11.22.2020 - A New History

When we asked him for more information about this new place, he told us that the Yarns were the emperors of the Great Tabaxi Empire. Then while we were driving off towards the town, Klaub noticed he was trying to use some lock picks to get out of the cage, so he stopped our new friend Warder from doing that. He was very upset that we had put him in his own cage so we kept asking him to tell us more about Aaru’un and how it had changed. Warder was very nervous about taking this road to Tanin because of “The Day the Sky Fell”. According to Warder, two big rocks fell on either side of this road and ever since this has been a very dangerous and weird place to be. He said that there were three cat people's bodies near the rocks that never decomposed and there was a big metal arm near them. The animals near here are also said to be exceptionally violent and twisted.

   Warder kept saying that we were a weird bunch because we didn’t know anything about the way the world was now. When I asked about people like Shadow Mother, he was very confused but said that the little lizard people were slaves and that there were big lizard people with metal arms who were all part of the 'Sauren Empire which is the other big group of powerful people in this new place who live in the middle of the map and can be reached from the town we were going towards. He said that we should all have marks of ownership or else someone might try to make us slaves again, but that if Marko put his mark on us we would be left alone. So, we spent some time having him draw his family symbol on us which made Warder tell us about how Marko’s family, the Vacarros, was one of the most powerful in the Great Tabaxi Empire. Then we took off in our cart again and I was flying off ahead when I saw some creatures the whispers told me were deer. I tried my best to get over them and hit one with this new magic I had, but most of them ran away. However, one of them jumped into the air and started to chase after me with the other bared its fangs and went charging after my friends. They were no issue for us though because we were great adventurers like Shadow Mother!

   A little while later we came to the big rocks Warder was afraid of, where we found some broken carts and the three graves he talked about. None of us could understand what was on the very old headstones. In the broken wagons there were some weasels who I tried to be friends with but they just came out and tried to bite at us before we beat them like we beat the deer from earlier. Nearby, there were some cool glass bottles and a longbow. We didn’t find any bodies in the wreckage but it looked like something had been dragged away from there towards the big rocks. There was a field of clover by the rocks, and when I ran through it there was some kind of electricity that followed me as I ran to the rock where something had been dragged. I began to fly up to the top while Marko climbed up the side avoiding the glowing ore deposits that seemed to shock people who were too close. He said he couldn’t feel Bast here near the big rocks and we had to find out why.

   At the top there was a big beating heart, that when he got there, Marko said was evil so he started to attack it. When he did, two horses came flying to eat him, but Jerome and I killed them before they could reach him. It was sunset when Marko dealt the final blow to the heart thing and he found an actual heart that was about the size of a basketball and a deep purple color. Then we went back to the others where Warder took us to his house where he lived alone so that we could rest after our many battles of the day.