I wonder if Gideon will even remember how to live in a civilized environment by the time he gets back from this walk. Anyways I had him start moving south along the coast to see what shape our world is. Let’s see how far he gets before the Oda catch up to him, maybe he can catch a ride back home with them.

We have sent a wagon full of gold to the Katara as ordered and Uudistar has begun making room around the northern side in preparation for the Ghuan to show up and the twenty soldiers have been sent to Essi.

On that end, Ansa has worked out deals with the drow enough to get things moving. Offering the Ghuan a place to stay and the Eilsath ways to reinforce their position and hold over the main city. She has acted somewhat hastily to beat Faelyn’s people from beating us to the punch, and strife is beginning to consume the underworld city.

Faelyn’s agents have also just found the drow and consequently Ansa who has begun “diplomacy” with them.

Also Sakki has begun to take his new friends southeast towards the war since they finished around Sybaris and have a lack of standing orders…and you know Sakki. Speaking of which, Eamon has officially arrived at Wynolwind. Place your bets now on whether or not he survives.

Greetings keeper! It is a glorious day for the Oda people. As for Pulauli we are not currently trading with them, we have merely discovered their position on the map thanks to our friends in Cayetano. We still have yet to establish actual contact with them. Speaking of a merchant who is good at econ stuff, you do have Hamano now, and you did just send him and Kaze to visit Pulauli.

The scout ships continue to sail, though unfortunately one of the two moving northward has been destroyed by sea monsters it could not escape from. We have added another ship to the navy and as far as I’m aware the Nalkas are done researching the artifact or at the very least have hit a standstill on whatever else they can discover from it.

Iwanagi and Ocunnohaka continue on their journey, not much interesting from them this week.

Rhea  and Nina continue to travel. In the meantime-

The new blackguard to go with the 500 troops headed out to meet up with Marilena is Pelagia Maniade. She’s a bit…flashy I suppose. As with Nina she draws her power from Orias, though is a bit more quiet and serious by comparison. Very straightforward and focused on her given task at hand, a little less mad with power. Though, notably she is not quite the combatant that Nina is and they pull about even in command.

She is taking the new army down to meet up with Marilena.

Now that we have that out of the way, the battle at Wynolwind has managed to get continually out of control. Two of the orc commanders have broken away from the main group and are moving north, one of which found Marilena’s forces. Her army was still reduced after fighting the monster, once the orc came upon them the remains of the force were wiped out. Marilena, Areti, and Euterna managed to escape with their lives but the soldiers are definitely gone. Both the commander that found them and the other moving northward are on course to find Ankanthi soon.

The orcish warchief has positioned to assault Wynolwind with his own force now, it is larger then all the other commander’s combined. As it stands it is all that can be done to hold him at bay. He has sustained heavy casualties fighting the Archdruid but his numbers are still seemingly too vast.

Neyth and Ailduin’s forces have been devastated in the battle and we still can’t get a headcount on what the Archdruid herself has due to the nature of her army being composed mostly of monsters and the like.

Stories of Lore 7

Well the first bit of interest this week is that Ansa reached the drow city to begin negotiations. She also told Eilsath to be wary of people who were pursuing her. Resulting in them killing the first contact of Faelyn’s scouts, and I guess buying herself a bit more time to do her work to hopefully move Ghuan to Uudistar.

Sakki and his merry band made it to Sybaris and are just hanging out around there. This has proven of interest to his Eilsath companions because typically they’ve only known arcane and warlock styles of magic. They’ve never seen the kind of witchcraft that the coven utilizes, just wait until they meet a druid. Gonna blow their minds. They’re currently touring around Sybaris for a little while.

Gideon reached the coast after having followed the northern border for so long. A location between two major lands with access to the ocean of course has a settlement on it. Not as large as I might have expected but then again I guess not enough people wandered up there, and it isn’t as if these are the two best lands to be situated between.

So far the interactions between Ki and magic that we’re studying among the monks seems to be fairly minimal. The most we’ve figured to do with it are technically  mixing two separate techniques to do one thing instead of actually having any sort of hybrid casting.

Greetings keeper! It is a glorious day for the Oda people.

Maji seems relatively interested in trade, their empire is based on a more sophisticated economy then we are over here. Though the reputation of the places danger is well deserved, Ocunnohaka describes a few close escapes from local bandits. The badlands thrive on trade but also on advanced forms of banditry. May wish to send someone a bit more familiar with economy then Occunohaka. With a larger escort.

Everybody be scoutin, see map for updates on that. The warships have been constructed and added to Chinami’s forces.

Nina and Rhea managed to take down some weird snake thing in the forest that was of interest to Ansa. Marilena, Areti, and Euterna managed to kill whatever the hell that tree creature was though at shockingly high cost. About eighty units died off.

Meanwhile, the orcs have made it to Wynolwind and begun the assault. Things over there are a bit crazy right now. The summary of it is that the orcs chased the archdruid’s forces towards the walls of Wynolwind, which responded with siege weapons, and now everything is on fire.