Connects to: 08.01, 10.01, 13.01, 13.17, and 30.12.
In the far west of the Freeholds a new holding is under construction. It is a good location, as the stream that rushes out of the Grey Mountains provides power for the mill and the hillsides are choice terrain for wormroot.
The self-proclaimed Baron Farnsfall is Cliffar Seutorian, nephew of the Count himself (30.12). He hopes to establish a craftworks to supply these wild lands and to produce enough of the blood-warming wormroot to feed the demand for it back home in shuttered. He has hired a band of the strangely peaceable Skullcrusher orcs (13.01) to oversee the construction of his holding and work is progressing rapidly.
However, the brand new Baron has run into some troubles. He has had difficulty attracting farmers to work at his remote holding and the mercenary band that he has hired has been steadily embezzling the funds his uncle provided for this enterprise. Also, his daughter is quite taken with the stories that the half-orc Lysha has told her of her village up in the mountains and plans to run away with the orcs when they finish their work on the holding.
Connections:
- A profusion of especially strong wormroot grows nearby (10.01).
- According to legend, eating wormroot transformed a bear into the matriarch of Castle Karandur (13.17).
- An adventuring party of Browncloaks is currently in Farnsfall getting impressively drunk to celebrate a successful haul. They say that they killed a dragon and left a mountain of copper behind because it wasn’t worth the bother to cart away (08.01).
Hooks:
- Why does Cliffar’s daughter want to run away with a bunch of orcs and half-orcs?
- Why is there a demand for a root that gives you a fever? Who would want that?
- Who are the mercenaries that Cliffar has hired? Will they get away with their embezzlement?
