The quiet and darkness of the Underdark gave way at last as she looked upon the cliff leading upwards hundreds of meters.  Most would be blind her, suffocated by darkness and silence, but to her senses the cavern led up into light of the surface, and the air danced with unusual currents and scents.  A long climb and further trek through the caverns followed, with the air getting cooler and faster with each step.  The light, at first only the most diffuse scattering, increased until it reached the levels of a fairy fire lit library, where the dark elves studied texts not written in the precious and rare everdark ink.  Finally, around one last corner, she reached the exit of the cavern, and the world beyond was like nothing she had ever seen.<br/><br/>The bright burning globe known as the sun seared her eyes for a moment, a half sphere slowly sinking below the horizon.  The horizon!  The world stretching out until it seemed to fall in on itself, crushed by the vast skies above.  That huge space, filled with points of light the flashed in blues, reds, and yellows to her sensitive eyes, seemed vast enough to swallow all of existence.  Below, the familiar, but strangely weathered, rocks soon gave way to a sea of green that stretched as far as she could see.  The trees, of many kinds, marked an unknown terrain, but were broken in pockets that could contain fields and towns.  This surface world was truly an alien place, and a dangerous one if the tales were true.  But many had whispered the weaknesses of those who dwelled here, especially to one who had grown and lived in the dangers of the Underdark.