Along the route over the peaks of the mountains we stumbled across a stone tablet. There was some text on it, but I could not read it, probably because it was some old forgotten language, by the human race that is. Lucky for me, my dwarf companion, named Rothgur (not to be confused with Rothgar the merchant in Droknar’s Forge), could read the tablet. He began reading it and told me the following:

“He, who seeks hints about the future, will find hints in the past”


Like I didn’t know that one already, that’s what this whole expedition is about! I do not need a stone tablet to tell me so.

Having been distracted for a while because of the stone tablet, I did not notice the movements in my surroundings and thus we went on, towards the next peak. Of course the dwarf needed to complain that he could not keep up with his short legs and thus we decided to take shelter in a nearby cave. I began making a fire to create some warmth and light(it was starting to get darker outside), but then, out of nowhere, I heard a loud howl. I wanted to go out and see what was happening, but Rothgur pulled me back in the cave, starting to cry for his mom. The poor dwarf shouted that he shouldn’t have accompanied me, that he should’ve let me go alone. I calmed him down (a few punches on the back always work with dwarfs, reminds them of their moms) while searching for my sword and shield to prepare for battle.

I heard the wolves (or maybe something else) coming closer, but just when I feared for the worst a large being doomed up before the entrance of the cave. It was quite tall, and looked like a human, so it probably was a Norn that was on a hunting rampage. Because it was getting darker, I couldn’t see him or her that well, and thus I asked for his or her name, and what he was doing around these parts. She then told me that it did not matter at that moment, because the wolves were really close, and that she would talk later (Because of her voice, I figured she was female). The wolves then jumped out of the bushes and started to jump towards the Norn. It was really impressive to see the fight going on, there were around ten wolves surrounding the Norn. Then I realized that she might need some help, because not even a Norn can defeat ten wolves, so I thought. I jumped up, took my sword and shield and ran towards the front of the cave and started to help in defeating the wolves. While the Norn was fighting, she screamed to me that Norn do not need help, that she could fight them all herself. I did not retreat because I knew in the end, she did need help and so the battle went on. One wolf managed to bite the Norn in her leg, but as if it was just a scratch she went on. It took us a while to kill most of the wolves, while some other retreated out of fear.

The battle was over but I could see that the Norn did feel a lot of pain in her leg, and so I told her that she should come in, and let me have a look at her wound. When we came in, Rothgur was gone. I quickly took a look at the wound of the Norn and pasted some crème on it, hoping it would heal itself. I also picked a towel out of my pocket and wrapped it around the wound.

Her introduction would have to wait a bit as we needed to go search for Rothgur, he couldn’t be too far away with his short legs, could he?

Batavus the Scribe,