Plot Hooks

One of the wagons you are escorting suspiciously loses a wheel in the middle of a forest road. The other guards whisper to one another and ready their weapons.

The caravan master was convinced to hire these guards in the previous town. Rylan Sorra mistrusts the new guards.

Everyone who gets within fifty feet of a tree that seems to be burning, but never burns away loses their voice forever.

Dustin Wright went to the tree as a child and hasn't spoken since.

The local constable has locked himself, and hostages, in the city jail.

Tamara Lucas thinks the constable is having a psychotic break.

A letter proving a man's innocence has gone missing, a day before he is to be hung.

Jessica Brown hates the man, and swore to Jade Connington that nothing would save him.

Your party has been travelling for days through unknown territory. Someone spots a large host of riders off in the distance. The riders change direction and begin to ride directly at you.

Caroc Scott warns that the riders to the west are not to be trusted. Ivan Weston once traded with the western folk, and found them to be reasonable.

A wall of flame a mile high and thirty miles long is spreading through the forest, destroying everything in its path.

Calla Hadwell thinks the wall of flame began near a wizard's tower home.

A strange fog has rolled in to cover the landscape. Anyone who ventures into the fog, is never seen again.

There have been multiple people who claim to have seen someone, or something moving within the fog, including Athol Mournhell.

A company of twelve warriors is searching for a thirteenth. It turns out you have been nominated.

One of the twelve, named Andrew Brown, seems to make many significant glances at River Zaki.

A funnyman was recently hired by a prince. Bad news is the funnyman turned out to be an evil funnyman, and he's killed the prince and gone on the run.

Lucy Potter used to date the jester.