Birchbreaker’s Story

Snakeroot enters Firefang Jags,   Chapter 7 - The Decision With his emerald daggers still bloodied, the wood elf set off for his next kill near the edge of the trees. The shimmering green forest had lost it's luster for Snakeroot. He had been trained as a hunter had now bested everything the Forest of Incantation could throw at him. Snakeroot wanted more, he wished to seek out new challanges and battle new adversaries. All wood elves were warned of the outside world, it was a dangerous place where both monster and man would kill an elf without a seconds thought. While Snakeroot had no death wish, he still lusted for more than what his wooded home could give him. In the village of Eleyond, the hunter grew up with his two best friends: Birchbreaker; the strongest elf in Eleyond, and Belle; the femme fatale with the surest aim of all the archers. The trio had always dreamed about leaving the forest but now that they were older, Snakeroot seemed to be the only one who still held this dream as a potential reality. Snakeroot decided that with or without his friends help he would leave, and unfortunetly it would be without. When the hunter asked his friends to come with him, they laughed it off and told him he needed to get his head out from the treetops. Snakeroot approached the edge of the tree line, ahead of him was the daunting Firefang Jags; a volcanic mountain range that blocked the rest of Galfin off from the Forest of Incantation. Snakeroot stood like a statue, trying to gain the courage to step out of the woods and begin his mountainous climb. What seemed like hours passed in the seconds that Snakerot gathered his thoughts. Finally he took his first step, only to have an arrow whiz by his left ear. Snakeroot did not yield. Another arrow flew by his right ear, and a strong feminine voice was heard from the treetops behind him.   "I've hit within very little space of your head, I won't miss next time!" The voice sounded as if she was faking bravery, her voice cracked at the end, the archer was holding back tears.   "If you wanted to hit me you would have done it the first time, you don't miss, Belle." Snakeroot yelled back, still walking away towards the rocky terrain.   Snakeroot continued walking up a path towards the Jags, a large shadow briefly blocked out the sun, this caught Snakeroot's attention, as he looked up he saw a large log high in the air, about to crush the wood elf. Snakeroot quickly jumped backwards, rolled off his back and acrobatically flipped onto his feet, daggers drawn and ready. A large elf walked up towards Snakeroot, carrying a large two-handed weapon, the head of the weapon was part axe and part hammer. This immense elf was strong enough to carry his weapon with only one hand   "Don't make me do this." the large elf said to Snakeroot.   "Don't get in my way Birchbreaker, I'm tired of this meaningless hiding, the wood elves have no reason to be afraid of the outside world, you yourself used to talk about how amazing it must be past the Jags, because why would the gods put such a large barrier to hide something useless, something irrelavent, remember that? What happened to that Birchbreaker?" Snakeroot tried to hold back his emotion, Belle had now came down from the tree.   Belle spoke softly "Snake, those were the dreams of children, we have responsibilities now, we can't just run of and go looking for some grand adventure that we don't even know exists. What if on the other side of that mountain is just more trees. "   "And what if it isn't just more trees?" Snakeroot was looking for any sign of his friends changing their minds.   The hunter looked down as he spoke. "Listen, I understand why you two don't want to come, Belle, your parents would miss you and the same goes with Birch and his sister, but my parents didn't survive the fire and I have no responsibility to hold them to. I'm sorry, but I don't belong here anymore."   Belle lost control of her frustration, tears running down her face. "We are your family! Birchbreaker and I grew up with you and we take care of eachother, we always have. I can't imagine what you had to go through to lose them so young but do you really think they would want you to go on some some suicidal mission just for the hell of it?!" Belle turned away from Snakeroot and Birchbreaker, she was now sobbing uncontrollably.   Birchbreaker walked up to Snakeroot, "Look Snake, I know it was hard for you growing up without your parents, but my mah died in that fire too, and you know that my old man was never part of my life, that's why we have stuck together for this long, we had something that kept us going. We always wanted to get out of this place, to forget the bad times. I know why you're leaving, we've both always wanted something more than just living and dying. You're looking for the same thing as me, a purpose." Birchbreaker reached out put his hand on Snakeroot's shoulder. "I've got my little sister to take care of, otherwise I'd be with you every step of the way. Now go. Be sure that you don't go dying on me, I already lost my mom, I don't want to lose a brother as well." Snakeroot nodded at his friend and turned towards the Firefang Jags.   Belle broke out into tears and ran after her departing friend, Birchbreaker grabbed her in a bear hug and restrained her. "Let him go Belle, just let him go." Belle squirmed out of the giant wood elf's grip and ran back toward Eleyond. Birchbreaker turned and started walking back as well. Snakeroot began his climb up the mountain's face, using his daggers to dig into the rock.   Snakeroot had set out to explore what adventures awaited him on the other side of the Firefang Jags.

The Priests are defeated by the heroes and then they turn to Conduit Yacobius prays and the Conduit freaks out. Declares that he is God. Dominik realizes where he has seen Yacobius before, the genocide Jako and Boto unleash on the Conduit while others take cover. Find the old Pastor. Tells that Dominik is supposed to be the true son of Dhara, the church couldn't allow an elf be the harbinger of their religion. Conduit demanded the Snowpoint Genocide. Penoir flips out on the Pastor for his wife and son's death. The brave dwarf decides to end it. Penoir charges from behind and tackles the Conduit. Conduit blasts Penoir off of him as Dominik closes in. Conduit is stricken by the prophecised Frost Elf and lets the true Son of Dhara get too close Dominik Heartstring puts a ice spike through the Conduits heart. Ending the terror. Charison says goodbye to Penoir as he passes away. "Elf...cough...cough...I'm proud of what you've become..." Penoir's eyes closed with a smile on his face, he was at peace.

