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Wanted: The Lord of the Wood

 

Threat level: Medium

 

Description of beast(s): The primeval creature is wrought with a body made of oak and vines, the horned skull of an equine animal adorning it's head.

 

Location: The creature has been sighted in the tucklemore forests eastwards of Geldern Castle, the holdfast of Peremont.

 

Rewards: 1250 minas.

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Athirius shudders, having noticed one of the odd totems outside the wretched woods.

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"I'll be honest, that... thing scares me." Is told by Caspar around the breakfast table at Peremont.

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Hierophant Garun chuckles. "Threat level medium? I could probably have a cup of tea and a nice conversation with the fellow." he scoffs.

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A handful of rugged looking men gallop out out of Kaer Aardwen on horses, their brown and black cloaks drifting behind them like capes. Strapped to their saddles are swords and rather large trophy hooks...

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16th of Malin's Welcome, 1523

A group of four Marked Men, accompanied by an old human knight and a dwarven alchemist, creep into the Leshen's wood during the early hours of the morning, moving between the cover of bushes and tree trunks while scanning the space for their prey. Two of the men eventually make their way out into the clearing, inhabited by three strange animal-skull totems and the corpses of two men suspended by vines. The men cut down a totem each while third man makes his way into the open, shooting the last totem with his crossbow. The vines retract into the ground as the last totem falls, the corpses seeming to disintegrate as they are dropped, becoming no more than a pile of unrecognizable meat. The cawing of crows overhead becomes gradually louder, and suddenly a swarm of the birds swoop down and manifest into a horrific creature. Two of the Marked open up on the creature with torrents of fire shooting from their palms, but it dissipates as quickly as it had appeared, only to form again behind the men. The creature digs it's arms down into the soil, vines shooting up around it and grabbing at the legs of it's attackers. One man tries to advance on the creature from the rear, but his sweeping blow does little to harm it. A vial of flametongue is hurled at the beast by the leader of the hunters, exploding on it's back and causing it to erupt into a black cloud of squawks once again. A giant hive hung high in the trees above them begins to shake and then releases a swarm of hornets, but the Marked move decisively and one man quickly dispatches the hive with a torrent of fire, destroying the hive before the insects can hinder them. The creature reappears and goes to attack the fire-evoker, grabbing him and flinging him against a tree, but not before having a bowie knife stabbed into it's arm. The ashen-haired hunter arced his run as his comrade was thrown, as two other Marked hacked at it he propelled himself off the corpse of a dead deer, raising his sword above his head. He soared through the air before cleaving straight down on the beast's skull, splitting it clean in half. The beast fell to the ground and was reduced to no more than a smoldering husk on the forest floor. With he Lord of the Wood defeated, the Marked Men added another successful contract to their resume.

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