The sun was already low in the sky on the woods that were home to many of Eilistraee's faithful. Here they were provided solace and a place they could gather to cherish the goddess and do what little organizing and planning that they did do. It was a safe home for the drow that had fled the underdark to embrace the sunlit realms, as well as those rare ones who had been born on the surface. Asiria Dawnfire was one such drow, having never known firsthand the cruelties her people had built their lives around. Oh, she had heard the stories, and knew what they were capable of...but she had been lucky enough never to have been exposed to such darkness.<br/><br/>It was not all light and goodness on the surface though. Rumors had been passed around by Asiria's sisters, things heard secondhand...and witnessed personally by some. Talks of raids on the smaller hamlets and outlying farms, of the increasing boldness of orcs and gnolls towards the human and demihuman settlements. And underlying that all, there have been talks by the more experienced sisters that those of the Underdark have been behind these increasingly organized attacks.<br/><br/>It is for this reason that you have been asked to check out the outlying farms near the border to the woods. Of course you weren't ordered to do so, but one of the more senior sisters had requested it of you, knowing that this was the sort of thing that needed to be nipped in the bud, if possible.