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Expedition 4 – Emergence

Feb 19, 2016
Expedition 4 – Emergence
  • From Tales of the Alliance the Diaries of Sasha...

    The anniversary of the Night of Blood was upon us and the kingdom was all on edge. Duties at home required myself and Kaylen to remain in Ironmark for most of the anniversary, however I was enroute from Sarquand and headed straight to The Vale. I doubt the knight general was pleased about my arrangements but I had promised that I would take Lady Silvermoons elf Norah to investigate the war effort on her behalf.

    I arrived on the other side of the portal in the Vale and made my way straight into our camp. There I was greeted by her grace, Kaylen, Kal and my soon to be husband Blade. Kaylen scolded me for being late but I knew she didn’t mean it. After all, I had travelled much further than her to get there. The letter from Lady Silvermoon was passed on to her grace as she and Kaylen headed to her tent, obviously having much to discuss. Kal and I hugged before he too was off to complete some duties, thus leaving Norah, Blade and myself.

    It wasn’t long before some of the Khan’s forces appeared on the hill, so I left Norah in the care of Vera and headed out with Blade to see them off. Strangely, taunting the enemy with Blade was quite fun. I’d rather taunt them, than take their lives after all.

    After seeing them off, I stood talking to one of the Undead hunters, asking him how things had been before we heard shouting from the camp, and dashed down the hill to lend our help, though by the time we got there, the enemies had been dealt with.

    These creatures were being produced by the Vale itself and trying to get us to leave. They wouldn’t speak to us and it seemed that only physical attacks could kill them, meaning my magic was useless. Knowing these creatures were lurking about, didn’t put me off getting married. Even though Lord Fenix had been killed the night before, I felt I should honour my promise to him. I changed into my wedding outfit, a corset and skirt made of gold and blue cloth, House Fenix colours. I was also gifted with a silver fur throw to cover my bare arms, the pelt having come from a deceased member of The Lion Guard, Lightning. I made my way down to the fane were a member of House Fenix was to marry Blade and I. Many of the camp came to view our union, but I did not notice them. My attention was on my soon to be husband. He’d scrubbed up well for the occasion, dressed in a blue tailored coat, which was apparently a gift from the late lord Fenix. The ceremony was quick and our union was completed…then he ran off into the Vale to kill things. A great start to our married life!

    Taking the opportunity, I decided to indulge in a cup of tea at the Whispering Sisters with Kaylen. She had some interesting information for me and not long after we had finished speaking my mentor come and speak to me, informing me that as I have now become a master in my school of magic, I no longer need to be his student and I can in fact take students of my own. Part of me felt over joyed with the news, but the other part of me is sad, knowing that I will no longer have somebody I can confide in regarding magic. I’ve had the gift of magic since the day I was born, and it’s always bothered me that I could never share my wants and fears with somebody else like me. The idea of not having a mentor….frightens me. I know it’s the next step on my path to becoming a great mage but still, I don’t want to lose that relationship. Of course my mentor reassures me that if I need him, he will be there for me and I was put at ease.

    It wasn’t long before I changed back into my regular gear. Being in a dress and looking like a lady was nice but I’m a battle mage at heart. I couldn’t exactly go running about in a corset for heaven’s sake!

    Norah seems to be getting on ok in camp with the other elves and I’m glad. She’s had an awful life up until this point so I’m happy to see that people are ignoring her injuries and including her…well bar one person who pointed it out but he apologised regardless.

    More and more of the weird creatures the Vale was producing had been attacking the camp, leading to me being injured several times, once when I was trying to have a nice cup tea with my mentor! I felt sorry for our camp surgeons as they were constantly being asked to heal us, leading to mass use of valuable resources.

    Blade finally returned to camp…and very quickly whisked me off for some alone time…I’m not going to write down what happened…it’s fairly obvious.

    After an hour or so, we returned to camp, only to see some Undead running towards us with a huge rock creature in tow. Dashing out, I readied myself to fight, but it turns out that the Undead were in fact running away from the creature! This creature was a fierce being, unresponsive to our attacks and anybody in its way was quickly struck down. Blade being the person he is decided to stand in front of it and try and keeps its attention whilst we tried to figure out how to take it down. In the end, we decided to lead it towards the ritual circle to try and seal it away.

    Kaylen had also joined us on the field and started to demand that the Undead and Hastie elves fighting with us must be killed. Although she is my close friend and my leader, I refused to attack those who were trying to help us. I urged the Undead ratkin to flee, as I would not see them harmed. Once they were on the road back to their camp, I headed down to the ritual circle where, Kaylen, Blade and a few others were trying to get the creature into the circle.

    Slowly, one by one, members of my camp were taken down and hurried back to the camp for treatment. Kismet, one of the Undead rats happened to appear on a small hill near us and Lady Tawe and I decided to try and get some information out of him regarding the creature. What he told us was helpful but trying to get the camp to do as we had been told was undeniably inevitable.

    Suddenly, there was an almighty bang and Kaylen was gone! It seemed she has suffered a blow by the creature and then healed within the ritual circle causing her to explode. I’m starting to think that bringing her down here is a bad idea, as it’s where she always dies and I know I should be panicking that she has once again died, but part of me is sure she will pop up again.

    Once back in camp, I knew I had to return to the Kingdom and inform court of what had transpired here, including the loss of Kaylen. I said my goodbyes and quickly hopped back through our portal, hoping that the camp, my friends and my new husband would be ok without my magic…