The second installment in The Rune Thief adventure path. The new seer has arrived in Uppsala, and the party is tasked with tracking down ingredients for him. There is a bit of scenic and thematic exploration, and some fun and interesting combats encounters. There are a couple issues like the map being nonsensical (you travel from point 2 and skip by point 6 to get to 3, then go past 6 again to get to 4, then go past 6 and 7 to get to 5, then double back to hit 6? It makes no sense!) It's nice that there's a time crunch, but the time spent seems to assume you skip some of the encounters on the map which, afaik, are not skippable, so it's rather confused. The other minor gripe is that the intro text is too long and uninteruppted. I never like reading such a long narration to the party without giving them some bits to interact with.

Spoilers here. I liked the thematic bits for the party to interact with: the dead ravens, the forest mist, and the mysterious body. The Shivering Fisherman had nothing to do, and why he offers the tent to the party when they're on a time crunch is beyond me. The dangerous ice is a fun environmental addition to the combat. My players never investigated the ship though, given there's no obvious reason to do so, and so we skipped one of the combat encounters. The adventure should have had a reason for them to investigate it. One other issue I found was that if the players don't want to tread out on the ice to investigate the obviously dangerous skeleton, there's no way forward.

This adventure was the best Journey to Ragnarok one yet, better than the campaign book, The Grey Wanderer, or the first Rune Thief scenario. It's fun for a JTR campaign or could be easily adapted for any campaign that's in a cold climate.