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It is well known that the forests and hills of Sandhornvale are haunted; the small folk called them ‘spirit lights’ and they appear as small orbs of pale white lights. They danced at various spots and landmarks when midnight comes, and lingers for an hour before disappearing. A few believe they were ghosts or spirits that did not passed over to the after-world, while sages and sorcerers believed that there’s nothing supernatural about those lights at all – they are the creations of sorcery. What are those lights, exactly?

1. Road to Hidden Gates: When faeries walk the world openly and mankind was still young, lanterns were used to light the way between the doorsteps of different fay domains. Those lights still remain, showing the way to a dormant fay realm. Many reasons would led the adventurers to walk this path – a missing young lord, tracking a rogue sorcerer who is using the realm as his hide-out or even the allure of treasures. The lights are within sight of each other, showing the way to the gate, but the journery in middle is not without its share of perils.
2. Finding Rest: Long time ago, a murderer lurked within the region, killing young and old for his own depraved reasons. A paladin hunted him down and brought him to justice, but the bodies of the victims were never found. The paladin begged his patron deity for the means to find the bodies so that they may be put to rest, and there came the spirit lights. Each would guide an adventurer to a place where a victim of the loathed murderer. The paladin managed to retrieve two by following two of those lights, but he disappeared forever when attempting to find the third. Apparently, the victims were brought to a place of danger…
3. The Path for the Journery: The people of Sandhornvale are of an interesting mix. It used to be a small village, when gypsies cameto dwell within the village because of wars and a plague. The toils of those times killed most of the gypsies, including those who know where to go next – it seemed that they were following a path laid down by their ancestors. The youngsters, lost and frightened, stayed with the villagers of Sandhornvale. Ever since them the spirit lights have appeared – and they are actually the route which the gypsies. Now their descendants are feeling a strange urge to follow those lights, but times have changed. Why did their ancestors follow those path? Is it necessary? What lurks along the way? Maybe a group of descendants wish to undertake the journery, but fearing danger, asks the adventurers as an escort. The reasons could rangome from bringing offering to their ancient ancestors to having to recite a ritual which ensure that a powerful enemy remained imprisioned.

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