Introducing... Govannon, the Mighty Orc slayer

It was the 3rd day of Alturiak, Year of Rogue Dragons and both Galrion and Kala were at Waterdeep.

By then Galrion had taken his time to restock his supplies and Kala was organizing her finances, when they received a message, magically imprinted on a bird, from Elerium who briefly requested their presence in the High Forest. They decided to resolve all ongoing business with multiple people in the city and managed to get ready for the journey in the same day. Galrion decided to take Vola, the displacer beast, in order to continue its training.

Because of the harsh winter conditions and of the dangers outside ofthe city borders, they managed to get an arrangement with a caravan master so they could accompany it, thus offering both parties the protection of numbers until they parted reach the High Forest. With this arrangement agreed upon, the linen-transportation caravan started its journey, where acquaintances were made and experiences shared bythe fires, whenever camp was settled at night. There were quite a group of adventurers in the caravan guard, led by a sturdy dwarf warrior, named Tharkin.

Days went by with no problem whatsoever and in one day they would reach the High Forest, where they would part the caravan and go their own way. However, that day the caravan was to be attacked. All of a sudden, the caravan was surrounded by orcish creatures and one of the guards gave the alarm - a battle ensued. The guards stood well their ground, but one by one they kept falling. Kala lept early and unprepared into battle, in noble clothing, although that didn't stop her from heavily staining the grounds with orc blood on one side of the caravan. Meanwhile, on the other side, due to the rapidly escalating numerical inferiority, Galrion opted to summon some fellow, furry, wild creatures to aid in the battle, along with Vola. However, the leader of this attack group chose to pound him heavily and, although he managed to best him, he was still surrounded by orcs and heavily wounded, and eventually he lost enough blood to be unable to keep conscious, so he fell. At this point, one of the few caravan guards named Govannon (a half-elf rogue who in the meantime they had become acquainted with) finished off the orcs that had been keeping him busy and ultimately put an end to the ones left near Galrion. By this time, Tharkin had fallen to the enemy, who were blasted into oblivion by Kala's magical missiles.

Right in the end of battle, as the few remaining orcs fled the horrendous battlefield, Elerium, who was out hunting orcs, found this scenario and joined the survivors down there, where he greeted his old friends and was introduced to Govannon, shortly after Kala applied a health potion to Galrion's wounds and woke him up. Upon realizing that they were the sole survivors of this attack, they decided to search for anything that might prove useful for them, then pile up and burn the bodies, to prevent the proliferation of diseases. They found three small flasks with a viscous dark liquid within, which in the end they decided to bury, to prevent from harming anyone, although they never got to know what it was.

Elerium revealed the intent of his message was merely to invite them to go orc hunting, since there had been many orcish activities there.The four remained together for some time hunting some of these orc groups. Govannon remained with the group until they returned to Waterdeep to go take care of pending businesses (and he showed on more than one occasion that his personality was that of a lone person, who will not work in a team for a very long time).