As the milita's of the league call their bannermen to arms, all notice the absence of one particular flag among those assembled. The city of Fallcrest, lead by Lord and Lady Mackelroy of the Moonstone Keep have not sent any of their nearly 350 strong milita to join their strength to the others. Lord Ironfist of Hammerfast who was on the King's Road fighting bandits from Raven's Roost was sent to investigate. When he arrived at the King's gate he found no welcome among those manning the walls and was dismayed to find the banner of the Iron Circle flying above the city's colors.
Lord Mackelroy's own captain of the sixty man city guard rode out to meet Lord Ironfist, proclaiming that the city of Fallcrest had joined the Iron Circle, adding vaguely that the Iron Citadel had made them an offer they could not refuse. Lord Ironfist and his small band hurried back East to bring the grave news to the King of Mithraelfast. The loss of Fallcrest effectively cedes all of the surrounding lands and trade routes of the Nentir Vale to the empire in the South. The league is shocked by the betrayal of the Lord of Fallcrest, whose line was known to be loyal worshippers of Sehanine the Moon goddess, not the infernal gods of the southern lands.
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