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<p>Our lands lie close to the Durncrag Range and at night you can sometimes hear Giaks calling one another in the hills. They are horrible creatures. Once they raided our village and killed our livestock; a cottage was burned down and Vinas the blacksmith was blinded in one eye. We lived in fear of them until the King built the watchtower at Shadow Pass, and Knight Hobar made the villagers train with bows so that they could defend themselves if the Giaks ever returned., I trained every day until I could split a plank at four hundred paces, and I learned to fledge my own arrows with goose feathers.</p>
-<p>On my Oathday of Fehmarn, I was sent into service in the household of Knight Hobar. I was taught how to fight with a sword and a mace, but all I really wanted was to use a bow. Eventually, I got my chance. It was mid-summer and a tournament was being held at Thornfalcon market. Knight Hobar granted us permission to attend but ordered: 'All boys must conduct themselves in a manner as befits Sommlending warriors.'</p>
+<p>On my Oathday of Fehmarn, I was sent into service in the household of Knight Hobar. I was taught how to fight with a sword and a mace, but all I really wanted was to use a bow. Eventually, I got my chance. It was midsummer and a tournament was being held at Thornfalcon market. Knight Hobar granted us permission to attend but ordered: 'All boys must conduct themselves in a manner as befits Sommlending warriors.'</p>
<p>We wore our best white tunics and coats of mail, and held our heads high as we marched into the tournament stands. We had barely taken our seats when my eye fell upon a distant corner of the field. There, beyond the jousters and the tents, was an archery range. The targets were bales of twigs, stacked and cut to look like Giaks, with stunted arms and bow legs. A contest was set to commence. As my brothers shouted and cheered the joust, I sat in silence with my thoughts focused upon that distant range. The temptation was too great; I had to slip away and enter the archery contest myself. I wriggled beneath my seat and jumped down below the stand where I hid my surcoat and mail in a barrel. My shirt was quite plain and with my sleeves rolled up I easily passed for a stable lad or trades boy.</p>
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<p>You leave all you carry (except for your Crystal Star Pendant and Guildmaster's Envelope) on this side of the lake, for fear of drowning.</p>
- <p>After fifteen minutes you reach the far side and stumble ashore, cold and bedraggled. However, if you possess the spell of Mend, you may restore 5 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to your current total, for you were able to cast the spell whilst swimming across the lake,</p>
+ <p>After fifteen minutes you reach the far side and stumble ashore, cold and bedraggled. However, if you possess the spell of Mend, you may restore 5 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to your current total, for you were able to cast the spell whilst swimming across the lake.</p>
<choice idref="sect11"><link-text>Turn to 11</link-text>.</choice>
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