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Marrowa Village, a backwater town in the foothills of the eastern Seret Mountains under the rulership of an Elbion noble.
They are a simple hardworking people, major exports including crops and livestock, ores from the mountain mining and various local crafted trinkets. This village often serves as a resting spot for adventurers and monster hunters traveling through to the Seret Mountains to seek their fortunes, and thus many adventurers choose to winter here or even choose to retire and settle down in this quiet little town.
The people who lived inside the village numbered but a few, most people have settled down in homesteads in the countryside outside the village limits.
With the coming of winter the fields are empty, the harvests all done and stored away and the animals grazed and fattened for the long winter cold.
Most people about in the village would be stocking up on last minute supplies before the merchants took their caravans back to winter in Elbion, or doing some sort of chore or another.
Teshara was outside the elder's house, chopping firewood as a favor to the old man. Even with the colder morning temperatures that would cloud your breath he didn't need a coat for such physical work that kept him warm, and he had a lot of firewood to chop. He even enjoyed the way his cloudy breath would twist about in the air as he cut through it with the downward swing of is arms, or when the chilled breezes that would come to cool him as he positioned large pieces of wood and chopped them down to smaller logs that would fit in a fireplace.
But, as was expected in small villages, newcomers were always instantly spotted and Teshara easily spotted this one. He could just look out over the fence and see the main gate in the palisade, the elder liked the view from his porch where he could watch and see anyone who came in or out of the village and he often spent his days doing just that. Teshara could easily see the arrival of a caravan. There were quite a few people with the caravan looking to sell some last minute products, but two stood out to Teshara; a young woman with blond hair and fair skin, not the usual sort of breeding one might find in these parts, he was told that his father was blond with fair skin but he couldn't tell now through the sliver, of course all sorts of people have settled here and not all of them human either.
Teshara watched the woman briefly with mild interest in new faces, but just as anyone else would have he turned to go back to his work when suddenly he noticed... Something off about her, something which grabbed his attention and caused him to do a double-take to examine her again... She seemed normal, nothing really out of the ordinary, but he felt uneasiness growing within him and something about this girl warned him that he needed to keep his distance.
He breathed a silent prayer before forcing his eyes away and back to the piece of wood he was working on.
"... Lord... Were you trying to show me something just now?"
His father, a former adventurer who settled in the woods a few miles outside the village to raise a family and a farm, had the ability to sense or even sometimes see spiritual entities. Teshara admired that about his father and hoped that he would one day have a the faith to have such an ability as well, but in instances where spiritual entities were involved he found he could only barely exercise an awareness of such things, being only able to tell that something was off but not the details or anything else about it. In a person who was possessed by evil spirits it was like he simply knew that something about that person was evil and that he should stay away.
With this girl... It was much the same way, and yet not quite. He didn't know what to make of this mixed message he was getting so he prayed while he worked.
"I see many people possessed by darkness or demons passing through here, or even the false gods... What do you want me to do?"
He swung down and easily split the block of wood down the middle... And the answer came almost overwhelming in his mind.
"Speak with her."
Eilerias
They are a simple hardworking people, major exports including crops and livestock, ores from the mountain mining and various local crafted trinkets. This village often serves as a resting spot for adventurers and monster hunters traveling through to the Seret Mountains to seek their fortunes, and thus many adventurers choose to winter here or even choose to retire and settle down in this quiet little town.
The people who lived inside the village numbered but a few, most people have settled down in homesteads in the countryside outside the village limits.
With the coming of winter the fields are empty, the harvests all done and stored away and the animals grazed and fattened for the long winter cold.
Most people about in the village would be stocking up on last minute supplies before the merchants took their caravans back to winter in Elbion, or doing some sort of chore or another.
Teshara was outside the elder's house, chopping firewood as a favor to the old man. Even with the colder morning temperatures that would cloud your breath he didn't need a coat for such physical work that kept him warm, and he had a lot of firewood to chop. He even enjoyed the way his cloudy breath would twist about in the air as he cut through it with the downward swing of is arms, or when the chilled breezes that would come to cool him as he positioned large pieces of wood and chopped them down to smaller logs that would fit in a fireplace.
But, as was expected in small villages, newcomers were always instantly spotted and Teshara easily spotted this one. He could just look out over the fence and see the main gate in the palisade, the elder liked the view from his porch where he could watch and see anyone who came in or out of the village and he often spent his days doing just that. Teshara could easily see the arrival of a caravan. There were quite a few people with the caravan looking to sell some last minute products, but two stood out to Teshara; a young woman with blond hair and fair skin, not the usual sort of breeding one might find in these parts, he was told that his father was blond with fair skin but he couldn't tell now through the sliver, of course all sorts of people have settled here and not all of them human either.
Teshara watched the woman briefly with mild interest in new faces, but just as anyone else would have he turned to go back to his work when suddenly he noticed... Something off about her, something which grabbed his attention and caused him to do a double-take to examine her again... She seemed normal, nothing really out of the ordinary, but he felt uneasiness growing within him and something about this girl warned him that he needed to keep his distance.
He breathed a silent prayer before forcing his eyes away and back to the piece of wood he was working on.
"... Lord... Were you trying to show me something just now?"
His father, a former adventurer who settled in the woods a few miles outside the village to raise a family and a farm, had the ability to sense or even sometimes see spiritual entities. Teshara admired that about his father and hoped that he would one day have a the faith to have such an ability as well, but in instances where spiritual entities were involved he found he could only barely exercise an awareness of such things, being only able to tell that something was off but not the details or anything else about it. In a person who was possessed by evil spirits it was like he simply knew that something about that person was evil and that he should stay away.
With this girl... It was much the same way, and yet not quite. He didn't know what to make of this mixed message he was getting so he prayed while he worked.
"I see many people possessed by darkness or demons passing through here, or even the false gods... What do you want me to do?"
He swung down and easily split the block of wood down the middle... And the answer came almost overwhelming in his mind.
"Speak with her."
Eilerias
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