Iron Kingdoms Game Background

The Year is 608 AR, the Spring after the Cygnaran-Menite Armistice, the successful Khadoran annexation of the Thornwood, and the successful Menite Northern Crusade for eastern Llael. An uneasy peace has settled over the Iron Kingdoms, but only on the surface and in the newspapers. Some wars are never won, and never end. The Underworld is always rife with conflict, no matter how those living in the gutters wish and strive otherwise.

The party has all recently arrived in the city of Riversmet, rebuilding after it was sacked during the Khadoran invasion. Strangely, no matter which inn or tavern these adventurers try to find lodging in, they are turned away as "full". Soon, they have all arrived at one inn, the Golden Grouse. Soon, they find that their mutual lodging decision was no fluke of the market...