A letter is pinned in the center of town’s noticeboard, with the feverish scrawlings and elegantly eldritch calligraphy of Father Richter Newman, addressing the township:
"Brothers and Sisters of Tarren Mill,
The living of Southshore continue to taunt us and to try to push back our borders, encroaching on Forsaken lands not even with the honesty of an army, but with simple and base cattle, confirming that they see us as nothing but animals for their flocks to mingle, and our lands but pasture for them to devour. The vermin have destroyed our Royal Apothecaries’ harvests, which are rightfully tools of the Queen and therefore this action represents a cunning act of sabotage from the Alliance.
If you have any love or respect for your fellow Forsaken, you will report to our Apothecaries in town to aid them in this time, to replace what was lost and to better protect our people. Thus is the Will of the Shadow, as the living show no Respect, challenge our Tenacity and question our Power.
Embrace the Shadow, in the Dark Lady’s name.
Father Richter Newman"