"It's strange, though. After this Ivar fellow came to the village with his sack of silver scales and his ridic

"It's strange, though. After this Ivar fellow came to the village with his sack of silver scales and his ridiculous stories about the Silver Dragon, things in the area started to change. There was this wolf pack, used to cut through the local cattle like a housewife cuts through vegetables. After Ivar got here, the wolves won't even come close to the local cows. Same with the monsters in the woods — they don't take step one toward the village or its people. It's all pretty strange, if you ask me. Very strange, indeed."