Corin's Crossing was an important town and transportation hub north of the vast Lake Miredal in the eastern Tirisfal Glades of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. It linked Quel'Thalas and the kingdom's jewel, the Stratholme region, to the north; Tyr's Hand to the east; and Darrowshire, Andorhal, and the royal capital of Lordaeron in the western Tirisfal Glades to the west.
In the past,
before the plague broke out, whether they were supply caravans coming from Andorhal, Alterac, Hinterlands, Silverpine Forest, and other places to the west, or goods produced in the Stratholme region to the north, specialties from Quel'Thalas, minerals, or merchants, they all had to pass through Corin's Crossing and were accustomed to resting here. Thanks to this advantage, what had originally been a small village gradually grew into the little town it was now.
Although this place was extremely important to the Kingdom of Lordaeron and lay on the main route of the King's Road, unfortunately...
This vital town, crucial to both the economy and the military, had been built on a vast, flat plain. Apart from the houses lining the roads, it had no walls at all, nor any defensible terrain or fortifications.
And this was the desperate predicament currently facing Paladin Davy Crawford and the forces he had gathered over the past few days, including the witch Hermione, Harry, Pheobe, and everyone else.
Because,
as night fell, they had only just taken Corin's Crossing from a scattered group of Undead during the day. They hadn't yet had time to settle the refugees or prepare their defenses when they were shocked to discover that, at some point, they had been surrounded inside the town by a terrifying Undead force at least ten times their size!
"!!"
"Where are the barricades? Move them over here!"
"Hurry! Warriors of