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Glas Err - “The Traveler in Green”
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A series of old heroic tales from the seventh astral era, it concerns a traveling frontiersmen, the name coming from the green rags the traveler is described as wearing. To this day, the author of the stories is unknown, but many scholars are of the opinion than the stories have more than one altogether.
At the beginning of the tale, we learn that Glas Err appeared seemingly out of nowhere. He claimed to be from a verdant region to the far north, one that had long shriveled up and died. The traveler had been pierced with three lances, each of which remained impaled within him, and each of which once belonged to one he betrayed the trust of.
The first was from his father, who he abandoned to a life of adventure.
The second was from his mentor, who taught him how to wield the spear.
The third was from his brother, who he struck down to earn his freedom.
He left his homeland at a very young age. The story doesn’t mention his exact age, but it’s implied he’s no older than fifteen summers at the story’s beginning. The tale begins at his encounter with a ravenous dragon at the brink of death upon arriving in Aldenard, where he gains incredible power by slicing the scalekin’s head clean off and drinking the beast’s blood. From then on, it is a chronicle of the traveler’s entire life, ending with the traveler’s meeting with his own adult son and heading off on his final adventure in the twilight years of his life. The stories don’t just focus on the traveler, however, as many shift the focus to the various characters he encounters along the way, such as:
The Sorceress of the Caverns - First introduced in “A Sprout Of Muy Tun”, the sorceress is the primary deuteragonist of the short stories. In a sense, the sorceress is the antithesis of the traveler. Where he is uneven and unsure of himself, the sorceress is confident, level-headed, and methodical in everything she does.
During the story in which she first appears, she meets the wanderer when he travels beneath the surface to find a cure for a peculiar poison that is believed to have no cure. Over the course of the story, the traveler falls deeply in love with the sorceress, though cannot bring himself to confess his feelings for fear that she does not feel the same, a recurring theme throughout the stories she appears in.
The Archmage's Apprentice - The traveler’s closest friend and adoptive younger sibling. A parallel of sorts to the Sorceress: While the Sorceress is a practiced magus of many years, the Apprentice is still an understudy to an aging Archmage. A young, passionate mage born with incredible power, the apprentice is constantly at odds with their own desire to grow stronger and amass power of their own, which slowly alienates the traveler from them.
In the final story, though it isn’t outright stated, it’s strongly implied that the apprentice, now an archmage in their own right as an adult, is the one that ends up slaying the traveler as an old man.
