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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0f800500dvldtc.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#6633FF" FACE="ForgottenUncial" ><B>Dark Kingdoms</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>    |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dark Kingdoms"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Search Begins"><U>The Search Begins</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id198.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Journey of Kerrick"><U>The Journey of Kerrick</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id199.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hard to Hide"><U>Hard to Hide</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Swan"><U>The Swan</U></A><B>   |   </B><B>Questions Answered, Questions Raised</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>ADVENTURES</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Search Begins"><U><B>The Search Begins</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id198.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Journey of Kerrick"><U><B>The Journey of Kerrick</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id199.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hard to Hide"><U><B>Hard to Hide</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Swan"><U><B>The Swan</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id201.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Questions Answered, Questions Raised"><U><B>Questions Answered, Questions Raised</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Questions Answered, Questions Raised</B></div> <bR> <div>   Afdter a restful night at the Hamar home, Kerrick and Larsania decided that it was too dangerous to stay in one spot for too long. Since the Rod has been guiding them toward the west (although it was "silent" now), they decided to continue in that direction. </div> <div>   After a long and hard day's travel, they began to search for a safe spot to rest for the night. Around twilight, they were suprised by a deer that shot across there path, and an arrow falling close behind, barely missing Kerrick. </div> <div>   Perridon the archer came into view, and offered his services as a guide and companion, after apologizing for nearly shooting Kerrick. Kerrick reluctantly decided to camp with the archer for the night, as he claimed to know of better campng grounds. </div> <div>   During the evening conversation, Perridon earned thier trust by showing them how to start a fire using Abyssweed, which burns without fire. Also, Kerrick discovered that Perridon had knowledge of Kerrick's father, Kerus. Apparently, Kerus and Perridon's father, Greythorn, knew each other at one time. Unfortunatly, Perridon knew little more than that. The facts did not match what kerrick knew of his father, who was supposed to be a lone, simple woodsman.</div> <div>   Kerrick asked if Perridon's father had ever mentioned other friends. Perridon answered that Greythorn also knew a man in Heart city known as Jerald Smitherton, a smith by trade. The group traveled to that city and met with the smith's son (the smith now long dead). There they discovered, in the dead smith's writings, that Kerrick's father was "one of the Guardians of the Crown", written in the book under the chapter of the Battle of the Red Souls. Again, there was little more information. Hower, there was mention of others - Ferris Lionmane, who was sent into the Elven Woods, and Nolan Ravus, who was sent into the Heart Mountains "under the nose of the dragon". There was also a mention of "others" as well.</div> <div>   Kerrick asked if Gethyere, his elven friend as a child, and a friend of his father's, was mentioned in the book, and he was. Kerrick decided to travel back to his home and find the elf, to ask for answers regarding his father and this new mystery.</div> <div>   That night, the Rod that Kerrick had been protecting pulled towrd a direction so strongly that it awoke him, and then the Rod began making an errie sound. Following the tugging and the sound, Kerrick was led to a priest by the name of Father Macar, who also possessed another piece of the Rod that he claimed to have taken from the body of Ferris Lionmane, who had died of old age in the elven woods. </div> <div>   Then, before he was able to leave, the same starnge man who had visited him in Midtown showed himself again, giving Kerrick riddles and told him that "he was one of the searchers... there were seven rods... and that "he and his brothers" were the Wind Dukes. He claimed to be responsible for letting the goblins know of the traders location in Kerrick's first adventure, and claimed that it was this that led kerrick to the Rod in the first place. He knew that this had caused deaths, but claimed that as "a wound that must be felt in battle for the Rods". </div> <div>   So, Kerrick continued on...</div> <div> Click <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id189.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Look to the Past, Look to the Future"><U>HERE </U></A></FONT>to keep following the adventures of Kerrick</div> </td> </tr></table></body>