29 Kythorn 1500 DR
REDPSRING - A grim discovery within the hills west of Redspring has caused the villagers to send a rider to Arabel for Purple Dragon aid.
On a patch of flat land covered in thin soil, a villager discovered twenty-five decomposing human corpses of men and orcs, their arms and legs pulled taught by ropes fastened to spikes, their bodies sporting open battle wounds.
So little grows here that local farmers don’t even bother to graze sheep on the hills. Perhaps this explains why someone—or something—chose this spot to grow fleshwort.
As the villager explained it, there were no weapons or armor or any other corpses present. The bodies were lined up on the ground in five rows of five corpses each. Flewshort grew in abundance, the stalks forming a grey colored X-shaped outline topped with flat green leaves around each corpse.
“Too late for those unfortunates to use,” said the local herbalist, hight Qorra Harnshout. “Run a man through with a sword, stuff his guts with fleshwort, then sew him up. He’ll be on his feet in a tenday. Whomever sewed that field must be tired of losing hireswords to whatever cause they’ve committed to.”
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