Elu­veril made her way through the Great Delv­ing and on to the Dolven-view today. The trip there was a lit­tle con­fus­ing, but there were help­ful dwarves along the way will­ing to give direc­tions. On sub­se­quent trips, the paths almost became sec­ond nature … par­tic­u­larly if you notice that you can largely fol­low an old, crum­bling stone road most of the way.

The Dolven-view was a wel­come sight after all of the dark­ness and creepy noises Elu­veril had to pass. A sur­pris­ing num­ber of dwarves resided here, includ­ing envoys for two major fac­tions in the area: the Guards and the Min­ers. Both had good causes, but the Guards won her over and have received most of her sup­port, receiv­ing sev­eral strange relics she had col­lected on her way over. The hope is that some­day soon she’ll be able to trade for a Rune-keeper book the Guards are holding.

Gob­lins were a major con­cern for every­one there. Up until this point, Elu­veril hadn’t encoun­tered many of them. She had spied on one of their encamp­ments, but thus far had only bat­tled one that veered onto the main road to Dolven-view. At the dwarves behest, Elu­veril ven­tured into one of their many camps to thin their num­bers, but also to gather more infor­ma­tion on where exactly they were com­ing from. It turns out that despite the num­ber of dwarves here  in the west­ern areas, the east­ern reaches of Moria are appar­ently very dan­ger­ous and largely under enemy control.

Elu­veril made her way south to another dwar­ven strong­hold, the Deep Descent. Old min­ing tracks run through­out the area, some of which have been torn assun­der by unknown forces. Luck­ily, noth­ing that big seems to be run­ning around down there now … Instead Elu­veril scouted camps of gob­lins, while avoid­ing large num­bers of insects. She even ran into a dis­gust­ing, glow­ing worm. This area made it clear how deep Moria’s chasms can go.

Even­tu­ally, Elu­veril turned around and headed toward more friendly ter­ri­tory. She checked out a few of the local sights (includ­ing a pretty impres­sive bridge), talked with some more dwarves and had her equip­ment repaired.

Next up, her hope is to con­tinue help­ing in Deep Descent and make her way to the Cham­ber of the Crossroads.

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