The outskirts of Perreluna were finally coming into view. It had been a hard three weeks of walking and riding. It had been twice as many weeks since before the visions of the undead rampaging through some unknown village had begun to fill his dreams.
Before the dreams began, he’d been studying under the weapons master and priest of his father’s keep. Strakir’s father’s plans had been to groom his son for the life of a noble, so as to replace him when his time was done, but Stralor had strayed from the carefully laid plans of his father.
While Stralor had excelled under the tutelage of his father’s weapon masters he had really found purpose with the teaching of the priests of Pelor. It was under their tutelage that he recognized that his destiny was to be more than a warrior and lord, but as a force for good in the land.
It was the visions, in his dreams, of undead creatures in some unknown village that prompted him on this dusty road leading into Perreluna. For weeks, the dreams made no sense. There was not name for the village, no name for the menacing creatures. Just a feeling that somewhere people needed help.
Four weeks ago, rumors, mostly dismissed as tall tales, had filtered in, with the trade convoys, to his father’s keep about a village near Hekat Valley that was experiencing strange and evil things. When the whispers included the tale of undead ravaging the area, Straki knew had to be the place in his dreams.
There was little time to lose, if one waited to long the village would be unreachable, the passes clogged with snow. With little words to his father, other than this was the will of Pelor and something he had to do, he set out with the next trade caravan.
Over the next several weeks he would ride with caravans on the trails, offering his sword arm for protection and when no caravan was heading in the direction he need he would walk. He was days behind his last caravan and now but with a handful of hours from Perreluna proper.
With one last adjustment of his equipment, he set off to face the source of his visions and to fulfill Pelor's will.