As families wash up and get ready to sup, the streets of Aestus Town is slowly clearing out, the sun is set and a hard day’s work has been done by the Miners and Hunters alike. To most it would seem another day has come and gone in Heart of the Badlands.
But the day is not yet done, as the wind carries the sound of men and horse on march and the creak of wagons in their wake.
The first of the shouts start low and few in between, then louder and louder until most of Aestus Town’s people gather in the streets watching the procession.
Some shout in alarm, other in wonder and even some in ecstasy, but as the banners become visible and the troops and wagons roll into Aestus Town proper, the air becomes Jubilant.
For the Gods it seems has answered their prayers and a new Lord has come, a Lord marked by the Sigel of the God Ãnradh, and in his wake marches men in White cloaks with the Sigel’s of their Chosen Gods, covered wagons marked by the Gods Ãnradh, Caissa and Treoraà slowly rumbling along behind them.
Rand slowly rode at the front of the column taking in the people lining the streets, his eyes roving over them, here and there his eye catches a person or other and he slowly smiles, yes even here their influence is spreading.
Rand pulls his horse from the rest of the procession to the Town square and shouts out
“PEOPLE OF AESTUS, HEAR ME!!!â€
A hush flows over the crowd that has gathered. Rand slowly whirls his horse around and as silence descends he speaks.
“Let it be known from here to all corners of Aestus proper, I Lord Rand Gardarr, Blessed by the God Ãnradh, has been appointed as Lord and Representative of Aestus in the Duchy of Highmarch in the Realm of Highmarch. Let those who would walk in the light be blessed by our Gods, and those who walk in the Shadow be warned, your end has come.â€
Rand looks over the hushed audience and smiles “But for now I give you the Bounty of the Goddess Caissa, let the celebrations beginâ€
With a Roar the crowd erupts as the Covered wagons marked in the Sigils of the Goddess Caissa starts unloading food and drink, men and women set up a stage and music start to flow. And so the Night is marked in Jubilation as the new day brings hope to the people of Aestus.
