Timeline of the Addermarch Campaign

• Apr 25, 1715 DR, dawn: In Valcroix, Drou, Fazoth de Brune, and Yvan Greenrabbit agree to escort merchant Oona Stonebridge to Roscombe; the small caravan sets out under clear skies along the road.
• Apr 25, 1715 DR: Travel is slow but peaceful through orchards, fields, and hamlets as the company heads north-west toward the forested hills.
• Apr 26, 1715 DR: An uneventful march sees the road leave the river valley and begin climbing into the shadowed reaches of the Torvaine Forest.
• Apr 27, 1715 DR, morning: The party clears a wind-fallen tree from the road; a sunning adder spooks the horses, throwing Oona, but she is quickly healed and the team presses on.
• Apr 27, 1715 DR, late afternoon: Only a few miles from Torvaine Watch the caravan is ambushed by two burrowing mohlers; the creatures are slain, yet their presence so near the garrison alarms the travelers, who camp for the night.
• Apr 28, 1715 DR, morning: On the final approach the group discovers a peddler’s corpse drained of blood and apparently fleeing the fort.
• Apr 28, 1715 DR, early afternoon: Arriving at Torvaine Watch they find the portcullis locked and silent, encounter a ghostly knight who warns of death, and fight a mess-hall full of zombies. A key taken from the undead opens the gathering hall; more zombies in the barracks are destroyed, loot is gathered, and in Marshal Hildo Brask’s quarters the party uncovers a bloody trail and the marshal’s troubling letter.
• Apr 28, 1715 DR, early afternoon: Crossing the hoarding to the eastern tower, the party fends off stirges lurking in the rafters, then follows a blood trail downstairs and ransacks an armory whose locked chest resists them. In the smithy the heroes slay the undead smith Bartoz, discover how the twin winches work, and coordinate across the bridge to raise Torvaine Watch’s main gates.
• Apr 28, 1715 DR, late afternoon: Venturing to the commander’s quarters they find Marshal Hildo Brask’s corpse, confront the wrathful ghost of Sir Einrik Arpaad, seize a cursed Serpentine Dagger, and retreat as debris hurls after them.
• Apr 28, 1715 DR, evening: After recovering Brask’s body and a treasure chest, the group quits Torvaine Watch and camps beside the road with Oona Stonebridge and her wagon.
• Apr 29, 1715 DR: The caravan travels without incident along the uneven forest road through the Torvaine Forest.
• Apr 30, 1715 DR, morning: South of Roscombe the party meets Sir Gareth Howell and a troop sent by Lady Elowen Duval to investigate the silence at the watch; Fazoth’s account of the curse persuades Gareth to let the dagger remain in his care.
• Apr 30, 1715 DR, evening: The companions reach Roscombe and secure lodging.
• May 01, 1715 DR: Fare-welling Oona, they report to Lady Duval, claim a bounty for recovered arms, and are asked to consult priest Owen Tavish of The Sibyl regarding the dagger; Duval also relates a rider’s full tale of the tomb-found blade and the massacre at Torvaine Watch.
• May 02, 1715 DR: The party receives letters from priest Owen Tavish and Lady Elowen Duval. Fazoth visits the Sunday market and sells ancient coins recovered from Torvaine Watch. Alchemist Caradoc arrives and hires them to slay a cockatrice and return with its gizzard as proof.
• May 03, 1715 DR, morning: The companions leave Roscombe, cross open farmland and the rocky hills of the Stonewolds; near the Kilrath Standing Stones they locate the cockatrice cave.
• May 03, 1715 DR, midday: Inside they discover a petrified dwarf, a strange map, and fend off a shadow-animated skeleton.In the main cavern they defeat an adult cockatrice and its hatchlings amid a dormant fey gate and a lifelike statue of a shepherd boy. A furious naiad binds Fazoth and Yvan until they purge red algae tainting her pool; treasure—including Duval family jewels and an odd golden symbol of The Sibyl—is recovered and the fey gate is destroyed.
• May 03, 1715 DR, evening: Laden with gizzard, eggs, and loot, the party camps on the road back toward Roscombe.
• May 04, 1715 DR, morning: A detour to Brantor lets them deliver the gizzard to Caradoc.
• May 04, 1715 DR, evening: Returning to Roscombe they present the recovered jewels to Lady Elowen Duval, claim the long-standing bounty on the thief who stole them, and settle again at The Traveler’s Rest.
• May 05, 1715 DR: In Roscombe, the party sells the vial of magical weapon-oil looted from Torvaine Watch and purchases extra healing potions at the bustling market square.
