Shroud of the Avatar: Two Story Sneak Peeks For the Price of One
There was a second story snippet included in the most recent update to the Shroud of the Avatar website. Here’s a taste:
From the travel journals of Maeread, historian and seeker of truth…
The journeys of our group through the lands of Grunvald were difficult, to be sure – the undead have been rising more frequently of late and there are rumors of a great army of skeletal walkers rising to the north. Yet, the ruins hold such promise! We have found so many scattered among the plains; the local villagers take them quite for granted, having lived among them for generations. So much history, so much already lost.
We have gained something of a reputation among the people here; being generous with coin for guidance to well-maintained places of the ancients has helped with this, I suspect. When we were contacted by a fisherman well versed with the swampy islands off the coast, this generosity paid for itself more than we could have hoped.
Click on through to the Ultima Codex’s Shroud of the Avatar story reference page to read the rest!
“Of the time and people of the land before the cataclysm, there is little in the way of memory, and much in the way of speculation”
Actually, it appears that the ruins described are POST-Cataclysm.
“This was far too well preserved to be a city of the ancients; none of those remnants survived the Cataclysm without the fiery scarring that signified that disaster. “