Recent content by Heike Eisen

Warlord Krashogg watched from among the masses of infantry at the southern wall. Saw the magic being invoked against his siege towers, the Luminant Curtain and the Celestial Strike. Flashy displays. Effective...for now. Yet he would not let his orcish tide be denied. This magic would not save...

There was a kind of haunting quality to Ostrum's recollection of home. As if it were fragmented, disappearing from view or slipping, like sand, through his fingers. As if the further he was from it, the less, inevitably, he remembered. Or maybe it was more a statement of life in a small...

Out of the forest and back onto the road, Pneria and Lessat each lighting the way with their soft moonlit glow. Iron Lake lay at the end of their trek, and they would be sure to reach it before dawn. The night watchmen in town would be delighted to hear the good news, and might well be surprised...

A great orcish sea lay before the southern, western, and eastern walls of the Arragoth fort. The ground itself was scarcely visible beneath that fearsome tide. Eyes consumed with a lust for battle, or with a fear prompting a bravado portraying of the same, glared up hungrily at the dwarves and...

THE THIRD AND FINAL BATTLE "Lads," Captain Grunni said to those Marines about him on the southern ramparts, "know that, whatever happens, we've done our mission. And there's nothing the enemy can do which can take that from us." Both he and they were looking out through the wooden...

What treasures there were on Arethil endured for only so long a time. The sentiment was bright and clear in the way that Ander spoke of his homeland, and in the way that Heike remembered hers. They both carried with them precious mementos. And perhaps the two of them wished for their respective...

Warlord Krashogg received the messenger's missive: the necromancer Savan was on the approach. Good. Yes...very good. There were a good many orcs who feared necromancy, the undead, phantasmal spirits, all manner of such things. But Krashogg did not let superstition bind him. He was brutally...

Heike had asked for the full weight of truth, and she received it. Sir Ostrum laid out in detail the ways in which his Order operated. It was no trivial matter for anyone who wished to perform acts of altruism in the world that they discern correctly who ought be the beneficiaries. A general of...

Herr Heike Eisen. Once it had been that this was the whole story of her being, and there was a purity to it. A daughter of Reikhurst, answering the call to assume personal responsibility for the welfare of the Kingdom and thus becoming a Citizen and Warrior, striving for induction into the...

Sardrun held the tabard gifted to him by Kiros, and held it closely. The hold from which Sardrun hailed was not like Belgrath. It was more isolated, and far more insular. Only dwarves had lived there, and there were many among them who preferred it that way, and who thumbed their noses at the...

The dust from the aberration's frustrated strike found its way inevitably into Heike's helm. Tickled her nose and scratched her throat. And she strained mightily to keep from coughing, sneezing, gasping. Her eyes watered, and she held her breath, the burn of her lungs within her chest joining...

A hail of ruined stone pelted Heike's armor, like a volley loosed from a full line of enemy slingers. She felt the shock of their impacts vibrating through the metal of her kit, through the padding of her arming garments, through her undergarments, through her skin and muscle and down to her...

((It's cool. I had dived headfirst into strategy gaming in the interim.)) THE SHALLOWS From Western Alliria to Eastern. From the grand, perpetually busy harbor at the center of the world to the incredibly modest docks and rickety piers of The Shallows. The relatively neat and orderly cobbles...

THE IXCHEL NORTH FORT Hard marching. Seemingly endless hard marching. Heike could feel the weight of the famed dwarven endurance bearing down on her. Among dwarves not trained under military rigor their endurance was already impressive compared to a human's, but the Arragoth Marines, the...

The diligence with which he corrected himself was impressive, as many qualities of this knight were proving to be. He, and mayhap his Order as a whole, placed a heavy emphasis on the spoken word, on its careful wielding and its correctness, and it showed. Yes, Herr Heike Eisen, I have been set...