Differences in The Wandering Inn Interlude – The Antinium Wars (Pt.3)

• and history may yet reveal details that shed new light on the events during and preceding the war.
• It is also true that history requires the remove of years to be viewed in an objective light.
• It is also true that history requires the removal of years to be viewed in an objective light.

• dear readers,
• begins with as it always must,
• begins,
• as it always must,
• with the species that has become the bane of the civilized world,

• the Humans to the north have waxed arrogant,
• untroubled in large from the last war.
• untroubled in large part from the last war.
• Those pompous,

• although it was hard-won.
• The six Antinium Hives and the foothills around their proximity were designated as forbidden zones.
• The six Antinium Hives and the foothills in their proximity were designated as forbidden zones.
• The Drake cities sent regular patrols near the borders of the Hives,

• Speculation would run rife about the Necromancer’s whereabouts and Wistram,
• Speculation would run rife about the Necromancer’s whereabouts,
• and Wistram,
• fearing an attack,

• Klbkch cleared his throat with a dull clicking sound meaningfully.
• Klbkch cleared his throat meaningfully with a dull clicking sound.
• He looked around as Erin tiptoed about,

• seated in the one chair,
• Klbkch folded the book and looked around.
• Klbkch opened the book and looked around.
• The Free Antinium watched him,

• Klbkch!
• IF you perish—”
• If you perish—”

• Klbkch was silent as the two stood together.
• He shook his head slowly as he stared down into the Hive,
• He shook his head slowly as he stared down into the battlefield below,
• where a storm was raining down into the entrance tunnels,

• If we had more variants,
• more Centenium then perhaps we might have won the entire war.
• more Centenium,
• then perhaps we might have won the entire war.
• But we did not.”

• “While the Antinium fought,
• the Necromancer sewed chaos among the Human cities in the north.
• the Necromancer sowed chaos among the Human cities in the north.
• He marched south,

• That is what Az’kerash discovered,
• what he desired above all else?”
• what he desired above all else.”

• The Goblin King landed with the bulk of his forces in Cape Heathshell on the northwestern edge of Izril.
• From there he began invading the Human lands with a fury that exceeded that of both the Antinium and Necromancer alike.
• From there he began invading the Human lands with a fury that exceeded that of the Antinium and Necromancer alike.

• establishing his prowess as a military leader while Lady Magnolia marshaled the rest of the land’s nobility in defense of their home.
• And it was she who implemented a tactic born of sheer desperation as the Goblin Lord’s forces began to overwhelm the city’s defenders.
• And it was she who implemented a tactic born of sheer desperation as the Goblin King’s forces began to overwhelm the city’s defenders.

• She sat up in bed,
• looking around the tent they were sharing in the army’s campgrounds outside of Izril.
• looking around the tent they were sharing in the army’s campgrounds outside of Invrisil.
• The two had come to the battlefield to fight against the Goblin Lord’s army.

• And it came from none of than Zel Shivertail,
• And it came from none other than Zel Shivertail,
• the Tidebreaker himself.