Eridor smiled in conjunction with the Orc's bellow, and listened to his questions, expecting them to be more hilarious theoretical situations. Alas, they weren't, merely sensible queries. Queries that made Eridor think back to his childhood, his family, his witnessing of their massacre, and his subsequent slaughter of their killers. All painful memories. He re-booted his mind, and thought back to the present. That life was behind him now, and he wanted to keep walking away from it, not pausing every step to take a look back...
"I was brought up with a clan, a clan that sought out, and... I guess you could say worshipped arca- magical artefacts" Eridor didn't want to waste words explaining what arcane meant, just in case the melee focused, conventional weapon preferring Orc didn't know.
"As I reached my teens, bam! I just... somehow used magic to wrap some vines around a deer when we were hunting and snap its neck. Since then, I've just tried to develop it, finding new ways to use it, nurturing it. And I've got a feeling I've got a loooong way to go before I unlock it's maximum potential. As to how I'm so upbeat in dark times, I guess I've just got a pleasant personality, someone's got to have one." As he finished his answer, he made an obvious, yet subtle gesture towards the Breton necro-mage, who seemed to be in a no-nonsense, objective focused mood.
Eridor acknowledged's Conan's rather blunt briefing of their mission, with much intrigue. An Elder Scroll. One of the many powerful objects his family had been obsessed with. They were made, supposedly by the Divines, to read past, present and future, and yet no mortal man could read them, except the Moth Preists, but even their translations were blurry at best.
Eridor heard a sharp 'snap!', and immediately focused his eyes towards the source of the noise. A sneaking, suspicious humanoid shape was at the centre of the disturbance. Before Eridor could react, he saw the Orc already charging at the figure, warhammer grasped. In preparation of any pre-emptive retaliation of the Orc's show of force, Eridor readied his spells in his hands, a pale green magical mist slithering around his palm.