Macnav leaves his heavier gear behind and alights across the marshy ground with ease using his wings to make incredible leaps.
"I count six open barrows for six ghasts, my lady," he reports,
"It must have been they who turned these others."
He points the locations out so
Morwen can target her detection magic. The ritual is quicker than usual due to the recent release of necromancy and she expends fewer reagents than she is able to collect. The barrows that have opened are clustered with one being larger than the others and it is in that largest barrow that Morwen detects the presence of enchanted objects. It is from there as well that the currents of dark magic have spread out over the others.
The only ordained clergy of the Lawgiver in the party is
Hemia, and she is not present, having gone back to Borderton. So for now a proper funeral will have to wait. In the interim the only option is to allow the necromancer to draw out and tame the foul energy of this place while the Dwarven clerics perform cleansing rites on the bodies they find or to burn them. The second suggestion is not in keeping with local tradition, but it is expedient and no one doubts that
Darfilla can conduct a proper way about it.
To
Bofur this area looks like a vein rich in treasures. The wet ground and moving undead have no doubt spread any grave goods over a wide area and his prospector's eye knows just where to start panning.
