Journal of Ashane: Entry 3

• Posted by Nathan Rybnik October 6, 2012 - 870 views

  Fort Hraggstad... entry exam or suicide mission? Did I perhaps offend? Or are their ranks so swollen that perhaps they send people out with little odds of success, figuring that if they win, they gain a prize thought unobtainable, and should they perish, it is one less mouth to feed?

  I suppose I'm still shocked about my first assignment, it hardly seems practical to take a fort occupied by a gang of bandits single handed, but orders are orders... At least the earlier part of my day went better, Falk Firebeard was very keen on hearing about the ritual I interrupted yesterday,  and he assures me that I have done more good that I could possibly imagine. The thoughts of what they were attempting in that cave still disturb me to think about, though I suppose I'll get over it in time, though the more important questions are left unanswered, as my father put it "The what is meaningless without the why."

  Why would people stoop so low? What could drive a person to risk something so out of their control? What meaning is there that justifies a blood sacrifice to a malevolent spirit? How were they breaching the realm of mundus? It is clear that I will have to investigate it further, whether I want to or not, if for no other reason than scholastic integrity, though to do that I'll have to survive the assault on Fort Hraggstad...

  The fort is in shambles, it doesn't even have a gate! I suppose that I should count my blessings there, as while I'm still outnumbered, I have a method of entry, I just pray that these bandits don't know how to properly combat magic in a fight, as I doubt I'm as skilled with a blade as them....

  Necromancers and bandits... it seems that Skyrim is a very dismal land...