User blog:Tikkit/Burden's Journey out of The Emberlight Depths.

Burden knew that he needed to leave. It was something he could feel from the bottom of his heart.

The white scaled lizardman, or saurian as any denizen of the Emberlight Depths would say, always had so!e desire to see the world. Burden had always reasoned that there was so much to experience in life, therefore he couldn't make any long term commitment to staying in one location.

Oh, he make exceptions of course. He had spent the last ten years of his life becoming a fully fledged priest of the Goddess Saqra, the Goddess of, among other things, light, poisons, and serpents within the Emberlight Depths. Now that he was a priest however...

He felt the desire to go out into the big wide world and see all its myriad wonders once again rise up. His older sister would have questioned him for just deciding to leave the comforts of the temple and all the friends he had made, but Burden didn't care too much. He would send letters, and what his older sister thought couldn't affect him because she lived all the way back home in Cragspur.

Burden was pulled out of his thoughts by the sight of the candle that out his room flickering before going out. He sighed, frowning as he got up, briefly shooting a glance at the mirror. Burden was rather tall and lanky, unlike some other saurians, like the Myrmidons that protected the temple and the Blazefangs that acted as the personal guards of the high priestess. Burden wore voluminous green robes, the shades of green mostly being on the brighter side. Only his clawed hands and feet, along with his long, crocodile like head could be seen.

Burden went to grab a match so that he could light the candle again, before sighing. "No, you shouldn't put off your desires any longer. Who knows? Maybe if you delay you'll get dragged into something that puts a few weeks, or months between now and the next time you want to leave to see the world." Burden said, as he instead went to grab some things when a pack.

Eventually he got everything he needed. Burden had ten gold, which should cover his expenses for a while. He had some books and his time of spells, very useful. He had packed some necessities for his hygiene and some extra clothes, and he had a map. There was an exit of the Emberlight Depths leading to somewhere in the surface world nearby.

And so, a packed and ready to go Burden left his room in the temple, leaving a note behind as he made his way out into the cavernous Emberlight Depths...