"Dennis L. McKiernan - Hell's Crucible 2 - Into the Fire" - читать интересную книгу автора (McKiernan Dennis L)

instead ran to get a healer, another Warrow, Beau Darby. When they
got back to the mill, the man's throat had been cut by Spawn who had
come while Tip was away, Foul Folk whose tracks then headed on
westward into the Dellin Downs.
As Tip and Beau built a pyre on which to cremate all of the slain, a
balefire burned afar on Beacontor, calling for muster.
Men from the nearby town of Twoforks, seeing the smoke of the
funeral pyre, came to investigate and, together with the Warrows. they
discovered that the dead man's slain horse bore the brand of the High
King.
Believing a Kingsman's mission more important than a wee Warrow
joining the muster at Beacontor, Tip decided to take the coin east to
Agron, whoever or whatever it might be.
Beau chose to join Tip on the journey, and they set out eastward and
within the week entered Drearwood, a dismal and forbidding place. On
the very first night in that dreadful forest they saw a great Horde of Foul
Folk marching to the west.
 On the second day, as darkness fell, a freezing rain began, and it
lasted all night; when daylight came, Drear-wood was sheathed in ice.
Slipping and sliding, they pushed on, making little progress on the thick
glaze. In the night there was an attack on their camp by a huge monster
only half-seen in the dark: the ponies were killed, but Tip and Beau
managed to escape.
Afoot, they attempted to sneak through the rest of Drearwood, and
more than once they barely escaped discovery by searching bands of
Foul Folk.
Weary and hungry beyond measure, as they reached the far fringes
of Drearwood they were ambushed and captured, but it was by a band
of Lian Guardians, Elven warriors, led by Vanidor.
Vanidor told them that Agron was the king of Aven, a realm beyond
the Grimwall Mountains. Vanidor assigned an Elf named Loric to take
them to the Lian strongholt of Arden Vale, where they could tell Lord
Talarin of the things they'd seen.
Upon reaching Arden Vale, Talarin and other Elves told . the
Warrows that Modru, a powerful Black Mage in Gron, j had been
gathering Foul Folk: they were pouring across the "in-between," coming
into Mithgar on the Middle Plane from Neddra on the Lower. It was
also rumored that Modru wooed Dragons to his cause.
Talarin assigned Loric and a female Lian, Phais, to accompany the
Warrows to Dendor, the capital city of Aven.: But it was yet winter, and
so they waited for the spring thaw to clear the way through the Grimwall
Mountains.
On Springday, Eloran, a Dylvana Elf, arrived from Adonar to report
that Adon had sundered the in-between way; from Neddra to Mithgar.
Eloran also confirmed that Modru of Gron had indeed started a wide
war, and that High King Blaine was calling for an alliance of men, Elves,
Dwarves,! and Mages to fight this great threat.
The Elves blamed the evil god Gyphon for this war, saying that
Modru was but His servant, and if Modru conquered Mithgar, then
Gyphon would displace Adon as the master of all creation.