Strange happenings have started to escalate recently. Things have began to go missing. At first it was simple things. Firewood. Tools. Then it was grain. Skins. Livestock. Children.
At first it was speculated that there were some errant vandals, or bandits. Some credited the horrible, bloated man-creatures that stalk the moors. When people started to go missing however, it was the Neuri that was blamed. For the last week, the problem had grown progressively worse until the perpetrators finally reared their ugly white heads from the boil of suspicion.
A group of no less than three, but no more than seven brazenly attacked the Outer Farmlands, slaughtering all that would stand in their wake. The large humanoid creatures dressed themselves in animal skins, and rusted piecemail armor. They brought fire, vraja, and a furvor that would not be supressed. Survivors of the attack were found muttering about the "calibans" and their horrific screeching as they took all the peasants had, including their lives. The screeching and howling was described as a noise akin to a bear mauling a boar.
Nearly a dozen of the Burgomaster's guardsmen were slain, along with at least double that in Gundarakite laborers and wayward Outlanders who had been passing through town. Some of the bodies were taken, so it was impossible to get an accurate headcount of the damage. The attackers were repelled before getting too far into the village, but the few monsters they were managed to leave their mark before they were chased into the forests surrounding the bog.
The symbol of a great unblinking eye was found wherever they had strewn carnage. Drawn in blood, scratched in the dirt, smeared in mud. This mark has been seen everywhere that the creatures have been. Veterans of a similar attack close to last year remember the symbol, and they are certain it was the same creatures. Why they have returned is a mystery, but speculators presume it to be some kind of ritual, since it was around this time last year that they first attacked.
