“We traveled east of the city and outside the walls on the glacier there is a field of strange columns that glow with the light of Hel. Be careful!”
A rumor is spreading that a longship nearing Trade Town saw a group of skraelings further back down the coast.
It’s actually members of a tribe of wendigo-touched, cannibalistic humanoids that worship Ithaqua (DDG, Mythos) and may actually lair with ghouls.
A notice tacked up to the door of Norsemen's Rest: “Lars Troll-Killer is accepting donations to defray the expenses of transporting the timber to build a dock in the harbor. Donations should be presented in person inside.”
Lars Troll-Killer will build the dock regardless. He’s just trying to see who is a sniveling suck-up, and find out who has excess coin so that the Axes Of Odin can keep an eye on them.
A hulking, upright beast covered in pristine white bristles has been seen stalking the elk in hills northeast of Trade Town. It possesses four powerful arms with iron-like claws. Its head is blunt, with lightless, deep-set eyes. It moves with an unsettling, skittering grace.
It’s a white-furred, four-armed ape that escaped from The Onyx City and is hunting.
Overheard: “Don’t drink the water!”
Some of the water in The Onyx City is infected with a disease that drives the drinker mad. It’s the roid worms of The Black City.
Overheard at the marketplace: “The frost dragon lives in an ice cave on a free-floating iceberg. Give all icebergs of size a wide berth lest you end up its dinner!”
The dragon does not live on an iceberg, but there may be an iceberg with an ice cave in it…