The large man was waiting for some sign of the cold to break. Was waiting for the sign for his mark to be made upon the nordenfiir. Was wholly unprepared in his own mind to do so when he noticed a scrawled note on the tavern board about something wreaking havoc near the portal stone to the south.
Witnesses to the creature in question couldn't agree on many details. Tales of it being three meters tall and covered in spines to another account of it being the size of a child and spinning like a wooden top contradicting one another. Save for one detail they all could unanimously agree upon.
It was damned mean whatever the beast was.
It had chased a cadre of traders through the woods just thereafter they took a step from the portal stone. The first two that had stepped across had noticed nothing unusual. Another appeared, and with their appearance, a low sort of rumbling began.
Finally the last trader appeared, and something began tearing through snow and underbrush to, what they assumed anyhow, attack them. Some local herbalists had gone near the portal stone area, hunting down a peculiar weed when something similar had happened to them also. None had turned back round to see what was on their heels lest they misstep and be set upon by the unknown.
Which was why Hugi and company had found their way towards the offending unknown thing. Hugi had shared the details, or lack thereof along the trip. His own wild musings about what this, thing, could be.
"Perhaps a small cub? One weened by...oh say a snow cat attack? Oh-oh-oh wai-or maybe, just maybe a pigme snow cat." He was having a small chuckle to himself about the possibilities, rambling to pass the time than listen to the deafening silence.
Witnesses to the creature in question couldn't agree on many details. Tales of it being three meters tall and covered in spines to another account of it being the size of a child and spinning like a wooden top contradicting one another. Save for one detail they all could unanimously agree upon.
It was damned mean whatever the beast was.
It had chased a cadre of traders through the woods just thereafter they took a step from the portal stone. The first two that had stepped across had noticed nothing unusual. Another appeared, and with their appearance, a low sort of rumbling began.
Finally the last trader appeared, and something began tearing through snow and underbrush to, what they assumed anyhow, attack them. Some local herbalists had gone near the portal stone area, hunting down a peculiar weed when something similar had happened to them also. None had turned back round to see what was on their heels lest they misstep and be set upon by the unknown.
Which was why Hugi and company had found their way towards the offending unknown thing. Hugi had shared the details, or lack thereof along the trip. His own wild musings about what this, thing, could be.
"Perhaps a small cub? One weened by...oh say a snow cat attack? Oh-oh-oh wai-or maybe, just maybe a pigme snow cat." He was having a small chuckle to himself about the possibilities, rambling to pass the time than listen to the deafening silence.