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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3665025" data-attributes="member: 3448">As the main combatants weakened, the army’s officers gathered to watch the battle.  They did not engage, on either side, but simply watched as the dragon and the demon tore into each other.  The human officers called their trueborn warriors into formation, still without any command to engage, while the goblyn encampment and the small tribe of trueborn women, children, and elders both fled.  Neither group stopped until they were safely on the far side of the surrounding hills, where even catastrophic results from the battle would be unlikely to reach them.The eum witchdoctor managed to kill the vrock it was battling, but the remaining vrock completed their dance of ruin and unleashed a powerful burst of magical energy that hammered the witchdoctor and the dragon badly.  Still, the attack was too little, too late for General Asbog:  the dragon tore him to pieces, leaving only a bloody wreck on the ground.  Moments after the glabrezou fell, the vrock dove from the air and attacked the dragon on all sides.  By this point, even the colonel, the vrock that General Asbog had left in command at the headquarters, had emerged and approached the combat, although he simply tapped his swagger stick and watched instead of joining in.The dragon killed one more vrock, but not before the other vrock killed the eum witchdoctor.  Finally, even the dragon could not withstand the combined force of their attacks and perished.With both the dragon and General Asbog dead, the vrock colonel asserted his right to command, ordering the other vrock to settle down.  But while two of the remaining vrock landed and quietly waited, the other two continued flying, clearly insane.  When the colonel flew up to them to order them down again, they attacked him.  In a display of disloyalty that would have been shocking if it had not followed so many others, the two “sane” vrock simply watched while their superior officer battled for his life.  After an intense battle, the colonel killed both of the insane vrock.  They had been injured at the beginning of the fight, but he was also clearly mightier than the average.  Still, the fight had taken a fearful toll on him, and his victory was short-lived.  One of the two remaining vrock casually killed him as he landed.  They then began squawking at each other, flapping their wings, and thrusting their heads forward, clearly in a verbal struggle for dominance and command.  Their voices grew ever louder and shriller, until the inevitable physical confrontation began.At this, the eum and trueborn officers gathered in council, while their presumptive commanders battled to the death.  After a short discussion, they each returned to their respective units.  They gave a short command, and the troops unleashed their steel javelins at the battling vrock, cutting them down.  It was the only display of discipline that we had seen.  Indeed, the entire sordid scene was a remarkable demonstration of how desperately Caldefor needs the restoration of Lord Paranswarm’s Order.  But with their inability to even maintain an army in camp without destroying themselves, our victory would be assured even if Lord Paranswarm’s backing did not make it inevitable.</blockquote>

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