Editing Dragon Quest IV Chapter 1 (section)

===Ragnar and the Mystery of the Missing Children===
[[Image:BurlandCastle.png|left|260px|thumb|Official art of Burland Castle]]
The chapter opens with all of the [[Burland]] palace guards (including Ragnar McRyan) assembled for an announcement by King Burnard. He informs the guards that he had heard troubling reports that several of the children of [[Strathbaile]] have disappeared. He then orders them to investigate this problem at once, and dismisses the troops. A lady then approaches Ragnar to beg him to seek out and bring her child back safely.

{{Ragnar}} then proceeds to the town proper and finds Aigneas just outside her house, pacing while she waits for her husband, Angus, to return. When he arrives at [[Strathbaile]], he finds a man who seems to have mentally regressed to childhood who goes by the name Angus, who was jailed for theft. 

Having no other leads, he returns to [[Burland]] and informs Aigneas of his findings. She accompanies him to the [[Strathbaile]] jail, and restores Angus to normal, causing him to reveal the location of a secret "[[Auld Well|playground]]" known only to the children. Entering this cave, he hears a mysterious voice leading him to a specific [[treasure chest]] containing a set of [[Talaria]]. He also found a [[Healslime]] named [[Healie]] who wished to become [[human]]. Hoping that travelling with a [[human]] will bring it closer to fulfilling its wish, it joins {{Ragnar}} on his adventures.

After leaving the cave, {{Ragnar}} tries on the [[Talaria]], only to be teleported to the mysterious [[Loch Tur|island tower]]. There he see a young boy being roughly carried further into the tower. Following, he eventually finds the missing children of [[Strathbaile]], and [[Psaro's Pawn]], who tells {{Ragnar}} that he is tasked with finding and killing the {{Hero 4}} before he can become strong enough to challenge [[Psaro the Manslayer]].

{{Ragnar}} then fights, and defeats, [[Psaro's Pawn]], but the monster's last words, that other forces are hunting the hero even as they speak, weighs on his mind, so, after returning the children, he asks of King Burnard leave to seek out and protect the {{Hero 4}}, which is granted.
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