As a young priestess it is my duty to wander the land and protect the balance of nature. So when I finished my time at the temple I started my journey to find myself a place where I could do the goddesses work. The hellfrost is doing terrible things to the animals, food is getting scarce and the temperature ever dropping below freezing water.
Not very far into my journey only a few days out I heard about a merchant in need of a protection. I decided to see if there was a possibility for me to help and learn more about the land and the humans living here.
When I entered the little town with my trusted companion I got a lot of suspicious looks. I guess snow leopards are not very common around here. I found Tatar when he was very young in the forest, starving and alone. He followed me back to the temple and caused some commotion there, but got accepted fast, following me around where ever I went.
I fed him up and we formed a bond of trust. Later I learned that his mother was killed not far away in a small encampment where she tried to get some food from the lokal lumberjacks.
So there we were in a tavern in a small town at a table with some really strange people. Waiting for the merchant to arrive. When he did he offered money to fetch and transport a load of flour.
Everyone at the table seems to come with us. That is ok, I don't mind the company.
Heading out into the open lands we made good pace and half through the day we were stopped by a band of orc raiders. Fearsome creatures these orcs and as it seems very hungry too. We fought them of and continued our way down the road to a waytower for shelter, but something was off, there where wagons outside but no fires or lights.
One of my companions, the warrior, took a look inside the tower and the second floor looked like a battlefield with frozen blood and skeletons all over the place.
We spend the night at the lower floor of the tower with the horses and a fire and headed out the next morning.
Back on the road near a small clearing we found a dead horse and the dead rider not far from it.
Seems like the orc raiders catched the rider by surprise and killed the horse, such a shame, the poor animal had no chance at all.
Not far and we came to the village and that gave us a surprise. The guards were enforcing some kind of quarantine and after entering we saw them. Rats, rats all over the place, everywhere! There was no real explanation why, so we decided to head on to the warehouses, load the flour and get out of here fast.
And not a moment to late, when we were done loading and only had a breeze of time to get some rest a massive flood of rats tried to overcome the village walls. The situation got beyond possible fighting very fast so we took flight and fought our way to the gate trying to rescue villagers in our path by pulling them onto the wagon.
Luckily we got out before the army of rats overcame us, sadly there was nothing we could do for these villagers there. That village is lost.
Something very strange happens here. Some evil magic has to be at work to bring nature so far of balance...
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