Tales of Neutral Ground IC

[CozJa]

As Arano start connecting with the book, the paladin feels uneasiness in the air, and an even greater sense of peril. Instead of shutting it out, he clings to the Flame and open himself to the nefarious power at work here, trying to understand what its unholy origin can be.

"Flame guide him, guide us!" he mubmles, as Arano's head falls and raise like his challenge to some higher power. Then, something appears. Everything. the familiar form of Breland, the road he took to come back to Throneport what now seems ages ago, his old home of Starilaskur... and many, much too many blackened marks on the shadow map, moving onto the scene.

"They... are... so many... enough for an endless war!" a shiver goes down the paladin's spine, as he look both in awe and contempt at the scene before him. As Kett moves to help her husband, Arimart instinctively moves toward them, and places his hand on Arano's shoulder.

"Be strong brave soul, we only need to concentrate on Throneport. Can you magnify our view on the city?"
As he ask, without waiting, the paladin searches in his pocket and reaches for a magnifying glass, an instrument he kept from his days as an investigator in Sharn; putting it between his right eye and the map, he looks at the location where the city is, trying to understand if he can match images and positions