16.4.2.5 Varr'os Reminds the others what all we have accomplished and why we are here at the Village in the First place.

Miscellaneous

As I've stood the night watch staring at the planets and tried to find the exits from our crystal sphere I've had alot of time to think over how my life has changed this past half year or so.
  A little over six months ago I was sitting in the cartography studio I had built in Trunau for the Guard updating the maps of the areas just a few miles from Trunau. Now I stand in the shadows overlooking a training facility for the Jottenkind.
  Half a year ago we were all excited for Ruby's nameday celebration, the whole town and some of those from the surrounding lands came for the festival. When she picked me for her team in the tug of war game how little did I know that my life and those on our team would change.
  The day after her party we were attacked from assassins from up north in freedom town whole investigating my friends murder.
  Just after sunset the next day an orkish army under the command of grensaldik let siege to Trunau. Between us and the guard we were able to repel the attack. The siege opened up an old crypt under town. We investigated and found some old relics and half of a map to the tomb of the most famous Giantslayer of all time!
  The town council commissioned us to track down the giant who's orkish armies attacked Trunau and being back her head. It took a few weeks of sailing and traveling to another dimension for a little while but we made it to redstone fortress and defeated her. Leaving an ally in command of the fortress, we returned to Trunau with the second half of the map.. and plans that a storm giant was raising an army.
  Well we couldn't allow that so we set out for old steel hands tomb to recover his relics so we could use against this volstus the stone Tyrant's forces. After passing many trials in the tomb celebrimbor removed his own left hand and affixed the mithril hand that we recovered from old steel hands which allowed him to use the spear we took from the redstone fortress.
  We next traveled to a set of mountains named after the giant God of creation mindirhal. Along the way we came across a giant trying to get to the second floor of a destroyed house to get and eat a baby.. we killed the giant, I carried the baby for a few days along the river. Thankfully I knew what to do having taken care of my younger sister and adopted brother when they were still babies. The others grumbled that the babe would make too much noise. A wand of silence I picked up in Trunau helped with that though.
  We found a village small mining camp that believe it or not the village head-woman was actually the Grandmother of the baby we found. She gave me an emerald oak leaf broach in thanks. Giants had come by the night before and captured a score or so of the villagers taking them into the same valley we were heading towards.
  In the valley we followed a river south as the first night we saw a huge swarm of rift drake's doing battle with some giants. Enough that we choose to sneak past in the western shore. A couple of days later we faced a Chimera with the head of a black dragon.
  After that we floated across the river to the eastern shore. We found another pass up to the highest packs where the recruitment center was located. We snuck thru a cave and found the fortress, the very forge of creation where both the dwarves and giant kind were literally created aeons ago. We spoke with etnia a slag giant who told us of four relics that could be used to relight the forge.
  We agreed to gather them and have her perform the ritual. It took a couple of weeks but we did gather the four relics of the Forge Keeper's defeating leuitents and a captain of the stone giants. We made friends with some flame drake's and a golden dragon, also a couple of families of Aurumvorax we even allowed dozens of ogre-spiders to exist as they fed on giants. We even befriended the stone giant druid who served the mountains as the grand druid for all the mountain druids on galorian Great Elder Iuu!
  We slipped back into the fortress under invisibility and cleared out the entire place, in but a hour we managed to kill half a hundred giant soldiers as well as the General and his draconic half-sister. We found plans that told us the giants recruited here were being sent south to a frost giant village that was serving as a basic training for giant soldiers that have proved themselves worthy of being in the storm tyrants army.
  We rekindled the forge. Ettna betrayed us, convincing Zaxel to give her the Hammer in the battle with a powerful suggestion. Half of our company remained to defend the forge, the rest of us traveled northwest to Janderhoff a sky citadal of my cousin dwarfs.
  It turned out that within Vairsia a kingdom was forming of various cities-states along the Yondabakari and Runtash River under the leadership of a Sihedeon Council from Not Magnimar to seal off the Rune Lord's from returning.
  We learned that this....Volstus the Storm Tyrant is but a Commander within the army of The Prime Abolith who's goal is to bring the Rune Lord's back from the beyond the dead where they are mostly currently at.
  The General of their Sihedeon Council dispatched a mighty force of some three thousand troops strong to both secure the Forge of Creation and establish a safe route to Trunau. It took four days until they were ready to leave so we all took care of business.
  See previous journal entry for details.   We traveled south witnessing huge clashes of thousands of orcish and Cheliaxan troops battling within the blood sworn vale. We made it to the village and have spent most of the past week causing havoc disrupting the camp in almost every way possible.. We have even befriended a shapeshifting red dragon who appears to us as an Elven maiden.
  After here.. we will hopefully get back to Trunau for a spell before we deal with Volstus.. and his master's master.
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