The ledger continues with Davik detailing the comings and goings of many merchants and trappers. They were all happy to be able to easily cross the Shrike River, making the journey to Jovvox and Taldor much easier. Davik made even more money than expected, as news of his bridge reached the right ears in both Brevoy and Jovvox, so he calculated he would be able to fully pay back his investors in a bit less than 2 years, instead of the three he had first calculated. He goes on detailing the names of the members of the Restov Merchants Guild that had invested in the bridge.
Davik got once into a verbal fight with the trapper Breeg Orlivanch, as he was a miser and always haggled the fee to use the bridge. After that fight, Breeg told him he would never use his bridge again, and some trappers told him that he had moved his hunting area to the northern Narlmarches.
A bit more than a year ago, the merchant Rufus Seadwell told him that he had seen a group of Kobolds move into an abandoned mine to the southwest of the bridge. Davik shows some sign of worry in this part of the diary but soon is relieved after some other merchants told him that they had seen some signs of skirmishes between them and the Mite tribe that inhabited the Old Sycamore tree. According to the stories told to him by other trappers and merchants, Taldan colonists once made an attempt to settle in the Stolen Lands. They failed, but not for lack of resources. There’s supposedly some old and abandoned mines somewhere in the Kamelands, and Davik was making plans on investigating and possibly developing these mines.
About a year ago, more and more merchants and trappers started reporting an increase in bandit attacks. He explained Davik that a group of evil monks and priests of a lesser-known goddess of hatred, extortion, and spite had once dwelt on the northern shore of the Tuskwater to the south and that he was convinced they were the cause behind the sudden rise in banditry!
Also a year ago, another trapper named Timitius Bandy had paid him with an ancient medallion he said he had found in a battle sight near the western edge of the Narlmarches. He was happy to accept it, as soon after a travelling Pathfinder named Ollix Kaddar had paid him a good sum of money for the medallion and offered him to buy any other medallion he could find. He even said that he would try to organise an archeology expedition to find such a site, as he was sure the medallion was a relic from the ancient Barbarian Lords of Numeria.
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