[quote=@Dyelli Beybi]
"Tell us of the Morgador," Hagen requested, with a cheerful smile, "I have spent plenty of time in the frozen lands of the North but have never ventured into that place.  I had been planning an expedition to the uncharted lands South of here, but then the young lady approached me and suggested I join her for a time," he nodded towards Aderynel.

"But anyway, on with your tale!  I hear there are ruins in the Morgador, the scale of which is beyond imagining!" he declared.
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"Well, it is kinda a long story, but it did deal with a ruin." Markiel started with a smile on his face. "But the tale is that I was hired to help guard a scholar who thought he could open a long-lost ruined Sidfirian tower that had some kind of valuable object inside." This was when Markiel's face turned somewhat confused. "Now I do not know why the scholar thought this or how he was going to open the tower. He was rather secretive about it, but was paying a good fee for the protection, so I did not mind. So after travelling days into Morgador and finding the tower." 

Now Markiel's face and tone were more serious. "That is when things took a turn, and the tower door had some kind of magical ward on it, the scholar thought he could deactivate the thing... Only he could not, and instead of opening the tower door by using what looked like an old wooden wand. Whatever he tried to do to get past the ward, the ward seemly activated and sent a burst of magic out back at the scholar and reduced him to ash. We did not stick around after that, and one of the guards tried to pick up the ward that was still intact, but it burned his hands when he tried to take it. I never seen or heard of wood being that hot and still being wood. So he left it there, and if there is a way to get into that tower. I would be hesitant to try." 

Markiel's tone shifted to a more relaxed one, "that was my experience in Morgador, and I just wonder what was going on in that scholar's head and where he got that wand, but I have not ventured back into Morgador since." 

Markiel shook his head in remembrance of the tale. "I just hope that our venture into these ruins is not so... traumatic." He really hopes that and things do not take a turn like that one. 

"So, but what about you?" Markiel curiously asked, you have a tale you wish to say, or should we talk of something else?"