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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FXR" data-source="post: 8103871" data-attributes="member: 6781105">Here's more context.The city is a rather big one for the setting, about as populous as medieval Paris. The elves themselves are about 200 hundred adults and form the aristocracy, but most of the citizenry (and military) are humans, gnomes and a few dwarves. It's a city normally open for commerce, located on a coastline, so it's not hidden by any mean. It is, however, well-fortified. Both elves and vikings live in the same region, the northern Fjord. The elves know the vikings, which technically are their tributaries, are coming. Normally, the elves would simply send their impressive fleet captained by elven storm sorcerers to meet the vikings' drakkars on the sea or burn the vikings' villages and be done with it. No way a single drakkar would have been able to reach the city.However, things are a little more complicated. The elves recently found out that their souls don't reincarnate anymore when they die. So, many of them have recently developed a fear of death and aren't willing to put themselves in danger. However, they are terribly haughty and overconfident: they aren't willing to leave non-elves in command of the army, as they feel humans (and gnomes, and dwarves) are basically children and should be treated as such. Also, that would mean that a human is better fitted for the job than an elf, which sounds like an heresy.The vikings have prepared this raid for years. Many of their newer boats are hidden in the woods and, thanks to some captives, have a fairly good ideas of most defenses of the elven cities. Also, for once, the different vikings clans are pretty much united behind this goal.Normally, even if with all this, the elves would win. However, one jarl has decided that neither elves and humans are fitted to rule the northern fjords and has thrown its lot with the frost giants, which he has awaken from their enchanted sleep. The giants are numerous and the elves aren't familiar with them. The involvement the frost giants is the real game changer here.</blockquote>

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