Due to the fact that I am still getting one review a chapter I am willing to carry on with this story and until I stop getting reviews I will carry on.
Thank you to my reviewer. Nice to hear from you and the fact that you expressed concern over Anomen's fate.
I am not watching LOTR this time so I shouldn't call Anomen Aragorn at any point.
I apologise if anyone wants to see a lot of any particular character but I won't be bothering with any of them for long other than Anomen or Ailana.
Sorry. Please keep reading and reviewing though as I will be glad to return the favour.
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Ailana always seemed to be leaving somewhere, that was what had characterised her life so far and now was no different. She had been born different and that fact had stopped her from gaining any permenant home over the years. Candlekeep had seemed like home to her and had been so for the first 17 years of her life. As she had told Imoen in Irenicus' dungeon she had grown out of it. Even if Gorion hadn't forced her to leave she would have left anyways, the lust for adventure had been in her blood since the day she was born and would remain with her till the day she died.
She had made up her mind to head for Trademeet next to see if Mazzy and Valygar were currently there or whether the pair were roaming the country dealing out judgement where it was required. She had debated on whether to go to the shadow temple where they had dealt with the Shadow Lord a year earlier as that was where Sarevok, Viconia and Soulaufein were currently living. All three of them were well aware of the fact that they did not fit into society and lived on the edges accordingly. The two drow and her brother would come if they were summoned but until that time they guarded the temple and stopped various collections of other creatures from trying to set up a home there. In the short time the three of them had been in residence they had only had to call for aid for once and that had been to deal with a powerful Lich that had tried to set up home there. Minsc, Imoen and Keldorn had gone and the creature had been defeated. Ailana smiled grimly thinking on the fact that because of her wanderings around the country there was a network in place now that any threat that rose was imediately dealt with by one of her friends and who was able to call for back up from an impressive number of other heros scattered throughout the country.
Trademeet was somewhere she could feel at home as the people there classed her as a hero whereas in other places she was seen as a menace and one that needed to be dealt with. It was a good place to be although it was almost impossible to pass unrecognised especially as there was a statue of her and five of her friends in the centre of the town.
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Flashback
Ailana was looking at the price of the Ras on the market when a runner came up demanding that she came to see Lord Logan at once, Ailana was slightly disapointed as she expected the usual 'Thank you very much for saving our town now get out and never come back again.' She looked at her group and decided that refusing was not a good idea unless she wanted endless lectures from three of her group, Paladins were a pest at times.
"There you are." Logan said greeting her at the door to his office. "I am glad that you managed to arrive so promptly. I would have hated to explain to all the people I have gathered why our hero was not here." Ailana was confused and the grin on the face of haer'Dalis didn't help at all.
"I am sorry Logan but why would you have had to explain anything?"
"After all you have done the cities guild as agreed to comission a statue of you and your friends." Logan said as though it was the simplest thing in the world. Ailana was surprised and judging by the looks on the others faces they round it just as strange.
"You hear that Boo evil had better watch out we are a statue now." Minsc said. Ailana smiled at her friend, nothing ever kept him down for long, she noticed the strange look on Anomens face as he looked at her. As soon as he realised that she was looking at him the look vannished to be replaced by the usual emotionless mask that he wore.
Logan led them into a room where the various important people in Trademeet were dressed, Ailana felt very underdressed in her short tunic and boots, she looked at her friends and was relieved to see that some of them looked as self concious. Aerie was trying to hide behind Minsc whereas Cernd looked as though he was going to run any minute. The behaviour on Cernds part was understandable as some of these people would have been arguing for his death just a few days earlier. Minsc and hear'Dalis looked as though they were used to be being under dressed, it was Anomen who she appreciated the most, he was managing to give the impression that he was better than the people in the room despite the fact that he was wearing dented chainmail and carrying a mace whereas the others were dressed in silk and other fabrics and had probably never done a decent days work in their life.
That memory had made Ailana smile that night, her group had gone to get the mantle back and had given it to Logan, this had meant that the two most important families in Trademeet now hated her, Ailana didn't care. It meant she had somewhere to rob if she ever needed to. Her group were all asleep in Vaytris's pub, she couldn't sleep though and had gone to look at the statue.
"It is impossible to believe is it not my lady." a soft voice said. Ailana spun round to find Anomen behind her, he smiled at her realising that she hadn't heard him. He was dressed in a black tunic with red trimming and had a knife stuck in his belt, as she had noticed in the other times he wasn't wearing his armour he looked much younger. In the time they had been travelling together she had found out that he was only 3 years older than her, despite the fact that he acted much older. She was still surprised that she had kept him in her group rather then lost him after the incident at the De'Arnise keep. What was more alarming to Ailana was the fact that she felt a bond with the man something she didn't want as it only made life more dificult when her friends died as they always did.
