Vatermont 14th 1,000 AC Today we started the long work of repairing roads and trails damaged by the winter. I have begun to collect the rumors I hear about our neighbor, the Wizard. And will share some of the more interesting ones, here:
Dentiata has a big tiger that eats people!
If you’re bad, Dentiata will get you!
Skelly, the stableboy, went there all alone! He could beat that mean old Dentiata if he wanted!
Dentiata is a powerful, evil wizard.
Vatermont 27th 1,000 AC Casimir Zbons has been telling the town of several occasions when a mysterious unrelenting sleep came over him. When he awoke, more animals were missing. Of course, when more livestock went missing today, that was his reasoning. Still more rumors have been spread about this:
Dentiata is from the Black Eagle Barony, and is sending the animals there for slaughter.
Weird lights can be seen dancing on the tower roof every night of the full moon. (I have not seen them, but others claim they have)
Dentiata is actually a werewolf and roams the forest as a great gray wolf every night with a full moon.
Numont 1st 1,000 AC The new year’s celebration was very tense, as a few days ago, Burr Silecz lost a large number of animals. Nobody moves around at night near the end of the month anymore. Too many animals are disappearing. Mikail told me that the children saw some strange people visiting the Wizard’s tower the night before the animals went missing. One had the flag of the Black Eagle Barony on him.
Emblem of The Black Eagle Barony.
Numont 3rd 1,000 AC Last night our purple star returned. There was also some strange lights coming from the Tower.
Numont 25th 1,000 AC Yesterday the sky went dark again, it was only for a moment. But combine that with the fact that last night the Kruschneh farm was raided. It doesn’t seem to matter how we lock the animals in, or what precautions each of us take. Dire wolves have also been seen in the area, which frightens the farmers. I took a stroll, being a retired soldier, I figured I would be safe. The locals would never ask me for help, but I still want to help. And I found the wolves, they only seem to wander near the Tower, almost like they are guarding it.
Today I heard from Vlademar, the Vlem boy, that our Wizard neighbor keeps a female vampire as a slave, and that it is she who is killing the livestick. She comes on a New moon, when it is darkest and takes enough animals for a month’s worth of blood.
I don’t believe this anymore than I believe Dentiata is a werewolf, but just in case I have been escorting Amber home to Runa’s Hovel after each tutoring session.
Just a few Notes: I noticed last night that I had made a mistake, according to the original Source, Julius was originally called “Claudius Valarian”, but my mind keeps calling him Julius, so I am keeping the name. (Hey, it’s my game)
In this series of entries, we hear a lot about the “Black Eagle Barony” but what is that? While Stephan Karameikos, is the ruler of the Grand Dutchy, when he first arrived he invited family and friends to come help him rule the country by granting land to them. His Cousin Ludwig Von Hendriks was one of these.
Duke Karameikos has since come to regret letting his cousin have land, as the first think Von Hendriks did is violently invade his new capital city BEFORE informing the locals that he had been granted it. He currently rules the Barony with an iron fist, often selling his citizens off as slaves, despite slavery being illegal in the rest of the Grand Duchy. He spends a lot of time trying to cause pain and chaos across Karameikos, in an effort to dethrone his cousin, so he can claim the entire country himself.
Kaldmont 1st 999 AC The weather is much colder lately, Mikal says that we should prepare for snow any day now.
Kaldmont 27th 999AC We have had 3 days of Shooting stars, and then more animals went missing. I got a visit from Headman Grigore today. I think this is the first time he has come to visit. His visit was not very pleasant. He was warning us that we should be sure to stay indoors after sunset for the week around the new moon each month. The rest of town was scared that children would be targeted soon. Apparently, Boris Czigany had lost half his livestock, and only 2 of his sheep had been found in pieces in the woods not far from here.
Katrina, Grigore’s Grand-daughter in law, suspected that the new neighbor Dentiata, was actually a werewolf, and was responsible.
I started my old sword training again tonight. I am getting the feeling I may have to fight sometime to keep my wife safe.
Black Eagle Barony Herladry from “Gazateer 1: The Grand Dutchy of Karameikos”, Published in 1987 by TSR. (Book By Aaron Allston), Artist: Stephan Fabian
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