(2021-10-13) What is wrong about the Duskwood?
| Author: |
Saaron |
| Summary: |
Azizia meets with Auralind to ask her about Duskwood. |
| Rating: |
T for Teen |
22:10:32 Azizia enters the HQ and goes down the stairs, a hand on the railing and the other holding the front of her dress just above her hooves as to not trip and fall.
22:11:27 Azizia blinks as she watches Elu'shalla. That's her first time seeing the lion, and the first time she sees a beast this huge in a building like this. "Hello?"
22:11:32 Auralind is kneels before the white lion, Elu'shalla, speaking in a nearly inaudible whisper. Her long ears twitch and turn toward the sound of Azizia's hooves on the stone steps, her head turning to follow.
22:12:40 Auralind | Elu'shalla peers at Azizia with an intense gaze, a low rumble in his throat.
22:13:10 Auralind rises and faces the draenei woman. "Elune adore."
22:13:31 Azizia takes this personally and stares back at the lion. She could almost growl. Almost.
22:14:47 Auralind | Elu'shalla licks his chops as he appraises Azizia.
22:15:25 Azizia bows. "Elune adore, Auralind. I am grateful you were able to come talk at me!"
22:17:13 Auralind: Of course. I owe your people something of a debt. Please…tell me what I can do to help you.
22:19:16 Azizia goes to sit down at the chair facing Auralind. "I am… called to the Duskwood. I have heard people of the Company goed there, and saw things. I am looking for information, please. To prepare."
22:21:51 Auralind kneels on the floor, as is her usual custom, before reminding herself that others sometimes find it odd and moving into a chair. "Duskwood, you say…" She frowns, her brow creasing deeply.
22:22:25 Auralind: Why must you go there…and what information do you seek?
22:25:08 Azizia puts a strand of hair behind her ear, her bracelets clinging. "I have heard pain. Water, air and land, they suffer in Duskwood," she sighs. "As shaman, I have to help elements."
22:25:49 Azizia: I am looking for information about creatures, people there. When elements suffer, its all life that does.
22:26:13 Azizia: *She nods, just for herself.* To prepare good my journey.
22:29:25 Auralind closes her eyes, nodding through her frown. "I understand…the drive to heal that place. I, too, have a connection with the land. Not exactly with the elements as you do, I think. But directly with Nature. When the land cries out in pain, I also feel it. But…the corruption in Duskwood is far beyond what any one of us can affect. That place is cursed, and it has drawn things to it…horrors you can scarcely imagine."
22:34:32 Azizia: Spirit of many drops make sea. Help you did, help I will, and all other help. Land will heal, I believe. But… you talked of horrors… My parents have traveled many worlds and told me many things. I can manage. Tell me, please.
22:37:29 Auralind: I am aware of your people's history with the Burning Legion. My people have faced them several times as well. I fought them myself in the last war. Believe me when I say that Duskwood holds monsters equal in terror. During my study of the worgen there, I…had an encounter…with a being as powerful and frightening as any demon I faced in the war.
22:41:03 Azizia frowns and leans forward, putting her forearms on her knees. "Worgen? They are wolf…man, yes? And what other creatures did you see? What is 'powerful and frightening as any demon'?"
22:45:41 Auralind does not answer right away, staring blindly forward, her face tense, lips tight with apprehension. "They…are only known as the 'Dark Riders'. Horsemen who ride out from Deadwind Pass. I was fortunate that I only met one of them. Had there been more, I am certain I never would have escaped. The raw power he possessed was-…" She shakes her head. "I was simply no match for him. Almost nothing I did could even slow him down, let alone stop him."
22:49:57 Azizia | The air spirit weakly swirling around Azizia's staff descends to her hear and whispers to her. Se pause for a few seconds, then nods.
22:52:05 Azizia: Spirit of Air with me see the fight. It wished to help you, to thank for help in Duskwood. But too weak to do. It is glad to see you again.
22:53:17 Azizia: Dark Riders. Why they come to Duskwood? Regularly they come?
22:55:41 Auralind sighs, shaking her head. "I wish I understood them better. The locals know of them. They speak of them fearfully. But their motives are a mystery. The one that found me believed me to be connected to an artifact called the Scythe of Elune. It was something I had a vision about, and seems to be connected to the worgen…the wolf-men."
22:59:38 Azizia nods excitedly as she recognizes the name. "Elune! Like Kaldorei goddess!" She peers at Auralind. "Visions. Shaman sometimes have visions, they are very important. I never." She pauses and thinks while loudly saying "Hmmm…" before adding:
23:00:40 Azizia: Do you have information on Scythe? Can it help with worgenin Duskwood?
23:05:33 Auralind shrugs helplessly. "All I know is that the Scythe seems to be connected to the worgen. I believe it to have been a kind of key sealing a lock that kept them imprisoned in the Emerald Dream. But somebody removed it and set them free. If you truly wish to help Duskwood and rid it of the worgen, you will need to seek answers elsewhere…and I think I can help you with that."
23:07:43 Azizia claps her hands once, lacing her fingers together. "Any help to Duskwood is good for elements there! Please, tell me more."
23:09:52 Auralind: My bond-brother, Caspis Silvershade, is also investigaing the worgen and the scythe, along with two other kaldorei — Anareline Evensong, and apparently his former shan'do…mentor. I can send you to them with a letter to Caspis, but you will have to travel quickly, and far…to Ashenvale in Kalimdor.
23:12:57 Azizia nods. "I will Astral travel! I will be there in no time. I also know good courier who could bring letter fast." she smiles to herself, knowing that they don't exactly get on well. "Name of the courier is Raschal."
23:16:27 Auralind frowns deeply. "Be careful about that one. He is full of smiles and charm, but do not mistake that for honor and character. No, I think it best if you simply keep the letter with you and present it directly to Caspis."
23:20:24 Azizia makes a surprised face as she realizes that she really doesn't like the guy. "Very well, I will take letter myself." She bows in thanks, her jewelry telling of her movement. She adds. "On Raschal, I think he has troubled past. But rude, that he is."
23:20:53 Azizia gets up. "Where can I find paper and ink? For letter."
23:21:24 Auralind nods and rises. "It is not his manners that disturb me. It is his chosen allegiences and what they say about him. Come, I'll fetch the paper…"
