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Nephilim in General
Shaper
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No.

'Nephilim' is a Hebrew word meaning giants or tyrants (or angels, according to some). It is not a word invented by Spiderweb Software. This is all.

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New Record! in General
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Well, if you add his Polaris post count to his Spidweb one, Alorael has -11174.8 posts/day, or -0.12 posts/second.

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EDIT: oops, I missed the second page. It's still true, though...

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An RP in the World of Avernum in General
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When Warderson's army first arrived in Aizo, they were met in the recently renamed city Regina by the man Warderson had last known as Colonel Coris, but who was now styling himself Emperor of Aizo. To the immense surprise and disappointment of all involved, Warderson immediately declared fealty to his former deputy.

Their surprise was no less when, somewhat under a month later, Warderson disappeared. At the time, it was assumed that he was assinated. At least, assumed by all but a few...

What happened just under 5 months further on surprised only a few hundred men and women out of the whole continent of Aizo. Coris was one of those men.

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The first Coris knew of it was when a guard rushed into his throne room to inform him of a vast army marching on his city. Rushing to the walls, he saw the majority of the continent's armed forces heading for Regina, led by a banner he recognised as Warderson's. Quickly rallying the city's garrison, he determined to make a stand rather than fleeing. Great was his surprise when the garrison opened the gates and cheered Warderson's triumphal entry. Fleeing to his palace, he commanded the one mage of his court to destroy Warderson. Instead, the mage summoned a barrier, trapping Coris in the centre of his throne room to await Warderson's arrival.

Jehan Sol never even recieved word of the Corisian revolt. He was surprised, though, at how long it had taken Warderson to establish proper intercontinental communications...

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As nearly 25,000 men left Karadas' army at a run, he was debriefing the leader of a small scouting party. One that had some disturbing news...the White Peak army, with Gideon Ironclad at the fore, had arrived at the opening of Southport Peninsula. With the recent deserters, Karadas' army was no bigger than Ironclad's, and a good deal less trained. As Karadas began to throw things and shout orders, another party of scouts returned. Warderson had finally left Southport, and was advancing on Karadas' position with an army of 60,000. Transport ships of the Imperial Navy had been seen leaving Southport, no doubt attempting a flanking manouver. Karadas was surrounded, outnumbered, and commanding a vastly inferior army. And there was nowhere to run. Little surprise that, as Warderson's army began to come into sight, more of Karadas' snowball recruits began to melt away. By the time the four approaching armies had drawn up, Warderson's force to the east, Tarem to the north, Pilek to the south, and Ironclad to the west of Karadas, the Alliance army was down to half of its initial size. Things did not look too good.

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As Karadras' army approached the borders of the lands Warderson had liberated from the eastern Populists, Warderson made a decision. Gideon Ironclad was allowed aboard one of the Imperial Navy's fastest frigates and sent to the command centre of the White Peak army with two other frigates as guardians-the mages on board those frigates made them more than a match for any ships they might encounter, unless SAFT had allied with Hugo...

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Jehan Sol recieved a message from his plant in the Aizoan Imperial Army (OOC: please note name, kthxbye), now turned emissary. It was short and to the point:

Sol:

Ilyai Hugo has, in my estimation, proven himself unworthy of the position of Emperor and nothing more than a petty warmonger. Gideon Ironclad and myself march on his eastern army, and will not stop until we have crushed him entirely. If you join us in our advance, we promise you a truce and an end to fighting, a chance to heal our war-torn Pralgad. If you sit back, trying to play both ends against the middle and gain the best advantage, you will only manage to needlessly prolong this war and, when we come for you, there will be no clemency. The choice is yours.

Warderson.

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Linda was trying to find a way around the Alliance lines when she felt a slight mental tug. Pausing for a moment, she tried to ascertain its source. Ah, yes...

She pulled out the artifact the Imperial mage had left her with. In the previously empty glass, a face was now visible. Before she could speak, it did:

'You are the Populist leader Linda?'

