Abdication

I went down and to the right, and ended up on a ship. I sailed, dove into a whirlpool. That's where the portal was. But! All logic pointed in the other direction. I think there should be some kind of veiled hint before the fork in the road. Like, go left, you'll meet a grandmother; go right, prepare a stake. The stake is for the vampire, the grandmother is a joke. But somehow, it needs to be done. Otherwise, half the army will be lost... Anyway, there isn't one!))