The Knights of Stormwatch

AK510-31 Low Spring Start Week 3
[Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Ruling]
(Festival of The Scythe: Cycles, Life and Death)

They travel towards Darkbridge.
They hail a passing ship which bring them to the other side og the river which has a road on it. This allows them to travel more quickly. Not quickly enough though. They decide tp spend the day building a raft. Applebys druidic and engineering skills enable them to put together a serviceable raft.
Before they can launch their craft a group of Stormwatch knights known as The Knight of Winter ride up accompanied by their squies. The knights are arrogant and expect servitude from the PCs whom they regard as jumped up peasants. They have no regard for either Tharanians nobility or Var-Jen Tanners priestly status.
Ivellios takes exception to Sir Barristans comments and challenges him to a duel. Sir Barristans will is to strong for Ivellios fear spell and he smashes his bastard sword into the wizards skull, almost killing him with the first blow. Var-Jen Tanner retrieves the bloodied body and manages to keep Ivellios alive. The knights laugh heartily but allow the Heroes to skulk away. Tanner waits until the following day before reviving Ivellios. He is enraged to find that the knights have escaped him.
They launch the raft and travel swiftly along the snow melt swollen river. They make great progress.
At night the make camp. They are accosted by bandits.
Despite being severely outnumbered and surrounded, the heroes use their superior combat and magical abilities to best effect and defeat their foes. They capture the outlaw leader a man in golden armor. They capture the outlaws horses and confiscate the considerable wealth. They create a pyre of the bodies and send it out in to the river. They bodies, half burnt, sink into the inky waters,
The leader turns out to be Sir Eagon Del Fuego. He is displeased that they have burned his companions as he had agreed to have them raised but his is glad to be alive.
Var-Jen Tanner accepts Sir Eagons atonement for his crimes and uses his honeyed tongue to recruit Sir Eagon as a defender of Wooddhaven. Eagon agrees. The Var-Jen celebrates church ceremony to thank the Gods and Sir Eagon participates. The Book of Creation glows and send a bolt of bright sunlight to the knights chest. A visible change comes over him as he is imbued with the power of the Chosen. His armor shines brightly and the symbol of the church emblazons itself on his breastplate. His year drop away as he becomes a Champion of The Chosen.

The following day Joe of Kell delays the party by chatting to all travelers much to the disgust of the rest of the party. Todd takes note of the commoners banter to formulate a strong alter ego. He then disguises himself before he enters the town.
Later the road seems unnaturally quiet. The ranger hears a movement, Tanner guided by the Gods hears several large creatures heading towards them through the trees.
They prepare for battle. Six massive Lizardfolk, around twelve foot tall emerge from the trees wielding huge longspears and attack. The battle is vicious and bloody. Todd goes down in the first assault. Charmer hides in a tree. Appleby and Tanner take severe punishment from the attackers. Ivellios almost slain by a longspear, rides around the combat finishing the bloosdscale Lizardfolk that are weakened by his allies. For some reason he sees fit to taunt his allies more than the enemy. Sir Eagon Charges the Bloodscales on his mighty warhorse and smites them with his lance. Appleby trades vicious blows with his foes. One of them climbs up a tree after Charmer, whose bees and bow are causing serious damage. Finally the battle is won. They find an idol to the fallen made of copper which the Bloodscales had been carrying with them It appears to be the wild-marsh druid in the form of Athru.Var-Jen Tanner and Ivellios use their magic to alter its form. They melt it in to a massive cooper disk with the churchs symbols on it.