Letter to Ileas 8
Dear Ileas,
It's with sorrow that I have to write that Torrin, our brave companion, passed away yesterday. So did Gael and Dadroz, but we've already revived them at the temple earlier today. But I'll get to how that happened soon.
Yesterday started off with a mysterious note, Liliana Hayley and myself all woke up with a headache and since this has not been the first time this happened we decided something must be wrong and we should investigate. After Luke spotted a illusion aura fading off us and theorized a Dream spell could be involved, we just decided to ask Pim, as he might've been the only one awake during the night. He mentioned an old lady moving through the keep, going from room to room, though skipping Gael's for some reason. Our minds all went to Auntie Patty but as Pim didn't recognize a picture of Patty it was anyone's guess who it might actually be.
Since this would mean we could only act in the night we went about our day the usual way: Dadroz, Lil and I went and helped the Ravensfielders set up a few buildings while the others went to visit Tommel Dresner who was finally well enough to speak. They finally managed to put together the cause of his curse: Patty visited him on a day and claimed his daugther Naira would die within the coming weeks, she would stop it but in exchange wanted the unborn child that him and his wife was unknowingly expecting. And when forced with the impossible decision Tommel had to make the impossible choice of giving up his unborn child in hopes of saving his daughter, making a deal with the hag. It's hard not to pity him, being taken advantage of by a hag and pushed into an impossible decision.
Regardless, when we got back together we had to decide on what to do. Deals with Fey had to be honored at great risk, but loopholes and possibilities could open up depending on the specifics of the deal. So we should speak with Tommel again and get as many details as possible. It looked grim, as Hags tend to make for vindictive and meticulous hagglers. But we were the Lords and Ladies of Wolf's Rest, charged with the protection and prosperity of its citizens, and this unborn child was ours to protect. If there's a way to save the babe from being put in a cooking pot or worse, we would find it or forge that way ourselves if need be.
They also asked after the feud between Tommel and Darrion about their favorite fishing spot and learned that while Tommel doesn't really remember what started it, Darrion claims it was a fight over whose wife's packed lunch was better which escalated into a row where things were said they probably didn't mean. Let's hope Hayley's words gets them talking again, otherwise we might have to resort to do what parents do to kids that are fighting over a toy: take it away. But for now Tommel, at least, has a lot on his mind.
Before evening fell, I also took some time to visit the massive graveyard at the abandoned church. Quinn wouldn't show up for a few days yet but such a massive graveyard for a small town fascinated me, maybe I hoped to see names of old Keralonian heroes or signs of known families but the stones all weathered the tides of time poorly, and its history washed away.
We then set up for the evening, some of us trying to actually sleep while most of us waited awake in our beds for whatever would skulk about the keep. And indeed, by midnight the sound of a struggle came from downstairs. Cursing my choice of accommodations at the top floor I rushed down and waded through a magical darkness to close off the only way out, hoping to catch whatever was trying to escape. And when Liliana landed a blow it cut through the darkness to reveal Auntie Patty throwing up her hands in surrender. I would later learn that she actually got to Liliana who was awake but a sleep spell knocked her back out, it was Dadroz who raised the ruckus.
When asking what Patty was doing here, she apparently was eating our dreams, skipping Gael's only they're closer to Fey dreams which are 'more boring', whatever that means. When we pressed her about Naira she was quite tight lipped, saying she hasn't done anything and nothing happened yet, but it is going to happen. But she suddenly dropped her 'old lady' act to glare at Hayley, who had apparently just cast a mind reading spell on her to learn what would actually happen. And clearly she didn't like it when it was her mind being probed. She sneered at us that we made a mistake and she'd have to teach us a lesson. With that she stormed off as I stepped aside to let her through. Though not before Liliana healed her for whatever damage she was just dealt by my sister's swing.
