21st session: The bronze trial

11th moon, 26th day, year 4553
After travelling home towards Menzo for a couple of days, the brothers are, while setting up camp for the night, approached by an old dark dirty and barefoot darkelf, who asks if they will share their fire with him.

They decide to do so, slightly intrigued what a dark elf is doing on his own out here. He doesn't tell them much, aside from the fact that he was banished from Menzo a long time ago by the Council and the brothers' father. He also appear to know Tagar's mother and shows some interest and knowledge about Belos' newfound staff. Nalfein distrust the old man, and decides to take a round, looking for magic or something else. As Nalfein is gone, the old man shapechanges to an old acquaintance, the dragon they met in the Underdark, and assaults Belos and Tagar. Fortunaly, both Tagar and Jeffrey prove very precise and hardhitting, and the (poor) dragon is ripped to shreds in no time at all.

11th moon, 28th day, year 4553
The brothers, still on their way back to Menzo, are attacked by a phase spider, which they kill quickly.

11th moon, 29th day, year 4553
The T'orghs arrive back at Menzo, and complete the first trial by pouring the blood out over the altar.

12th moon, 2nd day, year 4553
After 3 days relaxing and spellscribing in Menzo, the brothers once again head towards the temple.

12th moon, 10th day, year 4553
The brothers arrive at the temple. After having seen that the Earth Symbol only changed a bit, and how it changed, the brothers Belos and Nalfein decide to try to figure out what the other symbols could be. They flex their mental muscles, and come up with the following
From top left, to bottom right

1- Air
2- Brass
3- Bronze
4- Chaos
5- Copper
6- Creation
7- Death
8- Earth (Hill Giants)
9- ??
10- Fire
11- Gold
12- Ice
13- Justice
14-
15-
16- The dead

They decide on the bronze symbol. A horned devil appears in a puf of smoke and says:
"Deliver a scale weighting no less than 5 lbs from the hide of the dragon called Tyrat. Bring it to the altar in the temple of T'orgh, and keep it on the altar for safeguarding until the next trial has been completed"

Not knowing who the hell Tyrat is, the T'orghs decide to swing by their library in Menzo and find out.

12th moon, 15th day, year 4553
At night, the brothers are attacked by seven very brave orcs. They overbear Nalfein and manage to land quite a few blows before they are killed and subsequently reanimated. While a humiliating experience, it does help Nalfein realize that his new ringmail must have been mis-identified, due to the amount of protection it turned out to offer.

12th moon, 18th day, year 4553
Back in Menzo, the brothers start to research.

12th moon, 27th day, year 4553
After nine days of perusing over old books, the T'orghs have found 3 interesting pieces of information.
- Jurat Firemonger is credited to have said: "Tyrat ignored several of my spells, but every one of my electricity spells"
- Jurat also writes: "As we were closing in on Tyrat, we were assaulted by all kinds of animals. It was if nature itself had a deal with the beast"
- Tyrat lives on the island of Nosurax, east of the Silent Forest.

1st moon, 4th day, year 4554
On the way east, towards the isle of the bronze dragon Tyrat, the brothers ran into a live tree who tries to eat them, but they dispatch it quickly enough.

1st moon, 7th day, year 4554
The brothers stumble over a couple of hardened elves resting for the night. They ambush them and make short work of them, before reanimating one of them.

1st moon, 11th day, year 4554
The T'orgh brothers are attacked by a wyvern. After killing it, Nalfein tries to animate it and create a very powerful guard, but fails. Instead Belos does it.

1st moon, 12th day, year 4554
The T'orghs arrive at the coast, near the village of Derrick.