The Fall of Amberheart

Amberheart Watchtower

Warlic tells you that a rift to the Chaos Realm opened near Amberheart. Chaorruption spread through the land and its creatures before reaching the Blades of Order, who had kept watch there for centuries. Now the whole watch is missing. Their commander, Vormund Vigil-Keeper, studied with Warlic. They fought in their younger days, but both came to believe the watches were vital. Warlic knows Vormund would never leave without lighting the beacon.

In a letter from the records room, Vormund writes that tentacles have bound his men’s hands to their weapons and eyes are opening on their bodies. Their laughter torments him, and the wound he took fighting his lieutenant is growing hotter. He remembers boasting that he was smarter than Warlic and Warlic claiming Vormund would never beat him. Both were wrong. Warlic once promised to come when Vormund needed him, but he hasn’t arrived. Vormund is going back downstairs to fight his own men. He asks Warlic to light the beacon and warn Lore that Amberheart has fallen.

The weapons you recover look like those the Blades of Order trained with, and Warlic suspects the Chaorrupted knights once served under Vormund. When you recover broken pieces of their memorial statue, he wonders if they were trying to hold on to something human.

After defeating the Chaos Knight, you wonder if it was Exos. You remember leaving him on the ledge and suspect it may have been Vormund, but Warlic can’t tell who it was. With the beacon now glowing, you promise to remember the Blades and find a cure. Warlic sees the taint receding and thinks the land will recover. He wonders whether the people will.

Drakath says the Mage, the Guardian and the Shapeshifter rose because of Chaos and promises that you’ll fall to him too. In his log, Vormund says a sentry overheard the Chaos Knight mention a cure in Blackhorn Tomb. Lionfang had once searched that tomb for a weapon against Chaos.