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Wilderlands: Session 17

This is part of an ongoing campaign. You can find the other sessions over on the sidebar. This session was run on September 12, 2022. 16 Sweetrain The session began with Sylvianna casting speak with the dead on the dead body of Lord Anders. The characters were able to establish some facts about his death through their questions: 1) He woke up on fire right before he died. 2) He fell asleep after drinking wine provided by his steward. 3) He did not like Custalcon and often spoke against him. 4) He does not like many of the “new blood” nobles in the area. 5) Uggmar learned the location of the safe in his manor. 6) He was a member of a demon cult when he was young but it dissolved after a tragedy. 7) Lady Montu, Lord Blan, Lord Boyter, Lord Skel, and Lord Trout were also part of the cult. The spell duration ended before they could ask any more questions. After they left Lord Anders’ body, Stranger went to discu

Wilderlands Lore: The Skandian Religion

This description of the Skandian religion was prepared by Vargr's player in my C&C Wilderlands game. The life goal of any Skadian is to be remembered long past their death as a Drengr. The Skadian religious traditions support that goal. The Skadian word Drengr might be translated as “The Man” or “Mensch”, although women can be Drengr too. A Drengr is the person you want next to you in battle, when making a difficult decisions and on your wedding day. The basic beliefs of the Skadian tradition begin with the understanding that reality is broken into the Nine Realms and that those realms are interconnected by Yiggdrasil, or the World Tree. Two realms frame the others, Niflheim, the northern most realm of mist, fog and ice and Muspelheim, the southern holding of fire, lava and soot. The gods of the Skadian pantheon go where they will but reside in Asgard or Vanaheim. These two re

Wilderlands: Session 16

This is part of an ongoing campaign. You can find the other sessions over on the sidebar. This session was run on September 5, 2022. 15 Sweetrain 4433 With the joust over for the day and Duycken solidly in the next day’s qualifying round, he and Gwythian decided to seek out Sylvianna. They found her eating with Athelnar and she motioned them to sit down. After a brief description of the last two weeks, they drew her attention to the giant white worm they faced and Sir Mar’s story about seeing the Black Knight involved in a demon summoning beneath the barrows. She was concerned by both tales. While the white worm was not like the creatures she encountered when closing the gate beneath Shewolf, she felt that the authorities should focus their attention on it as it could prove dangerous to the whole area. She also explained that the gate she sensed had either opened, or would soon be opened, in the area would not involve a summoning circle. But, p

Wilderlands: Session 15

This is part of an ongoing campaign. You can find the other sessions over on the sidebar. This session was run on August 22, 2022. 14 Sweetrain 4433 After the introductions, Vargr and Uggmar went to the meeting for those participating in the wrestling event. When they entered the arena, they found Tulip arguing with “The Woodcutter”, an older man. The crux of the argument seemed to be Vargr and Uggmar’s participation in the wrestling event. The Woodcutter was complaining that they would mess up his bracket by bringing the total number of wrestlers to ten, and that he “already had a half-orc.” Tulip insisted that Uggmar was part of her crew and that he needed to be included since this was her turf. The Woodcutter agreed to let them in, but insisted on the first set of matches being an elimination to get the bracket down to eight again. Uggmar and Vargr sold him on the idea of a tag team match where they could work together against his wrestlers. They w

Wilderlands: Session 14

This is part of an ongoing campaign. You can find the other sessions over on the sidebar. This session was run on August 15, 2022. 9 Sweetrain 4433 Duycken decided to approach Lady Montu’s husband about the possibility of representing Montu in the tournament. As he passed through Montu’s lands, he found that they were not well tended and that many of the buildings had fallen into disrepair. He noticed that while some fields were still being worked, the rows did not seem as orderly as the other fields he had seen. The gate to the manor house was open when Duycken arrived and he road his turkey up to the house and knocked on the door. An older man with a shock of white hair, wearing a frayed dressing gown, and smoking a corn cob pipe answered the door. This turned out to be Beauregard Montu himself. He explained that he had dismissed most of the household staff, but invited Duycken in. Ser Duycken pitched the idea of representing House Montu. While Beauregar

Wilderlands: Session 13

This is part of an ongoing campaign. You can find the other sessions over on the sidebar. This session was run on August 1, 2022. 8 Sweetrain 4433 The session started right where we left off at the end of session 12. The party had joined with some Wasp Swarmer goblins to mount an attack on the White Worm tribe that attacked the village of Filmoth. The Wasp Swarmers started the assault by flying down the cliff face to the east, and the party joined in by attacking from the south. They had hoped to split the White Worm forces, and while that worked initially, they had underestimated the enemy's strength. The Wasp Swarmers took heavy losses to the east and the White Worm tribe had turned the party's west flank and were threatening to cut off their retreat. It was also clear that the shamans by the large central structure were up to no good. At the end of the last session, the party's front line was taking heavy bow fire and Stranger had to retr