'I am.'

'I am General Corim Warderson of the Aizoan Imperial Army. As you probably know, we are faced with an attack from that upstart Hugo. We intend to crush him utterly. However, we need your help. Is there any way in which you can weaken his army, or rally any local populists to your cause?'

'There might be, but I hardly see...'

'I realise that you don't want to support an Imperialist, but I'm afraid you've little choice. As you've no doubt realised, those who want to rid Pralgad of Emperors are too thin on the ground. Your best option as I see it is to try and influence the succession, choose an Emperor who'll be open to your ideas. At the moment, none of the candidates will. However, Gideon Ironclad is a pliable character if anyone is, and he's marching on Karadas with us. Aid us now, and who knows where populism will find itself once the war is over?'

'Thank you, general. And now I think of it, there are one or two ways in which Karadas' army is...might one say, unprepared?'

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Among the men drafted into Karadas' army was a small group of eastern populists under the command of a man named Londar. When the recruiters had found them, Londar had ordered his men to go quietly, looking for opportunities. And he had found one. Almost half of Karadas' recruits had belonged to the various cells of the eastern populists. Scattered and then pressed by the recruiters, they had had no chance of resistance. Now, however, they were grouped together, and the discontent was rising. Arriving near Southport, Londar had made a report to Major Tarem, and been unsurprised at his new instructions:

Incite an uprising. And any of Karadas' origional army that doesn't have to be left alive in the process...well, there's no need for waste, is there?

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For some great fun... in General
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Um, you haven't visited ST recently, have you? It's been taken over by strange french people...

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Gideon Ironclad slowly began to realise why the other faction leaders hadn't come in person to see Warderson. He had been here a week now, and only seen the general once more. He wasn't actually being treated like a prisoner, but he suspected that was mainly because he hadn't actually tried to leave yet.

The trouble was, the AIA was enormous. Even the garrison in Southport was almost a match for the Ironclad army. Mind you, most of it was still sleeping on the transport ships, ready to be sent out against the Populists when the general commanded. But there was not a hope of Gideon doing a thing that Warderson didn't want him to. And it appeared that at the moment, Warderson didn't want him to do anything.

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General Warderson, at that moment, was in conference.

'We've recieved yet more letters. Letters from Sol, letters from Hugo, even one from the Western Populists that got past Sol and Hugo by a minor miracle. But none of them wants peace. Hugo and Sol have both officially branded the other as Populists, which means we practically have to declare war on one or the other at some point. Ironclad is fairly quiescent, but he sees the others as rebels, not as serious Imperial candidates. What he'll do when we tell him we're making a choice, I don't know. SAFT, thank goodness, are staying well out of the way-they have been helping Sol and Ironclad to a degree, but trying to give no-one their loyalty. Not an attitude I admire, but easier on us, at least for the moment-the Imperial Navy is entirely in our hands, and as long as SAFT remain undeclared it's probably our biggest asset. What the Populists want, I don't know, although I've sent an emissary to find out.'

At this point Major Pilek interrupts, laughing.

'An emissary, is it? Only in the third largest ship of the Navy, with three mages and half a company as his personal bodyguard. If you'd consulted us before sending him, I'd have warned you off. To Hugo or Sol that might seem a reasonable bodyguard in these troubled times. To those peasants it will seem like an invasion.'

'I disagree.'

'You always disagree, Tarem. Why am I wrong, then?'

'The Populists over in the west are a completely different group from the ones we've been dealing with. Ours are disorganised, desperate by now, and deserting their cause in droves. Plus, they were never more than opportunists to begin with, raiding defenceless villages to pick up a bit of booty when they could. In the west, they started out the same, but now they are a significant force, even an army. In addition, while we've been doing our best to win the people over by restoring what peace we can, Sol rules by fear, and the western Populists' ranks swell as fast as the easteners decrease. They would have nothing to fear from those on the Pride of Imperius if they truly were an invasion force. They know it, and they know we know it.'

