Lore segment begins at (14:07)Redridge Mountains, where the entire zone feels like it’s being held together by guard towers, grit, and denial. The threat is immediate, the roads are not safe, and even the gnolls are acting like they have a plan. At Tower Watch, Watch Captain Parker swears the gnolls are building toward something coordinated and tells you, very calmly, to start collecting proof. Then he adds the most Redridge sentence imaginable: suggest explosives. Lots of explosives.In Lakeshire, Magistrate Solomon receives the report and has the only sane reaction when he hears the name Yowler again. But the real problem is bigger than gnolls. Supplies are raided, people are vanishing, the canyons are crawling, and every new clue points toward Blackrock moving behind the smoke. And once you are pulling missives, invasion plans, and impossible details out of the dirt, the scale snaps into focus. Gath’Ilzogg is preparing a march that could cut through Redridge and put Stormwind on the menu. That is when Colonel Troteman walks in and drops a name like a thunderclap: John J. Keeshan. A war hero in exile, dragged back into the fight, and the kind of problem Blackrock still fears. From there, Redridge becomes something else. Bravo Company starts to reform, SI:7 threads tighten, and a covert operation begins to take shape on the road to Stonewatch Keep. Then an SI:7 report lands with a final gut punch that changes the tone of everything: they’ve got black dragons.This is Tides of Lore Episode 57 "The Road to Stonewatch"