New Days Ahead

Past 2 years
- Spending time with logging company and Kaia
- Caring for sisters and spending more time studying the pantheon/deities
Last year
- Lack of game returning in spring / prepare for another harsh famine
- Past few weeks Orion has become light sleeper, cold sweats, aches and stiffness (upper body and arms)
- Being treated more like adults, work, adult duties, and being part of the conversations of rationing/town issues.
Visitors
- We are starting to see Capitain Starin showing his age, using a “walking staff”
- A caravan of covered wagons approaches.
o 3 wagons, each with 4 horses to pull.
o one of the wagons is a personal transport(unusual for traders)
o the lead driver isn’t in charge, motions us towards the middle wagon
o food stuffs in the first cart,
o 3 people in the middle cart, 1 woman and man (royalty version of “dressing down”), other man (putting mask on his face) and a soft glow inside the carriage.
o Man and woman human couple(mid 30s?), in wool robes, rings on man, woman with earrings and jewelry
o 3rd person is Dark leather armor, extremely well polished, cloak, and detailed white porcelain mask. Heavy enough to affect the shocks of the carriage.
- Sent by the Temple of the Six Divine
- Imperial Family heard our request for aide and sent all the wagons loaded up
- Staring contest between Captain Starin and Masked stranger.
- Off load all food to homes and get back to the wagons, but the figures have likely gone into Starins home.
o Sneak nearer the window to listen in (Orion fails)
o Heated discussion
 Starin was asked to leave (estate waiting for him, land and helpers)
 The 3 strangers are being sent to take over, and investigate for arcane corruption / cleanse it
 Strengthen the relationship between the people and the Temple of the Divine
 Starin packing a bag of his belongings.
- Couple = Gideon and Leila
o Replacing Starin as leaders of Evergreens End.
o Hazel offers to take them on a tour of E.E. (for tomorrow)
Captain Starin
- Get to Jean, gather supplies, get himself and the 4 of us out.
- Imperial “Family” sent an Inquisitor.
o Order of Inquisitors Major Dark mark on the religious organization
 Sometimes tracks down evil, sometimes finds child with an evil omen and murders it.
 Part of the church, but nobody ever joins them voluntarily
 Not preventative, purely response to known threat
o First part of the church to exist.
- E.E. has been a Druid zone
o Ancient druid made groves (druid churches)
 He died here
 Why we have Ironwoods, and reason for the accelerated tree growth.
- The Church has started to track Groves
o Hunting relics and starting to control the druids
- Starin dons armor and weapons from Jean
- Druid of E.E. Lived in Catacombs below E.E. and stored all his information within the Catacombs
- Why can’t we kick the 3 strangers out
o Jean was from tribe up north
 They had a shield relic that protected from attack
 Church demanded relic, killed all and left Jean with a massive scar along her side
Goodbyes to families
- Orion intentionally avoids the parents instead seeks out sisters to say goodbye for now, packs a small bag. (extra clothes, dagger, what other equip that I would have for being in woods)
 
Traveling to the Chimera
- The forest is more dead than It should be for this time of year
o The druidic magic seems to be fading from the land
- Something doesn’t feel right.
o Knee high grass moving different than wind.
o Starin tells us to run for the fort.
o Starin throws a dagger into the grass, hits something.
o We bolt for fort, Starin fighting giant snakes with arms???
Inside the Fort
- Hazel has been back often and knows a secret entrance.
o She has been studying and taking notes.
- Trophy room
o There is a study nook
- Roof
o Starin walking his horse to the fort after winning his fight.
- Starin
o The Snake things were Yuan’ti trackers / scouts
 They come from the southern lands
 Usually need warmer climates (either its warm here or they are desperate)
o Tells the tale of the chimera
 Wasn’t a member of the chimeras but trained under some after they joined the expeditionary force
o Leads us to the armory
 As opposed to the trophies these weapons and armors are immaculate.
 We gain our starting arms and armors
o Next destination is Frostrain Fort