The following morning dawns even colder than the day before and to the east a powerful storm can be seen coming over the mountains and moving slowly south.
Shortly after breakfast the scouts return. They are cold and exhausted. Some need a cleric before they can eat and report.
The scouts who went west report that the tracks to the west are old, probably the result of the legions coming and going. The track of the war altar may be a false trail, as it only goes few hundred yards or they just might have been keeping it out of the way for the infantry.
The scouts who went south and east report together. The whole body left to the east along the mountains but after only a few miles, at the first major stream, a sizeable force turned south and then looped back southwest. That force was joined by a smaller, faster moving host of infantry about five miles west of a line due south from our position.
The main body, with the altar following behind, was still headed east by southeast. There was no sign of camp or rest. If they continued on their track they would have passed far south of Degala, into the wasteland northeast of Mount Oneash.
