The Session
We check in with Solvayn's contact to let him know we cleared out the necromancer. He told us to come back in two days.
Two days later
He tells us he wants information about why Camila turned to necromancy. Find her co-conspirators, if any.
We visit the archives in Solana, to see what Camila was rumoured to have reviewed.
We find a book about a warlord Alonso. He intended to use the forces of magic and brute force to their full effect.
We also find a scroll, from someone underneath Alonso, describing the means and methods of how they sought to gain and establish power in the region. Besides the mages and warriors, there was a lack of foot soldiers. The person writes that the peasants could be levied, but that they were bad at their jobs.
It describes how Alonso turned to necromancy to try to fill this gap in strength. It details the acquisition of components and corpses, and that they will use this strategy in their next engagement.
Blake encounters Arakel at the bar in Solana.
New Lore
The Nimearan Warlords were quite common in the era after the fall of the Yulan-Tai (757 AS). Their squabbles enabled Aeillan and Gallacan colonisation (1300-1400s). The last warlords were defeated by the 1500s.
Alonso (potential namesake of my fort?) was a warlord 600 years ago, he believed nobles in the area were squandering their power and failing to use it properly. Being a jack of all trades, he considered himself to be using everything at his disposal. He wanted to stop arbitrary decision-making, believing skill and merit should decide station in life. He bit off more than he could chew and the nobles banded together. His corpse was drawn and quartered and spread across the region.