| Hello stranger! Come in. Come close by the fire. It has been a cold day and an even colder night is approaching. Come. Sit. Watch the fire. See how it flickers? It fades and wanes, but then rises again, and at the end it consumes all. This is true for everything. Let me tell you a story. The world has never been a safe place. Bastions of civilization populate a dark, menacing world—islands of order and reason exist in a land otherwise overrun by dark cults, vile monsters, creatures from the dark edges of the imagination, and worse. As deadly as the world is on a normal day, something has begun to stir on the fringes of the recovering Nentir Vale. Something sinister. The story of our adventures begins amidst the half-destroyed town of Fallcrest, a once proud and rich town on the northern borders of the Nerath empire. |