The second rushed through an infernal forest in flame to meet the same fate. The first recruit that ran outside the walls didn’t even have a chance to fight as the dragon melted him. The only militia nearby was the local guard, and so to protect the civilians outside the walls, they rushed out to fight the beast.
By this point, the fortress was well-trained and well-equipped to deal with goblins, and so after only a day of fighting and no casualties, the citizens of Ogurvad were collecting what was useful from the dead and disposing of the rest when another threat came: a dragon. One summer, Ogurvad dealt with yet another goblin siege. And yet for the next four years, the forth Captain continued to crawl and shuffle to patrol the walls and fight off the hordes that tried to take Ogurvad. The fourth Captain engaged the bow master and won, but not before taking an arrow to each leg, severing the nerves and rendering him unable to walk. In a siege only half a year into the fourth Captain’s career, a goblin bow master led the charge. The fourth captain of the guard lived for five years. He died a few weeks later of infection as the rest of the wounded were still being cared for. The militia routed the archers, but not before the the third Captain took a few arrows himself. The goblins came again, though this time Ogurvad’s crossbows were all in place. The third captain of the guard died after two months.
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A full battalion of goblin archers filled her with arrows, though she was able to sound the alarm.
However, despite the discipline, the second Captain found herself patrolling the walls on her own when the next goblin siege came. By this point, Ogurvad’s walls had been built with stone and fortified with cover, and the military of Ogurvad was comprised of three squads of marksdwarves and two squads of elite hammerdwarves. The second captain of the guard died within one year of being appointed with the next goblin siege. All ten gave their lives to rout the alligator cavalry. Goblins riding alligators came from the river and the only dwarves close enough to defend the inner doors were the marksdwarves led by the first Captain. And so, when goblins came, their rutherers broke down the gate, and the hammerdwarves rushed to meet them, leaving the river unguarded. But in those first few years, the keep was a simple stone mound, and the walls were barely a palisade built only on one side of the river. The ruins of Ogurvad look impressive: a wide tunnel into the earth guarded by a stout keep with rings of crenelated walls surrounding it. The first captain of the guard died in the first goblin siege of Ogurvad.
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