Hill Arbiter Battle (Mission)

"Our group, consisting of myself, Fenric, Agamemnon, Kay, Fidelius, and Throk, set out at sunrise to find and fight the hill arbiter. Along the way we found a set of strange hoof marks. Fenric identified them as belonging to a giant boar, likely one the group has already dealt with, so we continued on. Once we arrived at the river, we followed it until we got to the clearing with the hill. We stopped to discuss strategy before approaching the hill and decided to split the group, with the melee group (myself, Throk, Fidelius) on one side of the hill and the ranged group (Agamemnon, Fenric) on the other. Kay said he wanted to climb with the melee group in order to enlarge Throk before we began the fight, and would run around the hill to meet up with the ranged group before we struck. The goal was to have the melee fighters hold the arbiter’s attention while the others attack from a distance on the opposite side to avoid getting too hurt.

We started up the hill and our plan quickly fell apart as the arbiter noticed us and rushed down the hill towards the melee fighters. He managed to deal a decent amount of damage to us, but he dropped his weapons in surrender as we overwhelmed him. He said he once showed mercy to others in the group, and asked us to do the same now. Throk continued to attack him, and I would’ve done the same, but Agamemnon reminded us that he could be a good source of information, so I held back.

He continued to refer to us as Servants of Iacto. It seems as though he assumed anyone who would attack an arbiter must be Iacto servants. We cleared up that we are just independent adventurers on these Isles, and asked him for information.

When we talked about the shard we already have, he referred to it as a Shard of Serenity. It would seem that Serenity is the name of the sword made of all the shards. He told us the name of the god he and the other arbiters serve, Gnaeus, and that they predate both the Gold and Iron Kingdoms. He told us how the Shard Knights are the remnants of the Iron Kingdom and how he considers himself a neutral party between Gold and Iron."

―Namira Runen's adventure log