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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Canal Championship FInal

The Grand Canal of Inverness has not seen such thunder and triumph since the founding of the sport itself. After a week of speculation, rivalry, and smoke-filled duels, the Westmere Wharf Hounds have once again claimed the Trident of the Waters, defeating the Thornwold Mist Cutters in a championship that will be sung about in taverns for a generation.Continue Reading

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Silent Floods

The River Aelwyn, broad and slow-moving through the southern marshlands, has fed their fields for generations, watered their cattle, and brought in barges of trade from the coast. Its seasonal moods were familiar and rarely feared—until this week, when the river quietly rose in the night and slipped over the levee like an unwelcome guest.Continue Reading

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Canal Championship semi

The second week of the Kingdom Canal Jousting Championship has left the waters of Inverness thick with smoke, cheers, and the scent of victory — or defeat. Crowds line the bridges from dawn until dusk as the champions of the twelve regions battle for the right to bear the Trident of the Waters into the final round next week.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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Border breach

The uneasy calm along the northern frontier was broken late last night when a Marelian band—believed to be a rogue splinter group acting without state sanction—attempted a clandestine reconnaissance near Fort Highwinter, one of the Kingdom’s oldest defensive bastions in Northreach.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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