Haruchai
As you wish.
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2011
- Location
- United States (CST)
The Land of Arboria; a land of fascinating elven cities, sprawling human metropolises, and vast landscapes to explore. Home to not only those humans end elves, but dwarves and halflings and all manner of good humanoid folk. Though in all things, as there is light, there is aso dark. Orcs and goblins, ogres and trolls, all manner of fantastical beasts and monsters call Arboria home.
Our story though, will follow a man. Not just any man, but a Knight. A Knight of the Order of the Silver Flame. Or so he used to be anyway. Ser James Cortland. A man in his mid-twenties, long and lean of build, well muscled and tone, not bulky. Dark-haired and with dark intense eyes. A man whose aura speaks of the dangerous intent he carries with him, an animalistic quality exuded by men of his ilk. A blademaster and with a reputation to match. A man who had shirked his duty to the Silver Flame, his life and ruins and now a nomad. The sword on his back and his faithful steed, Brass, his only companions on the road. Sometimes a sellsword if he needs money, though most consider him a simple wanderer. Righting some wrongs as he sees them, though just as often keeping his business to himself. Short temper is as likely to be shown as cool indifference and he changes mood as a storm, quick to blow in and destroy all in its path and then just as quickly to be gone without a care.
So it came to be that James had passed through the village of Waldgrave, a human settlement on the borders of one of the Elven Kingdoms. The road passed into the wood and Brass followed it faithfully. The woods were not thick, not at first, and even after passing under the huge canopy above, the path still remained somehow light, despite the thick foliage. Brass snorted and stamped a bit and James halted the beast, hand upon the hilt of the bastard sword on his hip. Brass had caught a scent, and that was when he heard it. Quite some distance away it would seem, and carried lightly upon the breeze - a cry.
Female it would seem, and in distress. "Ha!" James cried and put spurs to his beast, dirt kicked up from iron-shod hooves as Brass broke into a run, James' keen eyes put to the path and looking at their surroundings as the trees flew by. He almost missed it really, the small clump seeming unnatural in the forest, and he was able to make out limb amidst the glint of steel.
Orcs it would seem, travelled far from their own lands. A raiding or scouting party most likely, and their green-hued skin a natural camouflage in this forest, despite it not being their natural terrain. They were not far of the path and Brass cleared the hedgerow and in moments James was upon them...
Our story though, will follow a man. Not just any man, but a Knight. A Knight of the Order of the Silver Flame. Or so he used to be anyway. Ser James Cortland. A man in his mid-twenties, long and lean of build, well muscled and tone, not bulky. Dark-haired and with dark intense eyes. A man whose aura speaks of the dangerous intent he carries with him, an animalistic quality exuded by men of his ilk. A blademaster and with a reputation to match. A man who had shirked his duty to the Silver Flame, his life and ruins and now a nomad. The sword on his back and his faithful steed, Brass, his only companions on the road. Sometimes a sellsword if he needs money, though most consider him a simple wanderer. Righting some wrongs as he sees them, though just as often keeping his business to himself. Short temper is as likely to be shown as cool indifference and he changes mood as a storm, quick to blow in and destroy all in its path and then just as quickly to be gone without a care.
So it came to be that James had passed through the village of Waldgrave, a human settlement on the borders of one of the Elven Kingdoms. The road passed into the wood and Brass followed it faithfully. The woods were not thick, not at first, and even after passing under the huge canopy above, the path still remained somehow light, despite the thick foliage. Brass snorted and stamped a bit and James halted the beast, hand upon the hilt of the bastard sword on his hip. Brass had caught a scent, and that was when he heard it. Quite some distance away it would seem, and carried lightly upon the breeze - a cry.
Female it would seem, and in distress. "Ha!" James cried and put spurs to his beast, dirt kicked up from iron-shod hooves as Brass broke into a run, James' keen eyes put to the path and looking at their surroundings as the trees flew by. He almost missed it really, the small clump seeming unnatural in the forest, and he was able to make out limb amidst the glint of steel.
Orcs it would seem, travelled far from their own lands. A raiding or scouting party most likely, and their green-hued skin a natural camouflage in this forest, despite it not being their natural terrain. They were not far of the path and Brass cleared the hedgerow and in moments James was upon them...