The Chaos Sorcerer

Disaster / Destruction

The following year news reaches the Duchy that a mighty army of pestilence led by Tamurkhan, The Maggot Lord, has invaded the Empire and was sweeping across the Mountains of Mourn from the Dark Lands into the southern provinces of the Empire.   The Imperial Army which had been patroling the Teufel valley for years now marched south and for a while the imminent threat of annexation by the Emperor subsided.   Then news reached Drakenburg that a monster had been spotted in the woods to the south of the castle and Salundra and Gunnar hurried south to investigate together with Claudin de Chegney and two Bretonnian Knights who were part of the escort to the Vicompte de Chegney who was visiting the castle on a diplomatic mission.   Salundra's party tracked down the so-called monster to the Ostdraken Valley, but was disappointed to discover that it looked more like a wizened old man than a daemon.   However, the old man appeared to be in the process of poisoning the Ostbrook stream and Salundra believing that they had finally found the Chaos Sorcerer who was responsible for the last two years of pestilence attacked immediately and cleaved the old mans head in two with a single blow.   For a moment it seemed as though the matter was resolved and the cause of the pestilence finally purged. But then from the body of the dead sorcerer a monsterous creature rose and battle was renewed on again the banks of the Ostbrook and only resolved after an epic struggle which cost one of Claudin's companions his life.