Sirs and Madames,

Tonight we have had a major development in the struggle to stay the coming storm. Just after sundown, the creature that we know as Duskborn was seen in the sky again. While we were unable to affect it from below, we again were drawn to south haven by a column of fire, and the creatures flight. There we found again Master Carellus the Hedgewizard and his apprentice, the lady Mynalia. They informed us that the creature had appeared to them in the form of a woman covered in scales, and attacked them in their quarters. Master Carellus was apparently able to drive it off, singing his robes in the ensuing burst of flame (a fact of which he was most concerned). Something, the creature perhaps, plummeted to the ground forming a smoldering crater on Baron's, but naught was forthcoming when we inspected it. We resolved to meet up as planned at the Garden of Forbidden Knowledge shortly thereafter.

At that point, a group of us went to retrieve the fresh ingredients that Magister Raelee needed for her ritual, the brains, eyes, heart and blood of the Vesperti. Master Carellus met us there and helped us to gather the needed...parts. Returning to the Garden, we began to hear the sounds of invading creatures, so Godefroy sanctified the area while the Magister set about her task. Through great expenditure of power, we were able to pry open the veil between worlds, and communicate with the lost Lady Orphia. She was just able to send a scrap of parchment through the rift before it fell shut again. Of her fate, we know not, but we presume the worst...she seemed at immediate peril, and to deliver the parchment may well have been her final act.

The parchment contained a list of items required to form a Dream Seal, which we can presumably use to bind the Red Dreamer and prevent his emergence. Among those ingredients are the corpses of three of these Duskborn creatures, which will not be easy to obtain, needless to say. We know of the one in the environs of Solhaven, the one that fled north toward Icemule, and one in or around Teras Isle. We have come up with a plan to trap the one in Solhaven and will be attempting such next Feastday, around the fifth or sixth hour past noon elven. Anyone who wishes to aid us would do well to collect as much oil as they can carry and bring it to the Broken Tower at that time.

After the ritual, we formed a party and went forth into the streets and did battle with more of the same creatures that attacked us last week, plus a few new ones. After a short battle, we drove them back, and secured the town.

Blessings be upon the lost Lady Orphia for her sacrifice. Now, at last, we have a glimmer of hope, a means to combat this threat that has loomed over us for so long now.

Blessed are the Dreamers,

Signed,
Mohrgan, Servant of the true Lord of the Night