Guest Post: Alex's Ironsworn Journal - Chapter 1 - Kuno’s Parting Gifts
Continuing guest host Alex's Ironsworn campaign journal. Chapter 1 - Kuno’s Parting Gifts Varro stepped out of the village storehouse with a packet of lampsoot ink and a bundle of supplies for his journey. His uncle was dead, the thick leather-bound tome of lore still unfinished, the task of filling it now Varro's. His ancestors had believed this land and all its strange things could be known, understood, not just endured, and they swore on iron that they would bring it about. Or so Uncle Kuno told him. And now that vow had fallen on him. He had renewed it as he knelt over his uncle's grave, his hand on the iron clasp of the tome itself. Then he had stayed up all night poring over its contents, though he knew them well, wondering where to start. How to start. The book spoke of mystics and sages who lived in the Hinterlands, of elves in the Deep Wilds and of the Broken Ones who had first claimed these lands and been corrupted beyond recognition. He had fallen asleep dreamin...
