Year 4 Day 351
Weather: Unknown
Hexes Explored: None
Resuming their explorations The Founders find a temple dedicated to Charon, The Death Horseman of the Apocalypse. Beyond it they find a cell containing the missing centaur Xamanthe but to free her they have to battle a vicious Piscodaemon.
After running into a few dead-ends The Founders turn, with some trepidation, to a large chamber that they know contains a pair of Soul-Eaters.

Year 4 Day 350
Weather: Cold with a constant howling wind
Hexes Explored: None
The howling wind has made sleep difficult and both Alex and Kesh have not been able to rest all night. Luckily Sergei is able to dispel their fatigue with the power of Erastil. The founders continue to follow the mountain trail
By mid-morning they reach a cliff overlooking a mighty river being fed by a thunderous waterfall. In the centre of the river is a huge pillar with smoke being vented from holes in the top. The Founders spot a small beach with a cover at the back at one side of the pillar. They also find and old trail leading down the cliff face to the river’s edge.
As The Founders consider how to cross a pair of wyverns sets them upon. One of the beasts is slain and the second driven off but not before Sergei is almost killed when he is dropped from a great height.
Crossing the river The Founders find a tunnel leading into island that seems to be an ancient structure of Cyclopean origin.
As they explore deeper The Founders encounter more Dread Zombie as well as an antediluvian lake-monster. From ancient pictograms Lynessa is able to determine hints as to the origin of the structure and it’s link to a Cyclopes wizard and tyrant who rose from the dead a lich.
The Founders continue on with their exploration and run afoul of fiendish water-trap. The escape but now find their route out of the tomb blocked by flooding.
Their divine and arcane powers at a low ebb the Founders decide to rest.

Year 4 Day 349
Weather: Cold but no snow.
Hexes Explored: None
The Founders spend the morning resting so they can recover their strength of the Soul Eater’s attack.
They break camp at noon. After two to three hours of riding they have entered a valley and start to see markers that they believe represent the boundaries of The Valley of the Dead. Josiman flies head to scout and returns to report he has seen thousands of standing stones and that the valley, which is almost a box-canyon, has a narrow exit at the far end with stairs leading up into the mounts. However a pair of giant zombies guards the stairs.
The Founders ride deeper into the valley. The area has a pervading sense of foreboding. Lynessa and Kesh identify that the standing stones, most likely grave markers, have cyclopean writing on them. The Founders engage and destroy the zombies, in fact brain-eating formally Cyclops Dread Zombies, and then continue up the stairs.
Alex checks the trail ahead for tracks and finds signs not only of the zombie Cyclops coming the other way but that a centaur and a human-sized biped have been there before them.

Year 4 Day 348

Weather: Snow overnight. Very cold. 
Windy during afternoon
Hexes Explored: None
Taking their leave of the Noman tribe The Founders ride west heading for The Valley of the Dead. By noon the land has begun to rise and becomes increasingly craggy. The Founders find a herd of Mastodon and the skeletal remains of a Linnorm Worm that the centaurs seem to use as some form of temple.
Late into the night Lynessa is attacked by a Soul Eater. The Founders drive it off and are able to destroy it when it returns latter in the night.

Year 4 Day 347
Weather: Cold
Hexes Explored: None
Shortly before dawn The Founders are discovered by a band of centaurs. The Founders manage to convince the centaurs not too attack; impressing them with their tale of slaying The Great Kancarta as well as offering to return a magical bow or centaur manufacture that they found on the spriggans.
The centuars escort The Founders back to their tribe and take them to their leader Accora Silverfire. Accora accepts the bow, which is called Skybolt.
From Accora The Founders learn of the centaur’s history of war with the humans over the centauries. She is unable to explain what has happened to the people of Varnhold. She is, however, able to tell them more about Vordekic’s Island. It is connected with the legend of an ancient, slumbering warlord that once ruled the region. To reach the island one will have to pass through a taboo region called Olah Kakanket (“The Valley of the Dead”). Recently a centaur scout, Accora’s own daughter Xamanthe, reported seeing a strange and frightening shape lumbering amid the stones of the valley. Xamanthe has returned to keep an eye on the area and Accora is concerned that her daughter will enter the valley to investigate

