RED DRAGON REPORT: RETURN OF THE SKINWALKER

Imperium-Septimus · September 16, 2018

THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE RED DRAGON: RETURN OF THE SKINWALKER

Issued and confirmed by His Imperial Highness, Pius of the House of Horen, Grand Knight of the Crown of Godfrey, 11th of Sun's Smile, 1681. Penned by Ser Robert of Denhardt, 1681.

OFFICIAL IMPERIAL REPORT

Reporting Knight: Ser Robert Denhardt

Incident: Skinwalker Attack

Individuals Involved: Ser Carlovac Kovachev, Ser Robert Denhardt, Ser Seth, Ser Frederick, Ser Avery (and his ward, Toby), Magnus Schulze, Squire Charles Napier, Thorley Fitch,

Details of Incident:

Our group trekked South towards the destination where we had last engaged in combat with the Eldritch abomination. As we marched through the frozen forest, a man lept from the trees, with red irises, white hair, and the same symbol we had seen carved in the trees before carved into his chest. He told us to flee the frozen forest, and that something was coming. When our group asked him what was coming, he said that he was cursed by something from the Red Gate and that he had heard of the Order “removing one of their beasts from the playing field” in our last expedition. He asked us what we would like to know of him, but again echoed his concern from earlier and that we had to hurry, as if some catastrophe was about to occur.

Suddenly, black worms began to erupt from the man, and he collapsed, with the worms that burst through his eyes, ears, and nose creating a black, liquid-like mirror image of the man. The worms also made a zweihander, which the black figure wielded as a weapon. We then engaged the creature, and suddenly learned it had a strong resistance to steel. It would begin to consume our steel weaponry when we struck it. Thus, I came up with an idea - setting a large, sturdy branch on fire and using that to combat the creature. While I prepared my weapon Ser Frederick managed to somehow lob off one of the beast’s arms. The beast also knocked Schulze unconscious. I flanked the beast from behind and then set it aflame, which we then realized was its weakness as the worms began to screech and those in the area struck by the flame died, however the beast’s assault did not relent and it set its focus to Ser Frederick. The flame on my branch having gone out, I wrapped a cloth around my blade and set it alight, going to cut the beast’s legs off, and succeeded in severing both of them. At the same time, Toby, Ser Avery’s squire, threw a makeshift Raevir weapon known as a molotov at the creature, which ended up awry and giving some of us some negligible injuries. Fitch then procured an Ascended sword, striking it from behind alongside Ser Seth, executing what was likely the killing blow as it had its attention set on Ser Frederick.

The beast then dissipated into a cloud of black gas, which drifted away. All that was left was the creature’s sword - the Zweihander, bearing the craftsmanship of the Reichwald Greatswords. We passed the sword around, examining it, until it came to Ser Carlovac, who said it was useless and threw it to the snow. Upon doing such, every man in our detachment began to experience visions of fire and blood - an apocalypse. We then took our wounded and marched home, the visions we saw would haunt all of us in the nights to come.

IN NOMINE DE,

HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS, Ser Pius Horen the Hellstrider, Imperial Prince of the Imperium Septimus, Grand Knight of the Order of the Red Dragon, Baron of Arrav, Titular King of Rhodesia, Eighth Vandalore and Baron of Arrav.