The alarming reports from Northgard had prompted the Adventurer Guild to take immediate action, although establishing a permanent Regional Headquarters in Frostford remained a matter for future negotiations.
For now, the Guild could still assist the northern settlements through its existing mission network.
With the cooperation of Northgard's administration, Garran's department had prepared several reconnaissance and monster suppression commissions based on information supplied by frontier patrols.
The requests were reviewed, classified according to their estimated difficulty, and posted on the Mission Boards at Kingsford Headquarters.
Within two days, several experienced Adventurer parties had expressed interest.
One particular commission attracted considerable attention. It concerned a northern commercial route where monster encounters had nearly tripled, threatening the caravans that supplied several isolated settlements.
