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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2098860" data-attributes="member: 13966">The gladiatorial arenas popular in Eyros have been attracting freeman competitors from distant lands in recent years, exciting the crowds with new blood and exotic appeal.  Dark-skinned Mo'ahhi warrior-women with their ginta whip-daggers and bone half-armor, olive-skinned Nientese sword-dancers with their curved bastard swords and lacquered leather armor, and O'hoa'ti bloodspell zealots with their copper daggers and wicker armor....  All have braved the difficult trade-route passes through the Blue Mountains in eastern Eyros, traveling from distant lands across the Dead Waters Isthmus in the frozen north beyond the Blue Mountains.The aging Grand Monarch is increasingly worried that these foreigners are testing Eyrian combat skill and readiness, and he has posted more of Zhalccu province's forces near the Blue Mountains part of the border, worried that a foreign invasion may be coming in the near future.  The Grand Monarch harbors suspicions that the Sultan of Indracca has been trying to garner aid in freeing the declining Sultanate from inevitable Eyrian rule.....</blockquote>