Dead villager

The dead villager is a corpse the party found after brushing snow off it.^† He looks like he has been dead for several days, at least more than five.^†

The body

He holds a crumpled envelope in his hand.^† The remains of his clothes are torn and raked with claw marks.^† The marks look like they came from a human, or what used to be a human turned into a beast, and not from a wolf; wolf prints are fresh and the claw marks are older.^†

Known facts

• The party sees a dead villager once the snow is brushed off the corpse. ⟦observed⟧^†
• The dead villager is holding a crumpled envelope in his hand. ⟦observed⟧^†
• The dead villager is holding a crumpled envelope in his hand, and the remains of his clothes are torn and raked with claw marks. ⟦narrated⟧^†
• The remains of the dead villager’s clothes are torn and raked with claw marks. ⟦observed⟧^†
• The claw marks look like they came from a human or what used to be a human turned into a beast, and not from a wolf; wolf prints are fresh and the claw marks are older. ⟦observed⟧^†
• The dead man looks like he has been dead for several days, at least more than five. ⟦observed⟧^†