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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9101226" data-attributes="member: 12388">Kythorn. First day of the third tenday.Merchants arriving in Suzail from Eagle Peak have shared a detailed account of a bloody skirmish that took place after a ride of Purple Dragons was ambushed by a phalanx of hobgoblins on the grasslands north of the Tunwash. The hobgoblins deployed polearms and locked shields in an attempt to break the Cormyrean’s charge after the phalanx emerged from the long grass and fired their crossbows. Spell shields cast by a pair of alert war wizards prevented the hobgoblins from taking down more than a few riders and mounts. The Purple Dragons broke the shield wall, yet still lost half their number in the furious battle that followed. The hobgoblins proved immensely strong and disciplined; they used their brute strength to pull riders from their mounts, then attacked in twos and threes to slay fallen Dragons before they could regain their footing. The war wizards evened the battle with carefully placed spells that slowed their hobgoblin foes and entangled their feet. No prisoners were taken. Notably, one of the war wizards insisted several of the polearms be destroyed as an offering to Tempus before the survivors departed with their dead.</blockquote>