7 Eleasias 1500 DR
ARABEL - Merchants traveling the Moonsea Ride have reported a startling development: Halfhap has been invaded. Purple Dragons manning Arabel’s gates confirmed travel on the Ride is halted between Slingdyke and Griffon Hill. Confusion over who, or what, invaded the walled trading town reigns. According to the red-faced caravan master Thelharkh of Voonlar (owner of several wagons and occasional trader of furs, pelts, and woven textiles) Halfhap was overrun by dwarves.
THE RANGER’S WAY - A peddler traveling on the Ranger’s Way rescued a priest of Tymora tied up and gagged just off the road. According to the priest, hight Baeryn, Smiling Hand of Tymora of the Lady’s House in Arabel, he was accosted by masked riders “wearing black from head to boot, faces and foreheads masked under their hoods, who burst from the forest, knocked me to the ground, beat me, gagged me, blindfolded and tied me up, and ripped away my temple satchel.” Such satchels are known to be sewn shut and water proof, and to hold temple edicts, copies of sermons, books and scrolls containing prayers, and letters between the head priests of temples.
The peddler, Wendra “of the Way” (a seller of miscellaneous wares that travels back and forth on the Ranger’s way between Dhedluk and Waymoot, with occasional trips north to Eveningstar to buy “wares sure to sell in the King’s Wood”), walked Baeryn to his destination, the Sheltering Hand temple in Waymoot. By night within Beruintar’s Bone Warmer–the least expensive of Waymoot’s many inns–she was heard to describe Baeryn as “wearing no priestly vestments, no holy symbol dangling from his neck, and walking alone. Young, too; not a boy but not yet a man. And red with rage over the theft. This was his first temple walk, you know.”
Suzail - Queen Raedra’s Council has been delayed an additional day. Across
Suzail the mood has shifted from happy memories of the Midsummer Holiday and Shieldmeet to uncertainty and even concern. This despite Crown officials announcing the Queen is safe and the Royal Palace is secure and under no threat. Purple Dragons backed up by Wizards of War are politely but firmly turning away noble agents (including adventurers) sent to inquire about events in the palace.
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