Deviation Actions
Description
From the letters of Sworn Shield, royal Shetland archive:
“Your Majesty,
Morning on the second day of fall, and the enemy occupies more than half of our territory south of the river. They hold the hillforts, they hold Broch Dunhalligan, and they hold the forest itself. The ground is theirs, but they have handed the initiative to us. We have made deep advances into Gallopway along the east road.
Word from the Hebridles is not forthcoming, but I believe there are yet holdfasts standing firm within the pocket. Plans are in motion to assault forward and lift the sieges ere winter comes. We will relieve those trapped ponies.
At the crossroads I sent four scouts up the dimwood road, north into the hills. They have not returned.
- Sworn Shield, Advisor of War and First Guard to King Paramount August”
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Croswynd may or may not remember it, but he gave me the idea for this pillar and the scene surrounding it. He also did most of the work naming the Wrothkin and somehow survived reading the earliest drafts of Swordpony. Give the man some applause!
