Northern Dangers, Summer 669

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Springvale is a fertile and pleasant domain with hamlets and villages extending for a dozen miles along the High Road toward Ravenswell. While the entire area experience easy growth due to the sacred waters it is commerce that determines which way the settlement has grown. Some folks take advantage of the black soils to the north and west, but pilgrims arrive from the south east and so that is the preferred direction.

The army takes a full four days to arrive after leaving Ravenswell due to the heavy digging they complete along the way in preparing earthworks to make camping safer along the way. They are exhausted from the labor and need a whole days rest so its good that the infantry were the ones doing all the hard work and that they are not the ones who need to get ready to go out and scout the land. Keen eyes can see black wings leaping and gliding aloft between hilltops, catching the wind as they can to see as far as their own avian eyes can reach.

The army stuff is not part of this thread save as background color. Riders and scouts fan out across the north. Vizmark and Goblin Riders take the western quadrant while Nomads and Paladins take the east. Thus each group has knights able to dress for full battle if needed and crush any enemy they encounter by hammer and anvil. In the center areas the dismounted scouts seek to get closer and learn the land as best they can to use it against the invaders.