Session Twenty-Eight

“The Land of Eternal Winter” Pt. 2

RECAP: After being ferried across The Lands of the Linnorm Kings to the border territory of Hagreach, the Party made their way across the snowy wasteland into Irrisen, pursuing Simon Averath, the Songs of Shazathared, and perhaps evidence to clear their names of the assassination of Sveinn Blood-Eagle. After trekking for a few hours through the harsh conditions without sight of any other travelers or life of any kind, the Party stumbled across a young woman being pursued by a pack of Winter Wolves: shape changing warriors serving the Witch Queens of Irrisen.

The young woman, they discovered, was Acacia: granddaughter to the current Witch Queen, Elvanna; and that all is not well in the land of witches. Apparently Elvanna and some of her daughters are preventing the return of the legendary Baba Yaga – an event that occurs on a 100-year cycle – and Acacia has fled her home to reach out to her great-aunt Odessa in the city of Algidheart. After assuring Acacia that they weren’t members of The Heralds of Summer’s Return – a local rebel group – and telling her that they would help her overthrow Elvanna and facilitate the Baba Yaga’s return – something that, in itself, sounds world-threatening – the Party attempted to sneak into Algidheart for a meeting with Odessa.

Unfortunately, the winter wolf guards at Algidheart’s gates were more perceptive than expected, and the Party was only saved from near-disaster by the timely intervention of a man named Hans; a man who, it seems, represents The Heralds of Summer’s Return…