The Trials of Rhidon Axehorn

Your methodical approach lets you map the perimiter of the slot canyon mae without encountering any touble. unfortunatlely after a couple hours only to find yourself back at the begining. Reallizing there must be some trick to this you continue your methodical search of the maze treating ll of your previously expored paths as deadends. After s while longer you find a single slot canyon that has a small cave off of it you take the cave and find it heading up untill you are on top of the canyon walls with a clearly marked path set bfore you.

You make your way out of the maze and th path descends again into a small canyon and up to a small hut. Aproaching the hut you see a small tendil of smoke winding up from the chimney. The door is slightly open and you hear someone from within moving about.

Don't stand out there all day calls a strong voice from withing. Stepping up to the door you push it open to reveal a clean and simple yet comfortable room with a nice bed, table, some cupboards, a stove and a grizled old human. The man is making dinner and tells you to set the table. you join in and soon the two of you have a hearty meal. The man seems comfortable with the silence and you feel odly reluctant to break it. You notice as your eat there are tools of the adventurere about the house.
A long bow, Heavy dark cloak, a heavy swrd, some traps, and armor by the back door Eventually the meal is done, the dishes cleaned and put away and the two of you sit in front of the fire.

Taking a lit twig from the fire he light a pipe and offers you one in turn. Sitting back he finally speaks. Been a whie since someone took my trials. Not that many ever took mine. I guess they think boots are not glamorous or usefull. Tell me, why did you pick my boots? and his hard eyes stare at you intently.

The story reminds Rhidon of takes off the children or favored of the Titans. Though still mortal the creatures often possessed strange abilities being that of other mortals. Some required magic weapons, others could only be hurt by wood or other natural items. Some few were said to be truly invulnerable though most agree this is impossible so more likely their opponents simply never found their weakness.

From the story of Baric it sounds as if these people had the same lore and tried many materials. Stone, metal, silver, iron, steal, wood. fire, ice, lightning, thunder, poison, and acid. None of these worked. They had hoped knocking it into a pit would work but it seemed to sense their plan and avoided the trap.

The raids started this spring but never deadly in the summer. It is not really autumn. If they can not preserve there stock then many will suffer and possibly die this winter.