Chapter Eight: Crescent City (Rumors of War)

Crescent City, April 15

Word on the street has it that a force of evil dwarves have conquered the island nation of Chillhame. Some few hundred refugees from Saragost and other towns have arrived all across Caldraza, but mainly in Crescent City. Furthermore, there is talk of a band of heroes that rode across the land warning of impending danger before the attack. Some people mutter that they were in cohoots with the Duergar, while others praise them for saving lives all across the island. What everyone agrees on is that the city of Saragost has fallen and that a dwarven army rules there now.

Further information gathering on the part of the PCs reveals the following:

• Tilk: Lord Malthus has been in power in Crescent City for about six months. He was chosen by the head of the Church of Marius. His predecessor fled the city with thousands of gold. The governor before him was assassinated.
• Neil: There was once only a single thieves' guild in Crescent City. When the authorities crushed the old guild ten years ago, the King and Queen of Thieves hid some special treasure away somewhere in the testing maze under the guild house. Nobody has ever found it, though plenty of people have tried. The guild house is a hospice now, sacred to Saint Cecilia.
• Rumus: There are people in the city who are preparing to arm the swamp elves for revolution.
• Rygorh: A great army of gray dwarves and dark elves is marching up the length of the eastern continent. Already the nations of Kandang and Murak Muran have been conquered. The armies now march across the lands of the sorcerer kings in Valjinn.
• Seebo: The crime rate is much greater now that in was in the days of the King and Queen of Thieves, Thom and Lolly Lankin. Things have gotten somewhat better under Lord Malthus, but things still aren't like they were in the "good old days."
• Alev: There is a whole plantation up the river that is completely deserted. The owners just fled one day without ever explaining why. Since they never sold the land to anyone, it is unused and the mansion house has gone to rack and ruin. If you go there on a dark night, you can hear screaming.
• Casey: An army of dark elves and gray dwarves has joined forces with the humanoids of Visk. They have marched into Kahoor and are destroying the country.
• Dinah: Lord Raglan's lieutenant, Jackary, is some kind of a vampire.
• Lorelei: The building that is now the Town Hall used to be a temple to the elven God Brith; there are rooms in there that nobody knows about.

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