Adventure (Seed) - Rovers Across the Border

Adventure - Rovers Across the Border

A Knight of Tenh clashing with a raiding party of Rovers of the Barrens.

As winter of 579cy comes to the north the Rovers drive south and raid the warmer lands before retiing to their winter enclaves that are hidden among the Barrens.  Scouts are sent out weeks earlier to find the weakest most unpatrolled spots along the borders before they ride in force and raid and rampage in lightning quick attacks. Many an expedition has been sent by Furyondy, Tenh and the Pale anf even the Horned Society to find these encampments but those few expeditions who return have never been successful.

It was hoped that after the Battle of the Opicm River the Rovers' depredations would be halted, and for a few years they were while the surviving warriors and the remnant clans withdrew to their furthest and most secure hunting grounds. But under the leadership of the young chieftain of Wardogs, Bohadan Opensky, all the surviving clans are united for the first time since the days of the great khans. While great numbers of Rover warriors perished the children and young mothers of the clan survived as well as those too old to have joined in the great battle. With each passing season young women and men join the hunt and seek to bloody their swords and spears and prove their worthiness on raids.

It may take a generation to refill the saddles of all the dead but more children have been born to the tribes than ever before and the day will come when the Rovers will blacken the steppes and fields with their numbers once again. For now, as 579cy comes to an end, small raiding parties of Rovers are once again appearing in the southern lands and the scouts and border guards of many nations are the first to encounter them.