Overheard....

I thought I would catch you all up on current events around the Palladium world. From time to time, I'll keep you posted on larger events that might effect your overall campaign, or maybe just round-out the backdrop.

WE calendar Mai 27, 3276
Ricmorn Rumours
Imperial authorities found a large shipment of the illegal narcotic Hennis, known on the streets as "red tar", on board a Nehranes-Sea Shipping Company vessel near Norben. Unable to stop the vessel from leaving the area, the Uarnesian ship, the Farlax, came to assist authorites and easily overtook the fleeing ship. Witnesses say "A fire started on the Enessessy, smoke just pouring out. The Farlax aimed right for her before she dissappeared in her own smoke...we heard that other boat split in two and the Farlax came sailing out, not a mark on her." The Farlax pulls into Ricmorn this week.

Wolfen Legion: A Wolfen Legion has just finished recieving special training from the Imperial Guard this week and will be spending some much deserved R&R time in Morel and Ricmorn before the return to the north.

Diplomats from the Eastern Territories are in town this week to meet authorities and business leaders, and will be journeying to Niverhall for a meeting with Emperor Caritas early next week. Some fear an assassination attempt by the wolfen; others say this is just an example of racism, pure and simple, and that the honorable wolfen would never attack diplomats (despite the constant, bloody battle for territory that occurs in the Eastern Territories between humans and wolfen). It will be interesting to see what Emperor Caritas does, since open support for the military of the Eastern Territories would severely harm the productive and happy relationship the Empire has had with their northern allies, the wolfen.

Idle Threats on Idelstone? Ulves Falkon, that renown human leader of the so-called "Reclamation Project" might be threatening an attack an Idelstone, some sources say. It has been heard that "Capturing Idelstone would give the Reclamation an iron-clad hold on the western slopes of the Old Kingdom, and might cripple our eastern trade routes, if not threaten the security of the Western Empire as a whole." The "Reclamation Project" is a bloody military movement to wrest control of human villages and towns along the western edge of the Old Kingdom, and return them to the Orcs, Ogres, Kobolds, Trolls, and Goblins. Falkon's success motivating these races to achieve a goal as a unit is unparalleled in recent history, and the fact that he is human is amazing. Ulves, a former Imperial General, insists however that he has no designs to attack the Western Empire proper, only those territories "illegally taken from their rightful owners" in the cycle of Blood-Moon Wars. Critics point out that, technically, the disputed lands predominantly belonged to the Elves and Dwarves back in the days of The Great War, and that monster claims to these areas is relatively recent. Most residents of Idelstone seem to think that this is all propoganda, and don't seem afraid of an attack. Nevertheless, an extra legion of troops is expected to arrive there very soon to bolster that city's defense.