"I warrant that you never expected such a thing when you took up with a thief." Ailana said returning his smile.
"I did not know what to expect when I began travelling with you my lady. All I knew was that it was bound to be interesting." Anomen said looking at the statue of Aerie.
"I may be interesting at the moment but I do not wish for you or any of the others to die. When I was travelling in the north it seemed to be all too regular for a friend to die in battle." Ailana said remembering those who had fallen
"I promise my lady that I shall not fall in battle but shall endeavor to stay by your side until you have defeated Irenicus and rescued your sister." Anomen had promised. At the time she hadn't believed him people in the past had promised similar things but none of them had been able to fulfill those promises and there was nothing about the knight which convinced her that he was going to be any different.
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She soon saw the tents that surrounded the city and smiled at the thought of seeing her friends again. Mazzy and Valygar made a good combination. Not for the first time Ailana wondred what it was about the nobles in Athkatla that caused them to turn their backs on privilage and take up adventuring as most of the nobles that she had met had taken to adventuring at some point in their lives. She knew that Mazzy had loved Patrick until he had been killed by the Shadow Lord but on occasion Ailana had seen a hint of affection for Valgar. If the ranger returnned the feeling she had no idea as Valgar was excellant at hiding his emotions. It would be nice if the relationship did move on as seeing her friends happy was her goal in life now.
Ailana pulled the hood of her cloak over her head and entered the city, she wasn't trying to hide she just didn't want everyone to recognise her, she quietly entered through the north gate and made her way to the Fentan home. She was pleased to find that her friends were there having just returnned from and excursion dealing with a wild bear in the imediate area. Valgar had a bandage round his head and Ailana smiled to see how Mazzy fussed round him. Valgar was bearing it with a straight face and Ailana knew that if it was anyone else he would have pushed them away and snapped at them some time ago. When she was offered the chance of a bed for a night Ailana was pleased to accept as other wise she would have had to stay in the pub and be pestered by questions.
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Sorry that not much was seen of Mazzy and Valgar but I tried to write about them with no luck at all. What do people think of a Mazzy Valgar pairing. I think it is a good one but that might just be me.
I hope anyone who is still reading this is happy as I am having to play the game through again to get Anomens lines for the flash backs.
Please review anyway as I would like one review at least before I update again.
Thank you to my reviewer. Nice to hear from you and the fact that you expressed concern over Anomen's fate.
I am not watching LOTR this time so I shouldn't call Anomen Aragorn at any point.
I apologise if anyone wants to see a lot of any particular character but I won't be bothering with any of them for long other than Anomen or Ailana.
Sorry. Please keep reading and reviewing though as I will be glad to return the favour.
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Ailana always seemed to be leaving somewhere, that was what had characterised her life so far and now was no different. She had been born different and that fact had stopped her from gaining any permenant home over the years. Candlekeep had seemed like home to her and had been so for the first 17 years of her life. As she had told Imoen in Irenicus' dungeon she had grown out of it. Even if Gorion hadn't forced her to leave she would have left anyways, the lust for adventure had been in her blood since the day she was born and would remain with her till the day she died.
She had made up her mind to head for Trademeet next to see if Mazzy and Valygar were currently there or whether the pair were roaming the country dealing out judgement where it was required. She had debated on whether to go to the shadow temple where they had dealt with the Shadow Lord a year earlier as that was where Sarevok, Viconia and Soulaufein were currently living. All three of them were well aware of the fact that they did not fit into society and lived on the edges accordingly. The two drow and her brother would come if they were summoned but until that time they guarded the temple and stopped various collections of other creatures from trying to set up a home there. In the short time the three of them had been in residence they had only had to call for aid for once and that had been to deal with a powerful Lich that had tried to set up home there. Minsc, Imoen and Keldorn had gone and the creature had been defeated. Ailana smiled grimly thinking on the fact that because of her wanderings around the country there was a network in place now that any threat that rose was imediately dealt with by one of her friends and who was able to call for back up from an impressive number of other heros scattered throughout the country.
Trademeet was somewhere she could feel at home as the people there classed her as a hero whereas in other places she was seen as a menace and one that needed to be dealt with. It was a good place to be although it was almost impossible to pass unrecognised especially as there was a statue of her and five of her friends in the centre of the town.
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Flashback
Ailana was looking at the price of the Ras on the market when a runner came up demanding that she came to see Lord Logan at once, Ailana was slightly disapointed as she expected the usual 'Thank you very much for saving our town now get out and never come back again.' She looked at her group and decided that refusing was not a good idea unless she wanted endless lectures from three of her group, Paladins were a pest at times.
