Arrival

Thay

Zárisse has accepted a commission to serve as commander of a garrison in a border fort along Thay's eastern fringe.

The household arrives in mid-autumn and finds the place to be a dump.

A small village populated by dubious characters, escaped slaves and other riff-raff.

The border fort itself is in some disrepair and houses a small brothel serving the local soldiers and those of the nearby border fort, a few days march to the north.

The wise Red Wizard decides to make little fuzz regarding the escaped slaves making up parts of the local populace and instead hires one of them as seamstress and her foreign husband as a handyman.

The brothel is shut down and the whores are enlisted as servants.

As weeks go by the agents of the household (Fandamm and Lothar) encounter Salber, an agent for another Red Wizard operating out of Eltabbar and precautions in case of malevolent intrigue are taken.

A foreign wizard (by the name of Elix) is also encountered in the village and is allowed to live only by the grace of Zárisse's practical mindset.

After a while a band of young adventurers approach Zárisse and ask to become her clients. In return for her political and legal support they will undertake a variety of adventurous missions on her behalf.

Zárisse accepts the service of the Adventure Kids.

As the hold of the area settles in the grip of the Red Wizards the mists of autumg gather in ever thicker banks along the river...