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Summer 5670

Incursions

When the Fellowship Sorcerer Kharadmon appeals to Althain Tower for help to curb an invasion of free wraiths that threaten Athera, Sethvir must defer the request, since Luhaine cannot leave the Peaks of Tornir before restraining the Khadrim who fly and slaughter the caravans bearing relief supplies into Camris…

Snapped awake from a vivid nightmare, the acting steward of Etarra, Raiett Raven, discovers the priest dedicate of the Light lurking next to his bed and muttering queer lines of incantation; ‘A guarding ward to defend against Shadow,’ the robed man declaims, brazenly insisting the irregular intrusion should not merit an instant expulsion…

Daybreak at Avenor, in distant contact with the same Etarran acolyte, High Priest Cerebeld receives the private sequence of passwords to access Raiett Raven’s established network of spies; immediately after his morning devotions, he applies that suborned resource to his thwarted search after Lysaer’s runaway princess…