Session 1-3: Rumble in Muntgard

Arran the elven scholar, Vica the tabaxi hunter and Vojta the northern druid show up in Muntgard, all drawn here by letters from someone called Tusk. They are told by an innkeeper that Tusk is with the loxodon warband that inhabits the nearby temple. The three go to the temple, accompanied by the armordillo bouncer Ahrm, but they find only a shady dwarf. The group explores the rest of the temple, fights off some attacking shadows, and find a mysterious altar where black liquid oozes from the walls. They take a sample of the ooze and place a torch on the altar, disintegrating the torch and forming a new shadow. The group locks the door and gets the fuck out of there, noting that the shady dwarf is gone.

The next morning, they find out that the temple had been overrun with shadows and that the Muntgard paladins collapsed the building to keep them in. They find the loxodon warband, and their companion Tusk, a tiefling. Tusk explains that she was sent by Vojta's mentor, the Lunar Man, to collect several chosen heralds and bring them to the City of the Glacial Stream. One of the primordial gods might be awakening to threaten the world, and the Lunar Man sent her to gather the heralds who can stop it, including Vojta. Shortly after, she is killed by a mysterious black dragonborn bearing a druidic messenger symbol.

The group finds a pile of memory trinkets in Tusk's belongings, and a dead shapeshifter in the hallway of the pub where they were meeting, clutching a letter from Tusk addressed to someone named Theras. The group flees the scene and finds a carnie fortune teller to open the trinkets, transferring the memory into one of their minds. He refuses to cooperate after the first trinket, however, because he doesn’t want to open the memories of a dead person. They then find a different shaman called Hardruk, who is disguised as a half-orc but later shows his true appearance as an oni. He opens several more trinkets for them, but each member can only receive one without resting. The memories show different people heading towards different places. Vojta recognises the memory he receives as a vision from the Lunar Man, so it's possible that the other memories were also visions Tusk received. The memories show Glyckheart Fortress, Ceneza Island, The Spike, and a town somewhere in the Varian Highlands.

The group is then attacked by an assassin trying to stop their investigation. They defeat him, but before they can figure out more about the attacker, they are startled by the arrival of a horde of dragonborn led by a brass dragon, who are on the run from an orc invasion. The group leaves Muntgard and heads north, intending to catch a ship from Galead to Ironclad and eventually reach Ceneza Island and the City of the Glacial Stream.