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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orm the next day then sent back to us 9 wives that he had been sent 7 generations ago as a sign of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">goodwill†</del>We ask questions around Orm and the area where we discover that he is in league with Drow, Orcs and Giants, many of whom have recently (in the last 5 years) come to reside near Orm in his cave system in/on a nearby hill. The local Skald (which is an equivalent bard) doesn't know much about Orm or what has happened in the past Stein tells us and so we need to find out more specific details from Orm. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orm the next day then sent back to us 9 wives that he had been sent 7 generations ago as a sign of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">goodwill" </ins>We ask questions around Orm and the area where we discover that he is in league with Drow, Orcs and Giants, many of whom have recently (in the last 5 years) come to reside near Orm in his cave system in/on a nearby hill. The local Skald (which is an equivalent bard) doesn't know much about Orm or what has happened in the past Stein tells us and so we need to find out more specific details from Orm. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He pauses and must try to pierce our mind cloaks but hopefully fails to do so and instructs us to speak. I greet him in my nearest draconic tines informing him that we are form the guild and have come at his summons but wonder why he has summoned us. <br> He seems a bit ‘scatty' but he replies; <br> "I am not as I should be as I have had my heart broken by mighty magic and I desire it returned to me. The Gythya and the Dagen did this to me and I want to be better once more. I want you to recover my heart which is in 9 pieces but I have learned of 6 locations where the pieces reside and I have for you a Runestone / Letter of Demand for each of the realm rulers who hold the pieces. There are 3 pieces that I cannot get to are in various places like the bottom of the ocean, one is being held by Drow in a place far from here (I suspect this is Rashak's Rod of Control aka the Virtue of Majesty) and the other is being held by the Dagens who have my ‘Courage'. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He pauses and must try to pierce our mind cloaks but hopefully fails to do so and instructs us to speak. I greet him in my nearest draconic tines informing him that we are form the guild and have come at his summons but wonder why he has summoned us. <br> He seems a bit ‘scatty' but he replies; <br> "I am not as I should be as I have had my heart broken by mighty magic and I desire it returned to me. The Gythya and the Dagen did this to me and I want to be better once more. I want you to recover my heart which is in 9 pieces but I have learned of 6 locations where the pieces reside and I have for you a Runestone / Letter of Demand for each of the realm rulers who hold the pieces. There are 3 pieces that I cannot get to are in various places like the bottom of the ocean, one is being held by Drow in a place far from here (I suspect this is Rashak's Rod of Control aka the Virtue of Majesty) and the other is being held by the Dagens who have my ‘Courage'. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You are to visit each of these realms and secure the piece and inform them that I want my tribute of Furs (white bears preferred), Food, Jewels, Fish, sacks full of feathers and new wives delivered here soon or I will go forth and eat them, destroy their lands and take all that I want till their bones litter the lands. I also have a number of old wives that I wish exchanged for new wives who must be clever, beautiful and dancers of some sort - I will give you 10 wives to take with you but I want a wife from each kingdom back by this time next <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">year†</del><br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You are to visit each of these realms and secure the piece and inform them that I want my tribute of Furs (white bears preferred), Food, Jewels, Fish, sacks full of feathers and new wives delivered here soon or I will go forth and eat them, destroy their lands and take all that I want till their bones litter the lands. I also have a number of old wives that I wish exchanged for new wives who must be clever, beautiful and dancers of some sort - I will give you 10 wives to take with you but I want a wife from each kingdom back by this time next <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">year" </ins><br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Link to [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u25bBPwjJB3A1qsTW2qBalGjBcPFmclp6YMAHI7KDb8/edit?hl=en_GB Letters of Demand]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Link to [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u25bBPwjJB3A1qsTW2qBalGjBcPFmclp6YMAHI7KDb8/edit?hl=en_GB Letters of Demand]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We enter the hold without challenge and ask where we can find the King. Once we get there the guard informs us that there is an audience period between 2 and 4pm unless the matter is of utmost importance. Apparently my wife doesn't think letters of doom on the dwarven lands is important enough so I am dragged off shopping for the next 4 hours where I am encouraged to buy for me and my wives many things including 4 ‘Polks', bundles of clothes and furs, baubles, beer and a fine dog sled along with 2 dogs husky feisty dogs whom I will name as Orthoros and Cerobrus. