Board Thread:Character Journals/@comment-28004675-20160318221526

What madness is this? The ship aboard which I fled Academy was sunk by a wicked storm. I lost consciousness at some point during the excitement. I woke to found myself in a strange place surrounded by strange people. Most interesting were some individuals dressed in woven armor and wearing large cat skulls as hats, they call them selves Ashen. I'm not sure why but I'm strangely fascinated by those hats. In addition to these characters were others who had been shipwrecked on this island a man, a young woman and, surprisingly, an apprentice of the academy. During the course of my questioning these people I was informed that the place I find myself in is in fact an island. Not only is it an island it's an island that is impossible to leave because of the tinkerings of a mad great one. Worse, hey have informed me that there is a man on this island who styles himself a king and is called Leopold. As they tell it he likely sacrifices humans to extend his longevity, a dark and twisted magic. The Ashen have set themselves against this king and the shipwrecks seem to have some manner of aliance with them.

The people that I woke to and am now working with seem like an honest sort. They claim that their goal is to find a way to leave this place. Perfect. I have no desire to remain here. In fact, when they found me they were in the process of investigation a series of magic artifices which they hope may hold the key to leaving this place. I joined them in a poorly planned attempt to navigate a canoe with a rigged sail off the coast of the island to a smaller island hosing one of these artifices. Luckily, we successfully navigated the distance. Ariving on the smaller island we found it inhabited by great lizard beasts. As we approached the entrance to this place we were prevented from entering by these beasts and engaged them in mighty combat through which I miraculously survived.

As we searched the artifice we discovered a door that would only open to those who had the gift and spoke the word, "friend." The door lead to a system of tunnels that after conferring with the other members of our group seemed to lead to the other three artifices on the island. Myself and the man named Joryn decided to leave the others and return to the Ashen village with information of the discovery... 