Peter Roberts

Told In Stone Chapter 14: Wikkan Archives

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Archives of the Wikkan Seat - Report from Haland marsh, Far West of Parthanea.

Year of Thrall - 188 years before the present day.

Mistress,

Forgive me, but a local priest writes this missive as the last of my strength fails. Runala is captured. Silvia is dead and soon I will join her.

For two months we followed half tales and rumours of the witch that terrorised this land. We uncovered foul deeds. Homesteads burned, families mutilated. Men and boys taken, women and girls slain.

The settlement of Haland’s Green is now a grave site, the horrors inflicted there I will not commit to paper.

On the second night from the massacre, we came upon our quarry. A witch of fifteen winters in a campsite sitting alongside the body of a slain hunter.

She fled at our approach and we chased her through the woods. In a clearing. I find it hard to describe. We discovered a portal into a fell land and pursued her. Through this gatewayl I saw a village, ruined buildings, and many ragged figures, woman and girls, captive men.

It was a trap. We were set upon by three monstrous creatures, seven feet tall with white mask on their faces. They wielded strange powers and our own ley power was diminished. Though we fought as bravely as we could, Silvia was killed, and Runala was captured. I barely escaped with a mortal wound.

Would that I had the courage to strike Runala down than leave her to such a fate.

Wikkan Seat, I must tell you that, all three of these creatures were swollen with child.

I urge you to gather the Wikkan, the Arcanists, any allies you can find, before it is too late.