<div class="floatleft">(http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae348/Stef82K/Private/Mermaid/tiina_15_zpsbeqqkmtj.jpg)</div>"Ah, likely a minotaur's hammer." Lorelei motions to the markings and explains their origins. "Or at least so it seems, perhaps there was more to these bugbears than it would seem. Or perhaps merely picked up from one of the bull-men's corpse? Felled by something more dangerous near... or in... the ruins?" She cleared her throat, "There is something I should mention as well. I spent some time in the coastal city of Glenhaven. There was a tale of Ithcar the Bold, a swordsman of some repute and treasure hunter extraordinaire. He once braved the ruins, told tales of ancient soldiers crawling from their crypts, guardian beast that stalk the ancient streets and creatures that lurk in shadows. It is said he did a dual with the Salamander-King, a demon with the torso of a man and below the waist nothing but a scaly coiling tail of a snake. Ithcar took the crown from the dead creature's head, but was never the same again." She inhaled a deep breath, brushed back her locks with a swipe of her hand and put on a rare, serious look, "Madness. Madness the likes no one had ever seen or could cure. His love, Mytanya consulted the wisest of oracles, healers, priests... some say even demons. It was revealed to her that the treasures cursed their thieves with greed, greed so powerful that it rendered one jealous of even the slightest of other's wealth. And to stave off the insanity one had to show exemplary charity, sacrificing half their gain or else fall to the curse. Yet her discovery was too late, on the night of the blue moon when she returned Ithcar had slain fifteen men in cold blood and there would have been more. If not that in the frenzy of battle Mytanya was able to run Ithcar through the back with her knife, a gift from him to her." She closed her eyes and murmured a short prayer, "Afterward, she went mad too. Did the curse carry to her or was it because she had the blood of her life's love on her hands? No one could say, yet all should heed this tale."