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-3 The landscape across the Haeth has many vibrant places.
-What kind of place do you come from?
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-- Comfortable places that provide shelter and food, like farms, gardens, or markets
-- Verdant places that are lush and inviting, like fields, glens, or lagoons
-- Liminal places that are the way between other places, like bridges, ports, or taverns
-- Sprawling places that inspire wonder, like carnivals, castles, or metropolises
-- Lonely places where the rest of the world does not intrude, like caves, graveyards, or moors
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-4 Travellers in the Haeth find themselves journeying together even if their reasons for travelling are vastly different.
-What was the reason that made you embark on your journey?
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-- A past that I want to leave behind
-- A future I want to go towards
-- A desire to learn more and see the world
-- A want for the riches and bounties of the Haeth
-- A need to be with the people on the trail
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-5 Along our travels, we must be prepared for whatever the road has in store for us.
-What thing do you carry spares of should your companions not have it already?
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-- Blankets for when it is chilly
-- Torches to light dark tunnels
-- Snacks for when we are peckish
-- A song for when it is too quiet
-- Incense for when we need to show respect
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-6 Our journey will take us through the sweeping arc of the seasons.
-Which season do you look forward to the most?
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-- Leap: a time of melting frost and great rain
-- Bright: when flowers bloom and the sun blazes
-- Breathe: a season of swarming bugs and fleeting days
-- Silt: when the leaves turn red and fall as the days get colder
-- Chill: a season hushed in deep snow and thick frost
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-7 When travelling with companions, it may be difficult to find time alone.
-What do you do to get those precious moments of solitude along the way?
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-- Wake up early before everyone else
-- Stay up late after everyone else has gone to bed
-- Excuse myself and retire to some place quiet
-- Lose myself for a moment in vigorous exercise
-- Withdraw silently into my own mind, even around other people
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-8 The Haeth is full of small gods, many forgotten, scattered amongst its many settlements and sprawling wilderness.
-Which of these gods are you least likely to forget?
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-- The god of a warm, comforting bath who smells like citrus
-- The god of overflowing tankards who will obligingly buy you a round if you ask nicely
-- The god of dense forest canopies who will shelter you from inclement weather
-- The god of bioluminescent mushrooms who will light your way in the dark
-- The god of childish wonder who changes form for each new phenomenon you encounter
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-9 Everyone in the Haeth is be fundamentally good, except the mighty whose souls may be weighed down by power or poisoned by the struggle.
-Of all these people whose goodness may be in conflict, for whom do you have the greatest understanding?
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-- The monarch who ushered in great change
-- The lord who tried to make the land prosper
-- The general who protected his people
-- The hero who sought power to protect his kin
-- The soldier who did his duty
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-10 There was once a great war that tore the Haeth asunder.
-But where were you during it?
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-- In the midst of it, doing my duty
-- On the sidelines, looking after the lost and wounded
-- Far away, holding on to the peace
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-11 The war has left its many scars along the Haeth and its people.
-What shadow of the war are you trying to escape?
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-- Guilt for my part in it
-- Shame for not taking a stand
-- Pain from its many losses
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-12 The time for violence has long ended, and the Haeth is now a place of peace.
-Why do you believe violence is wrong?
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-- Because of who we become when we resort to violence
-- Because of the pain it causes to those around us
-- Because all gods, big and small, have warned us against it
-- Because peaceful solutions to conflict are just more effective
-- Because the ends do not justify the means
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-13 Journeys through the Heath involve incidental companions: people who are coincidentally going the same way for now, who may part ways or end their travels should their paths diverge from their companions’.
-What would mark the end of your journey?
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-- Arriving at the place I am seeking
-- Finding the person I am looking for
-- Completing a great task I set myself
-- Becoming the person I want to be
-- Acquiring what I need
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-14 When we first set out on our journey, we did so in search of some place to call home.
-What would it take for you to call a place your home?
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-- Familiar comforts of the place I come from
-- Shrines and knicknacks reminding me of my time on the road
-- A picturesque landscape with majestic sunsets
-- A charming workshop where I can keep myself busy
-- People with whom I belong
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-15 Journeys through the Haeth have a way of continuing even after they end.
-After your travels have ended, how will you keep the journey alive?
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-- In the stories I tell or the songs I sing
-- With the trinkets with which I will furnish my home
-- By always leaving my door open for my companions
-- By visiting old friends regularly
-- By embarking on another journey once again