Friday Night DND

This is a homebrewed campaign set in the Forgotten Realms. We won't be following a direct world map as many of the locations will be things I have created, thought it may be possible to visit cities like Waterdeep or Neverwinter if needed/desired. The deities that exist can be any deity from any setting. If you worship it, it exists. I don't foresee deities having a huge role in the campaign, but divine favors, pacts, and interactions can occur.

The story begins in the town of Dewsbury, during an annual Festival of Rebirth. While not the northernmost settlement in the land, it is definitely considered the "north" to the outsiders. Sitting at the base of a mountain range, this farming community is quite quiet and peaceful. Their main interactions tend to be local, though most trade goes through the tunnel passage to the north leading to the city of Wallowsdale. There is a noticeable lack of travelers/merchants from that area, as most outsiders currently in town during this festival seem to have come from the south.

It's early spring, coming after nearly a decade of particularly harsh winters, with the most recent being the worst in memory. Food supplies across the entire region are running scarce. As such, traveling merchants and caravans, particularly those from the north, have dwindled in number. This festival highlights the farming community and has several sowing events and a few competitions to try and get as many people as possible involved in planting for the community to prosper. It's a particularly fun festival and word of it has recently spread to nearby towns and villages, which is presumably why the crowd seems to have grown a bit this year.

Most of the townsfolk and travelers don't know it, but something sinister is coming to the region. It's hoped with this spring that the hard winters are over for a time, and while that may be true of the weather, the hard times have driven some evil forces south from the even harsher north.