Lundar's Library

Day 237, Year 535 of the Ascendancy

Early in the morning on the 57th day of Autumn,
ELF, and a few other exiles, were happily hunting ferals in the North
Forest. Suddenly, I felt Felon fall to a burst of flame. A quick skry
with my skristal told me that Felon was quite nearby, and north. I had
a bad feeling about this, but the party swiftly headed north-wards.
Fleming said that it could have been a Shaman or something, but I had
never heard of an Orga Shaman wandering about the North Forest. We
continued north, and in no time found Felon’s fallen body. It was then,
that the ear-piercing screech rung through the forest.

As the echo of screech was still fading, the party
was engulfed in a sudden burst of flame, and a dreaded Forest Drake
flew out from within the trees. Several of the party members and I were
quickly felled, but a few escaped. Luckily for us, a group of healers
was wandering nearby, and together, the Forest Drake was easily
dispatched. We rejoiced, but a doubt lingered at the back of our minds.
This was not the first such drake attack in the past several weeks. Why
was such an elusive creature as the drake suddenly becoming so common?
Hopefully it was coincidence, but…