The Villages near Fureck

Report of Guard Captain Patrin Rhogar:
24th year, sixth month, and thirteenth day of the Reign of the King of the Shining Sun.

Last week our runner to the village of Lasey had returned with terrible news of the village. His report stated that the entire occupants of the city have been slaughtered in their homes. Our investigation team has returned today and reported.

The village has been found devoid of any life, everything within a rather large circle centred in the village has died on the spot instantaneously, and the villagers have been found to be completely missing. The initial report from the runner suggested that the occupants of the village had been killed, but we do not know if this is the case. Our investigation team did discover the workings of a great magic, although they were unsure as to what kind of magic it was. It had a very clear effect of killing everything within the village, but we suspect the villagers have been removed from the villages after the magic was cast.

In the preceding couple of weeks, the village had reported a large number of organised Kobolds within the area. While I am sceptical that Kobolds could have inflicted this upon an entire village, it is the only thing that was out of the ordinary before the tragedy occurred. The Kobold Population of this area is especially low, thanks to the work of the Alilandra Mercenary Company.

Our company will seek to gather more information and move should the same circumstances arise again.

Report of Guard Captain Patrin Rhogar:
24th year, seventh month, and sixteenth day of the Reign of the King of the Shining Sun.

In the aftermath of the horrific devastation in Lasey, we have noticed a similar course of events happening around the village of Worton Vale. As things were at the time, we do not have the resources to launch a investigation ourselves, but the petition came and we have dedicated some effort in employing some hardy adventurers to investigate and hopefully stop the same thing from happening again, if indeed the same thing is happening again. My request for more funding so we could hire the Alilandra Mercenary Company has been denied, despite my belief that they would be able to perform a more comprehensive investigation of this matter.

We have had to send out a couple of criminals we have caught, in order to get them out of the city, as commanded by the city council, and due to lack of interest within the city from adventurers. The Minotaur we captured has been dispatched, as has a petty thief, a Shifter, caught looking for things to steal from our hardworking citizens. If they prove themselves true to their task, we may have further work for them. From our search for adventurers, I have employed a Drow, Gnome and Human. (their details are recorded within the contract writ) They have set off today, and I expect they will arrive at Worton Vale tomorrow.

If we have all the facts, the group will not have long until the same thing happens to Worton Vale.