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We enter the hold without challenge and ask where we can find the King. Once we get there the guard informs us that there is an audience period between 2 and 4pm unless the matter is of utmost importance. Apparently my wife doesn't think letters of doom on the dwarven lands is important enough so I am dragged off shopping for the next 4 hours where I am encouraged to buy for me and my wives many things including 4 ‘Polks', bundles of clothes and furs, baubles, beer and a fine dog sled along with 2 dogs husky feisty dogs whom I will name as Orthoros and Cerobrus. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We leave the gear with an urchin and head off to the audience chamber where we are greeted with a long line awaiting the arrival of the King. Since we don't wish to wait upon the others timeliness I decide to announce that "We have business regarding the doom of the realm from the great reawakened dragon <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Orm†</del>and shoulder our way to the front of the queue past mumbling disgruntled dwarves but I pay them no heed as they simply can't appreciate that I am here to meet their king for their greater welfare. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We leave the gear with an urchin and head off to the audience chamber where we are greeted with a long line awaiting the arrival of the King. Since we don't wish to wait upon the others timeliness I decide to announce that "We have business regarding the doom of the realm from the great reawakened dragon <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Orm" </ins>and shoulder our way to the front of the queue past mumbling disgruntled dwarves but I pay them no heed as they simply can't appreciate that I am here to meet their king for their greater welfare. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guards allow us to see [[King Inkanar of Kuzjera]] and we share our news and handover the [[Letters of Demand]] we have for him as king of the dwarves. The King and his advisors tell us of times past. They tell us of ages ago there was treachery on the part of humans where they used great and terrible magic on the dragon Orm where they defeated him and had his heart torn asunder into may pieces. The dwarves took their piece and created a finely crafted and superbly balanced sharp axe but they soon got rid of it. The strange metal in the axe seemed to cause the wielder and those nearby to not want to cause harm but instead spread the opposite emotions (which we suspect are akin to love, compassion and kindness) and this was disconcerting to the dwarves so they dropped it into the deepest part of the nearby [[Lake Dergen]]. We say we will recover the axe and take it far away from this land which pleases the King who gives us his blessing and bids us farewell as he needs to assess the tribute demands of the dragon. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guards allow us to see [[King Inkanar of Kuzjera]] and we share our news and handover the [[Letters of Demand]] we have for him as king of the dwarves. The King and his advisors tell us of times past. They tell us of ages ago there was treachery on the part of humans where they used great and terrible magic on the dragon Orm where they defeated him and had his heart torn asunder into may pieces. The dwarves took their piece and created a finely crafted and superbly balanced sharp axe but they soon got rid of it. The strange metal in the axe seemed to cause the wielder and those nearby to not want to cause harm but instead spread the opposite emotions (which we suspect are akin to love, compassion and kindness) and this was disconcerting to the dwarves so they dropped it into the deepest part of the nearby [[Lake Dergen]]. We say we will recover the axe and take it far away from this land which pleases the King who gives us his blessing and bids us farewell as he needs to assess the tribute demands of the dragon. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We agree to owe them a favour of commiserate value in return for their help. They say "he sits in his throne of Ice still, the man who took it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there†</del> We toast our agreement over a warmed wine and seal our bargain for their help and our future favour to them. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We agree to owe them a favour of commiserate value in return for their help. They say "he sits in his throne of Ice still, the man who took it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there" </ins> We toast our agreement over a warmed wine and seal our bargain for their help and our future favour to them. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Once we have sealed the bargain we realize we need shelter and somewhere to rest up so Shem-inah starts on her Igloo while I cut all the claws off the dead griffon and also cut off the front and hind leg as I figure they would make great wizards staves and the claws we already know make good drinking vessels. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Once we have sealed the bargain we realize we need shelter and somewhere to rest up so Shem-inah starts on her Igloo while I cut all the claws off the dead griffon and also cut off the front and hind leg as I figure they would make great wizards staves and the claws we already know make good drinking vessels. