After a moment of consideration, the dwarf accepted the quest and had started his long journey soon after. Now he trek through the cold terrain towards the mountains of Oddr which took him another few days. To seek an enemy who hid in mountainous areas would be so tasking and time consuming, but the ravens that guided the dwarf were very good at locating and tracking people, so they guided the dwarf through the mountain pass to reach his target.
With the journey being long, Brone would ask questions to the ravens in order to diminish the boredom; luckily they answered, though they seem to struggle with speech, so conversations were kept simple. The ravens were named 'Huginn and Muninn', and they were long companions of a being by the name of Odin, who Brone didn't recognize, but understood must have been a powerful person. The ravens ended up becoming Egra's companions after more than a century. The dwarf understood and wasn't surprised about the birds being immortal, given how well they could speak for birds and how well they can trek a person from outside a country.
As the days wore on, the dwarf and the ravens would start to create a friendly bond, enjoying one another's company. It wasn't until the night before arrival, Brone would ready himself for combat. The dwarf was sitting at a campfire within a small cavern at the side of a cliff when Muninn had flown in through the mouth of the cavern. The raven stated that Temir was a day away and is with a small tribe of barbarians, little more than a dozen, who travel with him and help him with his pillaging. Brone made sure to check his rations and equipment, he had a strong feeling this wouldn't be so simple to handle; bandits within city areas were barely combat savvy, but a barbarian who lived in the harsh terrain of the mountains were usually seen as combat experts and trained hard enough for their bodies to handle the terrain and the trial of combat.
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