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. Unfettered I was at first, able to
commune with priest and commoner alike in that proud
city, until the Istarians manifested great annoyance with my
fellow diplomats and me over the failure of one of our gifts
of technology. We had directed the construction of a new
mode of urban transport, a steam-powered cart that traveled
over fixed rails, but on its trial run it caused considerable
damage to some important buildings in the capital. I was put
on trial and sentenced to enforced servitude for the
remainder of my life, as were my fellow diplomats, whom I
never saw again.
"My overseer, whose glacial visage I shall bear with me
to my grave, brought me along on an inspection tour of a
distant military encampment just before catastrophe
overtook Istar. In the anarchy and discord that followed, I
was able to effect my escape and leave my overseer and his
retainers to their own fate, which could not have been
pleasant given the multitude of ills that plagued the region
at that time. I journeyed westward on foot, feasting on the
meager bounty of nature like an untamed beast, until I
found a bare remnant of civilization in old Solamnia. There,
among bitter-eyed men who cursed the gods and slew one
another over trifles, I labored until I had saved enough steel
to cross the new sea to Hylo, on this island's eastern shore. I
then purchased a cart and a donkey - dear old Axle, whom
you see now - and took up my most recent and probably
final vocation as a tinker. As such, I am now content with
my lot and desire nothing more
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