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Battle of Firthmore Loch

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Battle of Firthmore Loch

So, in the dim and silence they crept. Moonblades by their sides, flashing and gleaming in the starlight. Flashing, gleaming, gleaming, flashing. Suddenly, the flashing stopped. They gleamed. Then, the flashing resumed, but the gleaming was gone. Finally, both the flashing and the gleaming began again in full force.

 

- The Elemenstor Cycle, Book 12 : End of the Hierarch Wars

 

Thus begins the fourth of the seventeen final battles that complete Book 12. The brilliant tactics of the side allied with the Elemenstors, which dictated that they approach by night and attack the enemy army while it slept, did not work out very well. Logistical delays and an extended game of Trug Stuz that the general staff was unwilling to end resulted in an attack that commenced closer to dawn than midnight. Through the dim of the mist, the rising sun and falling starlight caught the moonblades wielded by the forces of good, setting off an excessive bout of "flashing and gleaming" that gave away the attack.

 

Fortunately for the Elemenstors, the gleaming and flashing served to blind Reyarteb's forces sufficiently for the suprise attack to proceed unmolested. The reflected light also caught trees and shrubbery on fire, which had little effect on the battle but looked sufficiently epic to warrant a place in history for the generals leading the forces of good (although at the time they were too drunk to celebrate their good fortune). By the end of the battle, Firthmore Loch had lost nearly all of its water, as the light reflected by the flashing and gleaming of the moonblades focused on enough water on the lake to evaporate it.

 

This battle was made into a commemorative tapestry spun with finest silver, gold and mirror-thread. Much like the battle itself, the tapestry is too bright to behold in anything but perfect darkness.

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