\--==Official Submission==-- FROM: General Debinani Rahl RE: Chronicle Five - The Race Chapter Five I don't know how much longer we can run. Our defeat at the Samaran Pass was crippling. When we started this march from Elindale we were three thousand strong, now we number less than seven hundred. Arogho's enchanted armies are dogging us every step of the way. I'm not entirely certain we'll be able to make it to the Saurian Plain if their incessant skirmishing keep taking small chunks out of what's left of the Society. The men are starting to realize that our losing streak began when David...pardon...Lieutenant Silvan died at the Glittering Falls. I think they're starting to realize his tactical genius and my tactical ineptitude. I tried to tell the Council of Officers that I was a scholar, not a tactician. And now the men know. I'm sure it probably wont be long before someone gets desperate and makes an attempt to see me replaced. Most of the senior unit commanders know that David and I had been lovers for years out of the public eye, and this will help fuel the conspiracy. But I will not become a victim to despair yet. I may not be a tactician, but there are some things I do know very well. Years ago, while T'Panga was still Captain, and Arogho's army fled Galoway Point, the wizard managed to make a terrible mistake. He left behind a book in his abandoned encampment. And I'm sure he's missing it desperately by now. The very thought gives me tingles. The book, though still in translation, appears to be some manner of sacred Codex involving Tablenhelm, and it appears to contain the requisite information for crossing the ways. Perhaps if we can not defeat Arogho, we can run beyond the very edge of the world itself to escape him. That's why the Saurian Plain. It is said in the book to contain the Gate to travel the Ways from our world. Arogho rules this place, and he will not stop dogging us until we're dead. I intend to take the Society from this place and save our legacy from being destroyed by this mad wizard. I just hope we can make it in one piece.