The warmer months passed and Northern icy pathways reformed, making way for a period of celebration despite harsh cold winds as Mondstille neared, the perfect time for a family reunion. It had been a long time since Emperor Karl Franz last saw his family. Prior to the sacking of Altdorf by the orc Grimgor Ironhide, …
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Trust In the Elves: A #Lorefight Story!
Winter approaches.The warmer months grow shorter year on year.The priests say it’s a sign of the encroaching end of days but then again, anything’s a sign to them and I’ve lived through many false end times. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Hello reader, my name is Jerek Kruger or as I was called …
Summon the Elector Counts: A #Lorefight Story!
Bells tolled over Nuln as carriages a-plenty made their way up the Emmanuelleplatz, ascending its steep hill as they escaped the industrial smoke that hung over the rest of the city and made their way past the vast townhouses of Wissenland's nobility. The higher they ascended up this long road, the greater the aristocrats' view …
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#Lorefight 155!
Weeks of wandering passed as Nakai and the wood elf child made their way through the Drakwald forest. The Kroxigor couldn't communicate with her, not only because she was apparently too young to have learnt speech but also…because he's a crocodile. Still the two clung together, the elf happy for the safety and hunting he …
Lorefight 154!
The daring raid into Marienburg’s criminal underworld led by warrior priest Conrad Gottschalk and the orphanage leader Albertus Cobbius acted as a landmark watershed moment for the Church’s dealings with the city. For years the church had begun to think of Marienburg as a lost cause, a gaping hole of inequity so vast it made …
#Lorefight 152!
Having deposed the heiress of Castle Drakenhof Elize von Carstein and forced both her and her lover Erikan Crowfiend into retirement at the Red Abbey, Walach Harkon the Grand Master of the Order of the Blood Dragons set off on a journey West into Wissenland to the final resting place of his ancient master, the …
Lorefight 151!
Heavy fog and blistering cold hung over the rural town of Mielau in Ostermark as two warriors in the Church of Sigmar rode in, a master and his apprentice, having been summoned here by a mighty wizard. “Ah, so this is the boy I’ve heard so much about Huss. The boy who sought to save …
#Lorefight 147!
Day turned to night as the company of Halflings led by Sir Bullywick Applebag and the ogre ironguts of tyrant Oleg Skullcracker made their way into the border town of Kroppenleben within the vicinity of the black mountains where Applebag insisted a raid by goblin boss Grotsnag was surely imminent. As the group wandered through …
#Lorefight 143!
Marienburg, a city sold down the river by generations of corrupt bureaucrats and fallen do-gooders. Once the centre of the Empire’s commerce on account of its great ports, the city fell into shame as the once proud mantra for independence devolved into nought but an excuse for wealthy mercantile and mercenary interests to rule over …
#Lorefight 133!
“What’s de ya mean my boy Bogie can’t join? He’s killed a Blood Knight I tells ya, a Von Carstein no less.” squealed a furious Sir Bullywick Applebag, infamous promulgator of Halfling Rights throughout the Empire, upon hearing that his favourite adventurer Mr. Bogie Crumpot would not be admitted to the Imperial unit of greatswords …
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