Settling into Faulkren Academy where she will train to become a Caldran mercenary and defend her homeland of the Confederacy of Caldrein, Neianne meets her first acquaintances across racial and class lines, young warriors-to-be with whom she will toil together with over the next three years. As she does so, the latest news arrives from the frontlines of Caldrein’s war with the Tenereian Union, with her homeland’s defensive lines against the neighboring superpower slowly but surely being pushed back. “On the Road to Elspar” is a fantasy quest – a work of interactive fiction wherein readers get to vote on what happens next at critical junctures – that is the first entry in a story that follows Neianne of Caelon.
1.3 The First Acquaintances
