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Chapter 2

Illaeth followed his parents north, leaving the safely of Daryslon
behind them as they made their way into the darkened mountains that
lay stretched out before them. They were pilgrims, weary from their
journey across Thera but full of reverence and inspiration from the
twelve sacred places they had seen. Illaeth stared up into the night
sky as the clouds parted, revealing Thirteen stars that guided the
travellers further north and into the treacherous mountains beyond.

They shivered as the winds swirled around them, pulling their cloaks
tighter about themselves they marched with determination. In an Age
now passed, their path would have been illuminated by the Eternity
Flame that safely guided travellers and pilgrims to the Sanctuary of
Thirteen Saints. Instead they walked in darkness, wary of all noises
that reached their straining ears. These mountains were now known to
be plagued by undead skeletons and beasts of the night.

Suddenly they were startled by a wounded bear that erupted from the
looming shroud of shadow that had settled upon the eerie ground. It
was panicked and in a rage, bleeding heavily from wounds sustained
from the rusted weapons of the infernal skeletons. It came upon the
three pilgrims who found themselves between this enraged beast and
its passage to safety.