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We notice a full moon is up today which Mordrin confirms isn't a bad omen so we are slightly pacified by this. Blackie casts the Runes for us and tell us "There is a hidden treasure north of the Kings home, it's a bad idea to let the Dragon get too cunning and the most troublesome thing in our way of fulfilling our tasks is something relating to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">death†</del><br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We notice a full moon is up today which Mordrin confirms isn't a bad omen so we are slightly pacified by this. Blackie casts the Runes for us and tell us "There is a hidden treasure north of the Kings home, it's a bad idea to let the Dragon get too cunning and the most troublesome thing in our way of fulfilling our tasks is something relating to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">death" </ins><br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orm the next day then sent back to us 9 wives that he had been sent 7 generations ago as a sign of goodwill†We ask questions around Orm and the area where we discover that he is in league with Drow, Orcs and Giants, many of whom have recently (in the last 5 years) come to reside near Orm in his cave system in/on a nearby hill. The local Skald (which is an equivalent bard) doesn't know much about Orm or what has happened in the past Stein tells us and so we need to find out more specific details from Orm. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orm the next day then sent back to us 9 wives that he had been sent 7 generations ago as a sign of goodwill†We ask questions around Orm and the area where we discover that he is in league with Drow, Orcs and Giants, many of whom have recently (in the last 5 years) come to reside near Orm in his cave system in/on a nearby hill. The local Skald (which is an equivalent bard) doesn't know much about Orm or what has happened in the past Stein tells us and so we need to find out more specific details from Orm. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Stein goes on to say <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Orm </del>wants more courage and he wants his courage back from the Dagens who have stolen it from him when they beat him 7 generations ago. The Dagen clan of which Jaro is the King's son is known for its courage and strong leadership. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Stein goes on to say <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Orm </ins>wants more courage and he wants his courage back from the Dagens who have stolen it from him when they beat him 7 generations ago. The Dagen clan of which Jaro is the King's son is known for its courage and strong leadership. <br> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We ask to speak with some of the 9 wives that Orm returned and we learn that they were returned with the start of Spring 810 and that 6 of the 9 have been sent back to where they came from but 3 can't remember where they came from or where they originated no longer exists and so they are here with Stein until something can be done with them. The 3 remaining returned wives are Hervor, Heldys and Aea who we talk with and get information on the cave and miscellaneous information on the area, what they did etc. DA results are LMTI no answer, Age 33, and were they petrified - no. The 9 wives were driven back to the settlement by Poison Fart the nasty smelly Orc minion of Orm at the start of spring but the women can't remember doing anything lately. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We ask to speak with some of the 9 wives that Orm returned and we learn that they were returned with the start of Spring 810 and that 6 of the 9 have been sent back to where they came from but 3 can't remember where they came from or where they originated no longer exists and so they are here with Stein until something can be done with them. The 3 remaining returned wives are Hervor, Heldys and Aea who we talk with and get information on the cave and miscellaneous information on the area, what they did etc. DA results are LMTI no answer, Age 33, and were they petrified - no. The 9 wives were driven back to the settlement by Poison Fart the nasty smelly Orc minion of Orm at the start of spring but the women can't remember doing anything lately. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We make our way to the main chamber and we see dimly a large shape in the smoke that we can guess to be Orm. He is an iron dragon showing signs of age and dare we say it rust on his body. He appears to be around 100ft long between his nose and tail end and generally slender along his body. Once he knows we are there he instructs us to stop and its then we notice that we are on what seems to be an iron like floor except that it looks like metal that has flowed over the ground and then cooled rather than laid pieces of metal plates - we all fail to feel mana flowing and take a breath (lucky we all had vapour breathing on) and await his next action. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We make our way to the main chamber and we see dimly a large shape in the smoke that we can guess to be Orm. He is an iron dragon showing signs of age and dare we say it rust on his body. He appears to be around 100ft long between his nose and tail end and generally slender along his body. Once he knows we are there he instructs us to stop and its then we notice that we are on what seems to be an iron like floor except that it looks like metal that has flowed over the ground and then cooled rather than laid pieces of metal plates - we all fail to feel mana flowing and take a breath (lucky we all had vapour breathing on) and await his next action. <br> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He pauses and must try to pierce our mind cloaks but hopefully fails to do so and instructs us to speak. I greet him in my nearest draconic tines informing him that we are form the guild and have come at his summons but wonder why he has summoned us. <br> He seems a bit ‘scatty' but he replies; <br> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“I </del>am not as I should be as I have had my heart broken by mighty magic and I desire it returned to me. The Gythya and the Dagen did this to me and I want to be better once more. I want you to recover my heart which is in 9 pieces but I have learned of 6 locations where the pieces reside and I have for you a Runestone / Letter of Demand for each of the realm rulers who hold the pieces. There are 3 pieces that I cannot get to are in various places like the bottom of the ocean, one is being held by Drow in a place far from here (I suspect this is Rashak's Rod of Control aka the Virtue of Majesty) and the other is being held by the Dagens who have my ‘Courage'. