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MEETING WITH THE OMMITES And so the Gildan army marched at once from the city. Even with the closeness of Gild proper to the edges of the Spine, still after a full day's march of many miles the army required a night at camp. The foothills of the Spine lay ahead, and then the Spine itself was...

The sort that helps only when there's something to gain. Ruka hefted her axe from her shoulder and thumped it into the ground, hands on the bottom of the haft, for added emphasis to what Emmeline had said. It was true! The Ommites only committed to the fight against the Druga once Gild had...

Ruka's face scrunched with vexation, her lips in particular puckering in a grand show, but she was more than happy to vent to the two Yaegirs about the Ommites. And she said, "Our neighbors to the southwest, those Ommites. They are calling themselves "Iron Aristocracy". The nobles rule...

Damir brightened when Monroe mentioned the number of wyvern skulls her blade had thus far collected, smiling then as if the Yaegirs had already delivered to him the severed head of Gormeddon. And now they were well met, Monroe and Emmeline and Damir, and the Gildan Commander greeted them in the...

"Whatever it is," came a voice approaching the small gathering, in answer to Emmeline, "it will be your task to bring it down." And this voice belonged to a man, none other than Damir Gildal, the Commander of the assembling Gildan army. Fully adorned was he in finely wrought armor of...

"Then I am Yay-grr, and we are Yay-grring together!" Ruka declared right on cue after Monroe gave her permission to be anything she wanted. Oh! Night Hunter, is what it means. That's what Monroe said. Was it dwarven tongue? Dwarven tongue was funny. No matter! They could hunt, and they could...

"Ah! We are good! You specialize in hunting monsters, and I specialize in hewing skulls! Monsters have for us big skulls!" Ruka hefted her axe from her shoulder and held it with one hand and ran her hand down the blade with the other. "Big blade for big skulls! Big, mean, monster skulls! Big Man...

"I am Ruka!" Ruka considered carefully all else Monroe had to say, and thus came her conclusion: "Who is Atlia, and what is she keeping? I am wanting meet her too. Fighters! I love fighters! They are honoring Big Man Threshkuul!" Monroe

Among the gathering for Damir's special unit there were as yet two Praetors, four foreign mercenaries of various stripes, and Monroe Cathmore. It was early in the levy process, and undoubtedly more would come in time. And there stood in this gathering Benzir Atamal, one of the Praetors, and...

An imposing fortress lit by a crack of lightning. There in the heights of the Spine its walls rose, the labor of a great many Spine orcs and their Blight orc benefactors, and so did they name their black creation: the Druga. From the Druga poured forth raids into all the surrounding lands. West...