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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 4095943" data-attributes="member: 3448">For five days, we traveled without incident.  Lord Varlin kept reading the writings, a little each day, but he refused to speak to Alveera.  He clearly believed that she was a succubus and distrusted her intensely because of that.  Without Alveera as an effective tool, I feared I would not be able to bring him to the Darkness instead of the Light.As we marched, we saw great swirling clouds of dust moving from west to east ahead of us.  I wondered if it could be from the wings of the dragon, but my companions assured me that the dragon would be long gone, and that the dust cloud was the wrong shape-- very long, relatively thin.  Sideh suggested that it could be a moving army.Spring flew up to scout and soon reported back.  He saw that it was a sizeable and rag-tag army, moving west and southerly, towards the destroyed dragonhold.  The army consisted of some 2000 figures all told, perhaps as many as 3000, but no great ones-- major demons or the like-- among them.  It was clearly a shadow army, goblins and eums.  Based on the haphazard structure of the army, Spring suspected that it was probably pulled together from a couple of random tribes and sent to investigate.  The army had very little organization-- the entire leadership was a trio of chaos centaurs.“Headed to Clawfast,” commented Lord Varlin.“What is at Clawfast?” we asked, even though we knew what had happened there.“Nothing that I know of.  They must be reinforcements, but for what purpose?”“Should we ask?” said Spring.“Why not?”  Lord Varlin traveled forward rapidly.  “Hail, chaos centaurs.  Whither are you going through the edges of my father’s land?”The centaurs saluted him in a ragged way.  “We go to Clawfast.  We are ordered there by the Master of the Thronged City.  He says that we must go there as fast as possible.”We encouraged Lord Varlin to hurry them on-- if they were moving fast enough when they reached the area of the bonewater dust, many of them might be affected and destroyed, although we did not tell him that.  Lord Varlin said, “You must hurry along.  If these rabble dally on these lands, they will have more to fear than your whips.”  The centaurs took the hint and began vigorously applying their whips.  The army lurched forward.“What is the Thronged City?” asked Spring when they had departed.“The capital.  The Master of the Thronged City is its mayor, but he has power beyond his city,” explained Lord Varlin.</blockquote>

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