Unfortunately, the roads are fairly empty of anyone but the occasional traveler, this far from the city. Only when they get closer, do they find more people, moving between villages, or heading into the town, proper.<br/><br/>The next two major cities are close, only three days ride apart, though a bit longer on foot; the closer town is where Alinor, the siege engineer can be located, an impressive fortress at the heart of the town, a location that was only lost during the war because of treachery; a human turncoat, who opened the gates from within, and let the enemy past the nearly impenetrable walls. Nearby, Caldora, the druidess, lives, in a much more rural city, hardly large enough to call itself one. The two had been fairly flirtatious together, during the war, and, ift he stories are true, they're lovers, now, though they've yet to settle into formal bonds of marriage.