Supreme Warmistress Starsoul glared out at the eastern banks of the Ironwood Lake.<em>Impudent orcs!</em>she thought. Maybe they had a motive. Her sister Ayala had said that they should be stopped as soon as her spies had caught them coming out of the north. Why would the orcs go for Mechanos rather than Ironwood. Maybe the orcs found out about gonnes... maybe the gnomes had been working on something else and the orcs found out what. Gonnes were a staple of the human resistance to the orcs since the humans were neither as crafty as elves or as tough as dwarves. Loriel herself was stronger still than any dwarf she knew, and some of them were willing to admit it. She had randomly selected to arrive on a boat with new recruits to foster comradeship. She had her own group of some 50 men who had willingly removed their left ringfingers in a show of loyalty to her, and for them it must have been a massive pain for them to separate from her. The boats were docking now so she stepped ashore. "Forts Bagruk and Drak are the only obstacles between us and the Black Road. Eliminate one of them and we may pass. Eliminate both of them and nothing shall stand in our way."<br/><br/>Loriel Starsoul moves from Area 7 to Area 8<br/><hr/>"Well this is it, I'm going toward Bagruk while she takes Drak" Brannock hefted his massive war hammer in one hand and began to hustle toward the north. Dwarves never ran, it didn't make sense with their short legs, but "the little bastards" could carry any thing. Perhaps this was part of the reason that Loriel had been so accommodating toward the rune dwarves fleeing the Runecrusher War. They didn't really want to fight over magic... but, they were anyway. It's just that when they're battling on the side of elves, they're 1) not fighting other dwarves mostly and 2) with someone who is not so superstitious that they hold their fingers out like a cross when you're in the room.<br/><br/>Brannock Steelsmiter moves to Area 4<br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://mob682.photobucket.com/albums/vv186/steelsmiter/mfw347.jpeg)</div>Brannock Steelsmiter<br/>Rank: 1(Private)<br/>HP: 10<br/>Weapon: Meteor Hammer (Heavy, ATK 3, SPD 1)<br/>Personal Objectives: 50 Kills, Victory in 10 rounds<br/>Skills<br/>Quake<br/>Health<br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/10/936full-ryu-ji-hye_%282%29.jpg)</div>Loriel Starsoul<br/>Rank: 10 (Warmistress)<br/>HP: 300<br/>Weapon: Dawn and Dusk Katanas (ATK 10, SPD 7)<br/>Personal Objectives:<br/>Skills: Health 5, Combo 6, Rally, Rations (mundane version of Healer), Fire (Mundane), Ambush 4, Volley<br/>