'Thank you, Tarem. However, the important question remains. How do we solve this in the most peacable fashion possible? There's already been enough death and destruction.'

There is silence for a while. Then Tarem speaks again.

'General, I think the problem we're facing can be summed up very quickly and easily: none of the Imperial candidates is capable.'

'Actually, I would say they all were. Sol's a brilliant general, and Hugo's not far behind him. Ironclad may not be up to much, but he's...well, he's inspiring. I don't know why, but I wouldn't want to betray him. And nor do the people, for that matter. Look how White Peak stayed loyal, when declaring for one of the other factions would have ended the war there and then.'

'I don't dispute any of that. The fact is, none of them could end the war without massive destruction. Sol only knows how to rule by fear, and his only way of transferring loyalty to himself is to kill until he's done it. Hugo's a guerrilla by background-lives don't matter to him. And Gideon Ironclad, whatever there is to recommend him, is just not an asministrator.'

'Well? Now you've laid out the problem, what's your suggestion?'

'General, why shouldn't you be the next Emperor?'

OOC:

Brown is under strong AIA control, orange is average.

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Free Will in General
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Profile #55
Hold on a second.

Consider the possibility that everything is fixed but unpredictable. This is actually a perfectly valid possibility-since we exist on the same level of abstraction as the universe, we cannot predict the future within the universe, but if there is a higher level of abstraction it may well be possible to predict things that happen at ours.

Now, if that is true, we do not have free will. But we still choose to do what we do. We still have our reasons. The fact that on a higher abstraction level those reasons are possible to predict, doesn't stop them being reasons at ours. And if we have reasons for what we do, we have free will.

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New Record! in General
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Plah: Alo's only been here 2 years and a month. That's 9.2 posts a day, 3360 a year.

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A Riddle... in General
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Actually, if you ask 'which way would the other wyrm say I should go to get out of hell' you will be guaranteed a lie. You need to ask something like 'which way would the other wyrm not say if I asked it the way out of hell?'

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My opinion about SW games... in General
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As I've pointed out to several Spidweb-sceptics, the difference between playing a BoE scenario and a game like, say, Dungeon Siege is the same as the difference between reading a book and watching a film. There's more plot, more details, more background-but you have to use your imagination more, and if the people making the film are doing their job, it's likely your imagination won't quite be up there with the special effects. But what does happen is that you engage with the story being told to a far greater degree. Both reading and film-watching have their merits, and it's the same with BoE-scenario-type games and Dungeon-Siege-type games.

That said, if Geneforge had come earlier I doubt anyone would have missed Avernum.

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An RP in the World of Avernum in General
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OOC: Alec, I hope it's ocurred to you that most magic would far outrange your greek fire, and even most bow-fire. Given that SAFT are almost universally better sailors than you, destroying them may not be quite the walkover Hugo seems to think.

IC:

Confused by the lack of response, Warderson has again sent messages to the various faction leaders. Meanwhile, he is not sitting idle in the face of the populist resistance-every village within 50 miles of the AIA's base now has a aignificant garrison, as well as a well-stocked stables to provide a strong communications network.

Meanwhile, Major Tarem, on his own initiative, has begun a campaign to win the hearts of the local merchants by offering the services of the Imperial troops as caravan guards for free. Although the move is not one that can be passed off as invented for sheer goodness of heart, the majority of the merchants accept the story that the AIA wants to keep trade going to ensure that the populist rebellion has the smallest long-term effect possible. A minority of hard-bitten cynics claim that Tarem is merely trying to ensure that the crops that villages are gathering in are bought by the merchants and taken to storehouses in the more heavily guarded cities, where the rebels cannot get at them. As it happens, they're right. It promises to be a long winter for the eastern populists, especially as the AIA's arm is expanding all the time.

