Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

"More than a dozen adventurers, hearing the rumours of the army entering the Sharpteeth Forest, actively try and search it out. They find plenty of undead, and retreat when they draw too much attention to themselves"

Scouts entered the Northern Sharpteeth forest, and saw a massive abomination walking among the undead army before being pressed to retreat before them...

More adventurers visit the Sharpteeth Forest, and come back battered and wounded from their visit, and enters the Friendly Arms Inn. The adventurers have a peculiar stench to them, and they find it difficult to order any beverage because of that!

After fighting the Talonite army and seeing the abhorrent amount of destruction that could be caused by such devestation on a grand scale, he begins diving into research about the leader of said army and what he or she may be after.

He begins to gather names, intel, and possible locations by way of subterfuge and the occasional deception. A scribe begins asking clerics at the temple of Lathander in beregost, a hooded figure approaches candlekeep and begins prying information out of the scribes there.

Two words continue to plague Dravie through his investigation though, Magmire, and the blight staff. The rumor is that Magmire wishes to retrieve this blight staff to further her own campaign of pestilence and disease.

He has come to one conclusion, the staff must be destroyed. He has no idea of how he'll do that though. He's not even for sure how he's going to be able to recover the staff if he finds it.

The problem he faces is at this moment he is not for sure who to trust. He's been betrayed many times in the past and he has learned the only person best to trust in, is himself. After his research he has come to a conclusion about what location may very well hold the staff. It is only a matter of finding it somewhere within the depths of those ruins.

"Word spreads as Lathanderites have found another army hiding in the Reaching Woods, but now on the move towards Scornubel since its discovery. What were the army doing there? Scornubel is suspected to come under siege very soon"

The Sharpteeth Forest is withdrawing from itself, as if being nervous. Trees wither. Animals have long since gone by. The undead continue their unrelenting march.

Almost a mile wide, the army continues, and they've made some headway. Within a day at most, they'll reach the north-west edge of the forest with the open roads ahead of them. The trade roads of the tradeway and the coastway, with Beregost to the south and Baldur's Gate to the north. The depth of the horde is difficult to estimate, hidden within the fog and the swarms of flies that accompany the host on its march, not to say the forest itself. Strange creatures walk among them, some appear to once have been animals, others are...twisted forms of what they once were.

This threat seems to grow constanly...

Elder Circle scouts penetrated deep into north-western part of the Sharpteeth Forest, finding Black Orcs, getting captured by them, but also seeing a host lead by Magmire marching towards the edge of the forest...

Words of a victory to the north is slowly being spread. An undead host, lead by an Angel of Decay, has for the last two weeks been besieging Scornubel. One can only wonder why no word reached the outside world, but it appears the besieged and reformed Army of the New Dawn sallied out and defeated the undead utterly. Only the Angel of Decay escaped the battle.

The losses for the reformed army is unknown at this point.

"Adventuers find that the horde is heading north, and the rumours of the direction spreads...troops are gathering at the Flaming Fist Outpost, hoping to stave off the advance further."

Battle of the Sharpteeth Outpost - Debriefing Rumors

Three score of adventurers, including many from the War Council, and the War Council's fey and Helmite church allies as well as War Council allied Flaming Fist and Blacktalons Mercenary Company members, numbering roughly 50 each and hired by the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate, are said to have defended and fortified the Flaming Fist outpost in the northwest Woods of Sharpteeth against an incoming 800 strong flank army of undead under the command of Magmire, spun off from the main army of undead under a mysterious powerful figure known only as The Blight...

The outpost defending army was well supplied with donated aid from the Ebon Blades and Sword Coast Commercial Exchange of Baldur's Gate. The Flaming fist is said to have been provided with timely logistical means to deploy by Elvina of the Order of the Silver Rose and War Council and the Blacktalons are said to have only made the battle in time as well due to transportation aid from the ship known as the Whistling Wanderess of the War Council. Also in regards to the Chiontar, some say that the Dragonwing was sighted upon its waters patrolling about around the time of the defense of the outpost being prepared and underway, perhaps trying to ensure that no undead would make it across unanswered by the allies of the living.

The combined flank army of roughly 800 undead was almost entirely destroyed by the defenders as the undead advanced on the fortified outpost, worn down with adventurer, Blacktalon, fey, and Flaming Fist raids as well as defensive strongpoints, pitfalls and thorn traps set by the Elder Circle, Thorn Calls summoned by those close to the natural order, reconnaissance in force, sunstone weaponry provided by the War Council, and fields of crossfire from the defended outpost area. As the main undead army approached near the end of the battle between the outpost defenders and the forward deployed flank army, Lady Moruene, the supreme commander of the Flaming Fist and Blacktalons companies present, ordered a general retreat and most all of the defenders followed her lead. The Blacktalons, fey, and Flaming Fist covered the general retreat with pickets, and in the case of the Flaming Fist, a barrage of sun cannon attacks, sun shield backed defensive lines, and detonated Alchemist's Fire explosives, courtesy of the War Council's exotic weaponry supply efforts before the battle.

It is reported that no plague spitter appeared during the battle, but that the two plague behemoths and over ten father of corpses, undead subcommanders allegedly leading the flank army, were killed. Overall, it is said, the assessment by the Flaming Fist and Blacktalons leader Taurgosz "Tenhammer" Kosann is that Kael's war plan, recommended by the War Council for the defense of the outpost to the Grand Dukes of Baldur's Gate, and implemented by Lady Moruene, Taurgosz "Tenhammer" Kosann, and War Council members present at the battle, worked. It gave battle to the undead foe while the undead numbers were not entirely concentrated, caused major casualties to the undead, then had the defenders retreat in order.

Despite this success, the Flaming Fist and Blacktalons each lost a third of their strength and the fey suffered enough losses to be unable to assist in the war further if it is outside of the Sharpteeth. What plans the War Council and the other defenders of the Western Heartlands region have next against Magmire and The Blight remain to be seen, but commoners and nobles alike in Western Heartlands settlements are terrified if the defending efforts do not succeed, especially given that it is rumored that yet another undead army under the commander known as The General is now about to march again from the north.

Subject: Rumors of the Sword Coast

Duster47 wrote:Some stories may or not be reaching southward, of skirmishes along the north edge of the High Moor near Secomber. Travel along the Delimbiyr Route and Secomber Trail was never considered free from potential peril, but stories allude to more danger than usual. The local militia, re-enforced with northman warriors of the Greyfox Tribe, are said to be keeping themselves more occupied than just fending off the occasional troll or other wild thing. Stories of undead and plague-infested masses are becoming more prevalent. Locals speak of lively council meetings and decision by Lord Selarn to send an emissary south. Perhaps the southlanders know more about this new scourge on the Moor?


Photoshopped from The Vikings on The History Channel.

Reports are coming in that the Talonite army is crossing the Chionthar, a few miles east of Baldur's Gate.

Further reports are now spreading that the Talonite Army has crossed the Chionthar completely, and are moving further inland. North-west is the estimated direction.