Birchbreaker defeated by Willard and Snakeroot defeated by Gabriella, they were only stalling.   Willard and Gabriella get out at terra elf city, warns all to run from the Sons of Hearthen. Charison chooses to return to Jags, Snakeroot asks him protect wood elves.

Fire elves and wood elves struggle to accommodate all war refugees

High guard, syndicate and windriders arrive.

--Donovan, Horus, Ducard, Boto, Emben, Jako, Wreck, Bane head into Skygarde.   Teams enters the castle and engages the hearthic,   Team enters castle and easily defeat hearthens,   Invasion team is ambushed by Malakai and Gurard, Gurard kills Jako. Light arrow. Malakai turns on Union, goes mad and detonates artifact.   Bane, Ducard and Emben escape into slums through tunnel. Boto, Donovan, Horus, Wreck all perish   Galfin heroes witness decimation of Skygarde, Yacobius leaves jags   Ducard, Emben and Bane find Bastien's farm   Blade ogres move back to thoughtwar    

5E 210 Firstfrost 47   Two goons walk out of a house joking around with their dark elf boss The window is broken, the door is kicked in and the dark elf is wrapping up his bloody knuckles   Talla Howl Halfstack     “Well at least he paid up, should have just done it a month ago and he wouldn't have to get his teeth fixed.”   Looks concerned   Asks if this is what you want to do with your lives   Says how he dropped out of the Spellstrung College, the pressure from his father against him learning from a human like Boto SIlverstaff was an embarrassment.   Got kicked out after he meddled with an artifact that his dad asked him to investigate   Boto caught him and expelled him   With the ongoing news about large metal ships docking on the east, he is just glad they live in the most well protected city in Galfin   You walk past the slums of the Dunwich district.   Enter the People's tower in the middle of town as many people are trying to get out of the city with their things. The fear of the incoming army has many people spooked and are trying to get out of the city to go see family.   You three make your way passed the line and Jako, the leader of your group flashes a badge that says “RBC”   A small riot begins as the room fills with more and more anger, it's chilly outside but in here the sweat is palpable. The people are in their winter gear trying to take what they can to get out of the city.   A loud voice booms over the crowd, in walks an older man with the twisted staff, there is a glowing blue ball at the tip. He wears thick glasses and has various trinkets tied into his beard.   “Calm fellow SKygardians, fear and anger will not solve our problems.”   He whirls his stick around and you feel the air cool immediately rush in from the upstairs windows, calming some of the tension.   “The High Guard is working as fast as they can, the Magi Guild will also be here to expedite paperwork as we escort everyone out of the city.”   Jako nudges you to move on, mentions that was Boto Silverstaff.   Return to the boss after walking through the Merlin District A hunched mine dwarf sits in his chair counting coin meticulously His paper lits by a glowing orb floating above his head.   Tasked to retrieve an item from a man fleeing the city as he owes money to Oxford   So find a man named Toldur Toldur in the mass migration of people leaving the city.   Take his saving he is carrying with him in front of his wife and daughter   Return again as the city is atacked by Lord Teyranus of Hearthen   Find yourself in the safety of the bank but tasked to do one last job, the advisor Silver Tung owes a lot of money to the RBC. He will be hunkered down in his own vault but an item that is very rare is left unprotected. Silver never pays his debts and is too well protected to muscles dues from him. In the Magi Guild, an item passed down to their great grandfather is housed in the guild for protection and study. With the magi helping with evacuation, it will be less protected.   Get valaurian shard,   Leave and find boto fighting in the streets as well as many other wizards   Have pyrus show up and you run   After the brief fight, malakai is seen breaking out of the magi guild holding the item   Pyrus then kills Jako   Malakai sees this, drops the artifact and it starts exploding, boto controls the blasts so everyone can run, including malakai.   As Boto used the last of his power to close the rift, he was unable to take the strain caused on his body. The Grandwizard lay motionless on the ground as the city burned around him. The Sons of Hearthen and the Manastrife Union did not get the weapon or take Skygarde but they still came out with a victory as the main stronghold for Galfin had fallen.   As people cried around, a lone figure walked his way into the burning city, unphased by the people begging for help. He shook his head at the level of irresponsibility that led to something like this.   The man knelt down at the wizard’s body and looked towards the Magi Guild. On the ground lay the little cube shaped box that Boto had been researching. The man stood up and took off his hood. He looked to a young person following behind him. He gestured for his companion to catch up then looked down at the frail body on the ground.   “You arrogant fool, this was inevitable in your hands. Rest well brother.”   His silver blew in the wind as ash stained his silver and blue outfit. Remus Silverstaff reached down and picked up the cube, placed it in his pocket and turned to his ward.   “You see Iona, this is why we must not let untapped power into the hands of those who are not worthy.   Puzzle Cube of Vlox is with Seekers   Valauric Shard is with Howl Halkstack and Tallaught

The final Mainland battle during the Hearthic Invasion. This last push by the Galfin Army to make the Sons of Hearthen retreat back across the ocean to their home continent.   Battle of Dresdon causes Hearthens to flee home (Ronnall, Willord and Makimoff. Crea, Mak and Emben killed)

Daxo distracts a group of minotaurs as the group continue to search for Teyranus. Daxo is captured by Crios.

The heroes embark back to Galfin. Billium discusses Crow with Talon.