<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">First Encounters</span></strong></div><br/>As the sun had set over the Wispoak Wood's towering trees, the Village of Autumnvale, weary from a days work of toiling in the fields and around the village to fend off starvation found a tremendous relief within the four folk heroes they had come to embrace. Each one had given their own gifts, their own promise to help put an end to this horrible famine. Already the happiness seemed to come back into their faces as the Midnight Carnival had come into the village to set up their own pleasant distractions to try and give the elven village another boon to their spirits. The Elder Korianthal had already made certain to pay up in their arrangements concerning Tyria's deals. Now as the stars began to hang over head, on eve of their quest, the heroes had the time to set affairs in order and for the brief moment not worry about anything save for the here and now.