Our campaign actually began about a year and a half after the town was founded, two years
from when the portal was discovered. A whole wave of adventurers had come before and the town is quite established, with a stone quarry built in the base of the mountains to the west and a small lumber operation to the south.
Farms have been established over the surrounding hills, though they are still cultivating the land, and a port at the sea to the east had failed after it was overrun by monsters. Requests for aid and jobs for adventurers are pinned to a notice board known as the Rumour Mill in the Three Headed Ettin. Travel to and from Faerûn is accomplished via the portal, which stands in the centre of town, now surrounded by a large teleportation circle crafted by Aurelia, who maintains and controls the portal and thus access between Faerûn and
Kantas.
Early games focused on exploring the lands around Daring Heights. The Unicorn guardian of the Feythorn Forest to the south was met and negotiated with for modest lumber rights. Firbolg were also met in the forest, a small tribe of peaceful folk, along with the Erina, hedgehog folk who also lived near to Daring.
The port to the east was reclaimed from the Grung by a pair of adventurers in the name of a merchant named Kensington. Caves were explored, the quarry was exorcised of ghosts. And
a vast city far to the north-west called Kundar—a city of Kobolds and Dragonborn, where the Kobolds ruled and the Dragonborn were oppressed, though the city was otherwise
open and welcoming of newcomers. One other adventure of note involved the incubus, Pascal, who tricked adventurers and priests of Waukeen alike into a set of rituals that involved human sacrifice. He escaped.
Also discovered however was signs of a strange, mutated set of creatures—twisted beings tied to the Shadowfell. They seemed to be local creatures—orcs, kobolds, who had been
corrupted somehow, sprouting spikes, tentacles and so forth, as well as becoming uniquely hostile. These creatures, the Twilight, as they came to be known, were based in the northern Angelbark Woods in a large seemingly semi-organic fortress by a deep river gorge.
As Twilight numbers increased, a group set out with local ranger Keladry to destroy the
bridge to and from the base, to stifle their growth. The operation was successful, but Keladry was captured in battle. When they next saw her she had been corrupted, was
now a Twilight and served as a general for their forces.
The situation grew increasingly dire, with the Twilight growing stronger under Keladry’s marshalship, and the adventurers learned that a Shadowfell noble was behind the incursion—a man half-Shadar Kai, half-human and so was seeking to prove the power of mixing Material and Shadowfell creatures with this army. The adventurers also met orcs to the north who were scouting the threat themselves, though they could not convince the rest of the orcish horde to deal with the problem.
Finally, Daring Heights resolved to deal with the threat headon. Adventurers negotiated with the Erina, the orcs they had met, both Grungs and Bullywugs in the bog to the east, and along with a militia from Daring Heights itself an army was coordinated and headed north to assault the Twilight Fortress. A group of adventurers took a different route with the rocs, going via the Underdark through a passage they had learned of via another Faerûnian merchant named Ambar, a slaver who had been cooperating with the Twilight to bring more people to be converted into soldiers.
A fierce battle raged on the surface, the combined forces against a horde of Twilight orcs, humans, even giants led by the viciously powerful Keladry. Meanwhile, the underground strike team came up into the base from beneath and made their way up, disrupting the corruption ritual and ultimately slaying Duke Reaven Lust, the man at the centre of it all. Keladry too was slain on the battlefield and the Twilight were all dispersed as the focal point collapsed. There were many casualties, but the Twilight threat was defeated, and Daring Heights survived its first great threat.
Campaign began with Daring Heights about eighteen months old.
Season 1 established the surrounding area—quarry in mountains to the west, port in swamp to the east, forest to the north and south.
The Twilight were an army of local beings mutated with Shadowfell rituals into a semi-mindless army that conquered the Northern Forest.
The NPC Ranger Keladry was corrupted and became a Twilight general.
Adventurers gathered Erina, Bullywug, Grung, Orc and Daring Heights allies into an army and defeated them.