• May 06, 1715 DR, morning: At the Temple of the Sibyl in Roscombe, the party confers with Owen Tavish about the Serpentine Dagger, and sell him an ancient Sibylline holy symbol.
• May 06, 1715 DR, afternoon: At Caradoc’s cottage near Brantor, the party commissions a dose of Trueflame to aid in destroying the Serpentine Dagger, and accepts a contract to recover a stolen “glowing poison” recipe from local Goblins.
• May 07, 1715 DR, evening: Over dinner in Lady Elowen Duval’s hall—complete with Drou’s performance, Yvan’s live painting, and Fazoth’s fireworks—they learn from Captain Gareth Howell of a goblin hideout and his missing squire; the party vows to investigate.
• May 08, 1715 DR, late afternoon: Masquerading as a goblin, Yvan infiltrates the guardroom, locates captive squire Colette du Bois, and with Drou and Fazoth swiftly cuts down the drunken jailers before freeing her. After bribing the lair’s giant skittering spiders with pantry beef, the party slips through a secret door, battles the goblin queen and her minions in the throne room, and secures both treasure and the stolen glowing-poison recipe.
• May 08, 1715 DR, evening: The party returns to Roscombe, stopping in Brantor to exchange the recipe (plus gold) for Caradoc’s completed vial of Trueflame.
• May 08, 1715 DR, morning: Trekking north into the hills they reach a cave entrance, trigger a collapsing-floor trap, and rout the first wave of goblin sentries with chromatic orbs, invisibility, and misty step.
• May 08, 1715 DR, afternoon: Following tracks to a hidden trapdoor they descend, dodge another pit alarm, burst into the goblin living-quarters, and—after a brutal melee of cloud-of-daggers, fist-flurries, and arcane blasts—slay the bandits and seize the room.
• May 09, 1715 DR, morning: In the Temple of the Sibyl, Owen Tavish oversees as the heroes use Trueflame to finally destroy the cursed Serpentine Dagger.
• May 09, 1715 DR, afternoon: A quiet market day in Roscombe ends with alchemist Caradoc proposing a new quest: descend a nearby deep-cave network and retrieve the rare living mineral Uligium
• May 10, 1715 DR: Drou, Fazoth, and Yvan purchase ropes, torches, and climbing gear while gathering cave lore from Colette du Bois and other locals to pinpoint the closest subterranean system.
• May 11, 1715 DR: The party departs Roscombe early, heading west toward Fontwick. On the road, they meet distraught dairy farmers whose cattle were slain by a huge burrowing insect; Samantha of Fontwick guides the heroes back to her farm while her husband rides to Roscombe for Lady Elowen Duval’s aid. The party settles in to watch for the night.
• May 12, 1715 DR, just after midnight: An ankheg erupts from the pasture; simultaneous witch-bolt strikes from Fazoth and Yvan, plus Drou’s support, subdue the monster before serious harm is done.
• May 12, 1715 DR, dawn: Samatha receives a generous purse from Yvan to replace her herd and provisions the adventurers with bread, cheese, and apples as they continue their journey toward the rumored deep caverns.
• May 12, 1715 DR: The party leaves Fontwick, heading northwest and entering the wooded hills of the western Stonewolds. While pushing through a rocky, forested trail, Drou narrowly avoids a nearly invisible web trap; a swarm of tiny spiders assaults Fazoth but are burned away, and the party flees a looming giant spider deeper in the trees.
• May 12, 1715 DR, late evening: Camping a few miles from the probable location of the West Stonewolds Caves, the group meets Norman the Wanderer, a rag-clad hermit who warns them of a “double-big man” and wolf guarding the entrance; he agrees to guide them at dawn.
• May 13, 1715 DR, late morning: Deep beneath the hills the party enters a vast cavern; a giant skeleton animates and is shattered by Drou’s flurry of blows and Fazoth’s finishing eldritch blast, though the loose arm momentarily terrifies Yvan. Fazoth’s pseudodragon scouts the depths and is killed by a dragon in the deeps. The heroes locate their first vein of uligium and pause for lunch.
• May 13, 1715 DR, early afternoon: The party survives a piercer ambush, then push into a damp chamber rich in uligium where two gray oozes attack and are killed, but not before Drou is knocked unconscious (and subsequently revived with a healing potion).
• May 13, 1715 DR, morning: Norman leads them to the cave and slips off; the ten-foot “big man” is busy butchering a cow for his stew. Drou lures him away with illusory goat sounds, Fazoth’s sleep spell fells the wolf, and the party rappels seventy feet into a dark pit. Fazoth’s pseudodragon severs the upper rope to foil the furious ogre, and the adventurers descend another hundred feet, landing in the lightless depths ready to explore.
