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| ====== The Sky-Stone Sickness ====== | ====== The Sky-Stone Sickness ====== |
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| The fallen sky-stone northeast of [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]] was first a promise. In the days after the Stonehome warning, a party went north through danger and returned with enough star-metal for the village smiths to forge weapons before the horde arrived. From that metal came [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:asteroid-forged-warhammer|Thordak's warhammer]] and [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:starspike|Starspike]], weapons remembered long after Þýdal's palisade burned. | ===== Known Party ===== |
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| But the crater was more than a source of metal. The sky-stone carried [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:draugrveiki|draugrveiki]], an undead sickness that twisted flesh and drew scavengers into worse shapes. Wolves near the site became corrupted. Goblins later came to study the crater, not to cleanse it, but to see whether its disease could be weaponized. | * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:thordak-faerdhal|Thordak Faerdhal]] |
| | * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:sally-swift|Sally Swift]] |
| | * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:kol-gulkin|Kol Gulkin]] |
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| When rumors reached [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:nidaross|Niðaróss]], the crater became a threat that could not be left behind the lines. The later expedition found a hunter's camp marked by blood, fought wolves in different stages of corruption, and encountered a diseased hunter whose warning came too late to save him. Near the crater itself, goblin artificers and specialists had already begun their work among the rocks. | 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. |
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| The danger ended only after the second expedition defeated the immediate threats and Wavesia Fjordmist used the cleansing force of her water powers to purify the site. The sky-stone's metal had already changed the course of the war. Its sickness, once cleansed, became part of the campaign's darker history rather than an active plague. | 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. |
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| The crater is no longer a living danger, and its recoverable metal has been claimed. What remains is memory: the bright gift of star-iron, and the cost of touching a thing that fell burning from the sky. | 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]]. |
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| | 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. |
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