Session Zero - From the Corners of the Flanaess They Came...

 




The idea of this blog is simple, to be a rolling reference of my friends' adventures within the bounds of Dolmenwood, over an indeterminate amount of time. So, without further ado, let me introduce out players, and from whence they came.

Perrin Ashbone is frail, nearly a cripple. Why he chose adventuring is anybody's guess (maybe to seek healing, from the miraculous shrines rumored to be lost within the darkened boughs of Dolmenwood's forests?), and how he'll get on seems undeniable and foregone. And yet, he traveled all the way from the Great Kingdom of Aerdy, across many a wild country and savage coast, to approach Dolmenwood in its pastoral seat between the southern arm of Keoland and the Yeomanry, where an off-branch of the Javan River redirects to run through the wood. Perrin, unusually for humans, is an Enchanter, having been fay-touched in the womb.

Likewise from The Great Kingdom, a doughty thief named Greymorr has also made the journey, although whether they journeyed together or separately neither have divulged.

From the north, from Veluna, a mysterious fighter also made the pilgrimage to the weird wood, after travelling through Keoland, approaching from the southern reaches of the Duchy of Brackenwold.

Together, the mists of the as-yet unseen forest looming on the horizon, the three have met upon the road and found travelling together to be convenient. It was only after many days that they realized the stray cat they'd picked up had more sentience than they'd at first thought... Her name is Meowianne, and her like is not known in the greater reaches of the Flanaess. Everyone within the outer limits of the Duchy of Brackenwold, however, seem to accept her as some creature native to the wood, and so our three intrepid adventurers accept her as well, perhaps with some level of suspicion.

And thus, four adventurers, travelling together on foot, by cart, by hired horse, came to the farmlands of High Hankle to rest their weary bones in Hangleton, just outside the martial city's looming limestone walls, at The Chantry.

That is where we'll find them next time...


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