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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 651371" data-attributes="member: 5137">The PCs fought at Eastpass during the first orc invasion. They were sixteen at the time, and were near the end of their year of Service. They were then orc slaves for slightly less than a year, and returned to Theralis in time for the second invasion (they fought at Theralis Ridge), in which Kyriotes helped turn the tide. Intersperced into this was recovering a lost temple of Allas, visiting home, the merchant journey to Aglaonis, and most of a year spent in research. They are turning 18 just as this section of the storyline starts (and Athan is now old enough to compete in the Olympiad, which will start a year later).War? Again?Athan, Greppa and Merideth were now 18 years of age, and Theralis was preparing for the third year of battle with the orcs. Each year, near the early part of summer, a wave of tribes would lash against the mountain slopes, only to crumble against the Theralis shield walls. And every year, the scouts had to learn the names of the new tribes, for it seemed that the same ones never attacked twice. There was definitely something causing it.The scouts and espers had determined at least some things about orc activity beyond the mountain ridge. The tribes were warring among themselves as well, further east, and the death toll there was horrendous. Scavengers of all sorts littered a number of eastern valleys, while the predator population swelled. Many of the smaller tribes were banding together for common survival, and working to tackle and take down some of the largest tribes... a good sign, by Theralese reckoning.Or it was, until one of those largest tribes, fleeing the heel-nipping of a small tribe alliance, crossed 120 miles in a day and showed up at Theralis' doorstep. With insufficient warning, the initial shield walls still held, but the spell casters were still stumbling out of bed and running upslope while fighting was going on.Greppa noticed a troop of soldiers running into the city, and when he looked, saw far too much smoke coming from Kyriotes' tower. He had to ignore that for now, however - he had his own job to do. He began summoning earth spirits into the Keraunesti soldiers, in the hope that it would keep some of them alive when they might otherwise die.And then the Keraunesti were on the move, stopping a gap that had opened, and Greppa, pulled along to keep pumping out earth's strength, forgot about it entirely.War had arrived.</blockquote>

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