Role

Chapter 31

This page is somewhat different to the ones that have come before, being
made up of a strange diagram with various labels and arrows placed at key
points. It seems to be the layout for a school of some kind, though oddly
one without an excess of classrooms or similar sections, most of it being
devoted to a large training ground.

The walls of the building, both internal and external, are coloured either
red or green, and one in particular has been circled with a thick banned of
bright crimson ink, an arrow pointing from it to a label(1). The rest of
the red walls are labelled (2, 3) while the green ones are mostly just
ignored, as if the author identified them as unimportant and promptly lost
interest in their existence. In the middle of the school is a surprisingly
artistic picture of Thrym, the diagram's creator apparently having got into
the spirit of things and drawn him with both swords upraised, though with
an uncharacteristically anguished expression on his contorted face. Thrym
too is labelled(4), and a bunch of orange squiggly arrows point inwards all
converging upon the central figure, each labelled with a (G?) and with a
label which seems to apply to all of them (5).

1. SW, backed on to by closet. Good staging point, bulk of Y (HF?)?
2. SW, least important.
3. SW.
4. H, best avoid until Y is planted to avoid reinforcements from V.
5. Distraction. Maybe set fire to O?

Shorthand breakdown:
SW: supporting wall.
Y: yield.
HF: hellfire.
H: primary hostile.
V: Village.
G: Balator guards.
O: Orphanage.