After she left Hayley told us what she saw: Niara was to be eaten by a giant toad inside our keep. Thousands of questions about how this could come to be came up and what to do, but we decided that for now we should head to bed. Although not before deciding on a watch, I offered to join Gael but he insisted he could handle it alone. It only felt like a few minutes when I was shocked awake and it felt like the floor was shaking from all the fighting going on beneath. Cursing once again my choice of sleeping on the top floor as well as sleeping through what seemed like most of the fighting, though Lore also seemed unperturbed by the noise. We had to hold the line on the second floor as I managed to intercept a few of the Redcaps that were going after Luke, as Hayley on the other side had a summoned spirit hold the line. Slowly and with difficulty we fought our way downstairs where Hayley brought back an unconscious Liliana and together we slayed the last of the Redcaps.
But the damage was already done, Gael laid broken and trampled on the foot of the stairs, Dadroz laid inhumanely still and twisted in the corner of the planned Armory. And in the stables, Torrin was murdered, as were the warhorses of Dadroz and Gael gifted to them by the King himself. Not since our brother's death did I feel such fury and sorrow as at that moment.
The next day we resolved to bring back Gael and Dadroz, going to the Temple in Keralon to perform the ceremony to revive them. But despite relief at our friends returning something still dominates our mind: how to handle Auntie Patty. All my instincts shouted to ride over to her cottage, lay waste to her geese and burn her house down, for starters. But is such petty vengeance worth risking any plans to save Leen and Tommel's baby? Should we focus on that and take solace that preventing Patty from taking that baby is enough vengeance?
Hopefully I write you back with a happier tale next time,
Alistan
P.S.: For Gael we already had a song to sing at the ceremony, but for Dadroz I wrote a small refrain as well. In honor of his ressurection. I've named it "The Benevolent Shadow":
The Benevolent Shadow, stalking the night
Protecting the lands, with all his might
A trader of whispers, in alleyways and halls,
Gathering truths, where the moonlight falls.
In Tarn, he was born, a shadow to the light
A rogue who danced where secrets hide
To Keralon he came, the city of heroes
In the Moonblossom Circle, exposing foes
Alistan's Journal Ordered oldest to newest
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Letter to Gideon 1
30th of Daga, 121 year of the tree
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Letter to Gideon 2
1st of Lug, 121, Era of the Tree
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Letter to Gideon 3
2-5 Lug, Year 121, Era of the Tree
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Unsent letter to Gideon 4
6th of Lug, 121 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Gideon 5
6th of Lug, 121 EOT
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Letter to Gideon 6
7th and 8th of Lug, Y121, Era of the tree
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Letter to Gideon 7
8-10th of Lug, Year 121 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Gideon 8
11-12th of Lug, Year 121, Era of the Tree
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Letter to Gideon 9
13th of Lug, Year 121 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Gideon 10
14th of Lug, 121 Era of the Tree
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Last Letter to Gideon
15th of Lug, Y121 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Mom and Dad
29th of Lug, Y121 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Ileas 1
2nd of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
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A Tale of Three Chapter 1: Carnwen and the Captive
Y122, Era of the Tree
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A Tale of Three Chapter 2: Petra and the Priest
Y124, Era of the Tree
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A Tale of Three Chapter Three: Krysander and the Knight
Y125, Era of the Tree
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Letter to Ileas 2
2nd of Nuan, Year 126, Era of the Tree
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Letter to Galiene
4th of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Ileas 3
10th Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Carnwen et al
14th of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Carnwen et. al 2
15th of Nuan, Y126, E.O.T.
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Letter to Carnwen et. al 3
16th of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
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Letter to Carnwen et. al 4
17th of Nuan, Y126 EOT
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Letter to Ileas 4
21st of Nuan, Y126 EOT
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Letter to dad 1 pt 1
23rd of Nuan, 126 EOT
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Letter to dad 1 part 2
23rd of Nuan, Y126 E.O.T.
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Letter to Ileas 5
28th of Nuan, Y126, Era of the Tree
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Letter to Ileas 6
29th of Nuan, Y126 EOT
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Letter to Ileas 7
1st of Aran, Y126 E.O.T.
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Letter to Ileas 8
3rd of Aran, Y126 E.O.T.
