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Incidentally, My Lord Historian, it appears that Horgan
performed well among the scouts. He mentions that he
held the rank of captain and was assigned to patrol the
most remote areas of the realm. He was one of the few
dwarves who worked alone.
His words tell us of the way his service changed in the
years preceding 92 PC. He patrolled the mountains as
always, alert for human incursion. But lately there had
come another foe, one that presented a grave threat to the
lonely scouts, isolated in their posts on the frontier.
Ogres. For long years the dull humanoids had avoided
the mountains, since the inherent hatred between ogre and
dwarf ran deep and universal among both races. The
dwarves, with greater organization and led by heroic
fighters, had banished the ogres in earlier centuries, but
now they came again, fleeing from the even greater
menace of the Kingpriest's bounty hunters. Those ruthless
killers sought them out, together with hobgoblins,
minotaurs, and other creatures that had been branded as
"evil" by the ruler of Istar. The scalps and skulls of these
unfortunate beings - including females and young - were
taken to Istar, where a handsome bounty would be paid in
the name of the gods
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