“After leaving the Mountain of Clouds, I journeyed to the Northern Steppes to meet the Humadin.  Kandol had piqued my curiosity.  For a while, I fell in with the Eselkaru, the eagle clan, and lived on the platforms built into the branches of the spruces common to the western steppes.  They were experts with the javelin and the malkanta, a broad-bladed sword.  Their Bardalla, a man named Jendallu, had a gift for putting people at ease.  He always seemed to know just what they wanted.  The Eselkaru said that he was strong in the ways of the Spirit World.”  Jerilyn of Colcester

“No one’s quite sure where they came from.  Some think that they hailed from Angrakor originally, but I have my doubts.  The barbarians of the south were violent and uncivilized, driven by dreams of conquest, but they were not the Dark Lord’s minions.  I believe that souls trapped in the spirit world seduced them to the Dark Lord’s ways.  After too many rejections from the Rainbow Lord, One-Eye’s whispers grew too loud to ignore.  Those that have been there longest are most wicked.”  Jerilyn of Colcester

“Vin-Grandalar celebrates the Eternal Warrior, but the Devotees were mostly ignorant of that champion’s true place in history.  They knew only that the Eternal Warrior was a Dwarven hero of the Elder Days who hunted the Maiden’s enemies, and they sang his praises once every year because the priestesses told them to.  But the priestesses of the inner circle knew the secret of the Eternal Warrior.  They knew his greater burden and his connection to the ancient evil in the east.”  Jerilyn of Colcester