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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kjenks" data-source="post: 2497330" data-attributes="member: 12892">Just one. And you don't have to pay him. He just shows up.Nobody has attacked the capital city in over a hundred years. Not since the Night of Ten Thousand Orcs. Oh, some say they got scared and ran away, and some say they got all orc-y and fought each other, but everyone knows that there are bones that farmers still find coming to the surface, all this time later, out by Orc Hill.Some say The Defender is part of an ancient religious order, sworn to defend the city throughout the ages. They say that when duty calls, one man rises and does what needs to be done. Some say it's a Temple of this god or a Church of that god, but nobody really knows, now do they?There have been some who claimed to be The Defender. Some of them have made a good living at it, getting chartity from the people of the town, sometimes for years. But none of them look exactly like the old brass statue in the main square. And in the end, none of them were for real.Just look at that statue. He's not very tall, not very muscular, and, frankly, not much to look at. He doesn't wear armor or have a pointy hat, just clothes like you and me. But in that statue you can see that there's something in his eyes, something you just don't want to mess with. There's something hard in those eyes. Hard and unrelenting.But it seems that The Defender appears every time an enemy gets an army together, even just THINKING about attacking the city. And then, suddenly, where there were once hundreds of men and beasts of war, there's only blood and bodies, scattered about the camps. Just ask around in the neighboring kingdoms. They'll set you straight. Don't attack the capital, they say. Just don't.Maybe it's just a legend, mind you, but the city elders must know something about it all. After all, look at this place. There are no walls, no barracks, no towers. None of that. So, you ask, how many men do you need to defend the capital city?Just one. And the legend that goes with him.</blockquote>

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