lost treasure

A splinter of glinting steel in a scar of scorched earth. The eye of the magpie caught it, attracted by its glow. But when it landed, it found to its bestial disappointment nothing but burnt trees and the glint of a massive blade catching the sunlight. The glade was rendered into a black husk...

"Oban!" Aurra turned around with he city walls behind her. She spread out her arms and looked at Nuir "Land of pretty castles, gryphon riders and - perhaps for us - fame and fortune." She was feeling quite optimistic. Her Elbion job had gone well and she had been well paid. No one hand...