The next day Ridmark gathered his possessions, equipped himself with supplies, and left Castra Marcaine. Ardrhythain had departed with his magic to attend to his duties elsewhere, promising to meet Ridmark at Urd Morlemoch.
Ridmark consulted a map in the Dux’s library before he departed. He would travel northwest across the Northerland, and then through the expanse of the Wilderland and the pagan orc tribes of Vhaluusk, across the swamps of Moraime and the rough land of the Torn Hills.
If he survived the perils of those wild lands, he would come to the Warden’s stronghold of Urd Morlemoch, where the true challenge would begin.