Once More Into the Darkness

 


Hello! My name is Kerran! A few months ago I escaped from the Underdark into the surface world of Estrea. I found that things up on the surface were wildly different than what I knew, but I made friends! There's Eleody and Meadowhawk, Falkner, and Izzy! Izzy's kind of like my little sister, though she's a tiefling and I'm a dark elf. Falkner is a dwarf and like a big brother! (He seems gruff, but he's very protective.) Eleody and Meadowhawk are fun. They're magically stuck to each other through these special bracers, and I think they're starting to maybe Not hate it.

Anyway, Vela asked me to introduce myself and tell you a little about my adventures. After getting to Estrea, I found friends and we started traveling together, fighting monsters, and then we got targeted by bandits. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, except they were going to go after our innocent friends. So we hunted them down, found out the leader was cursed, so we chased her into a different pocket of the Underdark, and helped her fight a yucky dragon. I ended up killing the dragon, and we figured out how to help the bandit leader! Without killing her! 

Flash forward to where we are now, me and my friends have found that a lot of the government has decided bards and bardic magic were "too dangerous" and have been stealing people as part of the so-called Redistribution to a secret island prison. We want to rescue all of them, stop the Redistribution, find out why the stars are going out, and stop Isaacs, the person in charge of all this. So, you know. No pressure. Since we don't have enough information at the moment, we're heading back to my old home (which is terrifying) to see if we can find out what's messing with things down there. I'm only going back because my friends are with me and because I can make myself look different but...here's to hoping we don't die and my past leaves me alone.

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