Hour of the Witch

Siege
^{Level 5}

The PCs find themselves besieged in an abandoned tree hut having just escape a horde of shambling undead.   Unknown to the party a pair of tinged children are hiding from them in the hut while their family is controlling the wights to get them out. Eventually; the party escapes to, or are rescued by a group of regular-looking soldiers who take them to food and safety.

5 Weaker Wights

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 1 (-5) 14 (+2) 11 (+0) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 11 (+0) Armour Class: 12 HP: 22 ( 5d8 ) Speed: 50ft Abilities: Touch: Target must succeed on a DC 10 CON saving throw or its hp maximum is reduced by 3d6

Enslavement
^{Level 6}

The PCs, having just escaped from a horde of wights, arouse the interest of the presiding general who wishes for a team of proper combatants; than what he normally has. The party is medicine and improved equipment if they comply; and promised a handful of amber each upon completion.   If the party is not inclined, the general will simply have them executed.   They are sent to spy on the witches to determine any weaknesses in their formation. However, the witches are significantly more advanced than the PCs and their camp is overseen by squads of both living and skeletal guards.

Living Soldier

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 15 (+2) 12 (+1) 12 (+1) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) Armour Class: 17 HP: 22 ( 4d8+4 ) Speed: 30ft Skills: Athletics +4, Perception +2 Abilities: Has advantage on attack rolls when they see their commanding general Javelin: d6+2 piercing damage plus d4 fire damage Sword: d8+2 slashing damage or d10+2 slashing damage if used with two hands

Honnes Says

Honnes enacts as a military dictatorship both over his profession guard and unfit conscripts.   Many of whom are forced to defend the crumbling walls of forward-built forts night after night.   Casualties mount under the general's leadership, but they are only able to soldier on as his continuously depleted forces are replenished by the waves of following migrants.   In the aftermath of every skirmish and battle, the taulli burn their dead, albeit with some difficulty in the marshes, to prevent them from becomes tools for their necromantic enemies.   Invariably; people talk of fleeing, though there is nowhere else that would take them. Should such talk be discovered, Honnes will sentence the man or woman to a gruesome death as warning against such talk.

Necromancer Witch

Dakita and Diasura

Green Zones

The taulli migrants have been forced to move into unsettled land that is inherently hostile to them.

For purposes of broad moves in the game, Taulli forces can only move from whichever green zone they are, across a green line and into another green zone.

Yellow Circles

Covens patrol the well trekked pathways of their forebearers keeping an eye out for the invaders who have settled their traditional land.

For purposes of broad moves in the game, Tinged can only move to the yellow circle along the connecting paths.

Eternal War

Taulli incursions of their neighbours is nothing new,   Attempts to forcibly settle contested territory has lead to tit-for-tat raids between coven trains and forts. Main stream thinking tends to view this arrangement as a nearly religious obligation, though there is no shortage of unfortunates who wish for otherwise.