"And traverse, we shall!" Jeremiah shouted in glee at the gates of Nadiza. The generosity of the resident mages astounded him. Few people heard of the events that took place a day before and those that did believed in Jeremiah because of the "investigative reporting" done by the
new national news paper,
Ze Press named after the manually powered machinery used to print each of the pages, the Zete (pronounce 'Zeet').
Jeremiah's confidence was boosted extremely by the behavior of the new "friends" he had made. His bags we packed with a good portion of alchemy equipment as well as provisions. Checking his clock, marked with a transmutation seal, he pulled out his map, opening it carefully so as not to tear the paper.
“Now then, our first destination should probably be….” Jeremiah checked the map, tracking crystal, and compass before shouting, “THAT WAY!” and nonchalantly point in the direction that the tracker pulled in. He looked at the map a second time before realizing a bit of a problem that going the direction, in which he pointed, brought to the party. His confidence faded as he poked to the map, the destination they were to be headed.
“To the scare of all of Fenrir: to the land of the Antivan Crows.”
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The south-eastern area of Urundel held quarters to some of the most gruesome and vile names known in the country. Amtari Dazan of the broken halo, Sumeragi Setsuna the lady of blades, and even the mysterious masked Creed stood sentinel over the syndicate that standardized the quality of crime itself. The Antivan Crows (Pronounced ‘Aunty-van crows’ and the name is pronounced best in an English accent.) Jeremiah dealt with the crows the least and out of all of his clients in the past, found them the least favorable. People would say that it’s “the owner of the knife, not the knife itself” that commits the crime, but the crows consider themselves, “weapons of the people” and they fought well. It made stocking their inventory even more risky than other people who were at the very least predictable.
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