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The main plot.
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The heroes' motivations
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Midir:
	He is looking for an ear of the Glaetterlizzard, a weird
	little species of lizzards only living in the Glitterdark
	Forest. Peace between the orcs and the humans in that area
	would mean that noone would bother him while he is running
	around in the forest.

Drombosh:
	He is Midir's best friend, and he also likes any sort of
	adventure. He is a little old fashoined regarding things like
	chivalry and would naturally help any lady in danger. He likes
	picking up fights with Arcadia and Rilandel, but that may be
	due to the fact that he usually has a hard time telling people
	that he likes them.

Arcadia:
	She realizes that being with Midir and Drombosh means being
	where the trouble is, and that's just how she likes it. She
	will claim that she only fights as a service to her goddess,
	but deep down she really enjoys it herself. Protecting the
	weak from evil is also on her agenda.

Rilandel:
	She is an elven archer dispatched by her lord to keep an eye
	on Midir and thus is honor bound to the party. She begins to
	realize though that those people she is traveling with have,
	while not being as civilized as elves, their own code of honor
	and are a likeable bunch, all in all.



Other characters and their motivations
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Lizya:
	The daughter of the local orc chieftain. She wants to break
	out of the traditional ties the orc society. She also knows
	that an outright war between her tribe and the humans in
	Borderwood will eventually extinguish her tribe "vashzopai-i
	orci boi" (Lowspeak: "There's many humans but few orcs"), so
	she wants to go for an agreement.

Kylan:
	The son of the gouvernor of Borderwood. He was kidnapped by
	the bandits, he wants to go home.

Mersilian:
	The boss of the bandits. He is an undead Mage who was recently
	freed from a sand dune by a sand storm after a couple of
	centuries being trapped in a sanddune, he left the desert and
	now works on stocking up his finances in the first step of
	domination of all of Dural, to be ready for the return of the
	Master. He is planning in long terms, and has learned the
	virtue of patience.


The story
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Mersilian decided that the new colony of Borderwood with all the new
settlers, the trade and the lack of security would be the ideal
terrain to set up his new base. He teams up with a group of outcast
orcs from a nearby tribe and decides to play out the humans and the
orcs against each other. He sends his men to kidnap the orc
chieftain's daughter and the orcs to kidnap the human gouvernor's son.
His plot has three weak points. First, the orcs are just going through
a lethargic phase, and the kidnapping of a female is considered
unfortunate, but not worth a big war. Second, the orc girl manages to
flee. Third, there's a bunch of heroes around that will cause some
trouble in future. The orc girl hopped out of the frying pan into the
fire, as she ran right into a group of men searching for the
gouvernour's son. They captured her and brought her back to Borderwood
to make her an example.
That's where the heroes enter the scene. They rescue Lizya and promise
the villagers of Borderwood to find Kylan and rescue him. Lizya is
impressed by Arcadia and decides to follow the heroes. She also sees
an opportunity to prove that not all orcs are bad.