Shopping is hard, let's go to war

I do pray that we all make it out of this alive. Right now the city is under seige from the deveranians, who were attacked by who they think are Denskens.

Let's start from the beginning. We interrogated Gavinor and let free the one Nothrog who we had promised could go free. Gavinor was sent by Hate to retrieve the "blade of Syneri." A very powerful elven relic. It wouldn't be right to kill an unarmed man, so we decided that he should be dealt with by proper authorities. We headed down the mountains back to Stoneyvale, with Grumpy in tow. It was pretty uneventful, we had to gag Gavinor since he was being rather uncouth. Stoneyvale didn't have much of a justice system, so we decided to take him with us to the Aerie, after we bought two mules.

The trip to the Aerie was uneventful, and we came upon the fortress. It appeared to be a miserable place - the mountains cast long shadows over the fortress, and a shanty town of refugees was in front of the fortress. The administrator of the town had put on some strong entry fees for poor peasants who had fled the destruction of their villages. The outside of the shanty town looked pretty miserable.

Inside the town was not much better. The religious quarter was devastated. The paladins of Albrecht had all been murdered here as well. It looked very depressing and hopeless. Many faithful had come to show their respects to the temple, and had set up a small encampment to the side of the large and magnificent temple. There were only two priests left. On the good side, Grumpy wanted to stay and be the cook for the temple and learn more. He seems to be really dedicated to changing his ways.

Well, the good times were not meant to last. The deveranians were amassing a large army outside of the walls, led by a powerful sorceress Ygraine. We saught advice of how to defeat her - the only advice Malakar received was "Seek the Eye." I really question his devotion and a cryptic answer such as that only means that Albrecht must as well. Well, everyone wanted to go to the destroyed village - as if even if we found something it would help. Ygraine kills all messengers and doesn't appear to be in the mood for talking. Borrow was very insistant - I think he wanted to be as far away from the fighting as possible - not wanting to discover the truth for any altruistic means. No matter, our trip was pointless. We are currently watching and waiting for the storm which is amassing at the gates.