Orlam, an Elementalist of my acquaintance felt that the area north of the Throalic mountains had not been explored post-scourge as thoroughly as he would like, and that there were almost no kear's known to be open and no settlements in the area except right on the rivers He talked a few of his friends, including me, to travel up the Caucavic River and look for kaers to open. We did some research and found that there was a very surprising lack of knowledge about the area. It seemed that at one time there were a great many people there, but it is almost as if nobody bothered to write anything about them down (or as if somebody removed all the documents about them from the public stacks of the library). Oriam talked the ambassador to Throal from Syrtis (who said Cliff City also had few if any documents about the area) into providing a boat for for us. As it turned out, we did not take the boat very far into the at all. The boat picked us up in Sossanopa and took us to Jurong, the one and only good sized town on the Caucavic River, which was only a few days travel from the confluence of the Serpent and the Caucavic. We asked around town if they had any local knowledge handed down over the centuries, and while they did not, there were reports of some ruins not far away that we decided were worth investigating.
We traveled to the area, and found 4 extraordinary bears that shot rays of force from their chests. I was sore wounded, but we subdued the bears and when they (and we) had recovered tracked them to their den in hopes of learning more about their magical powers. We learned that a magical influence seems to be flowing down a stream, and followed the stream up towards it's source. We came upon a group of devolved namegivers, who Rendar cleverly lead away, leaving us able to examine the area more thoroughly. We found the long destroyed ruins of what we eventually decided was some outer defenses of a kear. At the center of these defenses we found an entrance, protected by strong magic (Note: Don't touch glowing mystical energy fields protecting gateways. Never touch them.). After several of my companions had been zapped, one of us noted some ruins that could be made to glow. Several minutes of experimentation aligned the glowing such that a spell was triggered that allowed us to communicate with the residents of the Kaer.
They invited us into an anti-room where we spoke to the leaders of Kaer Voklar, a 1500 person mixed-race kaer, and gained their trust. We told them about the situation outside and told them that the Scourge was considered over. They told us much about the area, including the (approximate) location of two more kears, and the location of a very large pre-scourge city (though they think it might have been abandoned or fallen before the scourge was properly started. Anyway, lots of more stuff for us to explore.
We introduced some of the kear residents to the outside,and escorted a delegation to Jurong and eventually to Cliff City. Statistics:Posted by ChrisDDickey — Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:26 am
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