A year had past, a year of getting Soro back on its feet A year of building, and rebuilding. I have been getting to know some of the hammers by now. Redemption and I have been spending a lot of time together, her fervour is an inspiration for anyone, though sometimes a bit harsh, I have been teaching her to be a more persuasive instead of intimidating. In many ways Ricardo is het opposite, carefree to the extreme, we also have spending some time, some of it in the sheets, but at some point his bed sheets began to much smelling of the drug den he was hiding in his basement so we went our separate ways.

Except for the arrival of the gnolls the year was relatively calm, however, as this is a story, you can imagine it not staying like that for long.

I was in the finley farms to infuse the plants with magic when it happened. Overnight the vegetables had grown to enormous sizes. It was hailed as a gift from the undead spirit by the villagers but as I spoke with Romero a more concerning possibility came up.
Esk.

Traveling back to Soro together with him the hammers assembled. I learned from them that they had been assembling pieces of a god, pieces contained in magical boxes of which the origins were unknown even to them. When Esk had left she had taken the body with her. The blood of this body had had many strange effect. Granting Ricardo his though skin, spawning the undead spirit in the first place, and it probably doing whatever had happened to Esk. The conclusion of the meeting was that it was most likely that Esk infused the harvest at the finley farms with this blood, for some yet unknown reason.
In a moment of brilliance Redemption checked for magic around us and discovered that both she and Romero were being followed by arcana detection magic. Using telepathy of a guild members they devised a plan to lure Esk to Soro, with the promise of finding a body part of the god. However due to some miscommunication the plan failed. Esk did go for the trap, but no one was present to spring it.

Exhausting the option to find Esk it was decided to go to the undead spirit and ask it for advice.