• May 13, 1715 DR, mid-afternoon: Leaving the ooze chamber, the party enters a rubble-strewn cavern; the floor collapses under Yvan, revealing a mushroom-lit farm below. After scouting the party slides down the flowstone to a large oblong cave. A crawl-tunnel high in the wall leads to a poison-filled nook rich in uligium.
• May 13, 1715 DR, late afternoon: While wandering through twisting passages, Yvan’s mapwork proving unreliable, a booming voice claims the domain of the “Master of Light and Shadow.” Parley reveals Zibzig Sparkscale, a kobold inventor.
• May 13, 1715 DR, evening: Agreeing to help Zibzig Sparkscale defeat the monster blocking the river, the party fights a huge cave-fisher crab. Dodging its sticky filament, they slay the monster quickly. They spend the night in Zibzig’s cozy, gadget-filled two-room lair, resting for further exploration.
• May 14, 1715 DR, morning: Over fried-mushroom pancakes in Zibzig Sparkscale’s lair, the kobold inventor shares directions to an uligium cache and warns of “lurkers above the water.”
• May 14, 1715 DR, midday: Reaching a pool-filled cavern beyond a chasm, the party is plunged into magical darkness as four darkmantles drop from the ceiling; Yvan’s fiery surges, Fazoth’s lightning-guided pseudodragon, and Drou’s tenacity shatter the creatures. Heated glass lures fresh uligium from the tunnel walls.
• May 14, 1715 DR, late afternoon: Guided back to the surface route, they pacify the ogre and wolf at the cave mouth with Fazoth’s Calm Emotions and escape unharmed, bearing four vials of uligium.
• May 14, 1715 DR, night: The heroes trek eastward and camp in open farmland en-route to Roscombe.
• May 15, 1715 DR, evening: After a day’s march and a stop in Brantor to deliver their alchemical prize, the party arrives safely in Roscombe.
• May 16, 1715 DR: Caradoc visits the party in Roscombe with rumors of maddened livestock in Haldrenn, and asks the party to investigate. After acquiring potions from Caradoc in Brantor, the heroes march northeast into the Highmoor and camp in the open hills.
• May 17, 1715 DR, day: The party reaches Haldrenn in the late afternoon, and learns from nine-year-old Bran that six-year-old Rowena is missing and a funeral for Olay (gored by his own bull) is imminent. Bran recites a creepy “Hollow Men” rhyme said to warn of the Briarheart.
• May 17, 1715 DR, early evening: Questions to charcoal-burner Karl and priest-storyteller Helen of Haldrenn uncover more of the strange events. Drou’s Speak with Animals reveals the cattle are tormented by a relentless song compelling violence.
• May 17, 1715 DR, sunset: Tracking prints and using Fazoth’s fey-lantern, the party follows Rowena’s trail east into the hills and locates her hiding in a cave filled with maddened bees. Swarms are dispersed by Cloud of Daggers, Chromatic Orb, and Dissonant Whispers; Rowena is rescued unharmed.
• May 17, 1715 DR, night: As the rescuers crest the last ridge toward Haldrenn the fey-lantern flares and the howls of worgs attacking the village echo across the darkened fields.
• May 17, 1715 DR, night: Returning with Rowena, the party reaches Haldrenn just as a worg pack attacks, and defeats the worgs. After the battle, the party speaks with villagers and learns of the missing Duncan, a boastful youth who left seeking fey treasure.
• May 18, 1715 DR, morning: Tracking the worg trail east across the Highmoor, Drou loses it on a rocky ridge. Fazoth’s fey-lantern flares, revealing a nervous sprite who reports turmoil in Morlaith’s realm and seeks passage north to Lord Serenveil’s domain. After parleying with the sprite, Drou picks up fresh wolf prints heading northeast along the ridge.
• May 18, 1715 DR, afternoon: The party tracks the worgs to a strange foggy hollow.
• May 18, 1715 DR, evening: After some experimenting they recreate the songs needed to open a portal to the Thornweald. A hollow man emerges, which they kill. Entering the Feywild, they defeat thorn sprites and a flying archer-fey, and hear a fey melody from a singing tree in the distance.
• May 18, 1715 DR, night: Defeat the Singing Tree, rescue Vaelithar, depart the Thornweald, disable the Nightsong Roots portal, and camp halfway to Haldrenn
• May 19, 1715 DR, afternoon: The party speaks to Helen of Haldrenn about Duncan of Haldrenn; gathers information from Alewyn, Bran, and Karl; investigates Duncan’s cottage; defeats a haunted shade, and gathers clues.
• May 19, 1715 DR, evening: The party spends the night in Haldrenn.
