The weather in Old Empire is dominated by a 9 year cycle that runs from the Warmest Year to an Ice Year during which there is typically scarcely any summer.
Grettir receives an approach from Dain Ironhelm the dwarven king of Katelgroth. He seeks a band of heroes to explore the ancient Dwarven city of Morthrandil where he was born and grew up many centuries before. It is now the haunt of dragons. Is Grettir interested? Of course he is. Grettir is introduced to … Read more
Grettir returns to Sequarl and takes a mounted patrol up the Black Road to the west. The usual suspects are joined by a dwarf called Ranulf. They follow the Black Road until it runs into the pass leading up into the Edgewere Mountains. There they are astonished to see an half-completed rampart across their path. … Read more
The elves discover a small orc den in the environs of Dingradur. The party wipe it out and take an orc magician prisoner. Put to the question, he rats out a bigger orc den, ruled by a half orc called Rocca. He gives a detailed description of the location and Girindor is sent to reconnoitre. … Read more
Grettir receives a distress signal from the Kistin in Kos – indeed he receives three of them all at once. Paradoxides had originally devised this system based on two paired runesticks: when one runestick was broken its pair in Sequarl also broke, indicating an emergency. A version of the system was maintained for House Sequarl … Read more
The party take a riverboat up the West Otanga and then take the northern fork along the eastern foothils of the Edgewere, through a series of lakes. They meet orcs and other denizens of the wilds, but their most notable encounter is with a band of Harpies that attack the boat, singing to the crew … Read more
Hilda wants to try out the Black Swan. The party gathers in the courtyard of Grettir’s town house in Chittagong and she activates the amulet. A huge swan made of shadows appears, but it seems solid enough when the party climb aboard. “Seven times for seven stars, 23 times am I bound to serve you,” … Read more
Grettir owed a debt to Sybil, the witch that had crafted for him a Whip of Strangling. He and Salrod had swum out to a rock in the Otanga estuary calls Foul’s Heuch late in 688 to treat with her. In return for the Whip he had promised to seek out an evil sorceror by … Read more
Grettir has a cunning plan. Encouraged by the friendliness of the Fire Giant smiths who have taken on Jason as their apprentice in Vulcanheim, Grettir determines to try to recruit some Fire Giants as mercenaries in his war against the Orcs of the Wood of Itaen. He therefore wants to return to Vulcanheim and visit … Read more
Yspadadden has word from his friends and allies amongst the Picts of a fiery skeletal giant haunting the Pictlands to the North of Dingradur. He immediately realises that this must be the lich of Urko, the dead Fire Giant whose grave they had desecrated last winter to obtain the war axe Gore Raver (E7). He … Read more
Grettir surveys the field of battle. He is the last man standing. Lingering motes of light and fire that had been Vandemar, the Hell Knight, settle and extinguish upon the cold ground. Around him lie prone figures both friend and foe. Grettir is somewhat seared by Vandemar’s final self-immolation as it was dispatched it once … Read more