I am Arthuro. I am, I was. A ranger by trade. For fifteen years I have not aged a day, living a 'Fey life', counting the Northern Greatwoods as my home and a Dryad as my wife. We saw the face of Silvanus carved among the ancient Oaks, dancing and loving among their roots. Happy we were but then Blight came and turned the forest against us. Even the Green Man turned his face. Ill-fated or cursed we became and I fled in hope of salvation and help."
The current view is that the Blight might be engineered by a Hag and nullifying her will either bring an end to the Blight spread or cause it to cease altogether.
The forest you arrive in looks on first glance as normal as other Greatwoods that characters have sojourned through. Tall spreading trees with thick trunks, verdant leafy canopies, outstretched to soak up the high sun whose rays filter softly upon the ground. Birdsong.
Amphoebe marks the Oak tree that you have used as a portal from one dimension to another. The group gather wits and gear, Dougal locates a trail leading off, the only discernible path.
Hake doesn't feel any disconnection, certainly the forest does not manifest the same 'static buzz' that maligned the sacred grove of the One Tree.He tries to sense if there is anything odd about his connection to his deity in this strange new realm.
With choices seemingly set, the group can file along the path. The first hour of trekking passes without incident until the trail starts passing through an area of more gnarly, twisted trunks. The trunks covered in a rusty coloured fungus, like iron submerged and oxidizing. Several trunks look to have large bulbous burrs that have split open.
Many of the trees that should be in full bloom have already shed much of their leaves, the absence of greenery as stark as the silence of birdsong. An eerie feeling that from within the trees, eyes watch your approach.
Dougal and Conmhaol perhaps have the best senses and at their gesture and bark, the group can ready themselves as a number of large (hound-sized) creatures begin to emerge from the forest depths.
Great Northwoods: vs 1 [1d6]=1 [1d6]=2 [1d6]=4 [1d6]=1
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