And so, thanks to all his nitpicking, the wealthy Yu Lin Bloodhawk had still failed to put together his own land cavalry force. Still, the crafty profiteer had never abandoned the idea!
High Elf lives were precious. Just how precious? Precious enough that a rich man like Yu Lin Bloodhawk figured that if all his troops were cavalry, at least they could move fast on the battlefield-and flee for their lives just as fast! Look at that! Even his original reason for forming a cavalry force was so remarkably different from everyone else's!
After Yu Lin Bloodhawk had inspected the defenses several times, the centaurs still had not arrived. So he went back into the cave to watch Old Charlatan and the other clerics and mages install the Portal.
Old Charlatan had made installing the Portal sound incredibly easy, but it was actually a very complicated process. Even now, they had only laid the foundations. Yu Lin Bloodhawk wanted to stay a little longer, but Old Charlatan thought he was getting in the way and kept shooing him off. Left with no choice, Yu Lin Bloodhawk slunk away to inspect the passage blocked by the quilboar.
Sounds had begun coming from the cave passage the quilboar had blocked, though they were still faint. On top of that, the rangers helping the mages install the Portal were hammering away at the floor with a tremendous racket.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk was certain that if they could hear the quilboar moving the stones, the quilboar must also be able to hear the clanging from their Portal installation. He therefore summoned the commander of the City Lord's Household Guard and told him to assign the guard's best fighters specifically to defend the cave passages on both sides.
The caves were not particularly narrow, but