>>5521175>>5521324>>5521546>>5521563>>5521622Getting rather bored; rather than insulting both crowd and contestants why going somewhere else you instead decided to continue the conversation you had with your granduncle.
<span class="mu-i">''So, as you where saying granduncle. You where part of the crusade?.''</span> you asked.
<span class="mu-i">''Yes, I was. About seventy years ago the holy conclave of the twelve declared that the order of the argent star; which had previously already conquered and converted Vollingen, was to initiate the second phase of the great northern crusade together with the Nordthal kings and the king of Mozolavia against the pagan and orc tribes to put an end towards the raids form these parts. In the begging the knights used both the lands to the south and Libau; donated as an outpost by one of the Nordthal kings to assist with supplying the crusade.''</span>
<span class="mu-i">'I do not wish to interrupt, but where were you during all this?''</span>
<span class="mu-i">Me? I was wasting my youth away in some forgotten abbey for about three years at that point; when the order came recruiting for priests and monks with experience or training in combat. Naturally I jumped at chance to leave that dusty old abbey behind me and go there where glory,honour,gold and women where to be won.''</span>
He smiled at the outing of these most un-priestly ambitions.
<span class="mu-i">''I was quite the young rascal in those days. Anyways, after arriving here I was made part of an army that was to do battle with an pagan host upon an open field. It was my first taste of war and it was one of those things that was exciting and horrifying at the same time: The screams,the horns, the drums and the metal smell of blood. Our armoured footmen and horsemen crushed them when we were upon an open field. But in the forest where we would have to form long narrow lines to go through them; they struck with cunning at brutality. And before the rest us had gathered to retaliate they vanished into the forest. It was the begging of a long and bloody game, they would grow confident enough to face us upon an open field, we trampled them, we cashed them into the woods and there we slowly bled until we retreated.''</span>
<span class="mu-i">''Some of the knight-wizards amongst the order decided to break the stalemate by burning down the forest. To this end the alchemists created an concoction of extremely flammable liquid for those without any wizards nearby we called it ''Teubelsfeuer'' (devil's fire). The results were both effective and gruesome. The forest here used to be connected you know, that ended when we set it ablaze. It broke the human and half-orc pagans into compliance and many an orc and half-orc tribe fled east. Into the lands of Vat. The ''Teubelsfeuer was used one more time after that. At the great orc stronghold of Zelkre, Most forts where easy for us to take. But this one was different, made out of stone rather than wood. But it roofs and floor where still made out of wood so we decided to smoke them out.</span>
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