Not Another Hero

No one complained as we toiled day and night. I had no experience with dragons and so I was unable to help drive the wagons, but I worked as a lookout.

Whether the bandits had gorged themselves on the wreckage we found, or they didn't think we were worth the effort we would never know. Either way, we all felt better when the thick forests gave way to the dusty crags of the western mountains. Eddanar was close.



It had been years since I last visited the industrial city, and even then I did not get out of our royal accommodations much. I knew the city was built atop an even larger granite gnome settlement, and I knew that the mining and smelting of iron ore was Eddanar's chief source of income. Furthermore, it was the only profitable part of my entire kingdom and a good place to start if I was ever going to turn our fortunes around.