It has been six days since Rya and crew left Kishin and the journey was quite uneventful besides the occasional goblin attack. Which were much easier to handle after Rya and Quinus destroyed the Dungeon Core ten days ago. The group was making its way towards the Former Dwarven city of Ironside. The Dwarves left the city hundreds of years ago after they mined out all of the purple iron from Mount Skellige.
The Dwarves mined out Skellige so much that the mountain collapsed in on itself, killing thousands of Dwarves about 500 years ago and creating the massive crater that sits there to this day.
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Back then the dwarven King named Balgruuf, ordered the Lord of Ironside to transport all the purple iron into the Central part of the dwarven kingdom of Hjorleif. He wanted to abandon Ironside because it no longer served a purpose, and it was no longer strategically valuable with the mine destroyed. Plus, it was one of the few cities that bordered a different race. That race being the humans from the Kingdom of Fiafyr.
Half of the civilian population didn't want to abandon their city and pleaded with the Lord of Ironside. But his hands were tied and he ordered every dwarf to leave. This angered the surviving citizens of the Mount Skellige Catastrophe and half of them refused to leave. The Lord told them they would no longer be under the protection of the Hjorleif Kingdom once he and the kingdom's soldiers left.
As the dwarves started to leave Ironside, only 10,000 dwarves remained, and once the King of Fiafyr found out about the city's situation he marched his armies to the City of Ironside in hopes of occupying it.
Of the 10,000 dwarves left in the city most of them were trade workers or miners, and none of them were warriors. They thought that fate was being cruel to them as they saw the approaching army of Fiafyr.
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A dwarven watchman yells down to Hodur, a dwarven blacksmith who took over as the leader of Ironside. Hodur saw the human army beginning to surround the city as the Fiafyrians approached from the east.
"Hodur! What do you think will happen when we try to fight this human army? Do you have any idea how many of them are out there?" Asked the dwarf on top of the wall.
"Pfft! More than enough to complete the calamities! Haah!... Be on guard! Humans can be cunning, so keep your wits about you boys!" Hodur ordered from atop the wall as he assessed the situation.
"I don't know Hodur... I've never seen an army like this before..." The dwarf beside him said as he looked around nervously.
"Calm yourself Daedric! I'm sure we'll make it through this mess. After all... We're dwarves! It's in our blood to survive!" Hodur yelled back with confidence.
"That may be true, but they have soldiers! We're not warriors, and they have a lot more than us."
"We don't have a choice, Daedric! That bastard of a King abandoned our people leaving our dead buried in Mount Skellige! Our city will stand against these intruders! By the Forge, we will hold it for the sake of our families!" Hodur yelled back as he continued to look out over the city walls.
"I will fight, but I hope you're okay with having the blood of our people on your hands, Hodur. Because if we lose, it will be your fault," Daedric said looking out over the 40,000 soldiers of the human army.
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The King of Fiafyr is riding alongside one of his generals as the army approaches the city of Ironside.
"Your Majesty, you didn't need to come all this way to watch a slaughter. It's not worth Your Majesty's time." General Yngvar says as he rides alongside the king.
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