<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=5310.msg182207#msg182207">Quote from: Muse on 09-05-2006, 22:22:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Lady Stormweather swallowed visibly at the realization that her spell of cry for aid had put her in diplomatic debt to Harborhead, but greeted Shining Bright and her talon graciously, then answered Raynor.  "They keep a permenant encampment in and around a series of haunted caves thirty miles to the south, south west.  My scribes can show you on our maps.  Near as we can tell, at least two hundred men are at their base camp at any given time, while raiding parties of fifty or a hundred go where they see fit.  They've plundered one city state and reduced it to a shadowland, and two others pay them tribute.  Thus far, only my weather magic has protected my people."  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The camp and the ravaged city state, 10 miles west of it, are both clearly visible on the map.<br/><br/>Something occurs to Zaer quickly, for as any general knowes, any group the size of an army is hard pressed to march more than ten miles in a day, and suplying an army requires that they live off of the land or the suplying will grow progessivly more costly.  The two surounding city states that pay tribute are similarly distant from the haunted caves, and the lands that they're free to raid without risking the fey queen's storm magic or disrupting their tribute are even further away.  Raiding parties of fifty to a hundred could be caught as much as a week away from their base camp.  More likely 1-3 days.