† Kael the Messenger, formerly of Duke Ingoulf’s household, will be reciting the Lay of Godebald War-tooth at the Crooke Imp on Friday.

† Orm, Gorm, and Romira are continuing their performances at the Brown Tankard all week.

† Marionettes of Greysmelt & Maggot will be performing at the monthly faire in Brumby on Saturday.

For the past tenday our town has been overrun by so-called religiously inspired pilgrims, traveling here for the vernal festival of Talath. Every year we must pander to bibulous men and profligate women wandering our streets, befouling our greens, and crowding our inns and hospitals – all so they can take place in the disgraceful drunken orgiastic Vernal Bacchanalia. And each year more arrive! Since the peace of 1016, the amount of travelers here for pilgrimage increases every year. And… Read more.

Alanna – The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce is the first book in a series of novels depicting the trials of a teenage human female struggling to attain knighthood. It is based on the somewhat amusing notion that humans cannot easily differentiate the genders of children, as the title character pretends to be male in order to achieve knighthood. Although warrior-women are not unheard of in regressive human societies (indeed, they have a term specifically for them: amazons), the path… Read more.

Most people don’t stop by here anymore. A relic, a warning, an echo of previous lives and passing fancies, Vinth has served as Harbling’s once popular elfin knickknacks shoppe for over three centuries. When contemporary citizens purchase cheap furnishings produced by orcish slaves and curios reliably imported from around the continent by halfling merchants, the fashion of bedecking a Ruglin Street flat in finely crafted elfin artefacts may seem curiously expensive. But for those seeking the genuine, elfin craftsmanship or… Read more.

It is with great sorrow that we announce Glorguumax, inter-dimensional plasmic eyeball mass and esteemed editor-in-chief of this newspaper, has been vanquished by adventurers; he was 15,693 Ashrafan years old. Formed out of celestial morass and a titan’s bile, Glorguumax spent his formative years percolating consciousness in the swamplands of Kordin Muul. An early encounter ingesting a traveling scholar and his small library led to a millennia-spanning interest in the written word. “No matter how much more I ingested,” he… Read more.

Two days south of Heathgate, sits the hamlet of Lonwell. The gateway to the downlands, Lonwell is the last hamlet north of Bedthorpe Downs whose livelihood does not depend on mining, processing, or sale of the chalk. As such it is a hamlet both typical and atypical. The whole of the manor’s land here is dedicated to agriculture, nary a cow nor sheep grazes near this small manor. The grain and produce here does not head to local market towns,… Read more.

The Lord’s Reeve of Underwell Glen has announced a temporary reprieve from corvée for the coming month. Although Ardda the reeve acknowledges that plough time normally demands heavy workloads from Underwell Glen’s serfs, he says Lord Childiver feels deeply for the ‘sodden wretches of Culriver’ following the devastation from the recent flooding of Culriver. Fourteen people are missing from communities along the Culriver since it overran its banks seventeen days ago. Although no houses in Underwell Glen were swept away,… Read more.

The Holy Temple of Talath in Hearthgate invites all interested parties to their midday Vernal Equinox festivities, celebrating their god’s renewed triumph over the forces of cold and darkness. The morning gathering will take place on the grounds of the Jonquil Priory. Afternoon activities will take place at Saint Hesperer’s Cathedral of Talath. According to Falthir, Abeth Minor of Talath’s Order of Showers, clerics who have gathered from around the region will start their holy day by gathering the dew… Read more.