21 Kythorn 1500 DR
Suzail - Merchants traveling on the Way of the Dragon are sharing a detailed account, first heard in Eagle Peak, of a bloody skirmish that took place after a ride of Purple Dragons was ambushed by a phalanx of hobgoblins on the grasslands north of the Tunwash.
Accounts vary between each merchant, but what follows is considered "accepted truth" on the matter: A phalanx of hobgoblins emerged from the long grass and fired their crossbows. Spell shields cast by a pair of alert
War Wizards prevented the hobgoblins from taking down more than a few riders and mounts.
Then the hobgoblins advanced to form a line. They deployed polearms and locked shields in an attempt to break the Cormyrean’s inevitable mounted charge.
The Purple Dragons broke the shield wall, yet still lost half their number in the furious battle that followed. The hobgoblins proved immensely strong and disciplined; they used their brute strength to pull riders from their mounts, then attacked in twos and threes to slay fallen Dragons before they could regain their footing.
The
War Wizards evened the battle with carefully placed spells that slowed their hobgoblin foes and entangled their feet. No prisoners were taken.
Notably, one of the
War Wizards insisted several of the polearms be destroyed as an offering to Tempus before the surviving Cormyreans departed with their dead.
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