The Cleston War

The hedgemage Anjak, a quiet country mage who had stitched a small practice together in a Cleston hill-tower, was the unlikely centre of the Book 14 crisis. A Nemovort-led raid swept down out of the broken country east of the county, sacked the local lord's hall, and besieged the tower for the witchstone they (correctly) believed Anjak carried.

The defence was held by Anjak with a half-trained village watch and the wandering knight Sir Sandoval, who had ridden in the night before on other business. The siege broke when a flying column from the Magelaw, led by Wenek's Penumbra goblins under contract and a wing of Sky Riders out of Vanador, struck the besiegers from behind at dawn on the fifth day.

Cleston the village was a smoking shell by the end, and the local lord was killed early in the raid, but Anjak's tower stood, the witchstone was never recovered by the enemy, and the Nemovort was driven into the wood where the Sky Riders ran it down.