"It should be just a little north of here. Or west. I do wish he gave better directions."
Rory folded a small piece of parchment and tucked it away in a pocket near his breast. He sighed as he paced forward, pounding the bottom of his staff into the ground with each step. He had just strayed off a small path that led towards a village near the outskirts of Ketra, where he sought information regarding his current mission. One of the researchers in the Wardens had been working on finding the remains of an old, albeit small according to the research, dragon kingdom known as Du'varoth. Evidence shows that early tribes in Adela and the dragons of Du'varoth intermingled frequently, and lived with one another freely within the Draconi forest. Dragons of the Thunderblacks despised these dragons, who were naturally quite smaller, and laid to waste the entirety of their tiny kingdom. All records were presumed to be lost and desolated. However, upon Rory's participation in the research, he found that some dragons and humans did survive, having left the kingdom some years before, moving to a small island off the coast of Adela and northwest of Essyrn.
Gradually after generations passed by, more of the survivors of Du'varoth traveled elsewhere and either established their own communities or joined existing ones. An unfortunate bunch may have even had their descendants sold to slavery, as the only traceable lineage Rory found suggested.
"So your name is Kyoko."
This was the latest entry in the rudimentary family tree that he acquired. Thankfully, at least to him, there was some commotion a while ago within the Adelan military about a girl and a dragon. Her thievery, as the Adelan military account goes at least, of the dragon was a good sign that Rory was on the right track. Perhaps her blood could be used to locate the whereabouts of the Du'varoth ruins, if any even existed. At the very least perhaps traces of magic in her exist in enough concentration to be able to match possible relatives who have any more information on Du'varoth. Whatever the case may be, he had no idea where the girl was, and his best bet was to search in the massive country that is Adela.
Rory wiped his brow and sighed as he looked up at the sun that gleamed between the leaves scattered above him. "They don't pay me enough to do this."