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He pauses and must try to pierce our mind cloaks but hopefully fails to do so and instructs us to speak. I greet him in my nearest draconic tines informing him that we are form the guild and have come at his summons but wonder why he has summoned us. <br> He seems a bit ‘scatty' but he replies; <br> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"I </ins>am not as I should be as I have had my heart broken by mighty magic and I desire it returned to me. The Gythya and the Dagen did this to me and I want to be better once more. I want you to recover my heart which is in 9 pieces but I have learned of 6 locations where the pieces reside and I have for you a Runestone / Letter of Demand for each of the realm rulers who hold the pieces. There are 3 pieces that I cannot get to are in various places like the bottom of the ocean, one is being held by Drow in a place far from here (I suspect this is Rashak's Rod of Control aka the Virtue of Majesty) and the other is being held by the Dagens who have my ‘Courage'. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You are to visit each of these realms and secure the piece and inform them that I want my tribute of Furs (white bears preferred), Food, Jewels, Fish, sacks full of feathers and new wives delivered here soon or I will go forth and eat them, destroy their lands and take all that I want till their bones litter the lands. I also have a number of old wives that I wish exchanged for new wives who must be clever, beautiful and dancers of some sort - I will give you 10 wives to take with you but I want a wife from each kingdom back by this time next year†<br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You are to visit each of these realms and secure the piece and inform them that I want my tribute of Furs (white bears preferred), Food, Jewels, Fish, sacks full of feathers and new wives delivered here soon or I will go forth and eat them, destroy their lands and take all that I want till their bones litter the lands. I also have a number of old wives that I wish exchanged for new wives who must be clever, beautiful and dancers of some sort - I will give you 10 wives to take with you but I want a wife from each kingdom back by this time next year†<br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We enter the hold without challenge and ask where we can find the King. Once we get there the guard informs us that there is an audience period between 2 and 4pm unless the matter is of utmost importance. Apparently my wife doesn't think letters of doom on the dwarven lands is important enough so I am dragged off shopping for the next 4 hours where I am encouraged to buy for me and my wives many things including 4 ‘Polks', bundles of clothes and furs, baubles, beer and a fine dog sled along with 2 dogs husky feisty dogs whom I will name as Orthoros and Cerobrus. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We enter the hold without challenge and ask where we can find the King. Once we get there the guard informs us that there is an audience period between 2 and 4pm unless the matter is of utmost importance. Apparently my wife doesn't think letters of doom on the dwarven lands is important enough so I am dragged off shopping for the next 4 hours where I am encouraged to buy for me and my wives many things including 4 ‘Polks', bundles of clothes and furs, baubles, beer and a fine dog sled along with 2 dogs husky feisty dogs whom I will name as Orthoros and Cerobrus. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We leave the gear with an urchin and head off to the audience chamber where we are greeted with a long line awaiting the arrival of the King. Since we don't wish to wait upon the others timeliness I decide to announce that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“We </del>have business regarding the doom of the realm from the great reawakened dragon Orm†and shoulder our way to the front of the queue past mumbling disgruntled dwarves but I pay them no heed as they simply can't appreciate that I am here to meet their king for their greater welfare. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We leave the gear with an urchin and head off to the audience chamber where we are greeted with a long line awaiting the arrival of the King. Since we don't wish to wait upon the others timeliness I decide to announce that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"We </ins>have business regarding the doom of the realm from the great reawakened dragon Orm†and shoulder our way to the front of the queue past mumbling disgruntled dwarves but I pay them no heed as they simply can't appreciate that I am here to meet their king for their greater welfare. <br> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guards allow us to see [[King Inkanar of Kuzjera]] and we share our news and handover the [[Letters of Demand]] we have for him as king of the dwarves. The King and his advisors tell us of times past. They tell us of ages ago there was treachery on the part of humans where they used great and terrible magic on the dragon Orm where they defeated him and had his heart torn asunder into may pieces. The dwarves took their piece and created a finely crafted and superbly balanced sharp axe but they soon got rid of it. The strange metal in the axe seemed to cause the wielder and those nearby to not want to cause harm but instead spread the opposite emotions (which we suspect are akin to love, compassion and kindness) and this was disconcerting to the dwarves so they dropped it into the deepest part of the nearby [[Lake Dergen]]. We say we will recover the axe and take it far away from this land which pleases the King who gives us his blessing and bids us farewell as he needs to assess the tribute demands of the dragon. