adventures:the-sky-stone-sickness [Ron Helwig's Viking World for D&D]

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====== The Sky-Stone Sickness ======

===== Known Party =====

  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:thordak-faerdhal|Thordak Faerdhal]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:sally-swift|Sally Swift]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:kol-gulkin|Kol Gulkin]]

The full roster of the first sky-stone expedition is not yet confirmed. These are the characters currently tied to that earlier trip by the surviving sources.

The fallen sky-stone northeast of [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]] was first a promise. In the days after the [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:hearthforge|Hearthforge]] warning, while the horde was still rebuilding damaged war machines at Hearthforge, [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]] sent a party north to investigate the recent meteor. The village needed anything that might strengthen its defense, and old stories said metal from fallen stars could become extraordinary weapons.

The journey was dangerous, but the party returned before the horde reached [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]]. They brought back enough star-metal for the village smiths to work in haste, and from that metal came [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:asteroid-forged-warhammer|Thordak's warhammer]] and [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:starspike|Starspike]]. One of the new weapons showed magical properties, which helped send the village toward [[campaigns:latitude_history:adventures:the-amber-tower|The Amber Tower]] and the rescue of [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:frod-erikson|Fróð Erikson]].

At this point in the story, the sky-stone mattered because it armed [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]]. The later disease investigation and goblin study belong to [[campaigns:latitude_history:adventures:return-to-the-sickened-sky-stone|Return to the Sickened Sky-Stone]], after [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]]'s refugees had reached [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:nidaross|Niðaróss]]. The first expedition ended with star-metal in the hands of desperate smiths and a village still racing to prepare for the night the horde would come.