The Battles of the Paderborn Keep

The battle began at dawn, with the darkness mitigating the ability of either force to shoot one another. As Samhain's forces maneuvered towards a flank, the gibbering hordes of the flesh eater courts gambered in the same direction. The slavering beasts loped along the ground, and while the forces of Samhain’s warriors moved to intercept them the capering movement meant that the forces were unable to engage one another before dawn’s rays broke the treeline.

The morning dawned with a thick mist settled over the land, roiling clouds almost like animate forces. Gaps allowed light in, but between the dust put into the air by the massive troops, the mist, and the occasional light made for a kaleidoscopic effect. The eerie growls and roars of the deranged ghouls led the entire scene a nightmarish feeling. As the battle began, disciplined ranks cut into the ghouls with ease.

However, the leader came in on his tatter winged mount. The slavering commander tore into a regiment of Samhain’s troops, and the battle began to swing in the ghoul favor. With redoubled strength, they cut through more and more of the warriors until there was but a small core of warriors alongside Samhain. The ghoul king attacked Samhain, perhaps interested in the glittering armor the warrior wore. The battle raged for near an hour, but in the end fortune carried Samhain’s blade into a strike that took the foe. In his absence, the warriors were unable to mount a unified defense. Slowly, the last deathriders of Samhain ground forward, their relentless discipline telling in the final account.

As the day wore on, Samhain was forced to split from the deathriders, as there were multiple objectives they would need to route the ghouls from in order to carry the battle. While the deathriders were able to launch a crushing assault which easily saw them clear, Samhain was buried in combat by a horde of ghouls. He hacked his way through, moving up to the point, but eventually the beasts pulled him from his mount. On foot, he slew enough that the rest fled, and the battlefield fell silent.