Welcome to... Thurley?

The party is catapulted away from Winterhaven and Shadowfell Keep, and major changes are in store for both Ordaxon Shadowblade and the character formerly known as Gragold Ironforged. A new adventure awaits, although memories of the Shadowfell abound. Dragons enter the picture, and once more, a mysterious feminine voice interjects itself.

Summary
As the heroes began to examine the leavings of the kobolds and golbins they defeated outside of Shadowfell Keep, a giant black wave of energy erupted outward from the keep itself. Nevarra and Lilac watched as Gragold crumpled, and the wave began to overtake Ordaxon as well. Just before Ordaxon fell to the ground, a feminine voice rang out: "You are not ready! Return... when you are." The party then lost consciousness.

When the party comes too, things are very very different. Ordaxon is a human monk with strange doubled memories, and Finnick Underbough has appeared: a halfling rogue with only the vaguest memory of a dwarf from months back. Nevarra and Lilac recall everything, though. The party is clearly nowhere close to Winterhaven, and they sort through their confusion as rain pours down and a red wizard is publicly hanged in a small town. As they determine that they are in Thurley--halfway across Agrarnon--they begin to interact with the townspeople. The slightly different group of heroes determines that the wizard was hanged for his part in the attack and ransack of Lord Floshin's estate just west of Thurley.

A rider comes barelling into town and adds to the swirl of events: a black dragon has attacked Cromm's Hold, the keep just northeast of town that stands between the deadly Lizard Swamp  and Thurley and the High Road. The heroes are enlisted by Sir Isteval, along with 30 knights of various repute, to head to Cromm's Hold and investigate. There, they meet Baroness Wynne, and learn that the black dragon--the fully-titled and loquacious "Thoss Fyurnen, the Sun Swallower, and Chosen of Talona"--agreed to leave the hold in peace in exchange for a relic from the hold's dungeon: a blue coral altar locked away for years. However, when the dragon left with the altar, lizard folk from the swamp quickly attacked the hold, killing six of the Baroness's men and suffering heavy casulaties themselves.

As the party helps tend to the wounded and burn the bodies of the dead and diseased, they feel certain that there are mysteries in the Lizard Swamp that require investigation. They go to sleep, preparing to further help Sir Isteval and Baroness Wynne in the morning.