The Hellfire Hobgoblin Clan runs amok amongst the mountains north of the Thornwoods. Usually a chaotic clan beset with infighting, recently they have become very organized advancing into the woods through Nightshade Pass. It is believed that they are being directed by a new and powerful leader. A small party of hobgoblins has attacked your up and coming village. Your troops were able to fend them off but scouting reports a larger group camped just across the river to the north.

After confronting the Orc and hobgoblins raiders you realized they were much more organized and better equipped then first imagined. The have forged themselves into an army calling themselves the Red Hand of Doom. The army has overtaken many areas to the north across the river near the Witch Wood and the Cloven Mountains. They have over taken a keep to the north known as Vrath Keep. There reports have come in saying there are strange magics happening at the Keep.