OOC: Senjii is currently a caravan guard. Londar has been sent on a special mission to try and infiltrate the populists. That alone shouldn't be hard, seeing as their numbers are still growing steadily if slowly-what will be hard is making his voice heard, getting himself into a position where he can give information of use to the AIA.

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So, who does the next RP belong to? in General
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Profile #22
Whew, give the guy a chance! He's probably younger than you, and it's not his fault he views the world in a slighty different way. (If he's actually older than you two, there's probably no hope for him). What drags the Spidweb community down is that people have no patience with others who obviously have a need to learn, not a need to be attacked from every side. Look at Zephyr-OK, you probably still wouldn't join an RP he started, but thanks to help from various people he at least no longer destroys them simply by posting. STD isn't as bad as Zephyr started off, so given a bit of help rather than hindrance he could make a good member and RPer.

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Note to Everyone in General
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Before someone tells David he's an idiot, I'll point out that almost half the people who read this took it seriously. Human stupidity is hard to over-estimate.

That said, I doubt David's right.

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Free Will in General
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Morgan: of course there's a way of telling where the die will land. The computer has a program which runs in a certain way (I think the usual way is to have a function based on the time of day in milliseconds, but slightly more complicated), and provided we know exactly the variables that go into the program, we know what will come out. The most random thing we know is radioactivity-although the total activity of a radioactive source decreases over time, we can't tell when the next emission will be.

Of course, that doesn't mean we will never be able to.

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Here We Go Again (Political Compass) in General
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-5.38, -0.51

I still don't understand what abstract art has to do with politics.

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EDIT: Ooh, now I'm the most authoritarian. You must obey the state, scum!

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I'm having a party! in General
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I will bring salt, vinegar, and pepper.

For the ham, obviously.

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An RP in the World of Avernum in General
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Zephyr: yes, that's what I said. Although try not to spend too long describing a single fight-concentrate on trying to advance the plot.

IC:

The Imperial Army has discovered a surprising amount of unfriendliness and even outright resistance. Although the mayor of Heston (the port) assured the General it was nothing, Major Tarem's sources suggest that he himself will bear watching. Meanwhile, the full scale of the Populist uprising has begun to come to light. Fearing potential discord, half the navy has been ordered to discharge the troops in their transport ships-a force no ragtag populists will want to tangle with.

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An RP in the World of Avernum in General
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The fleet that eventually returned to Pralgad was significantly larger than the one that had first set out from Aizo.

First, there had been an Imperial ship containing the Emperor's council. This had been encountered two weeks after leaving Aizo, and the council had had a long discussion with the General, informing him of the utter destruction of the Ironcladist army and his duty to retake Pralgad for the Ironclad council. When asked why they had left Gideon Ironclad on Pralgad, they replied that he had fallen in battle. When informed that he was alive and well, and that the south-east of Pralgad was still loyal to him (this is a little the Populist rebellion), the council had little to say. The General promised that council that he was still loyal to the Ironclad line at present, although he was aware there were historical precedents for other Imperial candidates than relatives of the previous emperor. The council were most disappointed.

Next was the convoy of Kylenian diplomats. Unfortunately, they were not aware of the assination of Dorian Kylen, and had little success persuading Warderson of his worth as an Imperial candidate.

After that, an Alliance ship encountered Warderson's fleet. The information they had for him contrasted sharply with that he had been receiving from the Solaran agent-indeed, in almost every detail. In disgust, Warderson refused to answer them in any particular, or grant further audiences to the Solaran.

The last ship to encounter the fleet hailed from White Peak island. By this time the army was so close to Pralgad that the Ironcladist envoys had lost sight of land less than half-way into their voyage. Warderson was amazed to hear news which no-one had told him, news indeed no-one from the other envoys would credit-specifically that Gideon Ironclad seemed to have found his feet at last, and was marching south to meet up with the returning Imperial Army, thence to reconquer Pralgad.

