Level 5 - Into the Mournlands

Upon returning our new information to House Cannith, we are given the opportunity for a new adventure. Our team is asked to send our next exploration efforts into the Mournlands. This is the previous home of House Cannith, now destroyed and blasted into glassy plains. We are told that we will not be able to heal as effectively here. Constance also knows that there are warforged that live here, and we will have to be careful. Rumors also exist that is the home of the mysterious Lord of Blades.

The Lord of Blades

What used to be called the City of Cyre, until one day when disaster struck. No one knows if the catastrophe was caused by a weapon from an enemy nation or a doomsday device of Cyre’s own design. The cataclysm may have been deliberate; it may have been an accident. In the end, the result was the same. The beautiful city exploded in a blast of arcane power the likes of which hadn’t been seen since the ruin of Xen’drik forty thousand years before. Now called the Mournland, it is quite literally, a vast open grave. Here the wounds of war never heal, vile magical effects linger, and monsters mutate into even more foul and horrible creatures. The borders of the Mournland are easily distinguished by the dead gray mist that lingers across what were once the political borders of the nation. Why the mists hold in such a defined area is unknown.

While crossing the glassy flats, we narrowly avoid an encounter with a group of warforged. Our group gets rather lucky, and we find the entrance to a large, crystal cavern. Being the brave explorers that we are, we set to searching the cave, leading our horses with us.

The surfaces of the cave are hard to look at. Light refracts through the walls and across the floor in distracting patterns. Malik, especially, is uncomfortable with all the light. While creeping down the cave, we hear some noises up ahead. We come upon two warforged, guarding the passage. Cas charges into battle, mounted on her horse Iorek. The rest of the party follows closely behind. Everyone takes some damage. For the first time, Tux transforms into a fleshraker dinosaur. He rips at one of the warforged.

Eventually we dropped them both. One is only incapacitated. Ki convinces him to help us.