The bodies in the pit show bloody stains around obvious cuts in the uniforms, it would take a healer's talent to examine the wounds for a better idea of how they came to be perhaps but some basics are obvious enough. Piercing wounds in a fair share of them, some with deep slashes cut into them. More than a few with broken arm or leg. It took looking around till the eight victim till a weapon could still be seen embedded into the corpse.<br/><br/>Young man no older than seventeen lay deathly pale with an arrow in his back, with the crude feathers tied to it in a fashion every barbarian knows by heart. This is no arrow a man or woman of the realm or barbarian tribe would touch other than to destroy it. Its an orcish arrow, and based on the pained look on the youth's face the shot has been far more painful than a mere arrow should be, even to a youth untouched by such pain before.<br/><br/>Orcs are known to use barbed arrows and rending blades though, as well as to dabble in poisons from time to time, albeit weak ones which they can shrug off if they make a mistake with it themselves. Even so, such things are too costly for the average orc, usually only seen with group leaders or specialists.<br/><br/>That close to the ruin, the old stairs can be seen in one of the keep's rooms nearby, the wall having long since collapsed to expose the room to the outside with barely a few inches of broken wall section from the ground up showing where a stone wall used to stand. Those stairs leading down seem to spiral to the depth, descending at least fifty feet beneath the ground level, beneath any simple 'wine cellar' depths and to depths that would withstand even the fortress itself tumbling down upon them.<br/><br/>Laying on the ground near the stairs was a polished, silver longsword driven to the ground, a finely wrought steel helmet placed upon it. The other half of the blade can be seen broken nearby, over the body of a dead orc, the sword itself forming a small cross with its hilt onto a small bump in the ground.