Reports filter in from the outskirts of the Gloom Wood toward Vehl and other communities in the area and then to other centers from there via merchant gossip.
An entire settlement along the banks of the Morning River was found slain. The grisly sight was discovered by a traveling tinker. The homes were standing but all the villagers appeared to have been rounded up and slaughtered in the village square. Anything of possible value was gone, as were the livestock. There were some signs of defense by the locals but it obviously was not enough. No definitive evidence of the attackers was found, but one dagger of the type used by Dark elves was found embedded in the spine of an elf male.
Curiously two villagers were unaccounted for in the carnage. An elven woman of near term pregancy and one of the village guards, a human male.
