>>5572911“How tall is it?” Olu asks, looking up, and up, and UP.
“Roughly one thousand feet,” Roth offers. “A little more, as I understand it. According to our records from a previous operation the mages also have a complex stretching five stories down into the ground beneath this tower as well, which is turn connects to a natural tunnel system that goes far deeper—though most of that is not developed.”
You feel that peculiar feeling of smallness again. Can you really conquer such a people, even with all the forces at your disposal? Even if they are in decline, and you mass the forces of the Southlands to your cause… This is like something out of legends of the Age of Scales! And you are to meet with the Archmage of this place—a queen of such a realm? Her magic must be greater than any you have encountered, short of the Dark Gods themselves or their divine servants, such as the Nothic.
Roth does not hesitate, though. Reticent though he was to come here, he is a professional, and now that the command is issued and the course set, he strides forward unbothered, to approach the main gates of this great tower. There, a female human in blue robes, wearing a pointed cap of the same indigo hue, is flipping through a thin, folded scroll—a sort of unbound pocket book, whereupon you can make out the bold-typed words: “MORE REPORTS OF CORPORATE VIOLENCE” and, in smaller typeset: “Dwarven civil war? Some witnesses claim kobold mercenaries have been deployed in the war between Dwarven mining companies in the Bloodrise mountain range.”
Hm.