At the suggestion of Major Tarem, Warderson had ordered each of the arriving ships repainted in Imperial Navy blue and gold, whether or not they wanted it. The result was that only the General and his staff knew for sure how many ships had joined the convoy. Ironclad's people weren't aware that any had, and their suspicions were allayed by the lack of apparently non-Imperial ships. Meanwhile, two Imperial frigates had gone ahead, with despatches to be delivered to all of the leaders of the factions. General Corim Warderson had returned from Aizo, and with him sanity. All of the faction leaders were asked to come to the port where the Aizoan Imperial Army had chosen to land, for immediate peace talks. The General intended to crush the Populist rebellion and see the Emperor properly chosen, with no further infighting.

What the General did not know was that the area he had chosen to land, while ostensibly under Ironclad control, was very much in the hands of the Populist guerrilas. He would soon be forced to prove himself in a manner he had not at all anticipated. Major Tarem, on the other hand, had anticipated plenty.

OOC:
IMAGE(http://upload.stormwind.info/store/praldetail.gif)

The brown is sea patrolled by Imperial Navy, the orange dot is the city where they've landed, the orange line is the border of where they're trying to establish a presence. Most of the army is still on the boats. Morgan and Zephyr, you're both in the landing parties unless you particularly want not to be. Feel free to encounter angry populists as the fancy takes you.

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Not by definition. It's true that longbows had a greater range than any crossbow that could be loaded by a single person (although arbalests had more range still, they required two men and a ratchet.) However, not every bow is a longbow. Most bows actually have shorter range.

IC:

As Corim stood at the head of the canyon, he marvelled at the resourcefulness of Aizoim. The top of the canyon was barely a meter wide, and the ends were both concealed in caves. It made the perfect hiding place. Unfortunately, it also made the perfect trap.

Of course, Aizoim had realised that. So he'd had tunnels. Four or five tunnels, leading out of the canyon to brilliantly disguised exits. He'd also told the Solaran agent exactly where they were, in case the Imperial army ever blockaded the canyon and he needed to get in.

Now it was only a matter of time. Each of the canyon's exits was surrounded by Imperial pikemen and archers. The natives inside prepared a last defense. Unfortunately, the canyon was not the best place for a last defence. At the top, uprooted bushes were covered in oil, set alight, and dropped in. Screams from the canyon below were shortly followed by a stampede towards the southern exit. The general turned his horse, and signalled. With the entire cavalry detachment of the Imperial army following him, he raced the Aizoan lizard riders to the end of the canyon. And got there exactly when he'd planned-slightly late.

Earlier that day, engineers had constructed pathways down the side of the canyon walls. In their haste, the Aizoans either did not notice them or did not care. The lizards' charge broke on the upheld pikes of the imperial soldiers, arrows flying overhead all the while. As the melee fighting began, the imperial cavalry arrived-behind the lizards. Trapped between two forces, with no escape in any direction, the cavalry fought bravely, but were wiped out to a man. The victorious general turned his almost unscathed army and headed down the canyon, meeting as they went small bands of fleeing archers. These dropped their weapons at the sight of the horses, and were duly rounded up. As they approached the centre of the canyon, they were met by a strange sight: two lizards, with a palanquin tied between them. On it sat a strange figure-a native, adorned with a strange kind of crown, and holding an impressive-looking sword. As the horsemen approached, he descended from the palanquin and dropped to one knee. Corim held up a hand to stop the cavalry, and descended from his horse.

The man-obviously Aiozim-took the crown from his head, and reversing his sword, offered them both to the Imperial General. Corim took them with equal solemnity, then helped the native to his feet.

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The Aizoan fleet was nearly ready. Leaving Colonel Coris to hold the Imperial forts, Warderson plans to sail for Pralgad with the majority of the Imperial Army. What he will do when he gets there, he has disclosed to no-one.

