<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/27/LODOSS_KarteAbenteuer01_Header.jpg)</div>Before the group leaves the scene of the assault, Arwin wishes you "good luck and Faris's blessings". With those well wishes the five adventurers march off to the west, down a narrow valley and deeper into the mountains.<br/><br/>Despite the rocky terrain, Anlaf's trained eye has no trouble picking up the bandits' trail and following it. Soon the valley narrows further and further, it's sides growing steeper and steeper until the valley has turned into a canyon, its bottom cast in shadow. Now and then another canyon branches off from the one you are following, but for over an hour Anlaf leads the chase almost directly to the west, unerringly following the trail. What becomes obvious to the dwarven tracker is that the group he is following is large, at least a dozen if not more, but the men marched with little discipline, hardly like a firmly organized military band.<br/><br/>Anlaf finally loses the trail where the canyon widens again into a narrow valley. From the left a small mountain stream cascades down the rocks into a valley and flows right through it, before vanishing into a narrow cleft in the mountainside. Where it touches the ground, grass and bushes have sprung up, the first real sign of life you've seen in over an hour now. The rest of the valley floor consists of large slabs of rock, washed smooth from times when the stream perhaps followed a slightly different path or formed a small lake here in the past.<br/><br/>Across the valley two more canyons can be seen, one leading to the left, south-west, one north-west, to the right.