The heroes who will take part in the second Skallahn raid come to the Marches and to Wintermark. At Odd's End and Westerhal they gather, grim faced or jocular as suits their temperament. For some it is a chance to catch up with old friends, for others a chance to renew old rivalries. The earlier raid was turned back, but it paved the way for a more serious attempt to take war to the homes of the Jotun, to give them a "taste of their own bad cooking" as one Marcher puts it.
