Report on Eir from Bran

Heiassa,   We made it to Eir - this place is a mess. In theory, there’s a sharp divide between the churches and the government here, but reality is a little more complicated. There is nowhere in Eir you won’t hear prayers offered at sunset, sunrise, or red and silver moonrise. Every riverboat makes offerings to the Fisherman before it launches, most mercenaries doing any kind of protective work paint the symbol of the Sentinel on their shields. These folks are deeply religious and Drakken played them like a fiddle.   Fate magic here is a maliciously tangled mess. Drakken was known here as the ‘Prophet of the Six Gods’ and he spun fate and staged disasters to make his ‘prophecies’ come true. Yneir says the people she dealt with in Deldrin were pilgrims from Eir preparing to launch a crusade to deal with the ‘godless nations.’   With Drakken dead, a lot of his weaving has fallen apart which is both good and bad. Yneir and I are going to spend a little while getting things cleaned up. I’d need you here, or at least Lyssa as a representative of the Outlands to shift the course of an entire nation onto a better path. Right now, I don’t feel like that’s the priority, but tell me if you disagree. What I can do, and intend to, is to mop up the ‘pending disasters’ Drakken left in his wake. People don’t deserve to have his lingering cruelty inflicted on them.   Yneir hates it, but I’m trying to teach her that it’s enough to give people back mastery of their own fates, for better or for worse. This is a lot to clean up with just the two of us. I don’t know if we’ll get things done with the time we have. For better or worse, I won’t spend more than six weeks here before we keep pushing south. Last winter is too fresh in my mind and I have no talent for weather prediction. I don’t want to get stuck in Eir because we spent too long being interlopers.   Let me know what you think, and keep an eye out when you get to human territories for more of Drakken’s lingering zealots.   Bran