Saralas: Session 21

• It's the 25th and there are dwarf corpses. Duergar?
• Resda is apparently sick in the morning and is pregnant. Wild magic?
• Are we in Caer Konig? No, Caer-Dineval
• Mention the speaker, and talking to townsfolk
• When we open the door of the tavern we see two monks. The older of the two says "well met". They have received word that we killed Duergar. They would like to invite us to come up to the Caer at our earliest convenience.
• The townsfolk note that the Brotherhood keeps to themselves, stays to the Caer, and state they want to end the winter and hate duergar
• They are known as the Knights of the Black Sword
• We approach the Caer, and the heavy doors open. We are greeted by the brothers, who invite us to have an audience with Kadroth, the leader of the Knights of the Black Sword.
• We meet in the Great Hall. It's a large room with several long tables, and staircase ascending to a pair of balconies along the walls. There is a large red tiefling here wearing a fine outfit in good condition.
• He introduces himself as the leader.
• Apparently we killed 8 duergar, and Min took credit for most of it. He says many of the duergar they killed have been carrying secret notes. They were hoping to find more notes to translate. They say it is important to stop the duergar.
• They think the duergar are planning a major attack on the 10 towns. They think something is already going on in Easthaven
• They don't know if the Duergar are acting alone, or if there is another minor god behind their behavior
• Min hands over whatever papers she found.
• We're apparently on our way to Caer-Konig to find the hiker
• Kadroth offers us the run of the Caer, a place to stay, in return for killing any Duergar we find.
• We apparently depart the keep without exploring it at all. Then return back because the next town is 9 hours away? Why are all these towns entire days apart? I feel like it might be 9 MILES which would be 2-3 hours.
• I guess we explore the Caer? I don't see good coming from this. We know this is a cult and they worship an evil god. This is an enemy of my enemy, temporary alliance type situation. So why invite trouble?
• Anyways, I chill with Korag, we play cards or something.
• A duergar warrior named Xardarak Sunblight will conquer all of Icewind Dale unless we stop him. He has a fortress in the spine of the world, a forge powered by the beating heart of a dragon. He has a plan to destroy all the 10 towns. We must attack when we are at strength, but do not wait too long. Then she dies.
• Min and Resda relay what they learned to us. They lead with the cat, Saralas raises his eyebrows.