Rounding the Corner, the war room shadows dance to the flames of Sarduris' armor, heat emanating off it. His authoritative poise drops and he nods to the table end across from him. Looking down, your figurine has moved off the Toadsquat Mountains and is now placed next to several new ones you do not recognize in Forest Avenue in the Sharawood. The war table somehow has less figurines on it than when you saw it last. Unprecedented. What could possibly remove an Undying Knight?
Sarduris
The metallic hollow of his voice cuts through the silence, "Welcome Eternal Brother Bey Alrion. I did not want to pull you from your mission in assessing retaking our Castle Al'hanar and the new inhabitants of the Toadsquat Mountains, but this mission is somehow more vital. Our Legion is not coming back from the Sharawood, even though the Wyrm is not there. Every fallen brother is a sacrifice too high, we must recover them.
I have selected you to lead this mission, you will be accompanied by the Weird Ones, you know them well enough from your past missions. Hardrider has outdone himself this time, sending both. The Forest has shifted and is changing nature, something we've never seen before. Our new allies wish to prove themselves, and have also sent representatives under your command. Though I do not know what the Honored "We" has planned, as they did not insist on their representative's rank. They are sending a Night Walker - one I have not met before. For the Church of the Bone Lord to be involved at all, let alone send a Night Walker, you now realize the gravity of the situation.
Release our contingencies that slumber in the Sharawood, especially the Seven Disciples of Death, if you can find them. We will need their strength as our Lord Reaper walks on a sacred pilgrimage upon the material plane in defiance of Ao, and in the service of mortals, of which the Overlord Ao would have us abandon. We must make sure that Eltabranar is ready for his, and his accompanying Night Riders, return..."