Thane was there the day the snakes in the temple went mad. He saw a man who had been handling them for years get bitten to death as the snakes had sought to flee the temple, then the city, and then they just kept going. When it was known that it was happening everywhere the oracles had gathered and declared that Kolyat was letting it known that the land itself was cursed, and all who trod upon it would die. The faithful began to leave in droves, following the snakes, in order to get to safety. People thought that they were crazy, but they changed their tune when the ground started to shake. Now there was hardly anything left of his former home, but the faithful had been ready, and now there were few among the displaced that denied the power of the Serpent King.<br/><br/>Thane was preaching to his men, and to any men from nearby units who could hear him. Several of Kolats faithful had gathered to hear him speak, Thane was the kind of man who people liked to listen to. He was in the middle of explaining the injustices that happened inside the walls of the city, where laws were bent to the whims of feeble men with coin and not the ironclad commands of god, when a messenger arrived and passed him a note. His eyes quickly scanned over it and then he addressed the crowd.<br/><br/>“The unbelievers have cast an insult from behind our walls. They have attempted to kill our captain, a righteous man beloved of Kolyat. For this insult command had determined that the walls shall fall as soon as possible, and if we must tear them down with our hands that is what we shall do!” he announced, raising his fist in the air. “Return to your units! Hoist your ladders! We march upon the hour for the glory of Kolyat!”<br/><br/>He waited for his commands to be obeyed and for those not under his command, those he had not given his gift, to be gone before he gathered his personal unit close. “My brothers, I know you are eager to feel our gods power flowing in your veins but you must hold it close. Do not drink until you have made it atop the wall but once you are there drink deeply and strike without mercy.” he said to the crowd before releasing them to gather their weapons and ladders. Than had been given the dregs of the army to work with. Their weapons were crude, and their armor practically nonexistent, but he planned to make up for that by making them utterly without fear.