The Red-Gold Chronicles: Chapter 2

Second,   As recorded by the Archivist Loran   Soon after his departure from Koranlus, the young Tyrian took his alias of Vante Rouche as his new name. His first course of action was to travel east towards Dabdan once again. As they made way there, they ran into many soldiers who were seeking a man by Tyrian's exact description. They were forced to take many backroads and unknown passages thanks to Callishta's knowledge.   Following her directions they ended up in a small nameless village north of the entrance to Dabdan, here they rested and prepared for the travel ahead. While here they were beset by a tribe of bandits, while Callishta and Daggro did their best to fight them off, they were being overrun. Tyrian stepped in with magic, but they were really saved by a villager named Knorr. Knorr was a firbolg who strangely enough living among humans. The druidic master defeated the bandits swiftly, and immediately he was approached by Tyrian. Despite the commands from Daggro and Callishta, Tyrian offered a place among his party to the firbolg, Knorr quickly declined but was persuaded by Tyrian over the course of a week in the village.   Finally setting out for Dabdan, with one extra member, Tyrian and his companions crossed through the gates of Dabdan where Tyrian expected a warm welcome. This was not to be the case. Instead, when he announced his presence in the royal estate, he was met with horror. The royals feared the wrath of the stealls, since both gates of Dabdan on the surface were controlled by Ruschezian stealls. Tyrian, heartbroken by the rejection of his adopted family, fled Dabdan from the eastern gate.   Overtaken by grief, Tyrian was silent for many days after that, worrying his companions. However, it was Knorr that shook him from that slump. Knorr had been banished from his home due to helping a group of injured hunters escape death, he had been chastised because they may return to cause damage to the forest. Knorr did not regret saving people nor helping Tyrian, and those who turned their backs on him were not his true family. His true family accepted him as he accepted Daggro, Callishta and Knorr.   Tyrian took Knorr's words to heart and rejected his Dabdan family and accepted his new family in Daggro, Callishta, and Knorr. As such he gave them each the last name of his alias, Rouche, and so the Rouche family continued onward to the eastern coast of Hitram. They drew stares with their strange appearance, and this would lead to Tyrian's enemies closing in on him and his newfound family.              For all their work, they were cornered in the tiny port town of Casinnea, surrounded by the Stealls' forces. Against the input of his companions once more, Tyrian rallied the locals of the town into fighting back against the enemies of their true emperor. They met the army with great fervor, but as could be predicted it ended in bloodshed and tragedy. Every villager was hunted down and slain as Tyrian was forced to flee the town. He watched from a tiny boat as Casinnea was burnt to the ground for treason.      Tyrian would not step foot on Hitram for many years, and when he did he would be a very different man.