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guards allow us to see [[King Inkanar of Kuzjera]] and we share our news and handover the [[Letters of Demand]] we have for him as king of the dwarves. The King and his advisors tell us of times past. They tell us of ages ago there was treachery on the part of humans where they used great and terrible magic on the dragon Orm where they defeated him and had his heart torn asunder into may pieces. The dwarves took their piece and created a finely crafted and superbly balanced sharp axe but they soon got rid of it. The strange metal in the axe seemed to cause the wielder and those nearby to not want to cause harm but instead spread the opposite emotions (which we suspect are akin to love, compassion and kindness) and this was disconcerting to the dwarves so they dropped it into the deepest part of the nearby [[Lake Dergen]]. We say we will recover the axe and take it far away from this land which pleases the King who gives us his blessing and bids us farewell as he needs to assess the tribute demands of the dragon. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We have almost won the fight when a murder of crows/ravens flies over the mountain ridge and descends on the gryphons forcing them to let their captured party members go along with my warning that they will die if our friends aren't returned now! We recover our party members and regroup to discover the murder has been led by 3 giant crows/ravens named Blacky, Sooty and Midnight and who appear unsteady (perhaps drunk) and most likely having a joke at our expense. They say they have expected us and know where to find what we are looking for. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We have almost won the fight when a murder of crows/ravens flies over the mountain ridge and descends on the gryphons forcing them to let their captured party members go along with my warning that they will die if our friends aren't returned now! We recover our party members and regroup to discover the murder has been led by 3 giant crows/ravens named Blacky, Sooty and Midnight and who appear unsteady (perhaps drunk) and most likely having a joke at our expense. They say they have expected us and know where to find what we are looking for. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We agree to owe them a favour of commiserate value in return for their help. They say <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“he </del>sits in his throne of Ice still, the man who took it there†We toast our agreement over a warmed wine and seal our bargain for their help and our future favour to them. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We agree to owe them a favour of commiserate value in return for their help. They say <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"he </ins>sits in his throne of Ice still, the man who took it there†We toast our agreement over a warmed wine and seal our bargain for their help and our future favour to them. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Once we have sealed the bargain we realize we need shelter and somewhere to rest up so Shem-inah starts on her Igloo while I cut all the claws off the dead griffon and also cut off the front and hind leg as I figure they would make great wizards staves and the claws we already know make good drinking vessels. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Once we have sealed the bargain we realize we need shelter and somewhere to rest up so Shem-inah starts on her Igloo while I cut all the claws off the dead griffon and also cut off the front and hind leg as I figure they would make great wizards staves and the claws we already know make good drinking vessels. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We ask to speak with some of the 9 wives that Orm returned and we learn that they were returned with the start of Spring 810 and that 6 of the 9 have been sent back to where they came from but 3 can't remember where they came from or where they originated no longer exists and so they are here with Stein until something can be done with them. The 3 remaining returned wives are Hervor, Heldys and Aea who we talk with and get information on the cave and miscellaneous information on the area, what they did etc. DA results are LMTI no answer, Age 33, and were they petrified <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>no. The 9 wives were driven back to the settlement by Poison Fart the nasty smelly Orc minion of Orm at the start of spring but the women can't remember doing anything lately. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We ask to speak with some of the 9 wives that Orm returned and we learn that they were returned with the start of Spring 810 and that 6 of the 9 have been sent back to where they came from but 3 can't remember where they came from or where they originated no longer exists and so they are here with Stein until something can be done with them. The 3 remaining returned wives are Hervor, Heldys and Aea who we talk with and get information on the cave and miscellaneous information on the area, what they did etc. DA results are LMTI no answer, Age 33, and were they petrified <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>no. The 9 wives were driven back to the settlement by Poison Fart the nasty smelly Orc minion of Orm at the start of spring but the women can't remember doing anything lately. