This marks the first entry of the Aeons’ Gate, the grand adventure of Lenk and his five companions. I make this distinction for the sole purpose that, if someone finds this journal after I’ve succumbed to whatever hole I fell into or weapon I’ve run afoul of, they’ll know the reason. When one requires a herd of cattle stolen, a young maiden deflowered, a family tomb looted and desecrated or an honest man driven away from his own home, all for a few copper coins and a promise, one calls upon an adventurer. When one requires a herd of cattle guarded from rustlers, a young maiden protected, a family tomb watched over or an enemy driven away, all for an honest fee, one calls upon a mercenary. Unlike a mercenary, an adventurer’s exploits typically aid no one. Unlike a mercenary, an adventurer’s trade is not limited to killing, though it does require quite a bit of that. Like a mercenary, an adventurer works for money, be it gold, silver or copper. Past that fact, everything is unfavourable contrast. There is one similarity between the adventurer and the mercenary: the love of money.
Now, the very bottommost practice for a man who carries a sword, the absolute dregs of the well, the lowliest and meanest trade a man can possibly embrace after he decides not to put away his weapon is that of the adventurer. And yet, it remains only a slightly less respectable use for the blade, as, inevitably, being a mercenary does help someone. Mercenaries, usually, aren’t quite as respected as soldiers, since they swear no allegiance to any liege beyond the kind that are round, flat and golden. There’s always mercenary life, the fine art of being paid to put steel in things. Then there are the less respectable trades. All these are decent and honourable practices for a man who carries a sword. If he decides he’s good at that sort of work, he could enlist with the local army and defend his kin and country against whatever entity is deemed the enemy at that moment. He could use it to defend his homestead, of course, as protecting one’s own is nothing but admirable. Sea of Buradan, two weeks north and east of TohaĬontrary to whatever stories and songs there may be about the subject, there are only a handful of respectable things a man can do after he picks up a sword.įirst of all, he can put it down and do something else this is the option for men who have more appreciable talents.
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