The story so far...

Ok in a nutshell lets catch you all up.

I was sent to the region of Shadowfell to investigate odd goings on, in my company was a Dragonborn paladin. We arrived in a quaint local town and hired some local mercenaries to accompany us to the keep on the Shadowfell.
On the way we encountered many monsters and yours truly was reduced to being the team medic. But we prevailed and defeated the followers of Orcus that had taken up residence in the Keep and managed to retrieve an egg held by Kobolds.

This egg hatched and was marked with silver, a sure sign that my God was watching over us and blessed our work. This has changed the entire area and now the Keep has become a new church dedicated to the worship of Bahamut.

One interesting thing to note, that has now become a running joke and changed the party from strangers to friends, is during our travels though the dungeon under the Keep our Halfling thief, Enora, accidently set off a trap that poisoned her in a way that slowly turned her to stone. It was easily fixed by the local wizard Valthrun, but it kept us amused trying to think of new uses for a petrified Halfling. Much to her disgust.

So mission accomplished I was free to return home. My God had other ideas, in a dream I was told to stay with this company and we would accomplish great things. Reluctantly I accepted the charge.
We have headed out to the city of Sharn at the request of Valthrun to help an old friend of his who is under attack by a swarm of Krithicks.

Horrible things, we saw some in the dungeon under the Keep, but the idea of a whole swarm was terrifying!

We took airship to Sharn. on the way we were attacked by some assassins, we never did find out who sent them, but they were easily dispatched.
Upon arrival at Sharn we found the tavern which Valthruns friend ran. (I began to worry that Valthrun was a bit of a drunk in his youth)

His friend turned out to be an obnoxious dwarf who would only really talk to our dwarf. We worked out that he had been expaning his business into the mining trade and had recently commissioned a dig not far from the tavern. ( I would like to point out that this would put it in the middle of the city?!?!)

Anyway his business partner was a Goblin, of all species, he explained the situation and asked that we go down the tunnel and try to clear the area of Krithicks so his men could resume digging.

So thats what we did, we ended up in an ancient tomb dedicated to a Goblin King. I believe the translation was Ashurta?
Anyway we fought his ghost and minions on the way of clearing out the Krithicks that had taken up residence.
This had led us into the real reason that the Goblin was digging, he was looking for the Goblin Kings blade. It was said to possess powers to unite the Goblin tribes and retake the city.... admirable but I thought this was probably a bad idea.

We actually found the blade! It also seems to have bonded to me and keeps whispering in my ear to do great deeds.

Leaving the tomb we decided to find out more about this blade, a local university teacher gave us the information that it was in fact part of a set, the Ashen Crown. When united it would have untold power. This was given to us by an Elven woman dressed as the servant of the Raven Queen who was visiting the teacher at the same time. Something didn't sit right about her..
Before we could even think we were summoned to the governors office and charged with the task of helping a Goblin tribe known as the Wordbearers to find the rest of the Ashen Crown, we were to meet them at the place of the six kings.

I question the wisdom of helping a Goblin tribe find an item that they intend to use to retake the land but the governor seemed to know the risks. I needed more information about this blade so I insisted we revisit the teacher. When we got there however there was a stench of death.
The Elven woman walked into the room and before we knew it we were fighting zombies and she herself had changed into a demon of sorts.

It nearly killed us but we defeated them and quickly left the city, heading towards the six kings...