Role

Chapter 10

After some time I have finally proven my small worth to the paragon, and
crafted a statue which embodies the inherent rage of all dwarves. My efforts
in the service of the paragon bestowed me with her mark, an honor a dwarf
could dare hope to earn in a thousand years. However, though my hands bear
now the skills and fire to mold the earth, and I have become a full
stonemason, there is more which I must do. The Paragon's will be not
fulfilled and so my work and redepmtion of my family be not complete.

The Paragon instructed me thusly, that all magic, not just spells and pill,
should be refrained from. That I have since complied with, sacrifing all that
I had in her name, and all that I come across is given to Tahren to be
properly removed from the realm. Also no mage may travel in my company, nor
shall her gifts be used for their aid. The Paladin's code is thus subject to
her will, as it always has been and always shall be.

However, abstention of magic is not all the paragon asks of me, she also asks
that I eradicate the foes of all dwarven kind at every opportunity, be they
spire or not her wrath for her enemies shall flow through me and be levied
upon them. Every orc and duergar I come across shall know that the paragon
wishes their destruction, and that I be her instrument to carry it forth in
thera. Be they Spire or Village, young or old, it matters not, they all shall
be come to fear the dwarves marked with the star-shaped scar.

Perhaps if I perform as she wishes, she might hear my thoughts of securing
better guards for Akan, as I have been saving copper and taking donations for
my services at the forge and elsewhere to better equip and train some dwarven
guards for the city. My family failed once, and though I might redeem them,
my life will not be eternal, and so the securing of better defenses for Akan
in my absence remains of the utmost importance to me as well.