After meeting Duke Reinheart and his court at the Blackrock Citadel and informing him of the strange developments in the land, our heroes depart back towards lower beneath to await the arrival of the Duke and his promised forces. On the way back the party came across a village which seemed to have been razed by the roving hordes of monsters. While assessing the carnage, the heros discover a pair of strange pale children, twin brother and sister. Seemingly traumatized from the attack, they do not speak nor protest direction. Thinking it better to take them along, the party leaves with the children in tow.
Eventually the Duke's forces meet the party in the outskirts of Lower Benneth, where the heroes first get a glimpse of the Duke's army. An odoriferous necromancer under the Duke's control seems to take an interest in the children, insisting to perform a ritual on them to better understand their nature. Under the light of the moon, the necromancer takes them to a nearby graveyard, where the experiment turns out to be a sacrifice. A battle ensues between the heroes and the necromancer, with the heroes slowly loosing ground to the dark wizard. At the very last moment, the children reveal their nature as strange aberrations from the underdark and kill the necromancer.
Upon reporting back to the Duke, he takes the children into his stewardship while the party goes to investigate a captive orc shaman that was taken by a ranging of vampire knights in the coutryside near lower beneath. The party now sees the true dizzying scale of the Duke's army. In the middle of the Duke's host, the party interrogates the orc, only to find out he is possessed by a demonic servant of Kal'uul. The party battles a group of demons in the deep pit, eventually overcoming them.
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