Omens and Visions - Heri

Personal Quest - Heri Skips

Written by Yerran

Quest

Dreams and fortunes are hardly something to base your decisions on, but they are hardly something you can ignore. What if they come true, or at least tell you something. Follow the breadcrumbs and find out where they lead, or at least prove they mean nothing.

When they coincide with the shattering of an amulet gifted by your goddess, Tiandra the Fey Queen though, it might be smart to pay attention.

Heri's Journal Entries

18th Sirian

A glade of tall grass, shifting on a gentle breeze with motes of light all around. I'm home. I must have died in the Sandlion, and I failed to avenge my family as I said I would. I do not deserve death. Do you hear me? I, Heri do not deserve the peace of death!

18th Sirian #2

It was no death, but a false one. I have lost the amulet, shattered to save my life I wager. Tiandra, I am sorry, but I will push on. It was a stone of white that rested at the centre of the glade, and from it sprouted a bluebell, just like those back home in the Feywild. Certainly no coincidence. A chain of silver links sit upon the stone, and crawling across it is spider, but missing a leg. The sky then began to churn unnaturally, the wind picking up and across the stone in Sylvan appear the words 'Kili'Nar Elit', before I fell to darkness.

18th Sirian #3

Tyrvaan has heard this name before 'Kili'Nar Elit'. She is a fey matriarch of great power that sits within Tiandra's inner circle. What would this name have to do with the shattering of Heri's Amulet?

18th Sirian Entry #4

Zips has shared a prophecy with me, one she claims was told to her by a seer of great power.

‘The seven legged spider comes into being.

One of the legs is already broken and a great sacrifice must be made.

They must all walk the same direction, facing kings, heroes and gods.

Or else all will die and fade.’

It mentions a seven-legged spider, like the one in my dream. Could this all be connected? Was I supposed to meet these people? And if prophecies are meant to be heeded, I can't go far from my new friends.

19th Sirian

The dreams continue, both waking and in slumber. I was almost eviscerated by a minotaur of sand while I once more saw the grove. This time echoed on the winds, those of horses hooves, and when the flower died and fell, the grass blackened. I felt it... like a knife in my heart, and then the world shattered.

20th Sirian

The winds of the wild caress my fur and the sounds of chains tickle my ears when I once more stand aboveground. They both drift north-west from Sandmyst Point. What lies that way, is it the trail I must follow? And if not, what does it have to do with all of this?

20th Sirian #2

Why has Tiandra sent me on this quest? Is it a punishment for my death and the breaking of an amulet? Whatever has happened must be dire.

21st Sirian

A book from a well hidden bookstore in Sandmyst Point reveals more of fey. It states 'A matriarch of the feywild may order any of her brood to follow their instructions, even against the will of the entity.' So, Kili'Nar Elit could order her children, of which there could be thousands to do as she wishes.

21st Sirian

The dreams continue. The patch of dead grass remains and seems to be growing. Is this the time I have left, I feel the death of each stalk like a shaving of my heart. As I despaired the air spoke to me. 'Get up', it said, but no one was there. The wind nudged me westward and I went, walking from the glade. It felt like hours, but I found nothing. A pressure from Zylnan Ceda woke me, this time without the pain.

21st Sirian #3

A waking nightmare this time. Warm winds blew where they should not, and sand shifted forming words before my eyes 'Save her,' they said, and a shard of pain drove into my chest, vanishing moments later. My friends saw nothing, and I feel they won't believe me. What does it mean.

21st Sirian #4

I asked of Misxibis Ithopios what lay the way the wind blows, and was given many options. Sab Dubar, The Crimson Canyons, Lightwatch and Satkoran. I dared not tell her why I asked, surely they believe me unstable enough already.

22nd Sirian

Finally I saw her, though I slept naught. I have no slept since... I forget when, but she was magnificent. A Longma of gigantic proportions and then I knew. This was Kili'Nar Elit.

23rd Sirian

They are coming faster, this one while I rested in the dark, wet tunnel beneath the oasis. A palace of Brass sitting in the sun and beneath it, broken chains and horrid words. She is imprisoned, and now I know what to do. I must save Kili'Nar Elit, or these humans of Sabal will abuse her, for what I know not.

Date - ???

The world broke and I have come home to the Elyswer, though not of my own choosing. I know Tiandra waits. I can hear her call, but I fear it, for the first time in my life I fear my lady. I have not done as she asked.

Date - ???

We found them. They are dead, or worse. All of them dead. By goddess' grace take me. This pain is worse than life. Can I save them yet? Or free them from the prison Ezeheli that monster bound them too. His death was not enough. He deserved pain as has never before been endured. My family, I weep for you.

37th Jolgine

(It's almost mid-winter, we missed over four months)
The river of Murimem told me all I needed to know. Its voice an extension of my lady. It scolded me, and talked of my failure. I wish to run from here, but my friends need to press on. We have already lost one, and time is running out, more than they know. We lost months as we fled, a product of broken magic, and Kili'Nar Elit has been subjugated through magical means, forcing her brood to fight for the humans. This is all my fault.

38th Jolgine

I have been taken by the Dragonfly Guard, summoned to the Gnomish Council. What is it they will do, send me on, to my lady? How I dread and burn to see her again. As long as she can help my friends, that is all that matters now. I have nothing left to lose, and the curse of Vidinor assures me. I will die alone.

Date

18th Sirian

Quest Status

Personal

Character

Heri Skips

Parent Plot

Personal Quests

Quest Progress

• The chain looks like that of a Silver Chain agent and it is a single set of links, like those in a prison.
• Kili'Nar Elit has been taken prisoner and is being held in the Brass Citadel in Sab Dubar.
• Our adventurers have failed to save him, and now war has broken out.
• Tiandra has summoned Heri Skips, he can feel it in his soul.