Location: Ironspine Mountain Pass — The Narrows
Date/Time: 10-11 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Lower Realm
They came out of the dark like a broken wave.
The first beast hit the wagon barricade before the last cart had finished turning, and the sound it made—the wet, splintering crunch of corrupted bone against wood—was worse than any battle cry. Jayde had heard artillery bombardments that carried less wrongness than the noise that erupted from the pass mouth. Not a roar. Not a scream. Something between, ragged and overlapping, as if a hundred throats were trying to produce the same sound and getting it catastrophically wrong.
Contact. Multiple hostiles. Varied size and configuration. Estimating sixty to eighty in initial wave—more behind.