Year 4 Day 346
Weather: Cold, Snowing
Hexes Explored: Finish exploring Hex K4. Terrian Type: Plains
Features of Note: Hunting ground of The Great Kancarta.
The Founders spend the day searching for any signs of the centaurs without success. Josiman and Alex notice that a crow or raven has followed them. When Josiman tries to fly up to talk to it the bird turns about and flees.
As the day wanes The Founders find fresh centaur tracks that they follow. Soon they hear screams ahead. They arrive too late to save the centaurs from The Great Kancarta but are able to avenge their deaths. King Aldous kills the monstrous beast with a devastating lance-strike worthy of legend.
Many of The Founders are disappointed that The Great Kancarta’s corpse is too massive to take as a trophy.

Year 4 Day 345
Weather: Cold but Clear
Hexes Explored: Begin Exploring Hex K4
Having reached the area marked on the map they found in the fort as being the territory of the centaurs The Founders begin to explore.

Year 4 Day 344
Weather: Cold, Overcast
Hexes Explored: None
Sergei cures Aldous’s and Mocki’s blindness.
After leaving signs to warn the unwary about the monster in the river The Founders leave Varnhold. They head east-south-east in the hope of finding the Noman centaurs. By noon they have left behind the farmlands of Varnhold and entered the grassy plains of The Dunswald. As they travel The Founders run across a large number of sink-holes and furrows that they believe may have been caused by a large, burrowing creature. Alex and Lynessa remember local legends of a massive land-shark called “The Great Kancarta”, also known as “The Earth Chewer” that hunts the region.
That evening The Great Kancarta attacks The Founders in their camp but despite it’s devastating initial strike, The Founders are able to drive it off.

Year 4 Day 343
Weather: Cold, Snowing
Hexes Explored: None
The Founders use a Speak With Dead spell to communicate with the Fellnight Spriggan but he is unable to communicate shed any more light on the fate of the residents of Varnhold.
The Founders begin a systematic search of the settlement:
The houses show signs that the inhabitance simply got up and left (possibly at dawn or dusk), leaving their possessions behind.
The find the word “Nomen” (the name of a nearby centaur tribe) scratched on to the door of the local inn.
Inside the inn they find the effects of Prof Ervil Pendred. Amongst his book it a letter from Maegar Varn himself asking Ervil to come and examine a mysterious bracelet found by a ranger called Willas Gundan. There is also a history book that mentions an island in a river that flows out of the mountain. The island is called Vordekic’s Island after it’s deadly guardian.
In the house of a weave The Founder find a cat called Splotch. Josiman learns from Splotch that “The Feeders” (cat talk for humans) left when they heard “The new bird song”.
In a tannery The Founders find the skins of three centaurs.
While investigating a black-smith”s The Founders are mobbed by a vicious murder of crows. The Founders drive off the crows but not before Aldous and Mockie suffer serous eye injuries.

4th Abadius 4714
Year 4 Day 342 

Weather: Very cold. 

Hexes Explored: None 

Following the trail during the morning The Founders rise up into hills. At noon they spot a large flock of carrion birds circling something ahead of them on the path. They also spot a diverging path leading off into the mountains. 
The birds are circling Varnhold that appears to be deserted. Soon after arriving The Founders have to defend themselves against a pair of dire-boars that seem to have wandered into the settlement looking for food. Lynessa’s crow Shadow reports that there is a spriggan in the hill-top fort. The Founders ride to the fort to confront the spriggan that turns out to be one of a number that has taken over the fort. The spriggans are lead by a Fell Night spriggan and supported by wolves and make effective use of the fort’s many layers of defense. After a tough fight The Founders manage to clear out the spriggans. While searching the fort The Founders find a map showing the region. spriggans, Centaurs and Rocs are marked on the map as well as a region marked with a mysterious warning.
The Founders question the one surviving spriggan and learn that Varnhod was deserted when they found it.
Josiman used his shape-changing powers to explore an under-water tunnel leading out of the fort. The tunnel connects with the river that runs through Varnhold. In the process he discovers a large creature, possibly a Chuul, living in the depth of the river.