The Iron Circle scoffs at Valin's diplomat. The Iron Citadel draws and quarters the elven messenger accusing him of insulting the court. Horseman drag the remains to the four corners of the City-States' Empire bringing word to the peoples there of Valin's words of affront. The court of the Citadel of Iron's Grasp declares, "If Valin wishes to speak to us of aggressions, then we will bring them to their doorstep."
Worg Oswe the Half-Ogre champion of the citadel strikes at Valin's strongest ally in the Western peninsula, The Duchy of Solandir. The soldiers and war engines there hold out for a short time as the Iron Circle's forces strike from land sea and air. Surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered, their castle falls to Worg's army, who quickly replenishes the Duke's barracks with his own men, and sets them to work rebuilding the damaged walls and towers of the Iron Circle's newest member state.
In Thorndeep, further West of Solandir, the Iron Circle sends a strike force to level a small outpost there. Upon arrival, they find the outpost lightly guarded and Cresom Coldmane the bugbear cheiftain leads his troops in to conquer the base and rest while they wait for a siege weapon to be ferried up the river from the southern coast. That night, Thorndeep's elite strike lead by the gnome ranger Xanlomin Goblinsfoe. The outpost is set ablaze, and those able to escape from the burning fort are cut down by arrows from the forest. The barge traveling up river with the war engine tries to find targets, but the cover of the woodlands is too thick and vast. A few patches are set ablaze but those burn out in time to no great effect. At last a great river monster rolls the barge over in the river, and the last of the Iron Cicle's forces are dispatched. The woods become silent again.
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