All right then. [This is possibly the most unenthused audience he's ever had for a story, but at least she's asking. She might find it even a little bit interesting, so he launches straight into the telling.]
It started when I started reading up on the lives of the four saints of the Church of Seiros. You don't need to know the details, except to know that one of them was a renowned blacksmith, and a great warrior in his own right. He was said to have died in a war a thousand years ago, according to official accounts, but others said he crossed the sea to the east to search for new lands. I did a little digging and my research pointed me to a desert in the Sreng region.
That's east of where Dimitri's from. You know him, right? [He has no idea, but as a fellow shardbearer, chances are they've bumped into each other by now. But he's getting sidetracked, so he continues on.] Anyway, in that desert was said to be the ruins of an ancient temple, which was supposedly built to worship a great beast. I had a hunch that beast was connected to the saint, and if I went there, I might be able to find some of his weapons.
When I got there, I found the ruins, some bandits with the same idea I had... and the beast. It was huge, with great big wings [He spreads his arms for emphasis,] and a beak like a bird, but it moved on all fours. It even talked!
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It started when I started reading up on the lives of the four saints of the Church of Seiros. You don't need to know the details, except to know that one of them was a renowned blacksmith, and a great warrior in his own right. He was said to have died in a war a thousand years ago, according to official accounts, but others said he crossed the sea to the east to search for new lands. I did a little digging and my research pointed me to a desert in the Sreng region.
That's east of where Dimitri's from. You know him, right? [He has no idea, but as a fellow shardbearer, chances are they've bumped into each other by now. But he's getting sidetracked, so he continues on.] Anyway, in that desert was said to be the ruins of an ancient temple, which was supposedly built to worship a great beast. I had a hunch that beast was connected to the saint, and if I went there, I might be able to find some of his weapons.
When I got there, I found the ruins, some bandits with the same idea I had... and the beast. It was huge, with great big wings [He spreads his arms for emphasis,] and a beak like a bird, but it moved on all fours. It even talked!