Frankel's chat with Eclipse

Frankel:

I guess I lied to you, Eclipse, since the Tiger I'm looking for is a bandit. It's only possible he's also a pit fighter.

Tell me some background on this -- as a bard and historian, I am very interested in this.

I really don't know much about Tiger -- just a sneaky type who's been a bit of a thorn in my side for ages now. He's a relatively minor bandit leader.

He visits Sunrise. He was also involved with the gang that gave us the helm.

He was? That makes the question of whether the one you know and the one I know are identical rather intriguing to me. (Then there's a 3rd.)

Eclipse:

So why do you adventure with these guys? What motivates a centaur to adventure with a party that gets into such danger?

Protecting the forest, their reputation, a few other things...I don't think there was much room for me in the tribe anymore. What does the name Rakni mean to you, Eclipse?

It's got something to do with spiders, I think -- from arachnid?

So I gather. They say it as though it were a person.

What are your long term goals?

The usual, Eclipse -- a home, a family, and some sort of peace with my surviving foes.

Are those the goals of the other people you adventure with? I don't think so -- they sound much more fanatic.

Oh, they're quite varied -- one is the champion of good so far as a number of extraplanars are concerned, one is her mate, one is an elf about whom I know very little, actually you could say that about the elf/minotaur too, and the unicorn is a valued friend about whom, again, I know little. But I think only the champion is really in it mainly for her beliefs.

Interesting...

About the mage and the bird I know even less and get along poorly. The mage mentioned someone once...