The kingdom had known peace for a long time. Farms filled its valleys, fishing villages lined its lakes, and from the capital the King ruled behind walls that had never fallen. Then the fires appeared on the border.
The Rise of Rex Goblin
In the dark lands beyond the hills, one goblin rose above the rest. Cunning, cruel and endlessly ambitious, Rex Goblin united the scattered tribes into a single Horde of goblins, trolls, ogres, shamans and beasts. His goal was the capital, and the crown of its King.
The Defense of the Realm
Against the Horde stood Arthur, commander of the kingdom's defense. When the militia lost its nerve, he rallied the village archers. When goblins built rafts and swam the Silver River, he held the bridges and sank their boats. The monks of the hidden monastery sent him their Frost Mages, and the brethren of the forge gave him the power of the Hammer, to crush armor no arrow could pierce.
Gorrak at the Great Wall
Halfway to the capital stands the Great Wall. There Rex Goblin sent his elite shock troops, led by his Dracon, Gorrak the Wall Breaker, a towering dragon-blooded warrior whose roar drove every monster around him into a charge. No wall had ever stopped him, and the kingdom was about to learn how he earned his name.
The Siege of the Capital
The Horde broke through the outer walls and the fighting reached the castle courtyard. Arthur covered the people fleeing to the keep and held the last oak doors. But Rex Goblin himself reached the King's chamber, and the fate of the kingdom came down to a single room.
When the war was over, Rex Goblin's banner lay in the dust, and Arthur was named the Shield of the Realm. But one question remained: where was Gorrak?
