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Forge of Power
After a moment, Alzar appears on a boat. It’s sailing east. The boat is rocking gently from side to side and a few birds can be made out. Alzar heads out and sees an olive-skinned man wearing a plain grey tunic and carrying a wooden bowl. He shouts out something, and Alzar uses another potion of Tongues.
A second or two pass, and from the top deck emerges Captain Selios, greets Alzar, and brings him into his cabin. He explains that he has been a merchant all of his life, and he is a middle-aged human man, short, stocky, with a full beard.
They are leaving the shores of Aelos because he has just visited with the five oracles and they told him that he would never find rest until he had been reforged on the anvil of the world in the company of strangers. The stranger would come with least expected. And here Alzar is. Fate has bound them together. Five Oracles? Alzar gives a brief description of the Crones he encountered. “Exactly! You must have met them too!”
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