Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20150618162258/@comment-5583506-20150624214503

Elda felt it as if a weight had been lifted from her heart. Normally people reacted harshly or even with violence when she told them of her true relation to the Reach. Tiberius had reacted with indifference, which was either or a good sign or just a hint of rudeness.

As soon as she got to her room she undressed and slid her head into a nightgown, before crawling underneath the fluffy sheets, burying her head deep into one of the comfortable pillows.

"They are all ready and waiting for you, my lord", said Mystara.

He nodded in confirmation as she strolled out on the open street to behold the resigned guards. They seemed experienced enough to know which end of the sword that would go into their foes. At least he would have that much.

''If the Enforcer is true to his words and if we happen to come across a couple of villages along our way, we might just be able to strengthen our force with a few more hundred men. Hell, we might even exceed over one thousand men.''

"Men!" called Arngrim out with his booming voice, listening to the slammer of weapons and shields adjusting. "I am Arngrim Bearsbane. Former lord and commander. You can now consider yourself as a part of a growing army! An army created for one single purpose: to hold back and eventually repel the threat of the Orsinium Empire! I know that you must be thinking that this cannot be done with the number of men we are now, but to those I say: listen! We will not be fighting these greenskins head-on! That would be a collective suicide, if anything. We will wage our wars from the shadows! We know Skyrim better than these foreigners! We will use our mountains, our valleys, our forests, and our roads to our advantage! We will attack escorts, we will attack reinforcements, we will attack supply caravans! We will do whatever it takes to halt the legions' advances! We will let them know that they are not welcome here! We will starve them, we will weaken them, and eventually, when the time comes, we will drive them back to whatever rocky cave they desire to call home! But only if you muster your courage and follow me! To glory and to total victory! To war!"

As Arngrim shouted out the last as a warcry, the men raised their swords and cheered in unison.

Loyalty at its best...