So, that was where his great-great-whatever-grandfather ended up after fleeing Zakhara and leaving his family in shambles-- in some adventuring company called the Reavers.
From what Cassim gathered his ancestor was not an original member of the group, nor a long time member, but at some point he was in their ranks.
And, those ranks appeared to have included half orcs, drow, and who knew what else.
According to this Calipheros fellow, there was an abandoned keep in Vaasa which the Reavers built and "only those of the blood of the Reavers" could get into it, or some such nonsense. He claimed at first that it took four bloodlines to get in, now with only three of the bloodlines here he was saying that was enough.
Cassim didn't trust this "sage". This was a shady group at best. The two half orcs, Callista and Torvaagh Armageddon...they seem to be cousins or something, the female was obviously in charge, but, Jauhar save him, he thought they were both intimidating.
It wasn't long into the meeting before he got a look at them in action, hacking their way through some local thugs ...he saw now why back in Zakhara they refer to Northerners as barbarians. Then there was the drow, Aunrae, who was some sort of Necromancer from what he could tell, perhaps a preistess of one of her race's depraved gods...she was the cause of the fight at the inn,
He concluded that drow weren't loved in the North anymore than they were back home.
After killing their attackers they decided to flee the scene. They eventually made it to Bloodstone Village where Calipheros said they needed to get some paperwork in order to cross into Vaasa. Still not trusting this old man, there was something not right about him. As Cassim tailed him to his meeting he was attacked by another drow.-- Cassim wondered how many of them are around there-- whiile the others were attacked by some undead spider thing.
Cassim made it back to the others while fending off the attacks from the drow, but just barely. The others manage to destroy the spider thing and the drow fled. It didn't take long after that for the guards to arrive and the others to be arrested...they didn't get him though.
Cassim followed them to the prision and slipped in unnoticed. Once again Calipheros seemed to be more than he let on. Not only was the governmental office he needed to get the paperwork from open during the middle of the night for him, he seemed to have gotten the rest of the band of companions freed and sent on their way with promises of noble titles and land if they succeeded.
That was certainly not what Cassim would have expected to happen to a couple of thuggish half orcs and a drow who were just arrested!!!! Something was amiss in this venture, and Calipheros was at the heart of it.
Cassim decided he would leave now, as the didn't seem to have a favorable ending, but with bounty hunters after him, staying with the half orcs and drow did have some advantages...and who knew, maybe there really was some fortune to be had in the so-called "Reaver's Hall."
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