![]() It seemed so tiny, so inconsequential and yet for four solid months, its stone walls and the countless murderous traps hidden within held the tide of Night back. Gulenstradd was the first town held by the mythical "gnomes" of the Spine of the World that Falkren's army set upon. How terrifying such a sight must have been, but then of course, when the same army returned, it numbered less than one hundred souls. ![]() Rank upon rank of warriors, each in black silks and wielding blackened blades, as was their custom, marched in a row that, the histories tell us, stretched from the City of Night itself all the way to the spine of the world. When his armies began the march to take the mountain holds and delvings of the little men of the mountains, they were too numerous to count. It was not beastmen, but the gnomes of the mountains that proved the end of the seventy-first Lord of Night. In truth, the beastmen are seldom conquered for long and it was no different in Falkren's time, though not perhaps, for reasons that would seem obvious. Even the Beastmen of Rodar fell to Falkren's armies and the flaming hell their master wielded in each battle. With mighty Ulfberht in his hand, it seemed no power could stop him and soon his kingdom reached as far as Castegaul to the north and the swamps of Mephos, to the east. It began easily enough, Lord Falkren the seventy-first Lord of Night made war on the continent. Gulenstradd was, and for most still is, a city of no importance nestled in a forgotten crag of the Spine of the World, but for the rulers of the City of Night, that village has been a scourge to color their rule for generations. ![]() * The additional Snap damage on Tongue Lash is awarded when the biters make contact with enemies at full extension.
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