Introductions
What you know already: Duane's character grew up here, so he has collected this information: There has not been a sunrise in Icewind Dale for 2 years. Every night, just before midnight, Auril (the goddess of winter) rides across the northern sky on her roc. The people say she is casting a spell to keep the eternal night lasting. The spell creates an aurora in the sky that lasts until "dawn" then it fades away but the sun never shows. This has led to the sea of moving ice to freeze over and close the mountain passes to the south to all but the most adventurous of travelers. The climate is getting colder and colder. The towns make monthly sacrifices to the goddess attempting to appease her. These come in the form of food left out, not heating your home for an entire day or, in the most extreme, holding a lottery to select who must wander out into the cold without the proper gear as a sacrifice. The goal of the campaign is to figure out why this is happe...