Cedar Raiders

According to Warden-Captain Hestrel Vaughn, the raid began shortly after the eleventh bell. A team of three men slipped through a gap in the timber-yard fence and began sawing through stored cedar logs by lantern-light, intending to cut them into portable sections before carting them out by mule. Their plan failed when the wardens—who had increased patrols following rumors of illicit woodcutting—spotted the glow through the trees.Continue Reading

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Widow's Walk

Residents of Thornwold Quay were jolted awake in the early hours of Thirdday when a sharp explosion echoed across the waterfront district, causing several households to flee into the fog-choked streets in fear of a returning wartime bombardment. But instead of a foreign assault, constables now confirm that the blast originated from a timed charge placed beneath the Widow’s Walk, the iconic wooden overlook perched atop the cliffs east of the harbor.Continue Reading

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Hidden Gangs

The highland parish of Eldenwood, long known for its thick pine stands and the quiet chant of wind through its ancient boughs, has been shaken by revelations of a clandestine timber-cutting ring operating deep within its royal forest. What began as a series of puzzling absences—missing wildlife, unusual wagon tracks, the distant thump of axes at unlawful hours—has now unfolded into one of the most significant environmental crimes the Kingdom has faced in years.Continue Reading

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The Bridge Where It Began - The Scene of the Crime

Seventeen-year-old Clara Merton was seized near Blackthorn Bridge, a narrow span often cloaked in fog. By nightfall, a ransom note had arrived at the Merton household, scrawled in block letters: “Bring 50,000 aureals to the north gate at midnight. Tell no one, or she will never return.”Continue Reading

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Fire burns Iron Row

In the past fortnight, five workshops have been reduced to smoldering shells in a series of late-night fires that officials are calling “deliberate and coordinated.” Though no deaths have been reported, dozens of workers are left without employment, and the district is cloaked in fear.Continue Reading

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