Just make sure you're there when we need you.Īrvith: Baran should be in position by now. While you demonstrate against him and kill his creatures, I will try to defeat Mordak himself with magic at an unguarded moment. Can you keep the mage off our backs?īaran: I will go stealthily with a handful of our best scouts and woodsmen. He is somewhere due north of here, I would say not more than two days' ride.Īrvith: All right. I can feel Mordak's foul touch on the hidden currents of the earth and air. They have been terrorizing outlying farms, and we fear they may soon attack the village itself! The villagers of Maghre have taken up weapons but they are not trained fighters but we need your men, and you to lead them. What ails Maghre?īaran: A dark mage has come upon us his creatures call him Mordak. Heeding the call of his amulet, Arvith gathered such men as he could and hurried to Maghre to help Baran.īaran: Greetings, brother, and welcome home.īaran: Is that all, Arvith? I understand, but.Īrvith: You called, and I came be content with that. If he will not come for me, perhaps he will return to aid our village in its hour of desperate need. Will he heed the call? I do not know if he has kept the amulet we have not spoken since that evil day at Toen Caric. I need my brother he always had a better head for battle than I. But he bides in the hills, well-guarded by his servants, and I muster frightened peasants to fight his minions with blades and sticks. If I could but face this 'Mordak'! I think my magic might prove stronger than his. Baran sent out that call.Įxcerpt from the journal of Baran of Maghre Fortunate it was for all that when Baran was but an apprentice mage, he had made a pair of amulets for himself and his brother, with which they might call to each other when in dire need. Now Baran had a brother named Arvith who had also left Maghre to seek his fortune, and had become the leader of a small band of horsemen who hired out as guards to merchant caravans. He set the smiths of Maghre to making spearheads and ax-blades for the rest. He found weapons half-forgotten from the times of their sires and grandsires hanging in many houses, and bade the villagers to take them down and clean and oil them. The people looked to him for help and leadership. There was a man named Baran who had shown talent as a mage when he was young, gone to the great Academy on the Isle of Alduin, and returned to work his magic in the land where he was born. But the nearest lord was more than a day's ride distant, and messengers sent to seek his help did not return. Men and women began to fear the night, and their children even the bright day. People vanished from isolated farmsteads. "Fear and obey Mordak the Mage!" they cried in fell voices as they did their foul deeds. Skeletons and zombies killed cattle and fired fields. Wars and the rumor of wars touched them not, until the day a dark mage settled in the region and began seeking sacrifices for his evil summonings. The remote freehold of Maghre in the western reaches of the kingdom of Wesnoth was once a peaceful place, its inhabitants largely unaware of the comings and goings of the wider world. (S 1-2)Īrvith: Everything is lost now that I am dead.
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The battle maps exclude it from being in a featureless plain, though there are hills to the south and west.Īrvith: All is lost now that I am dead. Neither of these directions has plot importance, but they do suggest a locale for Maghre - near the Gray Woods. Later, the boss's keep is said to be still further north. Our main textual clue is that there is a dense wood, said by legend to be haunted, a few days' ride north. Placing the campaign is a little trickier. It's arbitrarily set at 353 Kalenz began his wanderings ten years later, so the timing for Arvith to meet him later in life isn't bad. The logical time would be shortly after the death of Haldric IV in 350, the beginning of the First Dark Age. This limits us to *western* Wesnoth, orc raids having been a chronic problem in the northeast even during the Kingdom's strongest periods. Maghre has to be within reach of the orcs, but in a time and place where there haven't been orc raids for generations. In a later revision the epilog hint that Arvith may have traveled with the elf-lord Kalenz, but this is not much of a constraint as Kalenz was around in 1YW and at least until the beginning of HttT in 517 YW. There was a vague reference to "the eastern reaches of the kingdom of Wesnoth". This campaign, as originally written, had no definite time or place. If you don't want spoilers, leave this page now. It is meant as a resource for Wesnoth writers. This is a transcription of all dialogue from The Tale of Two Brothers (1.9.5).