"There you are." Logan said greeting her at the door to his office. "I am glad that you managed to arrive so promptly. I would have hated to explain to all the people I have gathered why our hero was not here." Ailana was confused and the grin on the face of haer'Dalis didn't help at all.
"I am sorry Logan but why would you have had to explain anything?"
"After all you have done the cities guild as agreed to comission a statue of you and your friends." Logan said as though it was the simplest thing in the world. Ailana was surprised and judging by the looks on the others faces they round it just as strange.
"You hear that Boo evil had better watch out we are a statue now." Minsc said. Ailana smiled at her friend, nothing ever kept him down for long, she noticed the strange look on Anomens face as he looked at her. As soon as he realised that she was looking at him the look vannished to be replaced by the usual emotionless mask that he wore.
Logan led them into a room where the various important people in Trademeet were dressed, Ailana felt very underdressed in her short tunic and boots, she looked at her friends and was relieved to see that some of them looked as self concious. Aerie was trying to hide behind Minsc whereas Cernd looked as though he was going to run any minute. The behaviour on Cernds part was understandable as some of these people would have been arguing for his death just a few days earlier. Minsc and hear'Dalis looked as though they were used to be being under dressed, it was Anomen who she appreciated the most, he was managing to give the impression that he was better than the people in the room despite the fact that he was wearing dented chainmail and carrying a mace whereas the others were dressed in silk and other fabrics and had probably never done a decent days work in their life.
That memory had made Ailana smile that night, her group had gone to get the mantle back and had given it to Logan, this had meant that the two most important families in Trademeet now hated her, Ailana didn't care. It meant she had somewhere to rob if she ever needed to. Her group were all asleep in Vaytris's pub, she couldn't sleep though and had gone to look at the statue.
"It is impossible to believe is it not my lady." a soft voice said. Ailana spun round to find Anomen behind her, he smiled at her realising that she hadn't heard him. He was dressed in a black tunic with red trimming and had a knife stuck in his belt, as she had noticed in the other times he wasn't wearing his armour he looked much younger. In the time they had been travelling together she had found out that he was only 3 years older than her, despite the fact that he acted much older. She was still surprised that she had kept him in her group rather then lost him after the incident at the De'Arnise keep. What was more alarming to Ailana was the fact that she felt a bond with the man something she didn't want as it only made life more dificult when her friends died as they always did.
"I warrant that you never expected such a thing when you took up with a thief." Ailana said returning his smile.
"I did not know what to expect when I began travelling with you my lady. All I knew was that it was bound to be interesting." Anomen said looking at the statue of Aerie.
"I may be interesting at the moment but I do not wish for you or any of the others to die. When I was travelling in the north it seemed to be all too regular for a friend to die in battle." Ailana said remembering those who had fallen
"I promise my lady that I shall not fall in battle but shall endeavor to stay by your side until you have defeated Irenicus and rescued your sister." Anomen had promised. At the time she hadn't believed him people in the past had promised similar things but none of them had been able to fulfill those promises and there was nothing about the knight which convinced her that he was going to be any different.
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She soon saw the tents that surrounded the city and smiled at the thought of seeing her friends again. Mazzy and Valygar made a good combination. Not for the first time Ailana wondred what it was about the nobles in Athkatla that caused them to turn their backs on privilage and take up adventuring as most of the nobles that she had met had taken to adventuring at some point in their lives. She knew that Mazzy had loved Patrick until he had been killed by the Shadow Lord but on occasion Ailana had seen a hint of affection for Valgar. If the ranger returnned the feeling she had no idea as Valgar was excellant at hiding his emotions. It would be nice if the relationship did move on as seeing her friends happy was her goal in life now.
Ailana pulled the hood of her cloak over her head and entered the city, she wasn't trying to hide she just didn't want everyone to recognise her, she quietly entered through the north gate and made her way to the Fentan home. She was pleased to find that her friends were there having just returnned from and excursion dealing with a wild bear in the imediate area. Valgar had a bandage round his head and Ailana smiled to see how Mazzy fussed round him. Valgar was bearing it with a straight face and Ailana knew that if it was anyone else he would have pushed them away and snapped at them some time ago. When she was offered the chance of a bed for a night Ailana was pleased to accept as other wise she would have had to stay in the pub and be pestered by questions.
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Sorry that not much was seen of Mazzy and Valgar but I tried to write about them with no luck at all. What do people think of a Mazzy Valgar pairing. I think it is a good one but that might just be me.
I hope anyone who is still reading this is happy as I am having to play the game through again to get Anomens lines for the flash backs.
Please review anyway as I would like one review at least before I update again.