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[Middens, Crossbow Bend] Before you stands the Observatory of the Southern Crossbow. It is a three-story edifice, its sixteen-sided walls capped with a crystal dome. The top floor is also the nerve center of the Moon Mages' Guild, a most powerful and revered arcane circle throughout Elanthia. All in all a rather quirky structure, it manages to inspire awe and curiosity at the same time. A carved ivory door leads inside. You also see a massive boulder, a salt-stained copper box, a Wayerd pyramid, some grass, and an ivory urn. Also here: Determinist Kythera, Greklin, Rinet who is sitting, Beast Dreheart, Contemplator Serburis, Researcher Grandpere, Phaotean, and Diviner Helemer. >You pant. >Kythera says, "I brought a present for everybody" >You give Kythera a gentle poke in the ribs. >Rinet says, "thats a big rock" >You say, "hello" >Serburis blinks. >Kythera nods to Rinet. >Dreheart grins. >Serburis says, "uhm...

While we were cleaning up after helping the hunters, Jenell told me a little story about the last time she had hunted, er helped the wounded in this same spot a few days before............ (As told by Medic Jenell) >Urusai chuckles. >Urusai points north. >Urusai clasps your hand tenderly. Gadabout Urusai's group just went north. [Mistwood Forest Road] Faded red bricks, once neatly laid in a herringbone pattern, now exist only as scraps of pavement heaved up and broken by years of neglect. Weeds grow through the crumbled mortar, obscuring the direction of the road. Wild roses climb in a high thicket along the northern side of the road to form a tangled mass of sweetly scented thorns. Also here: Gadabout Urusai and Mentik. Obvious paths: north, south. >Urusai grins. >drag uru se You can't go in that direction. >look [Mistwood Forest Road] Obvious paths: north, south. >Urusai says, "good life mana here, I believe" >You smile. >You ...

Until I am strong enough to return home to Leth where I can help those that are left there. Those I have met along the way tell me that it is much easier and friendler to train here in 'Haven than the Crossing, even though I do miss the Velah'tor plant. It was a bit of a perilous journey North. I took one or two wrong turns on the NTR and was chased by windhounds, they would kill me the first strike. So I mostly staying in hiding, and crept quietly along the trail.. Last night I finally met Shawntelle, I had heard so much about her since she's a good friend of Suruli's and one of Jadzi's family who I met at the plant. >smile pantherThe black panther stares at you as if trying to figure out what you're doing to your face. >per healYou close your eyes, drawing all your thoughts inward, and then slowly reach out to sense the life essences of those around you... You fail to sense anything, however. >Shawntelle says, "I love Lang best for ...

You wake up from your daydream, and begin paying attention again. You take in a great breath of air. You gaze off to the south. As if in a dream, a vision forms in your mind... 'The Elven woodland fortress of Leth Deriel looms before you to the south, its walls of defensive deobar trees forming huge arcs to the southwest and east. The high tops and entwined branches of the Alder Bower Gate overshadow the south section of the road. Even from this distance, you see the tallest, most ancient and most venerated tree in the Elven lands, the Sana'ati Dyaus, which stands at the center of the city.' My family was brutally murdered when Raenilar and his Outcasts rolled over Leth on their way South to try and take Shard. I had been high up in a treetop when the troops arrived, lost deep in a daydream. Only a child myself, I hid, I'm not even able to heal my own wounds yet. My mother had told me that I wasn't ready to learn that spell, she kept saying 'Maybe to...

Also introducing: Name: Novice Whyt Race: Elf Guild: Empath You were born on the 9th day of the 8th month of Skullcleaver the Dwarven Axe in the year of the Silver Unicorn, 350 years after the victory of Lanival the Redeemer. You are Novice Whyt, an Elven Empath. You have pointed ears and green eyes. Your golden brown hair is short and wavy, and is worn tousled. You have fair skin. You have numbness in your fingers and toes. You are wearing a sunny yellow vela'tohr flower, a whimsical pewter fae charm, some sapphire leather leggings, a soft ivory silk blouse, a small arm pouch with an embroidered strap, a worn grey hooded cloak, a blue cotton drawstring pouch with half a dozen tiny starfish stitched onto it, a golden frog pin, a pair of waterproofed hipboots with merfolk and sea monsters hand-painted along the upper edge, an emerald lily pad pin, a herb pouch sloppily embroidered with an Empath crest pattern in green thread, a vivid green satin rosette and a patched backpack ...