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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackrat" data-source="post: 3763772" data-attributes="member: 27761">Okay, something of a short backstory. 51st getting their nickname (In timeline: Continueing this: )It was the night that 51st first got their nickname. No-one expected them to return, it was a suicide-mission to take the lone granary-tower in the middle of Crying Fields. But the Lightning-ballista atop that tower had already dropped two supply-ships and it had to be taken down. So colonel Arthus asked for volunteers and it was the 51st that answered this call. It seemed a better option to die a heroic death than to die of hunger. "Tonight you will know peace" the priest of Dol Dorn had preached, giving them the last blessing of dying men. To this day it is still a bit of a mystery how they were able to sneak so close without being detected (probably they just got lucky and some of the enemy lookouts were dosing), but they were well inside a 100ft of the granary before the sniper-mages saw them. And by then it was too late for anything but a few magic missiles. The frenzy with which the tower was taken is still spoken about with reverance. After they had cleared the surrounding site with the lightning-ballista and returned to the camp, it was the colonel that said "The dead men walk back from the grave".</blockquote>