High Mage: book Five of the Spellmonger Series
“I make a point of paying attention to when the gods send me these little metaphors. The grand bridge itself wasn’t destroyed, it was just inoperable. The wide section that used to be raised and lowered to permit barge traffic through had been allowed to fall into the river below. That wouldn’t necessarily stop the massive column of goblins, trolls, siege worms, and assorted turncloak humans who had joined the Dead God’s armies. A hundred and fifty thousand of them, by Sir Festaran’s estimat...e. The column was packed with siege equipment, the goblins’ version of catapults, trebuchets, scorpions and the like. There was a lot of heavy equipment there. But goblins don’t like water. They had to take the bridge. And getting across one little bridge wouldn’t be that difficult, even for the goblins’ inept engineers.
Trying to do that while two thousand human and Alka Alon archers were pouring arrows down on you like a heavy rain might prove challenging, however. That was the plan. The banks and townlands on the south side of the river had been heavily fortified in the last two weeks. Hastily-constructed redoubts concealed vantage points that would allow hundreds of men to fire at the attackers from relative safety. Just behind them a dozen catapults and other artillery were ready to lob rocks and spears at the foe. And amongst them all were scattered nearly a hundred High Magi, who had built a formidable defensive spellwork that would confound any attempt to cross the bridge.MoreLess
Trying to do that while two thousand human and Alka Alon archers were pouring arrows down on you like a heavy rain might prove challenging, however. That was the plan. The banks and townlands on the south side of the river had been heavily fortified in the last two weeks. Hastily-constructed redoubts concealed vantage points that would allow hundreds of men to fire at the attackers from relative safety. Just behind them a dozen catapults and other artillery were ready to lob rocks and spears at the foe. And amongst them all were scattered nearly a hundred High Magi, who had built a formidable defensive spellwork that would confound any attempt to cross the bridge.MoreLess
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