• May 19, 1715 DR, morning: Travel the remaining distance back to Haldrenn
• May 20, 1715 DR: The party departs Haldrenn in the morning, and spends the day walking back towards Brantor to speak with Caradoc.
• May 21, 1715 DR: The party reaches Brantor after lunch, speaks with Caradoc, then continues into Roscombe. They speak with Owen Tavish before dinner, then head to The Traveler’s Rest for the night.
• May 22, 1715 DR, morning: At The Traveler’s Rest in Roscombe, the party interviews Colette du Bois, innkeeper Bertrand LeBlanc, and chambermaid Emma Cole about Geoffrey, the dead stranger tied to Duncan’s axe, then meets Elowen Duval for lunch and is directed to scholar Ernault in the keep’s archives.
• May 22, 1715 DR, afternoon: Traveling to Caradoc’s cottage near Brantor, the party collects magic items, commissions more Trueflame to destroy the cursed battle axe, and departs for Arvanko’s homestead.
• May 23, 1715 DR: Reaching Arvanko’s hill-country homestead, the heroes earn his trust and learn the location of the ruined hill-fort of Serethwyn Tor, then depart to return to Caradoc’s, camping on the return journey.
• May 24, 1715 DR, evening: The party camps on the road into the Highmoor, following the trail of Duncan of Haldrenn toward Serethwyn Tor and the cursed Serpentine Battleaxe.
• May 24, 1715 DR: The party arrives back at Caradoc’s cottage by midday, retrieves their prepared Trueflame, and sets out along the road toward Serethwyn Tor.
• May 25, 1715 DR: Uneventful travel across the moors; the party camps in the foothills of Westcliff.
• May 26, 1715 DR: Walk for the morning; in the afternoon, reach an old road that climbs to Serethwyn Tor. Following the trail, the party passes a warning marker from Rangers, fights a mass of skeletons, and begins exploring the ruins, finding recent disturbed earth, old scorch marks, and a broken mine map.
• May 26, 1715 DR, late afternoon: In the officer’s barracks, the party fights skeletons and takes a brief rest, before proceeding into the mines. In the mines, they find a massive cave-in and fight skeletons and serpentine wights; a unicorn appears amid Yvan’s wild magic and helps end the battle.
• May 27, 1715 DR, morning: The party wakes after a long rest in the upper mine chambers.
• May 27, 1715 DR, morning: After a long rest in the upper mine, the party backtracks through Duncan’s camp and finds a ventilation shaft.
• May 27, 1715 DR, midday: The party enters the mine, defeats serpentine ghouls, and descends to the lowest levels following signs of Duncan’s passage.
• May 27, 1715 DR, late afternoon: The party defeats the serpentine warlock in the deepest chamber beneath Serethwyn Tor.
• May 27, 1715 DR, evening: They search the chamber, recover Duncan’s letters and the stolen fey heart, and use Trueflame to destroy the Serpentine Battleaxe and a serpentine pendant.
• May 27, 1715 DR, night: Climbing back out through the mine, they question a dead ranger with Speak with Dead, learning more about the war with Avatus and the lost Serpentine Register, then camp in the upper mine chamber.
• May 28, 1715 DR, morning: The party sets out for Caradoc’s, hoping to find a way back into the Thornweald to return the stolen heart.
• May 28, 1715 DR, afternoon: The party continues across the Highmoor towards Brantor and Caradoc’s cottage.
• May 29, 1715 DR: The party crosses the Highmoor and arrives at Caradoc’s in the evening, where they discuss the return of the heart to the Singing Tree. After dinner, they head out towards Haldrenn, walking for three hours before camping.
• May 30, 1715 DR, morning: The party walks the rest of the way to Haldrenn, and tells the villagers their plans.
• May 30, 1715 DR, afternoon: The party walks to Nightsong Roots, and uses Caradoc’s fey-crossing potion to enter Thornweald, Morlaith’s domain in the Feywild. They save a weeping willow from deadly butterflies and meet a pair of curious foxes who set them on their way to find a guide.
• May 30, 1715 DR, afternoon: The party traverses Thornweald, following the river road. Along the way they escape the influence of enchanted drumming, and cross a river while fighting off two displacer beasts. During a brief rest on the far bank, Fazoth’s pseudodragon familiar finds Gwydren.
• May 30, 1715 DR, evening: The party convinces Gwydren to guide them, hears more of Caradoc’s adventures in the Feywild, and rests at Gwydren’s camp.
• May 31, 1715 DR, morning: With hunters nearby, Gwydren leads the party to Old Brindlethorn’s sett, where they soothe the sleeping badger enough to enter her tunnels.