Hammonite Scourge

Rumours of dreadful rituals to terrible HAMMAAN have reached the ears of the Company of Sons, a respected mercenary group operating all throughout the Hospitable Sea. You have been hired to sneak into one of these rituals on MOUNT MOLOCH and report back what goes on there.

From the high deck of the Company ship, the city is slowly dragged into view. Even so early in the mid- morning, the sun burns away the shimmering mist: QARTAD climbs MOUNT MOLOCH.

In the Lower Ghettoes are smaller —temporary, perhaps— residences beside open training fields. Further up the hillside, you can spot tall houses with mosaics and votive paintings on the walls. And at her apex stands a beautiful silver complex with red and green mansions. All over QARTAD you can see the results of the sorceries you have been briefed on; grand, lush foliage covers lines of strangely coloured trees that grow straight out of the orange-red dust.

At first light, the Company ship drifts into a glistening open-air drydock. All about flies the flag depicting the green and bronze of QARTAD's ruling elite, the Sabaeans...