30th of Daga, 121 year of the tree
1st of Lug, 121, Era of the Tree
2-5 Lug, Year 121, Era of the Tree
6th of Lug, 121 Era of the Tree
6th of Lug, 121 EOT
7th and 8th of Lug, Y121, Era of the tree
8-10th of Lug, Year 121 Era of the Tree
11-12th of Lug, Year 121, Era of the Tree
13th of Lug, Year 121 Era of the Tree
14th of Lug, 121 Era of the Tree
15th of Lug, Y121 Era of the Tree
29th of Lug, Y121 Era of the Tree
2nd of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
Y122, Era of the Tree
Y124, Era of the Tree
Y125, Era of the Tree
2nd of Nuan, Year 126, Era of the Tree
4th of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
10th Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
14th of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
15th of Nuan, Y126, E.O.T.
16th of Nuan, Y126 Era of the Tree
17th of Nuan, Y126 EOT
21st of Nuan, Y126 EOT
23rd of Nuan, 126 EOT
23rd of Nuan, Y126 E.O.T.
28th of Nuan, Y126, Era of the Tree
29th of Nuan, Y126 EOT
1st of Aran, Y126 E.O.T.
3rd of Aran, Y126 E.O.T.
The major events and journals in Alistan's history, from the beginning to today.
Letter to Ileas 8
Dear Ileas, It's with sorrow that I have to write that Torrin, our brave companion, passed away yesterday. So did Gael and Dadroz, but we've already revived them at the temple earlier today. But I'll get to how that happened soon. Yesterday started ...
06:48 pm - 19.10.2024Session 27: More than one court
12:35 am - 16.10.2024Session 27: More than one court
06:05 pm - 15.10.2024Letter to Ileas 7
Ileas, It seems like this small village of Dogville, soon to be Wolf's Rest, holds more surprises and secrets than we could have discerned at first glance. But maybe for something more cheery: Dorr showed up, wanting to help us build the keep back up w...
05:18 pm - 13.10.2024Session 26: Dealing with a deal
07:42 pm - 09.10.2024Session 26: Dealing with a deal
07:42 pm - 09.10.2024Session 26: Dealing with a deal
07:42 pm - 09.10.2024Letter to Ileas 6
Hello Ileas, It's crazy to think barely a month passed since Liliana came back from the Feywild. From then we reunited with most of our friends, those who wanted to became knights, we protected the Draconic diplomatic mission and dealt massive blows to...
09:18 pm - 07.10.2024Session 25: Nobles and Knights
02:38 am - 02.10.2024Session 25: Nobles and Knights
06:09 pm - 01.10.2024Letter to Ileas 5
Dear Ileas, Hope you are doing well and sorry for not writing sooner. Quite a lot has happened since the last time we spoke. As you know, Robert Talespinner was in league with a cult obsessed with finding the secrets of turning humanoids into dragons,...
09:10 pm - 27.09.2024Session 24: Honor and Reward
02:16 pm - 24.09.2024Session 24: Honor and Reward
02:16 pm - 24.09.2024Letter to dad 2
Continued, As Hayley sends out Fiachna to scout the river for possible getaway boats, Luke immediately used his magic to track the gemstone of Norgar, hoping he is still in possession of it. Luke claimed that the gem was moving away North but quite a b...
09:59 pm - 06.09.2024Session 23: no longer an old friend
04:23 pm - 04.09.2024Session 23: no longer an old friend
04:23 pm - 04.09.2024Session 22: Lost and found
09:01 pm - 27.08.2024Session 22: Lost and found
06:01 pm - 27.08.2024Letter to dad 1 pt 1
Hi father, Hope things are well in Hillfield. Mom was being a bit vague about what is going on but she said you were too busy to join. Hope it's nothing bad and we can visit soon, as you might know Edward Colline (Jr.) was also in Keralon to represent ...
10:47 pm - 24.08.2024Alistan's Coat of Arms
10:46 pm - 24.08.2024Session 21: The embassy
07:33 pm - 22.08.2024Session 21: The embassy
07:33 pm - 22.08.2024Letter to Ileas 4
Dear Ileas, Sorry for not writing to you sooner but don't worry, I'll add the letters to Carnwen, Petra and Krys for full context. But in short: Ravensfield had a secret laboratory nearby where the dragon cult was experimenting on captives, turing them...
