It was a regular day in
Kalim's Tavern, where citizens of Nexus were sitting and relaxing after another
fight against Goblins. Everyone was talking about their victories and losses,
strange encounters, and they were so deeply into the conversations, that noone
even noticed the Reni Scribe, who wandered into the Tavern, looking for another
story. He spotted a tall man with blond hair, who wore golden robes with a
strange symbol on them.....a symbol of a scorpion. Scribe got a little closer to
the man, and whispered something into his ear, and then went to the far corner of
tavern . The man stood up, and said:" Excuse me, brothers, I have to do something
important.", and joined Scribe. 

"Who are you and what do you want from me?" the man said to Scribe.  "Excuse me
for interrupting, sir, but i am looking for stories of lives of Nexus citizens,
for a collection that we put together in the Library. I was just wondering if you
could answer a couple of questions for me...", said Scribe and got a sheet of
paper and a pen out of his bag. "You want the story of my life, stranger? OK,
then you shall hear it" , the man smiled and took another drink out of his glass. 

"My name is Scorpio, and i was born in Rymek....you know, a small village on the
Sea of Tears...My father was a fisherman, his father was a fisherman, so they
wanted me to be a fisherman too. One can say, that i wasn't very happy about
their choice..i mean, being a fisherman was fine, but i wanted more in my life
than just going fishing every day to feed my family. But I had no choice, so i
had to go and help my father. Being at sea was very interesting, and very
dangerous.  Several times I saw Sirens, swimming in waves and waving us. It was a
very dangerous life, and I started to like it. But, suddenly everything ended. 
The war came to our peaceful village. First the sky turned dark, like the gods
became angry at each other, and then goblins came. We managed to maintain the
perimeter of our village, so they never were able to get inside, but outside the
village was very dangerous, and only the bravest were going to Nexus through
Torthese forest. 

One night, when i was almost 18, I woke up because of sounds of thunderstrikes
and flashes of lightnings. I looked out the window and saw something very
unusual.....not very far from the village , lightnings were flashing, and just
above one place, like there was a giant blacksmith there. I couldn't resist. I
got up, put on my armor and took my weapons and sneaked out the door. It was
raining, the sky was the darkest ever. As I was closing to the place where I saw
lightnings, I started hearing war screams of goblins and I thought: "This is it.
It was a trap, I am dead now.""  Scorpio took one more drink, tossed the empty
bottle away and yelled :"Bartender, one more bottle here!". 

"I didn't want to die without a fight", Scorpio continued," so I decided to get
get a little closer and see, who were against me. As I stepped into the small
wooden area, I saw a man, wearing red robes, surrounded by 5 or 6 goblin
warriors. I thought :" This is it! This is the chance I was waiting for! No more
fishing!", and I went into battle. The man looked around and said :"Thank you ,
stranger. Together we may have a chance to survive". The battle was long and very
hard. I fought goblin soldiers before, but warriors were much, much harder to
kill. Several times I was close to death, and only spells, that the man was
casting at me, kept me alive. There was just one warrior left, and I thought that
it was all over, when goblin made a vital strike on the man. I killed warrior,
but man was lying on the ground, almost dead. He said:"Thank you for your help,
stranger. You saved my life. But I still need your help. Can you please take me
to your home and let me heal up?" 

I lifted him up and carried to the Rymek. As I was closing to the my house, I saw
an awful picture.  Something , that looked like a skeleton, sneaked from my house
towards an old galleon on the pier. I ran into the house and realized that my
father and mother were murdered in sleep. I didn't know who was it, but I had a
pretty good idea about it. 

I buried my father in the Sea of Tears, like he always wanted. The Wizard, that I
saved, was getting better and better. One day he said to me:" I want to thank
you, Scorpio, for saving my life. But I don't know how to do it. So I will give
you an advise. Go to the city of Nexus, don't stay here. Being a fisherman is not
for you. You deserve much more in your life, than that. I can feel the strength
of mage in you. One day you will be a great mage. Go to the city , and find the
mage tower. It's on the intersection of Market and Pine streets. Join the guild. 
One day you will be a great mage. And now, I must go. There is still a lot of
goblins around the city, and we have to stop them". So he went away and
disappeared. I never saw him in my life after that. I decided to trust him and
went to the city of nexus as soon as I could. Finding the tower was easy, and
soon I wore Blue robes of apprentice. Many years went by from that moment. But I
was not able to find out, who that man was, and what happened to him. But I
intend to do so." 

Scorpio layed back on his chair, and finished his bottle." Well, stranger, if you
have any other questions, ask them now." Scribe stood up and said :" No, sir. I'm
sorry for interrupting your little party. But that was very interesting story. I
have to go now, but I'll make sure it will get to library." Scribe bowed and
disappeared in clouds of smoke. Scorpio stood up, looked at the half empty
bottle, tossed it into trash and walked out of tavern. He had to get some sleep,
because next day was supposed to be even harder than any others, because goblins
were seen right outside eastern gates.  The time has came for him to do
what a long time ago strange Wizard did: go and fight for Nexus.