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Tales from the Golden Griffin
by ~gerbo-fleetfoot

In the vast land of Griffin Wood, along the southeastern coastline lies a busy little port city. Tetera this city is called, the busiest port in all of Griffin Wood. Travelers from lands far and near come here seeking to trade their goods in the Tetera market place, or find willing bodies for a ships crew. Others travel here seeking knowledge in the art of combat and to develop or master skills in the way of the warrior at the Moonblade academy, ran by the seasoned head master Tobias Farhan. Some spiritual seekers often find their way to the small church on the northern edge of the city, where wisdom and spiritual guidance can be found among the many clerics and priests, the head of the church is the High Cleric Solomon Kendrik. Tetera also play host to one of the branches of the Order of the Leaf, an organization whose members are compiled of clerics and priest skilled in divine magic skills and battle skills used to fight the evils and mysterious creatures and dark priests the have aligned themselves with darkness and evil. Tetera's most famous attraction is the Golden Griffin Tavern.
The Golden Griffin Tavern is a small tavern where you can get a meal if your hungry and wash it down with a variety of wines ales, and mead, or if you need to rest above the Griffin is three rooms that can be rented for a night or two. The owner of the tavern is a balding, portly dwarf only known as Rock. The tavern's biggest attraction is a wall at the back of the place where notices, wanted posters, and job opportunities are posted.
This tavern and its wall have took many people to their fortune and their demise, some of the greatest and most tragic stories are due in no small part to the back wall of the Golden Griffin Tavern.
Now this brings us to our part in this tale where one moon lit night a creepy looking old man dressed in a black ragged cloak enters the tavern. He scanned the room seeing Rock half asleep at the bar and his short plump busty barmaid sitting at the bar sipping a drink and few late night bar patrons sitting lazily about. Shaking his head he walks toward the back wall with a parchment in his hand. As he walks across the creaking floor Rock jumps up startled by the man. Rock watches as the man limps to the wall and tacks up the parchment.
Standing back looking at the parchment the cloaked man chuckles hard leading to a ragged cough. After his bout of coughing he smiles and utters a few words, "Now we will see who is touched enough in the head to respond to this." The cloaked figure turned and limped out the door and seemingly disappeared into the shadows.
Rock quickly waddled from behind his bar and headed to the parchment to read what the creepy man was chuckling about. As he read his eyes widened and without thinking he blurts out,"by the god of the forge, I want to meet the fool who takes this job, it is nothing but a death sentence. " letting out a belly laugh as he returned to his bar.

THE PARCHMENT READS AS FOLLOWS:
Wanted strong brave souls to help rid the land and kill or capture Damious Nefer, the most wanted of all dark mages. He is cunning, powerful and has no regard for the lives of others, his crimes are of a heinous nature and his followers and minions will fight and die for him. This grave task if completed will benefit the brave one(s) with ample riches and weapons or gear made by the elusive Grim Firefist, the great dwarven smithy said to have the skills unrivaled only by the god of the forge.
For inquires about this matter please report to the docks aboard the ship known as the Dragons Mist, ask for William "ragged bill" Dupree





 
 
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