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23:03, 28th March 2024 (GMT+0)

Waterdeep, the city of Splendor

Waterdeep is the city of splendours, the city ruled by Lord Piergeiron Paladinson of Waterdeep and the incorruptible nameless and masked Lords. Waterdeep has stood for centuries as a bastion of safety and security watched over by the giant living statue that patrols its walls and teams of spell casters always on call to fight fires should they break out and threaten the city from within. Everything is good with this tolerant and cosmopolitan city or it wasÂ…

Now people are barring their doors, children do not sleep and no one strays out at night if they can help it. It all started last Tuesday at the funeral of Oskar, a wizard of not inconsiderable power. Oskar himself was of Northman stock and was never happier than when raiding coastal towns stood at the stem of a longship and striking terror into villagersÂ’ hearts with his illusions and not so illusionary powers. He was far from an evil man, and did not deserve his fate, but he was a believer in the survival and supremacy of the fittest and strongest. He died in battle as he would have wanted. He was not supposed to attend his own funeral and not as a grotesque undead parody of himself forcing his friends and clansmen to slay him again before he could tear his mourners limb from limb.

Some say he was not the first of the recently departed to rise again and there is a new stink rising from the sewers, that of putrefactionÂ…