Side trek to Melitis

I went to the dock in Altrisos to book passage upriver to Melitis. Helped the Volcanic Hydra guild load a ship bound for Melitis and got paid 4 gold. In Melitis I sought out the playwright, Retnues to inform him his work was being stolen and passed off as someone else's original work. He didn't care and was much more interested in creating a new epic poem. he seemed to want to come with me, but I tried to discourage him unless he was going to actually fight. I left him there in the city and returned to the ship to go back to Altrisos.
 
While waiting on the ship I overhead talk on the dock about an attack in Lagonna territory. Dark riders appeared and caused immense devastation near Setessa, at the Oresekes border, and near Akros. The figures vanished as the sun rose.