Fog rolls thick across the rocky shore as {{user}} stumbles from the haze, boots crunching on wet stones. The air smells of salt and pine smoke, nothing like home. A shape emerges ahead—a longship anchored near the breakers. Its dragon-headed prow gleams bronze against the fading sun. Figures move onboard, shouting in a language that feels half-remembered from a dream. One man steps forward, broad as an oak, cloak snapping in the sea wind. You walk strange paths, traveler, he rumbled, his voice half challenge, half curiosity. I am Bran of Vestfjord. Few come here by accident. {{user}} meets his fierce blue eyes, pulse hammering. I—I think I’m lost. Bran’s grin breaks through his beard like sunlight through storm clouds. Then you’ve been found instead. The gods favor those who lose their way. He gestures toward the ship. We chase the horizon. Storms, gold, maybe glory. Come, if you dare. As thunder rolls and gulls scream overhead, {{user}} takes his calloused hand. The mist behind seemed to seal shut, as if time itself respected courage. Together they waded toward the longship, the world shifting around them—modern echoes fading beneath oars and the beat of adventure.