Part One

One can never fully appreciate the wonders friends and love ones would bring to you until you have, and nearly, lost them. "No man is an island", a famous man once said, in more ways than one this is true. They are the bright lights in the darkness, the pathfinders of a lost soul. They stand as the great pillars in halls of our hearts standing straight and tall in the midst of time, and the decay it brings. They maybe mortal or eternal, but true friends shall always be in your heart, an immortal bond of friendship and love, be it feet or millions of miles separating you. Nothing, not even many planes or the immortal powers of the gods can ever sever these ties.

But what one must understand is that is that the companionship your love ones bring will not just be the lights that will guide you in the darkness, they shall also be your armor of mythril, your sword of adamantine, your shield of defiance, your spirit of hope, but what is most important of all is that you must also know that true companionship, friendship, is rare, as rare as a pure defiant light in the underworld realms of the Drow, the dark elves. So consider yourself a fortunate man if you have acquired such a treasure.

As I consider myself as an incredibly fortunate man.

For I have had the pleasure of being with such individuals, men and women who I have traveled endless leagues with, experiencing dozens of adventures and endless wars. We have fought along side each other, bled our hearts and souls together, challenged the ruling god as one. We were weak as individuals and strong as a whole.

It is they who made me into what I am, as I helped mold them into what they are.

I would just be another unfortunate soul-of-war without them.

I could tell you who they are, I could present a description for you. However, while such experiences are best recorded with words and images, there is no better way to know one than to know what they have done in life. For it is actions, and nothing else, which truly describe who, and what, we are.

Harold James Potter of Griffon

Soldier, Chaos Master, Friend.