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We make our way to the main chamber and we see dimly a large shape in the smoke that we can guess to be Orm. He is an iron dragon showing signs of age and dare we say it rust on his body. He appears to be around 100ft long between his nose and tail end and generally slender along his body. Once he knows we are there he instructs us to stop and its then we notice that we are on what seems to be an iron like floor except that it looks like metal that has flowed over the ground and then cooled rather than laid pieces of metal plates <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>we all fail to feel mana flowing and take a breath (lucky we all had vapour breathing on) and await his next action. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We make our way to the main chamber and we see dimly a large shape in the smoke that we can guess to be Orm. He is an iron dragon showing signs of age and dare we say it rust on his body. He appears to be around 100ft long between his nose and tail end and generally slender along his body. Once he knows we are there he instructs us to stop and its then we notice that we are on what seems to be an iron like floor except that it looks like metal that has flowed over the ground and then cooled rather than laid pieces of metal plates <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>we all fail to feel mana flowing and take a breath (lucky we all had vapour breathing on) and await his next action. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You are to visit each of these realms and secure the piece and inform them that I want my tribute of Furs (white bears preferred), Food, Jewels, Fish, sacks full of feathers and new wives delivered here soon or I will go forth and eat them, destroy their lands and take all that I want till their bones litter the lands. I also have a number of old wives that I wish exchanged for new wives who must be clever, beautiful and dancers of some sort <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>I will give you 10 wives to take with you but I want a wife from each kingdom back by this time next year†<br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You are to visit each of these realms and secure the piece and inform them that I want my tribute of Furs (white bears preferred), Food, Jewels, Fish, sacks full of feathers and new wives delivered here soon or I will go forth and eat them, destroy their lands and take all that I want till their bones litter the lands. I also have a number of old wives that I wish exchanged for new wives who must be clever, beautiful and dancers of some sort <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>I will give you 10 wives to take with you but I want a wife from each kingdom back by this time next year†<br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Purify etc. Visit the market and discover Lars a fish monger there has a brother who is a water mage who we should talk with about getting the lost item from the bottom of the lake. Selkie live in the lake. We have to wait for his brother to come in from the days fishing and so we shop. I find an unusual Amulet shop and discover the following stocked there.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Purify etc. Visit the market and discover Lars a fish monger there has a brother who is a water mage who we should talk with about getting the lost item from the bottom of the lake. Selkie live in the lake. We have to wait for his brother to come in from the days fishing and so we shop. I find an unusual Amulet shop and discover the following stocked there.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* A reindeer amulet of speed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>this gives you a ‘bump of north' as per the ranger skill and adds to your TMR. Value XXX</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* A reindeer amulet of speed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>this gives you a ‘bump of north' as per the ranger skill and adds to your TMR. Value XXX</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We depart at 1st light and Olaf takes us around to see some Selkai in a nearby bay as they might be able to help us locate the lost axe of the dwarves. We get to the Selaki at 9am and negotiate with them for some beer and fish and a favor. They have had a sister taken by orcs and her skin hidden <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>if we get her back they will help us. We readily agree and take cloud north across the mountains where we find another set of Selkie who give us more precise directions by pointing to a track coming down a mountain. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We depart at 1st light and Olaf takes us around to see some Selkai in a nearby bay as they might be able to help us locate the lost axe of the dwarves. We get to the Selaki at 9am and negotiate with them for some beer and fish and a favor. They have had a sister taken by orcs and her skin hidden <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>if we get her back they will help us. We readily agree and take cloud north across the mountains where we find another set of Selkie who give us more precise directions by pointing to a track coming down a mountain. