The sun was rising over the Astral Mountains, the beautiful spectacle of swirling colors begins at the dusk but ends with the dawn, Ulfgar Moonshadow always enjoyed watches in the Valdasha woods, his sister Vadania Darsalav wasn't here this time though she was with father in the Dwarven mines. Ulfgar watched the display until it ended with twilight, He jumped down and landed with the grace of his elvish mother. Elavé , his childhood elven friend, was meditating by the waterfall again, a big mistake around Ulfgar, he quietly snuck over to Elavé and shoved him in the water. Elavé came up spitting water and elvish curses at Ulfgar. Ulfgar burst out in gut busting laughter which woke the nymphs who had been quietly resting the whole time, when they saw the extremely soaked Elavé started giggling which was promptly hidden behind their slender delicate hands. Ulfgar extended a hand to Elavé which was readily accepted by the wet elf. Ulfgar promptly said, "Well ye said that ye could use a bath yesterday so there's yer bath." Elavé carefully flipping his long raven black hair behind his head glaring at the dwarf-elf merely said, "Thank you Ulfgar." Elavé started walking away then suddenly gave Ulfgar a turn at having a "bath".
Ulfgar and Elavé burst out laughing, the three nymphs giggled amongst themselves at the morning escapades of their escort. Ulfgar and Elavé gave the nymphs a chance to bathe while the dried off and went to change clothes . "Well Elavé," Ulfgar asked, "have ye figured anything out yet?" Elavé said "Yes, meditating by waterfalls around you is hazardous." "How could I let you sneak up on me like that, you would think I'd hear your big dwarf feet clunking." Ulfgar merely replied "Despite my dwarf heritage I'm also half elf and if I walk as loud as other dwarves that must make yer footsteps like that of a mastodon." there was silence until the nymphs walked up then Elavé said "You win this time Ulfgar." Ulfgar nodded and said "Hey doesn't Darein live on the other side of the Astrals?" Elavé nodded and replied "I think we should pay him a visit. Would you ladies mind if we had a little detour to see our friend?" The nymphs discussed the thought among themselves a little and the lead nymph finally turned to Ulfgar and Elavé and said in her pleasant voice. "My sisters and I find this proposition highly acceptable, we have been wanting to meet this Darein Bloodstar you talk so fondly of." The group of five started out as soon as they finished eating their breakfasts. Ulfgar leading the procession, since nothing would dare challenge the Dwarf-elf monk, the nymphs in between and Elavé in the back since nothing would challenge the Druid either.
The party soon was stopped when Ulfgar saw some strange tracks at first they were rather large birds footprints and changed more and more into a humanoid footprint with each following step they also shrank in stride length starting at about seven feet apart then went down with the footprints changing to the stride and foot size of a normal sized elf. Elavé had no idea what to make of it either that night at the foot of the mountains was not enjoyed as it usually was by Elavé or Ulfgar.
Ok for future reference Ulfgar stands about 5 feet 6 inches tall and is as strong as a dwarf and as gentle an elf and is a monk so just think of him as an elf with really big muscles, Elavé is also about 5 feet 6 inches tall but is just a regular elf druid in appearance, though he wears blue dragonhide armor, yes he sticks out like a sore thumb, the nymphs are just nymphs plain and simple but they are sort of important, Darein stands about 6 feet tall has silver hair and black skin but is blind and deaf, he "sees" and "hears" through e.s.p. (extra sensory perception for the people who didn't know) so he is impossible to surprise oh did I mention he's a psionic, Talara is Darein's wife she's dead thanks to Chichiomba, Chichiomba is the psycho blood drinking witch of this story she looks like your typical Drow except for the huge scar on the left side her face and the missing left eye too typical white hair onyxish colored skin, stands about 5 feet 2 inches, Alkbar stand about 5 feet 8 inches tall and is scared of his wife, Chichiomba, who could blame him and of Darein he's still not sure who scares him more though, Toshamerka stands about 5 feet 5 inches ,looks like a typical elf, sister of Doctarmi she is also known as the phoenix daughter, Doctarmi stands about 5 feet 10 inches tall other wise looks like a normal elf he is also known as the dragon son while this chapter happened Darein told him and his sister who they are, Vadania is Ulfgar's sister she stands about 5 feet 5 inches tall she also looks like an elf with big muscles the reason her name is Darsalav and her brother's name is Moonshadow is she chose to use their clan name and he chose the elven name that simple, Toamaka is a sentient sword it looks like one of those curved bladed Egyptian swords with a 3 foot long blade, what are those swords called anyways?, and if I put some underscores __ under a paragraph it means the next paragraph is at the same time but some where else if you see a few stars ** it means another place after the previous paragraph(s) in a different place.