Also, many of the city’s most respected priests, those too old to be with the army, began to speak of dreams which revealed to them that this seeming scourge was nothing less than the will of Ar-Hyrdyn and that the Bethlarii’s true future lay with those who had the vision to see the true worth of this great and powerful leader from the cold plains beyond the mountains; this Mareth Hai.
‘Who could have brought such an army through the mountains without the blessing of Ar-Hyrdyn?’
It was thus a completely subdued Navra that Ivaroth left behind when he set off with an army towards his next goal, the river town of Endir.
Nonetheless, he took a liberal sprinkling of hostages and left a substantial garrison to tend the city.
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Ibris frowned a little at Feranc’s news.
‘The two men hav
