Tristan rose, his composure regained now.  "There have been raids all alone the Western March," he answered as they walked, "And most of the roads in the region are unsafe without a strong guard.  However, the first reports of trouble started several months with a few travelers being waylaid along the roads near the town of Heute.  The Red Hand, a tribe of orks and some ogres, has dwelt near there for several generations.  I suspect they are the instigators of this."  His theory had met with scoffing from the more experienced knights, who claimed it was just the natural cycle.  The goblinoids bred up numbers and got restless every few years and had to be culled.<br/><br/>"If there is a shadowspawn guiding them, It would make sense to look for it at where this began would it not?"<br/>