Wolf Moon

What Has Gone Before

What Has Gone BeforeIn Book 1, The Wolf Pack, the friends found Sauvern's Sword, a magical sword that chose its wielder and protected itself from others by a variety of methods, such as getting either too hot or too cold to hold, becoming too heavy to lift, causing an electric shock, feeling as if it were covered in prickles, and other means. It chose Randa, heir to the duchy of Hambara as its wielder.

A prophesy that Carthinal found in an ancient book suggested they would need this sword to save the land of Grosmer from an unspecified threat. They deduced this threat could possibly come from someone called 'The Immortal Mortal' in the prophecy. On returning from this adventure, the members of Wolf settled down to normal life.

Carthinal, a half-elf mage now married to the elf, Yssalithisandra, was about to become a father. The couple worked on finding spells lost during the Forbidding, when the king banned use of magic in Grosmer, on pain of death.

Thadora tried hard to settle in to her new life as the daughter of Duke Rollo of Hambara. Until he had adopted her, she had been a thief in the Warren, the poor quarter of Hambara. She found this change in lifestyle difficult to adapt to.

The Horselords, Kimi and Davrael, worked with the Duke's horses. They ran away from their homeland after their parents tried to stop them from marrying. They joined with the others in Hambara and went in search of Sauvern's Sword with them. (See The Wolf Pack)

Randa, elder daughter of Duke Rollo of Hambara, at last decided to accept a proposal of marriage from Prince Almoro, the second son of King Gerim. This, in spite of her love for the ranger, Fero. She knew he could never settle down in the city and become the consort of the Duchess, but she had to produce an heir to the duchy.

Asphodel, who had become a fully fledged cleric of the goddess, Sylissa, contented herself with healing any who came to her. The Great Father of Hambara banned her from entering the temple after she disobeyed an order from the Most High of the Church of Sylissa, himself.

Basalt, the dwarf, returned to his previous employer and had become a partner in the business and Fero, with his dog, Bramble, had settled in a hut he built himself in the forest outside the city.

One day Fero had a visit from Grnff, a yeti who saved the members of Wolf from death in the Mountains of Doom. He also helped them to find the valley where Sauvern's tomb lay.

The huge Yeti asked for help to rescue his cub from kidnappers. The members of Wolf all agreed that they owed their friend a debt of life.

Meanwhile, Carthinal happened to meet Grimmaldo, a young man who took the apprentice tests with him. Grimmaldo asked to go with them on their adventure and they all agreed.

On their journey to the place where Grnff last saw signs of his cub, they met another of Carthinal's past friends. This time a cat burglar from Bluehaven, known only as The Cat. The Bluehaven guard had discovered evidence incriminating him in a series of burglaries and had come a little too close to arresting him.

With Grnff, the company first went to the caves where the Yeti had their cubs and met Zplon and her other cub, Crthnl, called after Carthinal, then they set off after the kidnappers.

They tracked the signs to a troll camp where they saw negotiations for the hand over of Tadra, the cub named for Thadora.

The other group in the negotiations were human soldiers. The ten Wolves and one Yeti attacked and rescued the cub, but not without destroying all the patrol of soldiers and the trolls.

On their way back to Grosmer (they now found themselves in Erian), they met a patrol searching for their missing companions. The patrol questioned them as to their motives in travelling through Erian, and if they had seen any signs of the missing patrol.

In order to provide an excuse for being in Erian, they posed as a troop of wandering entertainers and the soldiers took them back to the battalion of the Erian army. Here the captain became suspicious of their cover, and decided to draft them into the Erian army where they learned of plans to invade Grosmer.

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When Kalhera descends from the mountains

And orcs once more roam the land.

When impossible beasts occur

And t he Never-Dying Man is once more at hand,

Then the Sword that was lost must once more be found.

Only it can destroy the threat

And kill the immortal mortal

To balance out his debt.

The Continent of Khalram