What is my farther up to?

During my time in HammerHome, the magnificent city of the finest race in the Heartlands, I have heard some mutterings about my farther from Stonefist the councilman, whose parents happen to know my parents and have spent time together recently. I knew my farther was a trader but just what kind of trader is he? I always thought that mother was the shady one, with her nimble hands and quick mind she would relieve unsuspecting people of their possessions, go off into the night and come home with some shinny gem or some coins before morning.

But what is my farther up to? Did he sell his long spear to the shady character I bought the stolen throwing axes off? or was it stolen? then there was the note I recieved from the bard that is now traveling with us, who's name I don't recall, umm did he tell us his name? anyway the note was a commission to make a magical long spear with cold and holy enchantments on it. This would be a very powerful weapon indeed--no wonder he just gave me the family Dwarven War Axe when i left for the ritual of aging, he had a new magical spear to weild, I wonder if mother knows about it? and how did he pay for it that spear would have cost more money than a normal trader could afford in two lifetimes. Once we are done with this flying beast and are back in Zamora, I think I need to ask Zhed and maybe some others just what they might know about my farther.

As too my time in Hammerhome we went out to see the parents of stonefist to talk about there time together with our parents/grandparents on the journey from the slave wagon. When we got to the house it was in flames and there 2 dwarves were dead outside the main doors, as we approached a hideous beast emerged from the building smiling and laughing at us. We attacked it but seem to be partly immune to our attacks and every time a weapon hit it, the weapon would hiss with acid damage. Stonefist went down after a barage of blows and we all thought he was a gonner but the trusty Draven cast a healing spell on him to stabilize him. We all fought valiantly but it just kept laughing at us, when Thokk did get his big axe out which was way too late for my liking what was he he doing trying to hit the beast with a torch for? anyway after a couple of mighty blows from Thokk and some more superficial ones from the rest of us the beast was staggering and just as we were about to kill the bugger it vanished PUFF just like that.

Shadowfoot went into the building to look for survivors (yeh right) ...anyway he came flying out of a first story window with a flower vase in one hand and some documents in the other, the fall almost killed him. Draven to the rescue again.

We took the bodies of the dwarves back to Hammerhome where Stonefist was revived and the other 2 dwarves were given an emotional funeral. We all decided to chip in and buy Thokk a nice new magical axe, he kept on talking about those damn cursed swords everytime there was a combat, so we had to change his mind.

We eventually left the wonderful city of the dwarves on a boat heading down river to somewhere near Bingly. During one of the frequent stops we picked up a person who looked human but had glowing gold eyes. He was armed to the teeth with armour and weapons that just appeared on his person when trouble reared it head. Before this we passed what looked like a giant with blueish skin as we sailed down stream I shouted to him but got no reply, anyway when this so called troubled appeared the strange human started casting spells, and jumped over board but there was no splash? Shadowfoot the very flighty elf hopped over after him tied to a rope, and he says he met this blue giant who turned out to be some sort of god. Then he said the new age was upon us.

We get to Bingly, go to the tower and pay our rspects to the dead dwarves and low and behold the portal is working again? lots of guards this time. For some reason i have this feeling i will be going through that portal one day. After this we head up the trail to try and kill this evil Manticore, it attacks at night and its tail barbs are very damaging, we did manage to get a few arrows and bolts into it but it flew of like a coward to lick its wounds, we will have to come up with some foolish plan to either track it or bring it out of the sky, I am sure Shadowfoot will have some hairbrained plan that just might possibly work.

Once this is done we are heading to Zamora where I plan to fnd out about more of my farther.