<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">Anvil</span><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Anvil's Guardians &amp; Summoners</div><div class="spoiler_body">Summoner Dame Meow Silverfur (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15212962#msg15212962)<br/>&amp;<br/>Guardian Lucifel (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15212142#msg15212142)<br/><br/>Summoner Gloss Featherstone (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15212717#msg15212717)<br/>&amp;<br/>Guardian Vulpinal (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15212157#msg15212157)<br/><br/>Summoner Jas (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15213239#msg15213239)<br/>&amp;<br/>Guardians Myra (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15212352#msg15212352) |  Valarna (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314507.msg15212346#msg15212346) <br/></div></div><br/><br/><em><strong>"Anvil is also joined by a force of Olaq warriors,"</strong> Arlaq'qo gesticulated broadly to form an 8 across several of the Guardians and Summoners he addressed, <strong>"you'll go ahead and cut off the Enemy's retreat.  Head off any further incursions and learn what you can, then capture the foe Hammer is to drive out from the town.  If you think you have the advantage, press it, but remember: the forces in the field that Hammer is driving back could easily outflank you if you spring the attack too soon."</strong><br/></em><br/><br/><hr/><strong>Location</strong>: Western Ramp<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>: Anvil<br/><strong>Exits</strong>: Plains (West), Gatehouse Mound (East), Opened Wall Passage (Southeast)<br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/5/52/MattBarrett_OgreFortress.jpg/400px-MattBarrett_OgreFortress.jpg)</div>Broken rocky crags ringed the ancient fortress’s western ramp.  Its main gateway, though the proper gatehouse had long since collapsed leaving a winding landslide of broken rubble up and down the grass ramp cutting through the spiky rock beneath the winding brown stone parapets.  The old walls were full of holes and collapsed portions, leaving the ground strewn with debris.  There was a singular exposed passageway into the walls to the southeast.<br/><br/>The structure seemed divided between two keeps of equal size and very large, very round towers; the tallest were to the north and south, with the fattest on the eastern wall.  Plastered along its ramparts and ruined tower tops, stuck between slopes of collapsed rock and shifted earthwork built up atop the craggy stone top the fortress rises from, is a certain shimmering silky thread.  The air around it seems to part, shift, and weave back around like a continually breaking and healing mirror.  To stare at these rifts long enough begins to draw one's vision around a "corner" in space, and beyond, a spectral swirling of lights as all else grows first blurred and then dim.<br/><br/>The Guardians have been thoroughly instructed, however, and know not to let their eyes tarry long upon these rifts.<br/><br/>Life around the structure was dead or dying.  Brown grass, wilted and trampled thrushes and wild grains, and the occasional rabbit corpse coated in dead insects come to try and scavenge the meat.<br/><br/>Although there was no visual indication of the enemy, they could be heard within the fortress: braying, wets smacking sounds, and claws grating against the ground.<br/><br/>Alongside them the banners of the Olaq flew high.  There were perhaps two hundred mounted warriors with them, though they'd fanned out into groups of twenty across the western half of the fortress's exterior hunting for any sign of a foe on the ramparts.<br/><br/>Kaahreyha the Red (https://aryaakasha.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/69496339_10162156006140574_7207724853841887232_n.jpg?w=676) rode up flanked by two round banners streaming with olden thread.  Her honour guard were well equipped but mobile, and this portion of her warheard was the most directly loyal to her.  The others were ensuring the Berikans did not test the borders while they were distracted.<br/><br/><strong>"Guardians, we see no foe upon the walls.  The gate is unguarded.  Shall we strike forth and seize victory?"</strong>She was not a warrior accustomed to waiting, and by her demeanour, she made it clear she was not a woman used to disagreements with her<em>suggestions</em>either.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Posting Format</strong><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[floatright][img height=300 padding=6]image_address[/img][/floatright][url=link_to_sheet][b]Character's Name[/b][/url]<br/>[b]Location[/b]: <br/>[b]Tagged[/b]: <br/>[b]HP[/b]: current/max [b]AC[/b]:<br/>[b]Active Effects[/b]:<br/>[hr]<br/></code></pre>