We headed back to the caravan after Durxel knocked out the half elven man with some type of gas spell. On the way back Trystan explained that Farielle and Durxel both had surmised that we would be followed. By patrolling around the caravan Farielle met a wounded goblin woman that was near death. She told her what happened in exchange of her saving the young goblin child in her arms. After that Trystan, in his words, made a half baked plan in the hope of drawing their unwanted attention out. He initially didn't want to take me with him but he reconsidered after Durxel reminded him that the guy could take me hostage in some way. Thats how It all happened. While we were all still gathered Trystan began speaking to me.
" So Thorry, I heard you got in trouble with Lurek? Is that true?" I started frowning a bit. "Well yeah, I think he got a fragile ego. Couldn't help myself laughing at his giggle after It seemed that no one in the tent liked him one bit. He's a bully" Trystan sighs a bit. " Yeah I heard that he is a bit unruly and mean to other kids. Even so we don't go around punching other people that insult you." Offended by It I raise my voice a bit. " Wait a minute I didn't start punching him without reason? He raised his fist first to hit me, I just defended myself by tackling him to the ground! ....... Though I did provoke him first." Taking a small breath Trystan starts to smile a bit. " Well atleast your honest. You need to look at the whole picture Thorry, always! Don't make such decisions without taking everything in consideration. People like us need to be a paragon for other people"
"Us?" Trystan looks at me seriously. " Yes us, I intend to train you to become a oathkeeper, a holy warrior. I think you got what It takes. You just need shaping. For example you tried to help us without regard to your own safety. You tried to help other people you didn't even know and let me guess It just came to you, right?" I nod at him. I remember It again. My body moved almost on It's own, It just felt right. "Apologize to Lurek, Thorry thats my next task for you. Even If he doesn't accept It. Just do It and after that we will begin with your swordtraining okay?" Swallowing my pride, I accept this task. That reminds why did Trystan swap his weapon to a longsword I thought he used a mace? "Why did you use a longsword in this fight, Trystan?"
"I just felt like It. Hahahaha. No I keep switching up my weapons to not unlearn anything and I find fighting with one weapon just boring." We've come back to the caravan by this point. I immediately went to Lurek to apologize, to my suprise he accepted without any blowback and even shook my hand. Though his face did tell a different story. Let's just do what Trystan told me. Let's wait and look at the whole picture regarding Lurek.
When we stopped at dusk, Trystan pulled me aside to begin my training. He gave me a wooden sword and began explaining to me the basics. How to stand, how to hold the sword and the longpoint guard. The longpoint guard is a simple position in which you hold the sword with both hands in front of you. There are many others but Trystan instructed me to start with this one. Next with the help of Durxel they summoned an arcane training dummy. Trystan just told me to start hitting it for the next ten minutes, so I did. I started swinging at It, hitting the head , shoulder and body multiple times. Sometimes I stabbed at It. I got quickly out of breath and I started to use the sword as a cane to hold me up. "So I should be done right?" Trystan just looks at me like a ghost. "That was just the start Thorry. You still got seven minutes going on." "EHHHHHH???" I wanted to protest but I didn't have the power to do so. For the next seven minutes I kept hitting the dummy but not as strongly as before. After I was done, I fell to the ground gasping for air. Trystan threw a towel to me and walked up to me. "Tomorrow It will be 15 minutes Thorry. Sleep well." I can see his shit eating grin and It wants to make me barf but I just nod at him. "Have a good nights rest Thorry"
That was the start of my training till we arrived at Tyrael City. He kept increasing the timer till we hit a half hour. Thats when he actually started to give me instructions on my technique. Or rather well my missing technique. We trained like that for the rest of the journey till we arrived at Tyrael City. I had no contact with the others in my tent really. They were training with other instructers. Here and there I sometimes saw Alrik with Durxel and Rina with Farielle but we couldn't really talk. We are still a day away from Tyrael City. While on the journey we traveled through plains and forests but something catched my eyes today. In the middle of the day, in the distance, there I could see what looked like an area that had pitch black clouds over it that cast shadow everywhere. I started to search for Trystan. Didn't take long to find him. I pull at his sleave and point there and ask.
Thorry is a small boy from a town called Silvertree. An encounter with the dragonborn Paladin Trystan in a goblin attack changes Thorry's fate. He undergoes a training regiment from this paladin. Watch as Thorry tries to make something of himself in this world of divine and arcane magic
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