Charge of the Loxodonts

By David Barentine

The Rygem'dor War has begun, locked in battle at the front gates of Henopred. In an attempt to surround Henopred and lay siege, Rygem'dor sends much of its army to circumvent the mountains protecting the city. Only the small opening at Thermotylus provides a safe location to land, however it is being blocked by a small army from Rostheromi.

The Warriors of the Purple Sun and the Tither'rian amazons have banded together, joining the war effort to stop Rygem'dor's massive army at Thermotylus. With all odds against them, Rostheromi's greatest warriors have been charged to hold the pass at Thermotylus, a task that threatens to destroy both sides and will etch their names into history with blood and bronze.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Barentine
• Release date: Mar 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9780985425302

David Barentine

A lover of ancient history, cultures and fantasy, I've been writing for seventeen years now, creating a world in a hodgepodge of history-inspired fantasy cultures and events.

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Charge

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Remembrances of Rostheromi

Charge of the Loxodonts

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Remembrances of Rostheromi

The thunder of the loxodonts enraged the gods, who did despise beasts of burden being used as weapons. The Warriors of the Purple Sun called to Tôgaru’kar and the Tither’rïan amazons called upon Réwen to punish the tribal nation of Rygem’dor. The two gods did converse, and in a union of war blessed their servants with strength to make the Thermotylus River flow early with the blood of Rygem’dor. By their decree, the Spartrakus Sea would be soiled red with the blood of heathens and no one would be able to name a slaughter more vicious than that visited upon Rygem’dor by their servants.

-Héro’daetïus, Remembrances of Rostheromi

Charge of the Loxodonts

Thermotylus, a cove-like area on the shores of the Spartrakus Sea, lay flush against the peninsula of Korrand’s Finger and the rocky Crag. The sky burned red, casting shadows black as pitch into the narrow chasm dissecting the Thermotylus Crag along the bank of the Spartrakus Sea. Steep cliffs molded with sinewy veins of eroded rock towered above; the jagged plateau that overlooked the chasm, pitted by hot springs, poured forth steam that cast hazy rainbows over the twenty-yard width of the crevasse. A small river still flowed through the center of the eroded gorge, the remnant of the winter and spring rainfall that fed the Thermotylus River. Now the river barely sank deeper than an inch, evaporating completely in the hot summers. The gentle river flow hardly made a noise, the clear flow of water only splattering with sound when the hot springs around the chasm erupted and warm rain skittered across its surface.

A new sound disturbed the silent riverbed, a