With the battle over, Fosco quickly moved to investigate a sunken chest where he found a pearl necklace, and several gold pieces. As he this, Radril went to try and help Lorfalma and her wounded friend, the human with the arrow in his back. Eventually, they managed to staunch the wound, and Lorfalma realized that it was a Morgal Arrow—a powerful artifact beyond most magic uses. Most worrying, it had Hirgond’s name on it and the two were on a secret mission. Someone has betrayed them that is in league with the orcs. After gathering what they could from the orcs, the Party moved on avoiding the road and traveling through the the night eventually taking cover. During their watches, they noticed some mounted figures poke around their end of the valley to the north, but apparently they turned back west toward the road. After gathering some berries and sharing the last of Lorfalma’s merger rations, the Party learned that the elf was an instructor at the Tower of Or-Sarn—a school of magic on the southern shore of the Rhun Sea. Their mission was to track the development of a new Earthling leader named Borthand who was a former student at Or-Sarn. Radril was also given Hirgond’s staff—the Fighter’s Fork. Through the next night they traveled toward Iach Celduin the ruins of an older town turned into little more than a caravan stop. As they did so, Hirgond began mumbling to himself more and more seemingly having a one sided conversation describing his surroundings.  Hungry and exhausted, the ragged travelers arrived in Iach Celduin and made use of its rusticated amenities including having the local blacksmith and part time veterinarian, Fisk, take a look at Hirgond. He used his maggots on him declaring the wound “very bad.” Paying the owner of the Hungry Horse, Mirna, with an ancient Gondorian coin from his haul at the tower, Fosco (secretly) vowed to get it back and then returned to the blacksmith’s to spend of the rest of the day making horse shoes. He then went shopping.  Meanwhile, Radril spent the day looking over the ruins of the Northman town that seems to have just been abandoned. She then went to speak with Mirna and then took a job at the inn. While serving the customers, she overhears a lot of info on Dorwinian, the nation on the northern road that boarders the Rhun Sea. Apparently, it is a rich, corrupt, and intrusive ridden nation that seems to be prepping for war against the rising Easterners under Borthand. They are currently seeking out mercenaries. They are not a military nation. At the end of the day, Fisk demanded that the wounded Hirgond be removed. The Party retired to the Hungry Horse Inn. Hirgond continued mumbling to himself, and they decided to take the southern road towards Strayhold the free but somewhat rough and trouble town to the south. Fosco remembered hearing rumors that its thieve’s guild shared rule. Radril remembered that some powerful mage also ruled part of the town. To Strayhold!