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You promote Iwald as the member of royal family to send the forces with. He is young, but his innate skill will help. You give him Lakemetal Tunic to ward off any potential dwarven witchcraft.
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A week later you receive first news; the main body of dwarven force from Ankurvat has met with Methiant Army. It was a mighty battle, and despite the fact that the Dwarves had quite a few, quite frightening, tricks up their sleeves, the battle ended in minor victory for Iwald and at least two thousands of casualties on both sides.
The mysterious devices, whilst none destroyed or captured, are now known to your soldiers; apparently, some wicked dwarven magic fuels the pyramids, which then fire off a bolt of purple energy upon enemy Army; shortly afterwards, powerful but localized tremors rend up the earth, knocking people up and swallowing those who had the unfortunate distinction of falling down. Your officers are pretty sure that any Methiantese castle currently standing would turn to cheese after just few attacks of these fearsome magical siege engines, even if it seems that those tremor machines require up to several minutes to power and/or 'reload'.
The dwarven lizard cavalry has also been thoroughly 'studied' on the battlefield; these seem more like ceremonial mounts, as those six-legged, gaudily-colored (mostly in oranges, yellows and purples) reptiles, while large and menacing, are nothing compared to swiftness of a horse or ferocity of Agaresian lizards (which are smaller, faster and several times more vicious).
Exactly two mornings after the report, a messenger brings reply from King Cidric; he shall honor the treaty and is preparing to send four thousand of best Cydwyllian cavalry to help you against the dwarves.
And few hours later you get news from northwest; the Zonalath force has crushed several attempts by local militia to put up any resistance. Two border keeps were quickly turned to ruin by the tremor machines and the men garrisoning them were either killed in battle or captured for slavery.
Your courtiers clamor for more to be done to counter this terrifying invasion. Cidric's reinforcements are surely en route, but still...
A) Time to call up Lametanians!
B) Nah, they will do for now.
Some even believe we should seek help from less trusted neighbours in these desperate times...
A) Let's ask Alldivine Cloisters to provide warrior-priests in return for lavish donations!
B) Let's message the Parsians, maybe King Shapur V can be enticed to send aid.
C) Let's not involve especially these people in our wars.
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