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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9142490" data-attributes="member: 12388">Eleasias - HighsunFourth day of the second tenday1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets RevealedMages clash in Proskur. Greatgaunt next? Queen fights in slippers. Doomed adventurers depart Suzail.GREATGAUNT - Reports of a running battle between mages in Proskur has made its way east across the Bridge of Fallen Men and arrived in Greatgaunt. A trio of caravan guards were overheard to warn Purple Dragons manning Greatgaunt’s gates to “beware men and women traveling alone, hiding their faces behind cowles and wearing long robes to conceal their hands. If they have hard accents or stink of magic, they are apprentices of the mage Anneth of Karamhond. They wield wands and seek to slay each other and anyone else they suspect of wielding Anneth’s magic.” The fight in Proskur ended swiftly as it began, but not before two wand-wielding mages were blasted to smoking ruin and a third lay on the ground, her body shot through with holes made by enormous bolts of magic. The caravan guards could not say precisely what happened to the bodies or the wands and other magic the mages carried, only that Proskur’s watch was swift to the scene and the mage’s remains carried off, “most likely to the watch building where the Red Wizards once kept an enclave, unless I miss my guess.”SUZAIL - Court officials are hotly denying a rumor claiming zombies did manage to invade the Royal Palace nine days ago. They refuse to comment further on a separate tale that had Queen Raedra rushing to the defense of unarmed palace servants whilst wearing naught but a night robe and wielding a sword in each hand. So embroidered has this tale become that folk are cheering the queen for single-handedly beating the zombies back through a magical gateway located somewhere on the palace grounds and holding it until reinforcements arrived. Court officials would only say that the Queen “remains steadfast as ever in the defense and protection of Cormyr and all its people.”Elsewhere in Suzail, the Hammerhands were seen to depart through the East Gate. “A rather pedestrian bunch of adventurers, wouldn’t you agree?” This question posed by Ansraeve Landaer whilst standing on the stoop fronting the main entrance to the first of his three shops on Suzail’s east wall. As ever, Ansraeve’s commentary strikes true: the Hammerhands could easily be mistaken for crofters come to market to sell their crops. Only one of their number carries a weapon and none wear armor. Ansraeve observed two Hammerhands sitting at the front of a rothé-drawn wagon, while the rest sat in the back, their meager possessions tied to the wagon’s rails. According to Goroth Marl, Ansraeve’s neighbor and provider of shop security next door at Hrungoun’s, “the Thawnfaers are sponsoring that lot. Can’t imagine what good it’ll do them, either. No one survives a Thawnfaer expedition.”</blockquote>

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