09:31 pm - 08.08.2024Session 20: Return to Keralon
03:07 am - 07.08.2024Session 20: Return to Keralon
06:00 pm - 06.08.2024Letter to Carnwen et. al 4
Dear Carnwen, Petra, Krysander Our brother Gideon used to tell my sister and myself stories of how our De La Roost ancestors (before they made deals with Fey) came from a place called Roost. It was said that Roost was the home of Dragon Riders, men and...
08:32 pm - 01.08.2024Letter to Carnwen et. al
Dear Carnwen, Petra, Krysander, It must be strange to receive this letter, probably the day after the last one. But while those came by normal courier, I can imagine this one arriving with rumors of what happened in Ravensfield and in the hands of a re...
07:09 pm - 25.07.2024Session 19: Ravensfield's last dawn
12:28 am - 24.07.2024Session 19: Ravensfield's last dawn
12:28 am - 24.07.2024Session 19: Ravensfield's last dawn
06:07 pm - 23.07.2024Session 18: Death comes to Ravensfield
10:17 pm - 17.07.2024Session 18: Death comes to Ravensfield
10:17 pm - 17.07.2024Letter to Carnwen et. al 2
Dear Carnwen, Petra and Krys, Almost immediately after sending the last letter things took an interesting turn for when we left Reynis, Liliana and Gael a Dryad showed up seemingly knowing Gael and his connection to Sylvesse. Through this Dryad we lear...
10:05 pm - 17.07.2024Session 17: secrets of Hollow Hill
10:37 pm - 12.07.2024Session 17: secrets of Hollow Hill
10:37 pm - 12.07.2024Letter to Carnwen et al
Dear Carnwen, Petra and Krys Hope things are good at the house and you are having a good time despite our absence (or because of it). We won't be back in a while as things in Ravensfield have turned out quite eventful. As you know we set out on the ...
08:58 pm - 25.06.2024Session 16: The Ravensfield Mystery
10:17 pm - 24.06.2024Session 16: The Ravensfield Mystery
10:17 pm - 24.06.2024Letter to Carnwen et al
Dear Carnwen, Petra and Krys Hope things are good at the house and you are having a good time despite our absence (or because of it). We won't be back in a while as things in Ravenfield have turned out quite eventful. As you know we set out on the m...
06:42 pm - 19.06.2024Letter to Ileas 3
Dear Ileas, A week has passed since my last letter to you. We had quite an adventure at Caern Fussil, the tower Luke spend time training under Amarra. But that's not the story I write to you about today, though I recommend you ask Luke about it. No,...
11:19 pm - 11.06.2024Session 15: the Joyous Entry
08:54 pm - 11.06.2024Session 15: the Joyous Entry
06:16 pm - 11.06.2024The Journal Entry’s title
Dear Galiene, I know you're very busy but you might like to hear that I've become a knight of the Logn Table! How that happened is quite a tale actually: Catching up with old friends, being approached by Vern Skald, sneaking out of the city, getting to...
10:16 pm - 28.05.2024Session 14: Dying Flames
08:09 pm - 28.05.2024Session 14: Dying Flames
04:59 pm - 28.05.2024Session 13: Opposing scales
01:37 am - 22.05.2024Letter to Ileas 2
(Penned at the back of the other letter) Hello Ileas, Guess I'm now a knight, and so are Hayley and Dadroz. Celebrations are in order but maybe it's best to start up where I left off. We were going to engage in ritual combat with Drann, but first Rach...
10:18 pm - 21.05.2024Session 13: Opposing scales
04:55 pm - 21.05.2024Letter to Ileas 1
Dear Ileas, Hope you are faring well with your family. The last few months have been quite busy so sorry for not writing as much. There are also not many stories I could relegate to you that happened in that time, and I do know you like stories and hop...
09:31 pm - 15.05.2024Session 12: Has it been that long?
