The Night Parade

WFRP 4e 'The Night Parade' Adventure Supplement

Along the Empire’s roads, the dead walk. Called from their slumber by a necromancer’s profane whispers, or buried where dark magic saturates the ground, these Undead march without rest, adding to their number with each hapless soul they cross. Whether such bands move with a purpose or wander aimlessly, they often find themselves the centre of folk tales. Many a terrified tavern audience has gathered around the fire to hear stories of wild hunts, ghostly processions, and corpse-laden carts come to carry away the unwary.
Of these, one story has risen to prominence. If you wander through the fertile lands between the Grey Mountains and the Reikwald Forest, listen always for the sounds of creaking wheels and a tolling bell. Do not wait to ask the carriage for a lift. Hide. Cover your ears. And whatever you do not follow where the bell leads.
The Night Parade are calling.

Participants

Old Jasper

Liche Corpsemaster

Little is known about Old Jasper, the shrouded figure who leads the Night Parade. He sits atop his Corpse Cart, little more than two silver eyes gleaming from within a rotting grey robe, urging his charges on in his endless search for fresh dead. Everywhere the Parade passes has its own story about him.

Observance

The Night Parade is observed in Amchensee in the southern Volbergland both as a folk tale and in the form of Festivals of the Dead where the locals seem obsessed with celbrating the dead and their ancestors. Festivals in the southern vobergland towns and villages tend to feature customes and entertainments focussed on death and the undead more so that in other areas of the Reikland.
These areas also seem to attract far more Strigany Folk. Partly because of the demand for cheap labour on the numerous farms that make finding work for the Strigany relatively easy as well as a market for their skills in animal husbandry. But also because of their association with the undead which provides them with opportunities to earn money at local fairs and festivals as entertainers and seers.

Related Ethnicities

• Reiklander