My Adventure Begins

Added this new section of blog entries. It’s to blog the adventures of my other self in a fantasy world called Vana’Diel. The recent FFXI story I posted has been moved to this section, and it will be the first entry, for my FFXI blog. It is what inspired me to give more attention to adventuring than levelling. But still, without getting stronger, I cannot explore new areas without risk getting killed by them evil goblins.

This is Wyred, a level 24 Warrior aspiring to be a Dark Knight. I pledge allegiance to Windurst, home of the fucking cute Tarutarus [XD]. You should see them when they dance.

Inspired by the story in the first FFXI entry of my blog, I set out to search for the stone monuments as mentioned. The first one was relatively close to my starting point. To begin with, I accepted the quest from the Mayor of Selbina to search Vana’Diel for various stone monuments which contains text left behind by an certain adventurer, Gwinheim Ironheart.

As I made my way across the sandy beaches of Valkurm Dunes, headed to my first location, a level 10 Tarutaru Black Mage approached me for help. He asked if I could escort him to San D’oria, home of the Elvaans. Since we happen to be travelling on the same path, I agreed to help.

My destination was West Ronfaure. To get there, we had to travel through La Theine Plateau. La Theine is littered with aggressive goblins and orcs which the little one could not possibly handle by himself. But it is also a beautiful countryside with trees.

As we set foot on West Ronfaure, we parted. The insects and monsters here are easy enough and seldom aggressive. He was headed to King Ranperre’s Tomb. And I’m to search around the forest for a stone monument. It was covered by walls that used to be part of a building. Trees and plants have already grown everywhere. I used the clay given to me by the Mayor to make a copy of the message on the monument…

    “It’s been 10 years since I last stepped on this land. The Orcs who have been dwelling far up north have started to show some signs of activity, and that worries me a lot. This kingdom’s very fabric of livelihood and pride lies in this forest. But the Elvaans are a race that are very proud of their own culture and treat the others as crude lower-class barbarians. They think the power of the Orcs is too insignificant and is no match against their chivalry. But, let this old man prophesize, that one day in the near future, tens of thousands… no… hundreds of thousands of Orc soldiers will invade the forest and take over this lush and beautiful environment. Though it is wishful thinking on my part, I hope someone who is kind enough to take time to read my plea on this engraving, would take heed of my warning.”

C.E. 761
Gwinheim Ironheart

I had plans to collect quest items with a friend so I did not proceed to help the Mayor visit the remaining monuments. But this quest, will be accomplished slowly, one step at a time.