07:45 pm - 15.05.2024A Tale of Three Chapter Three: Krysander and the Knight
Heavy panting filled the alleyway next to the De La Roost house as Carnwen unleashed a flurry of blows at his master. But Alistan blocked them and disarmed Carnwen with a simple blow “Good, but you overcommit which loosens your grip after the final blo...
09:11 am - 15.05.2024A Tale of Three Chapter 2: Petra and the Priest
“Light of the World Tree, guide us”, Galiene prays as Alistan’s blade lights up, revealing the dark corridor below, the Half Elf brushing away her oaken brown hair. “Thanks, should make this place much easier to trod” Alistan said admiring the ...
09:05 am - 15.05.2024Letter to Ileas 1
Dear Ileas, Hope you are faring well with your family. The last few months have been quite busy so sorry for not writing as much. There are also not many stories I could relegate to you that happened in that time, and I do know you like stories and hop...
10:59 pm - 14.05.2024Session 12: Has it been that long?
05:28 pm - 14.05.2024Letter to Mom and Dad
Dear mom and dad, Sorry for not writing sooner, but with everything that happened I just couldn't bring myself to bring it to paper up to now. Gideon has passed away. The news surely reached you by now, and I can imagine like Liliana and myself, the...
11:06 pm - 09.05.2024Last Letter to Gideon
Dear Brother, Finally, I can write to you from our home in Keralon. Though not the home I think you'd expect. The day started off well, despite people being worried about me lacking sleep I was too eager to get to Keralon to stay in bed. During breakf...
11:05 pm - 07.05.2024Letter to Gideon 10
Hey Brother, Sadly I'm not writing from the comfort of our home in Keralon, but I'm writing from the comforts of the Southroad inn, right outside Keralon. So last I wrote you we were in Logvale. Gael managed to talk Farah into not immediately going ...
09:20 pm - 07.05.2024Session 11: Keralon, Finally?
07:47 pm - 07.05.2024Session 11: Keralon, Finally?
05:02 pm - 07.05.2024Letter to Gideon 10
Hey Brother, Sadly I'm not writing from the comfort of our home in Keralon, but I'm writing from the comforts of the Southroad inn, right outside Keralon. So last I wrote you we were in Logvale. Gael managed to talk Farah into not immediately going ...
07:32 am - 01.05.2024Letter to Gideon 10
Hey Brother, Sadly I'm not writing from the comfort of our home in Keralon, but I'm writing from the comforts of the Southroad inn, right outside Keralon. So last I wrote you we were in Logvale. Gael managed to talk Farah into not immediately going ...
11:01 pm - 30.04.2024Session 10: Keralon, finally?
08:54 pm - 30.04.2024Session 10: Keralon, finally?
04:58 pm - 30.04.2024Letter to Gideon 9
Dear Brother, Our journey to Keralon takes many twists and turns. When the morning sun rose on the 12th we still couldn't find Gael, afraid that sending him a message with our immerglade stones too soon might reveal him to Cornu. But by noon we felt li...
11:29 pm - 23.04.2024Session 9: Wooden walls and slippery slopes
09:46 pm - 23.04.2024Session 9: Wooden walls and slippery slopes
04:30 pm - 23.04.2024Session 8: Bloody mist
08:05 pm - 02.04.2024Session 8: Bloody mist
04:56 pm - 02.04.2024Session 7: On to Logvale
03:42 pm - 30.03.2024Session 7: On to Logvale
06:03 pm - 26.03.2024Session 6: Satyr Unrest
10:19 pm - 19.03.2024Session 6: Satyr Unrest
05:59 pm - 19.03.2024Session 5: Troubles with tears
09:29 pm - 05.03.2024Session 5: Troubles with tears
05:47 pm - 05.03.2024Session 4: Troubles with tears
08:56 pm - 27.02.2024Session 4: Troubles with tears
05:56 pm - 27.02.2024Session 3: Going West
09:29 pm - 20.02.2024Session 3: Going West
09:29 pm - 20.02.2024Session 2: The Bramble trial
09:09 pm - 13.02.2024Session 2: The Bramble trial
09:09 pm - 13.02.2024Swords are pretty cool
12:22 pm - 24.01.2024The list of amazing people following the adventures of Alistan.
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