Now that I had learnt new archery techniques and new magic....I was prepared to find out what Innoruuk was up to!
We still had the coin from the dark elf to take to Telin in the Burning woods....so Kadest and I began our travels there.
There I discovered a giant wasps hive!!!
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It seemed pretty interesting!!! Perhaps it would be a good place to hunt later.....but for now we had other business to attend to!
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We soon found Telin and he suggested we seek out Arch Druid Althele in Karana.
Luckily getting there was fairly quick with Kadest with me...and before we knew it we were in Karana.
There I tracked her to a fishing village near the river....and also the largest waterfall I had seen!! I'd been in Karana so many times and never seen such a waterfall!! I was surprised!
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I went to Althele and gave her the coin, telling her what happened. She had already been sent word by Telin that Kadest and I was coming to see her....though, how his messages were faster than us I'm not too sure.
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Althele told us that the other druids of the village needed to be present before we could discuss the matters of Innoruuk....it was time for "the gathering"!
Simple enough!
So I tracked down the other druids and told them to Althele wanted to see them.
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Before long we had all but one druid with us! Humans, elves, half elves, halflings....and whatever Fang was, he never really said too much....just sat there watching in his wolf form....it truly was a gathering like none other!
I tracked down the final member of the druids and the gathering was complete!!
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The ritual began with the druids calling out to Tunare and Karana asking for their help.
Suddenly, Althele turned to me and said Innoruuk's brood was upon us!!! I guess she could feel them nearby!
Kadest and I needed to stop them before they reached the arch druids!!!!!!!
We searched nearby and saw them on a hill. This time though...it wasn't a single dark elf.....no, it was 3!!!!!!
Kadest caught one of them....but two of the others got past him and were running straight for the gathering!! They were fast!!!!
It was up to me! I raced ahead and began firing at them!! Gaining their attention with a few well placed arrows.
They drew close to me, but I was fairly confident I could handle them.
Little did I know that these two dark elves were shadowknights!!!!!!!!!!! As they neared, they both channeled the power of their evil gods into me!! Harm touching me!!!!!!!!!
It hurt, a lot!! Kadest was busy with his own dark elf, but even he could see I was in trouble....
The problem was, Kadest was also!!!!!! The dark elf he was fighting definitely didn't seem easy....
It looked like I would have to handle things on my own.
So I did as archers do.....and ran!!! While shooting arrows, of course.
I used my magic to heal my wounds and summoned vines to slow down my enemies....but things weren't under control yet. The dark elves saw I was gaining an advantage and began dispelling all of my magic~!!!!
Suddenly I found myself removed from my wolf form!!! Without my wolf speed....they would surely catch me!!!
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I had run towards Kadest though, perhaps if we focused on his elf first we could join together to fight the ones I was battling?
I let loose arrows and magic to help finish off Kadest's enemy....and he was defeated. But both Kadest and I were pretty hurt from the battle, with these two minions of Innoruuk close behind me.
Kadest tried to draw their attention, but regretted it immediately as he learnt of their dispelling magic habits....
Somehow though we managed to get the situation under control. Eventually one of the elves fell.
Though, we were hurt and our energy was almost depleted!
Luckily the final dark elf seemed to have a change of heart and fled into the mountains! We were victorious!!!!!!
We returned to the arch druids victorious. On one of the fallen dark elves we had found a Fleshbound Tome....giving it to the druids to see what they thought of it.
It seemed our quest had only just begun!! Innoruuk was seeding the land with his hatred! He had to be stopped!
Before the druids left for the safety of their sanctuary they gave Kadest and I a note and told us to seek out "she who walks the path of the mother, she who walks the lands in service to her kin".
Humm, it looked like this might take some time.....