Tuesday July 21, Rhi'anon
I am not a coward. I think that my actions over the last seventeen years
prove this. Yet I was relieved to not be among those chosen to die.
In four hours, just after sunrise, the twenty-two hundred survivors of the
Legion will attack Balor's fortress. Those men will surely die. There are
perhaps half a million of the enemy between here and the stronghold.
Alric left at dusk, alone. The old maps, he says, all show a World Knot in
Rhi'anon, though it has never been used in our time. He intends to find it and
bring through a hundred picked men to a point he believes will be almost on top
of the fortress. From there we go after Balor.
We have watched a dim comet grow brighter each night until now it is visible
by day, and at night brighter than the moon. Some of the men have taken it as an
omen for ill, but only the next few days will tell.
Before he left, Alric told us that Madrigal had fallen.