A Dark and Stormy Knight: Background

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Many years ago, Ogres and Bugbears ruled this land you now call home.  They forged a great empire in brutal wars of expansion, gathering great fortunes and driving humans from the valley.  They built great tombs into the mountains for their fallen warriors, and fortified all the key points with walls and towers of stone.

But empires fall, and this one was no different, swept away and replaced by the nearest Human King in a great Crusade.  Most of the forts and tombs were destroyed, during the fighting and afterwards when the human King needed the rock for his own monuments.  A few do remain, however, in out of the way places rarely traveled.

Your group set forth from Partha, en route to Seawell in the west for various reasons.  Some of you may wish to seek your fortune on the sea, or pick up some trade goods, or find work for the local nobility.  The group agrees to take a rarely used northern path to Seawell in hopes of good hunting.  The animal pelts would sell well in the port city.