428. Measure of the Reachman

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In an old farmhouse overlooking the Northglen farmstead, Duraeg performs his vile Reach-craft upon a helpless Evermore guard. Wielding a giant axe and armour festooned in the bones of his victims, the Reachman leader makes for an intimidating sight.

But no mater how fierce a man dresses, or how formidable he measures himself, sooner or later someone will walk through the door who will have seen beyond this realm and have no fear of mortal man. They will look at him and see little more then just another mountain boor dressed in rotting leather rags and scavenged bone.

It is then we will learn the true measure of this Reachman.

S.K

427. The Reachmen’s harvest

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Once a warm patchwork of gold and green pastures whose harvest would feed all of Evermore, now the fields of Northglen are but a livid stew of brown and ash. The late summers air is made thick with the stench of decay as the Dark Witnesses toil over their wicked effigies using foul Reach magics to corrupt the soil.

All that now grows in the fields amongst the puddles of bloody mud and sown bones, are the odious Bloodthorn seeds which the Reachmen crop only to re-plant again deep in their victims. The seeds take root inside the heart whilst the cawing crows watch impatiently for the reaping of their most insidious harvest.

S.K

426. The Glenmoril Wyrd 

If anything, the Wyrd sisters I meet outside an old Ayleid ruin in Bangkorai are even more brusque and boorish then the Beldama Wyrd of Glenumbra. They care little for the affairs of men and mer so long as it doesn’t encroach upon their forests. For them, Evermore is as an unwelcome and untrustworthy a neighbour as the Orcs of Wrothgar, or the Witchmen of High Rock.

Yet even they now see the threat posed to their lands by the vile Reach magics being practised in the fields of the Northglen Farm, as their own ancient Wyrd magics fail to repel it. The insatiable hunger of the Bloodthorn zombies being raised by these Dark Witnesses would soon gorge upon all life in their Viridian Woods like a pack of starved skeevers in a Bosmer’s pantry.

S.K