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Why? in General
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Thuryl: Maybe God opposes murder as a matter of principle-I think the verse where Jesus says 'whatever you do to the least of these little ones, you do to me' is particularly applicable. Of course, there isn't really any solid argument, either in or out of the Bible, for life beginning at conception, but if we assume it does, we can safely say that God doesn't like it. If it doesn't, the issue becomes more complex than I'm in the mood to consider right now.

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Why? in General
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What I think SD is heading towards is that since we were created by God to be in a relationship with Him (cf Garden of Eden) that is thus the purpose of our lives. Heaven is just that made easy, if you like.

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Remember Nephils vs. Sliths? in General
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No, TCoA doesn't count because your connections involves every other post being the same.

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Back in the bad old days. Zephyr's RPing then...was about as much worse than his current RPing, as that is than, say, premonition's. His first five or six characters all had small armies attached, despite the fact that no-one else had thought that necessary. And his actual character was, IIRC, immortal.

Lone Flame, however, was worse. By about the same margin.

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OOC:

1) Doomguards are not that common. Two is more than enough for one RP.

2) Travel from Pralgad to Aizo is about three-six months by sea, depending on the time of year.

3) The rest of this post is pretty much courtesy of Alec pointing out things I had stupidly ignored.

IC:

The mail-boat was late. Not that it mattered to the General-his father back in Pralgad doubtless had inscribed some great chronicle for him to read, but there was likely to be little else but an injunction from Major-General Sturm to hurry up with the campaign and head for home before Dorian Kylen's peasant army started getting uppity. Corim snorted-as if Sturm was incapable of dealing with the ragtag peasants. Why, Kylen had just been a low-level administrator when he'd left for Aizo. He vaguely recalled meeting him once-insignificant chap, on the whole, though he'd been polite and pleasant company.

The general's musings were shattered by a rapping at his door.

'Do come in.'

Before him stood a lieutenant in the uniform of Sturm's personal brigade. The lieutenant saluted, and handed him a sealed dispatch. Opening it, he read a surprisingly brief message.

Kylen's forces have taken the forts guarding the mountain passes. The council and the Emperor are at odds, and the army is crippled. Return immediately.

There was more, directions and formalities, but the bare bones of the message were plain to see. The invasion was to be abandoned, just on the point of success. And yet if Sturm had failed to keep control in Pralgad, perhaps it was for the better.

And yet, he did not have to return with the entire army. The mages could be left in the cities, with their garrisons. Colonel Coris could be left in charge, and he could deal with the Kylenians and take the credit for both...maybe he could end up replacing Sturm? Food for thought, certainly.

Unfortunately, Corim did not have long to mull over this. Another knock at the door heralded the arrival of Major Tarem, and a very sheepish looking civilian.

'Ah! Major Tarem! The very person! Look, I've just had a message delivered from old Sturm on Pralgad. It appears Gideon Ironclad is in a bad way militarily and needs our help. We're ordered to return immediately.'

'I'm sorry to say, sir, that I've had some more recent news.'

'Sorry? Don't talk in riddles, Tarem.'

'Very well, sir. This man is a Solaran agent.'

'What?'

'That's right, sir. Please, let me finish. This man is a Solaran agent. He's in constant magical communication with his masters on Pralgad, and with their help he's been supplying the natives with whatever they needed, hoping to keep us busy until Sol was completely dominant, and we couldn't stop him if we wanted to. There's only one problem.'

'There's more than one problem there if you ask me, major. How did this man infiltrate the army in the first place, for a start?'

'Unfortunately that's not so difficult as you seem to think, sir. But the important point is that the Solaran strategy has been saboutaged.'

'Yes, you've caught him. I can see that.'

'No, actually he came forward of his own accord. The problem is this: Gideon Ironclad has fallen. The capital city is in Kylen's hands, and most of the Ironcladian army destroyed. Sol looks unlikely to win the war in the current situation. They want our help. In return, they'll sell out on the natives, and help us destroy them completely. What do you think, sir?'

And General Corim Warderson said nothing.

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