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Jarl Ivar and his men encountered heavy resistance as they tried to head to the keep's underground. Torwith's paladins were trying their hardest not to let them through. The stairway and the tight corridor made ideal chokepoints for the elves to stop the human advance.

"It is detrimental to throw the militiamen at them." Thane Egil pointed out after their first failed push to the underground. "They will never break through those elven soldiers and their bodies will just block the passage and make it harder for us to push through."

"The boy has the Toungues, we'll just need to make due with what we have." Jarl Ivar retorted.

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Jarl Harald's vanguard were clearing the upper levels of the keep, meeting little resistance in the process.

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"They have breached the keep?" Yslenor asked concerned. "What of Torwith and..."

Knight-Paladin Torwith entered the shrine room. "Lady Yslenor, we must hurry. The humans are right behind us. My men will stall them as long as they can but we need to finish evacuations now."

Yslenor nodded. "Alright, everyone through the portal. Torwith once everyone is through your men..."

"They know what must be done." Torwith affirmed. "No need to worry milady."

Yslenor had a melancholic look to her for a moment before she was determined once more. "Karyor, go through the portal. Come on we don't have much time."

The last of the Falmer in the room began going through the wayshrine.

"Hans?" Gunnar wasn't familiar with the man, though the name didn't sound too strange to him. He might have heard about him from Randagulf a months back. "Well, at least the fight was nothing serious." He said after Lars clarified the detail.

"A trap you said? The Harbinger will want to know about this. Come, I'll lead you to him." Gunnar led the three, Fjoll included, to Harbinger Randagulf.

The Harbinger was meeting with some of the other Companion Captains. Kal and Lars had seen these men before, as they have been travelling together for a while now. They were captains Rolf of the Nidhoggr crew and Orvar of the Brakkstein crew.

Randagulf stopped the conversation when he saw Gunnar approaching with the two scouts.

Gunnar brought him up to speed quickly.

"Barrels filled with flammable oil set to explode on contact. Quite a trap the elves had waiting for us. It is a good thing we stopped the fleet when we did." Randagulf muttered after hearing the report.

He collected this thoughts for a moment then asked. "You said that the Ylgermet Shield-Brother was attempting to remove the barrels, correct? Do you know how many there were or how long it would take to clear a path?"