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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kiznit" data-source="post: 1018528" data-attributes="member: 3994">the SpineCap Tower Armies of might once walked this land. The high sorcerer Dol Naroth knew that he could not match the Legion of Iron in numbers, but he supplemented his fierce hill-tribes of wild men and orcs with fell beasts of arcane creation.His most wondrous and fearsome creation was the Gorinax, a monstrous behemoth of gargantuan proportions, with five great horns and taloned hooves that could squash a cavalry unit beneath a single step. Mounted upon its back was his battle citadel, an obsidian and oak conglomeration of towers, minarets and archery platforms. His war wizards would fling spells and summon storms from the back of the great beast and the vast numbers of the Legion of Iron broke before the onslaught and fled in anarchy.Only one man, a captain named Orthin, stood bravely to face the fearsome beast of battle. He rallied his men to flank and distract the creature, and led an organized retreat, sniping and harrying the units atop the obsidian citadel. The Gorinax stomped after Orthin's unit, more and more enraged by the illusions flashing in the air, cast by Orthin's friend Fiefler. For a day and a half they led the beast astray, and Dol Norath realized too late that Orthin was leading them to the swamps of the ancient broken Mires, and then the Gorinax took a fateful step into the muddy tar that it could not step out of.Orthin and Fiefler flew into the citadel then, with a few of their men, and fought and killed many of Norath's minions and wizards. Locked into mortal combat with Dol Norath himself, they were sucked into an escape portal and not seen again.In the city of Meros on the edge of the Ashen plain, there is a statue commemorating Orthin's valiant deed, his epic battle all but forgotten this many generations later. But deep in the broken Mires, hardened now over the ages, one can find Dol's citadel, crumbled and clustered around the great petrified skeleton of the Gorinax. A single tower stretches up atop the desperate neck of the creature, circled by crows and spirits, where many of the sorcerer's great magics and treasures are rumored to be stored, though occasional lights and flashes make adventurers wonder if perhaps a portal lies open still, and perhaps not all is yet at rest in the SpineCap Tower.Everybody,  these are great! Keep 'em coming! Next: Mirthel's Amulet of Infinite Pathways</blockquote>

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