Told In Stone Chapter 8: Under a Hag's Moon

Archives of the High Wikkan- Report from High Ornestvale.

Year of Thrall - 188 years before the present day.

Mistress,

Runala, Silvia and I arrived in High Ornestvale as instructed, yet thus far we have been unable to gather information regarding the supposed Wikkan who terrorises this land.

We will continue our search, but it is made difficult as the western wilds are rife with fear and hostility against Wikkan, and thus we are forced to travel under the guise of devotees of the Mother.

I write to you, mistress, to inform you of another rumour we have encountered in our travels. Though the stories vary from teller to teller and town to town, a single thread binds them. Men folk, old and young are going missing and have been for many years.

The local magistrate, Ulfirth, knows our true identity and has told us that in this region alone at least ten men of varying ages had gone missing in the last twenty-five years. Each during the full phase of the moon that they call a Hag’s Moon. Ulfirth then confided in us that a local man called Lot had been incarcerated and invited to talk us to see him.

Lot was a local woodsman who had been missing for sixteen years before he was found in the woods, filthy, and quite mad. Runala attempted to question him and around his ramblings he spoke of his many children, particularly a daughter, though the topic caused him some considerable distress.

We questioned him further and he mentioned a Yega, some foul, demonic apparition known to this land. Lot became quite distressed and refused to speak more, so Runala and I interrogated him. I fear that we pressed him too hard as he bit off his own tongue and subsequently suffocated before we could render aid.

A search of his body revealed traces of torture, many by strange workings we could not identify.

We are unsure if this is related to our hunt for the Wikkan that terrorised this region, but perhaps the report will have more meaning for one more learned as yourself.

Yours in service,

Wikkan Esmeralda Marr.