The Lone Vistana

Still confounded by the task to hunt werewolves, the party pushes on through the woods east of Krezk. Getting closer to the rough area where the werewolves supposedly live, Yaroslav - having sprung a trap - suddenly jumps out of the way, while Thaddeus gets caught in a net falling from the treetops. With Thaddeus still hopelessly struggling, a woman swings down from above: she is clad in colorful clothing, has one prosthetic leg and long, curly black hair. She introduces herself as Ezmeralda and explains that she has been waiting in ambush for werewolves with her silvered net. She further remarks that the werewolf pack is too dangerous for the party. Since it is assumed that the city guards of Krezk can’t tell one wolf head from another, the party decides to lure a few werewolves into the net.

While this doesn’t turn out quite as expected, the party kills one and captures another werewolf after Yaroslav stunned it and Ezmeralda threw her net over it. The killed one transformed from a rather inconspicuous wolf into a fearsome hybrid when engaged, and after capture the (as it turns out, female) werewolf transforms back to a human form, pleading for her life. Ezmeralda interrogates her; apparently some Kyril is the leader of the pack of “dozens” of werewolves, which lives in a cave in the nearby hills, with an entrance roughly shaped like a wolf’s head. Interestingly, she says that she originally came from a settlement close to Daggerfall, but was abducted as a child - she doesn’t remember how long ago that was. She might have suffered the same fate as the party: was she transported here against her will?

Ilizeiros beheads the first¹ and Ezmeralda kills the other werewolf against her desperate pleas for mercy.

Together with Ezmeralda - who apparently is owed a favor by one city guard of Krezk, potentially making entry easier - the group heads back towards Krezk, with a werewolf’s head to gain entry into the city.