from the Journals of Morningstar, Warforged Wizard

by rsmyth

An account of the wanderings of Morningstar 776 Series C, Warforged Wizard, in the time after the Treaty of Thronehold in the D&D setting of Eberron.

15. Chapter 15

from the Journals of Morningstar 776 Series C, Warforged Wizard

by Richard Smyth

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Date: 11 Olarune 997YK

Early this morning, I go off with the salvage crews to plunder weapons from the Field of Ruins. My plan is simple: I will feign being wounded, which will slow me down, and then, when I am far enough behind the others, I will slip into the Glass Plateau and wander through the maze of broken shards until the crew is gone, leaving me behind for lost. Then I will head due north, toward Karrnath, in haste. Away from the Mournland and its brotherhood of hopelessness.

As I go among the shattered fragments of the Glass Plateau, following the secret markings the Lord of Blades showed me on our last visit, I seem to feel the reverberations of the forge deep below. I realize that I have not lied to my fellow soldiers: I have been wounded, ever since entering the world of men, deeply wounded, and I have yet to recover. Is there a place for me in this world, I wonder out loud?

In this jagged garden of glass, I see my face reflected back to me one hundredfold, a multi-dimensional geometry of fractured identity. But then the glass darkens, obsidian-black, and I can no longer see my self at all.