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The Northern Expedition - The Scourging of Heittfloi

 With the northern fleet destroyed, there is nothing to stop the expedition from landing at its first target. The party are still aboard The Cleansing Light and are able to observe the first wave of the expedition storming the beaches. 

A small force of northern infantry has forms a small shieldwall in an attempt to push the attackers back into the see, but it is to no avail. The northern warriors are quickly overcome. The witchhunters and the Lux Militant begin moving throughout the village. Fire springs from within and without the buildings. The screams of women and children can be heard. 

Kallista sneaks ashore to try and get a better idea of what is happening. What she sees shocks her. The forces of light are killing everyone in the village. Even the few women and children who manage to make it to fields are shot down with arrows. 



Kallista goes back to The Cleansing Light and lets the party know what happened. 

Nidal is very upset and brings her concerns to the patriarch. He explains to Nidal that the northerners must be destroyed. All of them - men, women, and children. None are to be spared. 

More troops are landed from the ships and begin to fortify the remains of Heittfloi. 

The party goes ashore to see what is happening. Nidal is very upset to see there are no villagers left alive. In several places the bodies of women and children lie where they have fallen. 

As the party is taken all of this in Nibbidard sees a strange figure prancing about where the dragon bones on the shore were seen. 

Suddenly the dragons bones animate and fly towards the fleet and the party. The dracolich breaths its inky black breath on one of the ships of the fleet. The ship seem to imploded and sinks below the waves with all hands. The dracolich turns towards the party, who are now sheltering in a protective sphere cast by the patriarch. The dracolich turns away and lands where it came from. 

After much toing and froing between Nidal and the patriarch about the morality of the expedition, patriarch tells the party he needs them to go up the coast and scout out Fiskurthorp. 



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