Sigfrud

## Before the departure of the children of Diuran

Sigfrud was born the youngest of the children, 17 years later than the twins Nior and Frundel. Frundel would have already slain a Wyvern by the time Sigfrud was born. In her early days as a child and early teen, Sigfrud resided mostly in the halls of Karandrir inside the mountains. She grew up believing she stood above the people, she believed that her heritage would make her life easy without any problems. She believed as youngest of the five she would be able to reside in the beautiful city of Karandrir living without troubles and enjoying life. In her later years as a teen, she matured slighly going out sometimes with Eleandel to see the plains beyond the city.

When her 18th birthday approached her dad Diuran called upon all the children and told them of their duties to settle in new places and found new great realms for the Niormyrs. This debate happened 4 months a head of the departure of the children, and of all 5 Sigfrud was the one who had no idea what she had to do in all of this. Her dad Diuran knew that she was young and unknowing, so he prepared a small army for her and a small group of people that would have to follow her into the Mountains of Broken Stone, where the western arm of the Lake of Five pointed at. He told Frundel that her city would become a smaller partnering city to Karandrir, she was not labored with travelling far and into unknown regions. He also ordered his best commander to train her in battle, even serving with Frundel briefly in the army in the last month before they departed. In a very small period she grew maturer and became a capabel warrior nowhere near all the trained soldiers, but one who could wield a sword capable enough to slay an orc or goblin

## After the departure of the children of Diuran

Like all other children of Diuran, also Sigfrud set out West traveling high up into the Mountains of Broken Stone. Her travels would go smooth as they travelled by paths cleared by Frundel in the months prior to the departure. No troubles found them, beside one time where a small group of wolves attacked them. In this battle Sigfrud joined the fighting, slaying one of the beasts with a clean cut after which the rest of the pack flew the battlefield and where never seen again upon their travel.

However the roads grew traitorous the further they went on, walking many leagues over the mountains on which very little amount of Dwarves had passed for maybe a couple soldiers who cleared the mountains with Frundel, but most of them remained closer to the city. A month passed in which the following lost their paths often, walking circles in the mountains, causing thoughts of mutiny among the followers. But before there would come a mutiny their paths went down to the slopes of the range at which a small forest lay with next to it a large ocean, stretching far beyond sight. paths appeared closer as if life would be near, but they soon found out it were no friends of them that lived here. out of tunnels in the mountains came a large host of goblins at night who attacked the following of Sigfrud by surprise. The battle grew ill quick as many fell to the blades of the goblins.

The host of Goblins that attacked them was fierce and strong and knew their enemy as these goblins had encountered the soldiers of Frundel in the mountains in the years before the departure. Their wrath was strong and merciless as their hate for the dwarves had grown by the years. The coming of a child of Diuran who was fragile and not prepared was an opportunity the goblins did not slip. Their force was at least 5 times the size to that of Sigfrud. The host of Dwarves tried to stand against their enemy but their hope of winning this battle quickly turned ill as they were outnumbered and their leader did not knew how to command an army well. Many of the soldier left the fight fleeing to the shores of the sea, and some also east in the hopes to find the city of Karandrir again. Sigfrud eventually fell to two arrows, one to the should and one that pierced her knee. The goblins did not kill her but dragged her defenseless body into the tunnels in the mountain where she would never return from. Stories tell that she found a gruesome dead in the tunnels of the goblins. The battle would be named after the screams the stories tell of Sigfrud when she got dragged into the tunnels screaming out for help she would never get. The battle was named '*The Battle of the Screaming Trees*'.

The soldiers and people that fled the battlefield were devided in two groups, both small in number as 80% pf the company had perished in the battle of screaming trees.

* **Those who returned to Karandrir**: these men found their city again, but not mercy as they were met by a devistated king Diuran who cursed them all for abandoning his youngest girl in battle. All of these men where set on boats and cast into the Lake of Five ith a stone to their leg. None of them were ever seen again.
* **Those that turned their back to Karandrir and went west**: They who followed the coast and did not sought after Karandrir again went to the shores of the western ocean and followed in north, settleing in the north western plains of the river Cub, undisturbed by the rest of the world.