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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4497015" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 6 - Death at the Keep (Part 2)Outside Winterhaven where the East Way met an old trail that led north, the group stopped and the dwarves and dragonborn turned aside, intending to head west back down into Cormyr.“We must take the grave news back to Eveningstar,” said Audin, embracing Erlmoor his brother.“But snow is coming,” answered the younger dragonborn. “You could at least winter here and share some of the spoils of the keep with us.”“We cannot,” said Belrin. “Our kin will want to know what happened here and your kin have keen blades and spells that will see us safe to Eveningstar.”“Now keep yourself safe brother,” said Dau, embracing Erlmoor. “It is cold up here in the mountains. Make sure you need no more rescuing until spring.” Erlmoor nodded and his brother and sister turned away, starting on the long road back to Cormyr. Dwarves and dragonborn turned and waved before they turned a corner in the road and vanished from sight. The road before those that remained was altogether shorter but much darker and for a moment they lingered as if loath to start out upon it. Eventually they turned north on an old and worn trail that led to the Keep on the Shadowfell.They came to the keep less than an hour later, the narrow track widening into a clearing. Great piles of shattered stone blocks and scorched timbers dominated the clearing, sprawling out from the centre to the edge of the woods. No plants grew among the ruins or within the clearing leaving the ground, as bare dirt now covered in a layer of snow. The forest had begun to reclaim the trail leading to the clearing but it had not intruded into the ruins of Shadowfell Keep, yet clearly someone had tampered with the ruins. In the centre of the debris, stone blocks and timbers had been gathered into a pile. Someone had cleared a path through the rubble and pulled aside the wreckage to reveal a stone staircase. The stairs descended into darkness.Mandratan conjured light and then turned to Gevarn.“You have led us this far, Brother Gevarn,” he said. “There is no need for you to venture further.”“But I must,” answered Gevarn. “I have trained hard in the ways of battle and Chauntea is with me. I will come with you.”</blockquote>

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