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It is said that the Great War did not start with a klaxon alarm or the blare of trumpets but with the groans and whimpers of a merchant dying on the Forest Road. Travelers from Khazarad to Silvermere were sometimes accosted by bandits on the Swampside Path but for the most part the Dwarven Guardsmen and Gnomish patrols kept the path safe. Above the Cliff however the story was much different. Traveling parties and even militia from Silvermere were being ambushed by hidden archers and groups of well armed thieves and 
rogues. The Kings Governor in the new city of Silvermere, one Humpfrey Lionheart by name, was well aware that this increased banditry threatened a major link between the newly formed Council of the Five Kingdoms and had sent daily couriers to Port Blackwater by way of the newly completed Western Road. Humpfrey was astounded to hear by way of a "Kings Runner" that the High King himself was coming to Silvermere. What the good Governor would soon learn was that the King was coming in force with his entire entourage and that the Kings 
Scriers had foreseen a great doom looming near Silvermere.

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