Mondell Xarik, a biata fighter, down to Therendry to do some research for me. However, it was not long before I received a message from Mondell saying that he was in trouble and needed my assistance. I then journeyed down to Therendry, both to do the research and to find Xarik.
Unfortunately, I never found Xarik. Just as unfortunately, I never found the
information I was looking for. However, I did find a war. The good people of
Therendry were revolting against the false Duke and his partner, an evil Countess.
As I tend to do, I quickly picked sides and became involved. As you can probably
guess, I sided with the rebels.
The rebels were led by Sir Valoric and his skilled squire Zug. While I greatly
respected Sir Valoric and Squire Zug, though, I took up more of a friendship
with a Lady of Draelonde named Lady Tenshi. She helped explain to me a lot of
what had been going on in Therendry recently, and put the war in perspective
for me. In exchange, I told her stories of Avendale and Ravenholt. In particular,
she was interested in the story of Wraith, the Avendale fugitive, as he had
come to the central part of Evendarr before and she had met him.
There were many battles fought over the course of the day on Saturday, and certainly
some were more difficult than others. One battle against a being called a Beholder
was extremely difficult, but, mostly through the might of Squire Zug's blade,
we managed to defeat it.
Finally, sometime in the evening on Saturday I was told that we would be storming
the false Duke's fortress and attempting to destroy him and end the war. I,
of course, was eager to help, given how much I hate evil dictators.
We first got a being to create a gate which would transport the entire town
into the Duke's fortress. There was some scattered resistance when we got there,
but not much, and it was quickly disposed of. We quickly moved into a gatehouse,
which would allow us access into the inner part of the castle where the false
Duke was hiding.
The gatehouse, though, was heavily defended, and not all that large. All of
the members of the town could not fit inside it at once, so some had to stay
outside, standing guard. The most dangerous being we had to fight inside the
gatehouse was called a blue hoardling. It has massive powers, and took a long
time to take down. Actually, now that I come to think of it, all of the defenders
of the gatehouse took a long time to take down. The main reason we were able
to defeat them was pure firepower. The town had four casters throwing magic
storms, six or seven archers firing arrows, and a front line of fighters hacking
at the gatehouse guards. I have never seen more debris flying around in my life
than I saw in that battle. Fortunately, it was eventually enough to take down
the defenders of the gatehouse, and even the blue hoardling eventually fell.
We were then trapped inside the gate house as the doors behind us shut themselves,
but fortunately we eventually managed to find our way out through another door,
and we were in to the inner sanctum of the fortress. This was where the battle
got really ugly. Even I was forced to constantly use my sword to keep the attackers
off of me, as we just got repeatdely swarmed by the defenders of the fortress.
Fortunately, after a long, hard battle across the field, which exhausted many
life spells, we managed to force our way to the door which led to the false
Duke's chamber.
One of our celestial casters destroyed both of the doors magically, and we could
finally see inside. Inside, we saw the false Duke himself, the Countess, a blue
hoardling, and several tough looking guards. We prepared to fight them, but
then realized that more guards were circling around behind us again. While the
lesser experienced adventurers of the town held off the new guards coming at
us, I fought alongside Sir Valoric, Squire Zug, Lady Tenshi, and many of the
more experienced adventurers of town against the people inside.
At one point, though, I look inside, and noticed that the blue hoardling was
missing. I turned to Lady Tenshi and mentioned that the hoardling was missing,
and not three seconds later it came storming around behind us, tearing into
our rear forces. The fact that magic was required to damage it and only very
few of us had magic weapons was of course a difficulty.
We next attempted to push into the room again, but the false Duke and his forces
had us pretty well stopped in place. Sir Valoric managed to break through, but
he was taken down and dragged behind the enemy line. Squire Zug called that
we needed to get through to rescue Sir Valoric, but just then he was taken down
as well. We kept healing the front line of fighters, but we were out of life
spells, and preciously low on resources.
Finally, though, we managed to take down the false Duke, and the line began
to crumble around him. We went in to try to save Sir Valoric, but it was too
late. He had been put into a Circle by the Countess, and there was nothing we
could do about it.
Sir Valoric ended up resurrecting that day, along with a fair number of other
adventurers, almost all of them young adventurers. We did, however, manage to
defeat the false Duke and his ally the Countess, and from what I hear, order
has been restored and all is well in Therendry once again. And that would be
a happy ending, if it wasn't for the fact that Xarik is still missing and I
never did find the information I needed.
Scribed by Seronia on the 1st day of August in the year 602.