Tales Of Legacy Part 1

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Title: Tales of Legacy part 1

Author: Masara The Muse

I believe it all began in Trinsic, I was leaving there from my travels after meeting with Lord Erenale, a paladin and a supposed duke. He was raving and ranting at how the evils of magic would take me if I did not set about the right path.

Perhaps he was right and I should have listened more carefully. But I was in a hurry and he seemed rather busy with some matter concerning the madman, Relvinian.

Who would believe that this deranged paladin would be so right?

Shortly after Relvinian was missing and whispers began around of foul play.

And tales began to flood in, tales of a creeping darkness festering, in the once beautiful lands of Ilshenar.

A blight had taken the land once carefree and full of so much fanciful goodness that it would make an evil heart wretch.

Perhaps this in fact, a precursor of darkness is coming that will quench the world of goodness. Leaving what was once grand, to rot with the insidious evil that now tempts to take the heart of all men and women.

Many have their theories about the Blighted One and what its omen would bring. The once beautiful unicorn now rotting, decaying, trapped in its' own madness. I had seen this creature grazing upon the body of a hapless pixie, a deep sadness in its forlorn gaze. It would hack and wheeze, unleashing foul creatures from its gullet.

A creature the guard looked upon with compassion, but now perhaps we see that it was never alone. For as the days wore on more and more of these gentle creatures turned. Their coats turning a motley green, and their eyes glazing over with an unnatural whiteness. A taste for flesh turning their tongues as they devoured their kinfolk the pixies, the meer, and even other kirrin or unicorns.

Lady Jade was informed of these creatures, as word spread through the guardsmen from a refugee pixie, Aile. Aile seems to be a rather wild and ambitious pixie, with the shortest attention span I swear I've ever seen. She told of terrible evil in her forests that was devouring her friends, and how she feared it. It is said she showed her new found human friends the location that the creature would drink and eat. There they were able to find empty bottles, and the water smelt rank of foul magic.

Soon after we heard from those stationed in felucca of a tattered mage's robe left near the yew moon gate, and some leaves leading out into the wilderness. A stirring in Trinsic came as Lord Erenale came to Serpent's hold asking for any information about the missing Relvinian. No one would offer him any such information as he would not share what he had gathered. He left by boat after asking for any information about either of Relvinian's assistants, Benjamin or Esmeralda.

Was surprised at first that he would journey all that way, only to be let down so easily. But the Duke is a strange man of strange ways. A bloodied sword was found at the Trinsic moongate and concern is rising I think about the fate of that mage, Relvinian. Or was he a tailor?

At any rate Aile the pixie appeared again, beseeching citizens to help her find Melisande, a dryad who had gone ill.

She did not know where the Dryad had gone only that she disappeared through a 'magic blue shiny' after drinking and eating with some strange humans at one of the contaminated watering holes. She described one of the humans as wearing a deep red mask, wearing thick mages robes and the other was a beautiful blonde woman with long hair. (Continued)