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Chapter 1: The beginning
The sounds of the birds came to a rest as the sun started disappearing behind a mountain range. The shadows grew larger as the day came to an end. The weather had been very clear that day. Normally Lyrish people would have found this the perfect day to go out and have fun with friends and family or to bask in the last sunlight of the day. But this wasn’t the case these days. Hurried footsteps, the sounds of hammers hitting metal and lots of other different sounds could be heard troughout the giant city. Lyr was at war. The brave queen Tyria had been brutally killed by what could be nobody else than the fire tribes. The fire tribes however were furious about these accusations and started an all out war against the frost kingdom. They sent wave after wave of troops to the frost kingdom and had gotten al the way to Lyr. Months had passed since the siege of Lyr began but Lyr had withstood all attacks so far. The south of Lyr was were the real fighting was happening since the lands were very plain. The biggest and strongest fire elementals and their leaders had been sent there. Thousands of creatures were fighting the brave defenders of the walls. The west and east gate were a little more difficult to get to since a mountain range made it harder to climb up. The northeren gate was left untouched so far. This was perfect as food, water and other resources could be brought into Lyr from the villages up north. Rumours were spread around that some shadowy figures were recruiting frost warriors to join the shadow army who were at war with the nature creatures. It was said they were very violent but Lyr was to busy with their own war to aid the north right now. This however did slow down the resource flow into Lyr since extra guards had to be used to aid the carts journey to Lyr. Kobold Engineers worked day and night and put the resources to good use building majestic structures and helpfull fighters such as Ironclads and Constructs. Ironclads had been improved since the Twilight war and had stronger guns, extra armor and more magic resistance. It was however very time consuming to build Ironclads so not many had been build since the war started and the ones made had sufferd heavy damage from the enemy. The Battleship docks did a bit better. Located in the middle walls of Lyr founded by the Hero king Rogan Kayle himself they had build numerous battleships that withstood most enemy attacks. The war was taking its toll on everyone hate grew as the war went on.
Chapter 2: The ashes
Kaylen Storm named after the great hero Rogan Kayle looked around the mountains for any sign of a possible attack. He had been sent to guard duty even though he is part of a kobold engineer duo. It had been 12 days since the last attack on the west wall of Lyr and since every structure around was in perfect shape there wasn’t much left for him to do around here. As he saw nothing that could point to a possible attack he sat back down on his chair and looked over the west part of Lyr. Beautifull as ever it seemed as no war was going on in the direction of the centre of the city. This changed however when he looked down at the area around the gate. 10 Worldbreaker guns stood towering over houses their giant barrels shining in the sunlight pointing in the direction of the mountains. Kaylen had always loved working on worldbreaker guns they made him feel powerfull. Looking at the gate itself he saw two old rusty Ironclads who dated all the way back to the Twilight wars. Kaylen had been working on repairing them in his spare time not that he had a lot of it these days. He had only been able to get the guns working so far. This way they would still be usefull in a fight. There were squads of master archers marching around. The sound of hooves of the Lyrish knight could be heard as they trained. “Typical sounds around a military camp in Lyr” Kaylen tought. He wonderd what his kobold partner Dragnya was doing at this time. “Probably something more interesting than this” Kaylen sighed to himself. “Oh well it is almost time for the change of guards anway. After the sun has fully gone down that mountain I’ll be done. So I guess I’ll just have to hold out about 15 to 20 minutes more” Kaylen thought to himself. “Ahoy up there “ a familiar voice yelled at him happy. Looking down Kaylen saw Jenna a childhood friend who was a Winter Witch. Her main job was putting magic protection on structures and creating blizzards in attacks. “Heya down there” Kaylen yelled back. “Wanna go for a drink later” she asked. “Sure” Kaylen replied. But before he could finish the word he saw something black falling down. It was some sort of a black snow. More started falling as Kaylen quickly sprung up and looked around the mountains. The earth started shaking softly and the noice of engines grew louder. “What is it, what do you see?” Jenna asked with a tone of alarm in her voice”. “Fire tribe attack” he replied quietly. Next he yelled it on the top of his lungs. It was like he had gone deaf it wasn’t for the growing sound of engines. Everyone seemed to have frozen. The next second everyone started running and yelling. There Kaylen saw it, atleast 20 Thunder tanks were rolling it’s way up the passage to the gate surrounded by hundereds of smaller fire troops in a cloud of smoke and ashes.