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The weather is atrocious but we soldier on, after all who would expect to be attacked in this sort of weather. Several hours later around 4pm we find fresh orc spoor and prepare for battle. We soon locate the Orc camp and are steered into a narrow defile. Through superior Military planning and sterling footwork we pass though into the camp, killing most of the Orcs and the battle at the ravine ends with all 8 of the assailants down, 2 are dead, 3 are simply unconscious and 3 are bleeding to death. We take a moment to stabilise the dying and then we move on past the mouth of the ravine after liberating some potions on each of the bodies that we find are Rank 4 waters of Healing. 4 are quickly used up and we proceed. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The weather is atrocious but we soldier on, after all who would expect to be attacked in this sort of weather. Several hours later around 4pm we find fresh orc spoor and prepare for battle. We soon locate the Orc camp and are steered into a narrow defile. Through superior Military planning and sterling footwork we pass though into the camp, killing most of the Orcs and the battle at the ravine ends with all 8 of the assailants down, 2 are dead, 3 are simply unconscious and 3 are bleeding to death. We take a moment to stabilise the dying and then we move on past the mouth of the ravine after liberating some potions on each of the bodies that we find are Rank 4 waters of Healing. 4 are quickly used up and we proceed. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Temple has a lot of windows showing the vast scenery around us with the large lake, huge peaks and snow covered lands and it also boasts 11 statues representing 11 Valkyrie shield maidens of Odin. They can trade some with us but we have little to trade with so they ask us to return tomorrow when we have something to trade <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>they tell us the Local Bloody Axe Inn is just down the road. We bid Syrlan Beldesa farewell until the morrow. <br/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Temple has a lot of windows showing the vast scenery around us with the large lake, huge peaks and snow covered lands and it also boasts 11 statues representing 11 Valkyrie shield maidens of Odin. They can trade some with us but we have little to trade with so they ask us to return tomorrow when we have something to trade <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>they tell us the Local Bloody Axe Inn is just down the road. We bid Syrlan Beldesa farewell until the morrow. <br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guards allow us to see [[King Inkanar of Kuzjera]] and we share our news and handover the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Letter </del>of Demand]] we have for him as king of the dwarves. The King and his advisors tell us of times past. They tell us of ages ago there was treachery on the part of humans where they used great and terrible magic on the dragon Orm where they defeated him and had his heart torn asunder into may pieces. The dwarves took their piece and created a finely crafted and superbly balanced sharp axe but they soon got rid of it. The strange metal in the axe seemed to cause the wielder and those nearby to not want to cause harm but instead spread the opposite emotions (which we suspect are akin to love, compassion and kindness) and this was disconcerting to the dwarves so they dropped it into the deepest part of the nearby [[Lake Dergen]]. We say we will recover the axe and take it far away from this land which pleases the King who gives us his blessing and bids us farewell as he needs to assess the tribute demands of the dragon. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guards allow us to see [[King Inkanar of Kuzjera]] and we share our news and handover the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Letters </ins>of Demand]] we have for him as king of the dwarves. The King and his advisors tell us of times past. They tell us of ages ago there was treachery on the part of humans where they used great and terrible magic on the dragon Orm where they defeated him and had his heart torn asunder into may pieces. The dwarves took their piece and created a finely crafted and superbly balanced sharp axe but they soon got rid of it. The strange metal in the axe seemed to cause the wielder and those nearby to not want to cause harm but instead spread the opposite emotions (which we suspect are akin to love, compassion and kindness) and this was disconcerting to the dwarves so they dropped it into the deepest part of the nearby [[Lake Dergen]]. We say we will recover the axe and take it far away from this land which pleases the King who gives us his blessing and bids us farewell as he needs to assess the tribute demands of the dragon. <br> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We depart the hold at 3pm using our dog sled and our dogs who have recently suffered from ‘animal growth’ and are now the size of small ponies at 4ft tall (they stand tall and menacing over the smaller members of our party) and weighing around 120 pounds. The dogs have a thick black and grey fur double coat, consisting of thick undercoat fur with a soft outer fur coat and this keeps them warm in the freezing temperatures in these lands. <br> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We depart the hold at 3pm using our dog sled and our dogs who have recently suffered from ‘animal growth’ and are now the size of small ponies at 4ft tall (they stand tall and menacing over the smaller members of our party) and weighing around 120 pounds. The dogs have a thick black and grey fur double coat, consisting of thick undercoat fur with a soft outer fur coat and this keeps them warm in the freezing temperatures in these lands. <br> </div></td></tr>
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