The heroes, after reviewing the situation decide upon a course of action, beginning by heading to the feywynn of Rhanelm (wood elves) to request sanctuary for the people of Harting from an advancing army of Si’duthan (aquatic elves). The feywynn deny their request choosing neutrality over the conflict & are skeptical about their accusations against a band of warriors (sent by jade) who’ve settled nearby and aided the fey against manticores in the heroes’ absence. Disheartened they head back to Harting only to spot an advanced scouting party of Si’duthan and choose to ambush them. Once there they recommend the populace of the imperiled town flee south to the barony of Lingle After sending the seven suspect “loyal” guards east to Rasont.

Once the town’s march had begun, the heroes’ teleported to Rasont in hopes of warning a force of Dynarr from Drullthrom to an appending attack by a monstrous army. They convince the dynarr to hold their advance, allowing them to try & save the dynarr fleeing south from Gerimyth. Discovering that the manticores that were plaguing the feywynn are heading north to devour the refugees, the heroes join the ragtag band of dynarr in battle against the fearsome beasts. After a brutal clash, they stood victorious at only a score of survivors. The heroes teleport the survivors & join the Drullthrom army, who’ve magically constructed a walled fortification. Eventually the monsters arrived and instead of attacking the dynarr en march they were forced to assault their stronghold in failure.  In victory the Dynarr head off to return to Drullthrom while the heroes to Lingle, to failure. The people of Harting were caught by the Si’duthan & hunted all the way to Lingle, at great loss.

Before returning home the heroes attend Lord Gainus’ Funeral & Miralec’s coronation, enlist 10 loyal guards & steal away Alek’s sister Viccia. En-route Jeb is again contacted by the elementals to spy on the dark mage & learn one of the heroes is a spy, 7 of the guards are under the dark mages influence, Gallious Du’cote & Miralec Calvert are the conspirators & Harting is over run with grendle. In preparation for their arrival they recruit druids to save as many victims of the disease as possible. Nearly half of Harting’s populace was infected and only the town itself was secured from the madly infected. The heroes begin the monumental task of hunting down & saving or slaying the thousand or so grendle.

Ko-Ro’arn a dynarr from beving pass. (he eventually kills Thinduaal)

Lanilira a feywynn from Leirtin.

Thinduaal from Gerimyth.

Two who were left in their cells:

Hiroctas, a human mercenary who helped trained the goblin-spawned troops in siege warfare. (brought to Conkes)

Wythri, a most lethal and furious woman. (she eventually kills Lanilira)

And one shield bowar who died swearing a death oath against Ra’jinn.

Allister’s purpose for arriving at Harting is to advise the lord Baron Varant on its recent bowar troubles. Allister’s homeland of Rhyggarde has historically been plagued by the by the extremely war-like brutes and Allister has fought them many a times. Allister informs the Baron & heroes that the bowar will continue to attack in increasing numbers until the one who has defiled the cairn is slain or the cairn is rebuilt by the offender or he challenges the ancestor of the cairn to a final duel to settle the matter.

Meanwhile, while on a border patrol Jeb is contacted by feywynns from Rhanelm who warns him that a hundred bowar are marching through the forest towards Harting & that it is unsafe to come to Rhanelm any longer.

Having no choice in the matter the heroes prepare themselves for battle & head off north to stop the bowar from attacking Harting. They travel a day north to the cairn to find the remains shattered, thus making rebuilding it pointless. They begin to ride off towards the elves for two days but realize they do not know exactly where the bowar are & choose to return towards Harting to ensure its safety. As luck would have it they encounter the brutes within hours of arriving at the town. Ra’jinn breaks from the group and shouts out a challenge to the amassed bowar, confessing his guilt. A towering skirmisher steps forward and accepts his challenge. The duel only lasts a few minutes & at first appeared as if Ra’jinn were doomed but with luck, preparation & vigilance he defeats the mighty foe. Badly wounded & fatigued he and his companions await the response of the remaining bowar army, for as Allister warned them, ”Should you do what needs to be done to appease the bowar ancestor, there remains a 50/50 chance as to whether or not they’ll attack anyway”. An intimidating, heavily armored shield warrior approaches & snorts, “It is done” and with that the bowar withdraw back from which they came.

Within days of the Bowar’s withdraw the town of Harting found its self assaulted by concealed archers under cover of the woods adjacent to its northern walls. Upon investigation the heroes discover assailants to be goblins intent upon drawing the baronies troops away from its farm lands to kidnap peasant maidens to breed hobgoblins. Unfortunately the ruse succeeded to some degree and the heroes had to give chase to the retreating goblin force. With little chance to assault the goblins directly, the heroes lure manticores from the northern woods into the goblin ranks and with help from the town’s garrison save most of the captives, sending the raiders fleeing.

Interrogation of captive goblins and consultation with the elves of Rhanelm reveal that a clan of goblins are amassing an army of brood & hobgoblins and a sorcerer near Beving pass is using manticores to drive the feywynn into hiding. The heroes decide to travel towards Beving to find & slay the sorcerer whom they suspect is behind the mysterious plot against the western lands of the Ormaden Vale. And so the hoboes travelled east, then north toward Alek’s ancestral lands, through the cities of Rasont & Lenbrook to put an end to the dangers facing Harting & its neighbors. The session ended with the heroes defeating a brigand raid enroute to Kerswick from Lenbrook.

Using sorcery for extended times draws demonic lizard-men hunters upon them.

They disturbed a Bowar burial cairn which may have caused an attack by one.

They tracked down the location of a lizard-men lair within a small swampish area in the northern forest. & defeated an attack by some of its inhabitants, then rested for the night a mile away or so.

Party Advanced to 2nd level.