1. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    It took a second longer to stand up than Horoth wanted, time was he would be on his feet with no effort at all, his body was aging and eventually it would give out. He had already lived longer than many in the Pits. But this had gone on a bit too long. He had already climbed the damned wall and...
  2. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Horoth nodded along, took his time to reply and catch his breath. Dal was not wrong. Being chosen was a privilege and Horoth was grateful for it but he was lacking in a lot of the basics. He did not even like to wear chainmail. It was too heavy. Riding too, he was terrible at it. Horses were...
  3. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Horoth gave a short laugh, mistaking Dal's intention for a jest. "Come now, you can't mean me to..." A second look told him that Dal was completely, perhaps violently serious. "You're not..." He certainly was. Deflated but not defeated, Horoth glared as he removed his belt and walked them a...
  4. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Dal spoke of life as a struggle and Horoth could not deny it and speak truth so he stood in it and thought to himself. About the irresistible forces that govern life and death and how we may yet try to control them. Effort and weight, thought and deed. "Momentum, hmm." He certainly knew about...
  5. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Horoth smirked at Dal's reply. "But the Ox might find itself happier." Likening oneself to a beast of burden, this was common among those who worked hard and Horoth had seen few who worked so hard as Dal. It pleased him to know that the other man had no luck with horses, Horoth himself found...
  6. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Dare Starting a Fight

    It took Horoth back to his days in the pits. These Orkin thought themselves powerful, savage, intimidating. They played at being unlike other peoples but they were so like humans he thought it would be funny if it was not so desperately childish of them to kill just to seem different. Like...
  7. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Dare Starting a Fight

    It took him a while to get across the valley and see the sorry state of the town. The locals had called it Ghoran's Rest for the habit of soldiers of the Fortress to seek leisure in the alleys and taverns there. Simple pleasures for simple folk, living more or less honest lives. The details of...
  8. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Dal spoke of experience and of great love for his teachers. Those whom he felt a responsibility to and on whose lessons he put such stock in. It made Horoth think of his own lessons and wonder how different these teachers may have been. "You care a great deal." Idly he began pacing about Dal...
  9. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Horoth liked Dal, he spoke his mind and while the Knights often did that they held some things in reserve, chastisement was less given. For himself he held no rank of military office ever before Knight and even then he knew himself to be more of an outsider than anything. Dal gave no more...
  10. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    At this he did turn to look up at Dal, his face relaxed and amused. Being a gladiator he knew a challenge when he heard it. "Anyone can grow lax, not just Knights, but Farmers and Squires too." Patting the stone one final time he let his hand rest on his hip, a habit from the pit to project...
  11. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Open Laying Foundations

    Watching was a skill Horoth knew well. He'd watched people fight to the death many times, watched ships take those sold into the ever onward and had watched Dal make his wall, hour after hour, in silence until it was done. Being of practical thought and observant countenance Horoth did not...
  12. Horoth Chainbreaker

    Horoth Chainbreaker

    A field Sworn of the Knights of Anathaeum. "Let me speak to you of a home you cannot know, of a father who never taught you and a mother who never held you close. Let me tell you of the darkest places in the earth and the darker things men do there. I had killed another before I felt the wind...
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