Back to Fellstar and the next step

Dora (5th lvl Wizard)            Wyndham (5th lvl Sorcerer)         Ezhelyn  (5th lvl Avenger)
Leucis (5th lvl Warlord)
The group made their way back through the Goblin Hole and back onto the surface - it appeared most of the goblins had fled after the fall of their chief.  Concerned with traveling off the main road while carrying the Staff, they headed out to the King's Road and headed back towards Fellstar.  Early in the first day they ran into two travelers on the road - Rickon and Tumal who told them they had left Fellstar when the economy collapsed and headed out for a mining job opportunity along the Kings Wall.  Days earlier a horrible earthquake collapsed the mines but they were able to escape.  They asked to travel back alongside the group.
Still afflicted with Filth Fever, the group looked to rest on the three day journey.  After the first night, Leucis was able to shake off the illness but the avenger was unable to fully kick the disease after getting worse.  They traveled back to Fellstar with only one late night encounter against some wandering undead.  After spending the night safely in the walls of the city, they sought Uthor at the Temple of Pelor.

Briefly describing the clues they had uncovered including the letter that mentioned Vestapalk, Uthor agreed to keep the Staff along with the Skull they had recovered earlier.  After completing research, he told the group that the only lead on the remaining part of the Staff would hopefully be found in the writings of Rogvir Glimmersham, a Cleric of Moradin, in the Glintshield Clan.  The only problem was the Glintshield Clan had disappeared about 40 years earlier after a Civil War but had recently reappeared.  Uthor hoped that Rogvir survived the war or at least her writings had.  He suggested they head towards the town of Timbervale at the foot of the Ironwall Mountains.  The former thriving town is at the entrance of Stonefang Pass, the only way through the Ironwalls.  Leucis recalled hearing about the Glintshield Clan and something about a secret cult known as the Shadowed Chain and they all remembered the orcs they fought on the mountain carried shields with the Glintshield heraldry on them.