Leopold's Disappearance

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###### **LEOPOLD - DAY ONE**

   **Leopold Demarco**, a male **catfolk** druid born into the currently feuding catfolk air druid tribe known as the **Featherlight** **Tribe** wakes up from his lazy suncluster induced nap from inside of a cozy weather resistant tent, and heads towards the **Wind Focus**;through the torrential and ever present rain found throughout the region known as **Wind Ravaged Rasugia** as he was instructed by his teacher **Master Gree**, a catfolk who has embraced his druidic nature to the point to growing moss and bark over his body.

Leopold arrives late and is blocked at the door by his master who bears an angry face. After being verbally scolded for his behavior and tardiness he is allowed inside, where he bears witness to '**Gael**'; a beautifully and intricately crafted white crystal shaped like a rose, floating and radiating magical energy which was being channeled by four other catfolk druids from themselves, into the rose and from the rose upwards into the Wind Focus, a magical lens crafted by the Featherlight Tribe.

This combination of artifact and magically crafted lens is what allows for their people to stay independent among the continent known as Rasugia, as it is responsible for keeping the ever present torrential rain, storms and winds around the region of Wind Ravaged Rasugia.

Master Gree glared deeply at Leopold and reminded him sternly of his family bound oath to take on the mantle of a **Channeler** of the Wind. Begrudgingly, Leopold nods in agreement and listens to his master tell him what to do next, despite this being something he had been dreading and putting off for years now.

As instructed by his teacher, he assumes the pose of a Channeler who sits across from him, smiling with anticipation with the chance to pass on the knowledge of their tribe to this young catfolk. Leopold listens to the Channeler's instructions and closes his eyes; with intent placed into Gael.

   Leopold follows the instructions and begins to meditate, drifting off and seemingly feeling a connection with the mysterious artifact known as Gael, but suddenly the feeling in the air bends and the feeling on his meditative posterior shifted from hard and smooth cold marble to soft, warm sand.

Opening his eyes Leopold discovers to have been **mysteriously whisked away** to some strange **deserted island** in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but water and looming mist from all directions far in the distance.

This was the first time in Leopold's life to ever see clear sunny weather, so he takes a brief moment to enjoy the weather but then begins to take things seriously, exploring the incredibly small island while scavenging from the few trees and bushes around.

Finding the food on the island scarce Leopold decides to check the surrounding waters, peering in the distance he encounters a floating body, pooling red with blood. Leopold swims towards the to inspect the scene and finds an eel like creature devouring an already partial devoured unidentifiable humanoid corpse. Using his druidic magic Leopold used speak with animals to communicate with the creature who only replied basic responses such as "hungry" and "food".

Swimming back onto the island, Leopold notices something suddenly drop from the sky and splash loudly into the waters nearby, it was a horse with a cart! Rushing towards the scene Leopold is able to bring the horse towards the shore, as well as the boat and supplies.

Using his scimitar, Leopold smashes the lock off the chest but snaps the blade in half in the process. Inside the chest were some apples, rations, gold and a telescope; along with some documents that didn't pique Leopold's interest.

Taking the apples to the horse, Leopold did some animal handling and fed it an apple and used another druidic charge of speak with animals to talk with the beast, learning that its name is Hubert. Attempting to coax more information out of the horse, Leopold learns eventually that this horse once belong to some merchant; perhaps the corpse from earlier?

Leopold sets up camp and rests for the night, Hubert snuggles with the druid near the fire.

###### **LEOPOLD - DAY TWO**

   Waking up to a start Leopold hears a splash in the water as well as female screaming as once he arrives at the beach, sees a eel creature perusing a out of place clothed woman in the sea. Rushing in to help and attacking the eel with the broken scimitar, Leopold is able to save the woman.

She speaks with an unfamiliar language to Leopold, and then shes giggles and apologizes with broken Common as she introduces herself as a woman named Nao, a female elf from an Elf dominant continent known as Aghanim's Domain. She gratefully thanks Leopold for saving her life and is surprised by the horse being on the island.

As if by some sort of miracle, a boat splashed down in the middle of the water containing no passengers. Leopold decided that taking action would yield more results and thus decided to take the boat, and coax the horse as well and persuade the woman to come along to sail through the mist and away from this stranded island.

The woman agreed, and helped coerce Hubert onto the vessel with some apples from Leopold. Once they set sail, it was fairly smooth sailing until the mist. After a few minutes the horse started to panic, and so did Nao.

Then, it came to a sudden silence as the mist cleared and Leopold came across a massive golden wall, piercing the clouds. He was perplexed as to where the woman and horse went, but willed onward towards the monolithic structure. Using his cat like agility Leopold sprung off the boat and abandoned it to the relatively calm current near the wall, landing on the base of the structure.

    The structure fit the description of the something gained through his education as well as reading to be known as **The Great Divide**, a massive wall that split **Mikvid** that many pilgrims come to give offering to.

Leopold scales the wall and plunders some offerings, finding abandoned camps of people who were once here who knows how long ago. Leopold eventually comes across some abandoned ropes leading through the legendary impassable wall. As there was no other choice but to move forward Leopold climbs the ropes and nearly falls off to meet a clumsy demise; but is able to reach the insides of what he could only describe to be known as **The Breach**.

The Breach radiated with mystery, as Leopold stood on the strangely carved stone floor and salty air whistled rapidly towards the shining light at the other end of the tunnel; the other side of the wall. Like a sirens call he could only move forward, so he moved forward only to nearly stumble off the ledge once more.

He assumed he went to the other side of the wall, but something was amiss; like all the tell-tale signs of his actions such as the damaged rope leading into the hole as well as his plundering and boat by the lower portion of the wall. Perplexed he pondered what to do next.

But without notice some strange green puppet appeared with no warning through the misty fog in the distance that Leopold passed through, it cackled and through some maniacal chattering revealed its own name to be Rupert. It was some strange green puppet being pulled from the mists by green arcane tethers.

The strange puppet demanded to learn what information was on the other side, and why the catfolk came back. Attempting to explain himself Leopold was already confused as it, but the strange doll was unable to yield any useful answers from the catfolk and thus the master behind the strings came forth from the mist.

The humanoid figure, clad in green attire covering their entire face and body named themselves to be

    '**Reuben**, Son of **Aghanim**'. The strange magic user demanded the catfolk to comply in answering his questions but any attempt to answer the arcanist ended in failure.

Cackling, Reuben charged up some sort of spell towards Leopold and without warning the catfolk was whisked away again, suddenly dropping onto some grass near some trees; alone and just as confused as before. With more questions than answers, Leopold continues to move forward in this unfamiliar environment, smoking sunclusters and enjoying the new sights and sounds the worlds has to offer; besmirching his responsibility as Channeler for the Featherlight Tribe.

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