[Campaign Day 7]
Vaelthyr's fire-warriors arrived at the Ashwall on the war's seventh day — three days after the secondary wall's fall, deployed from the Cinderlands' garrison at forced march speed because Boreth's situation assessment had downgraded the southern front from "manageable" to "critical" and the escalation from "critical" required the kingdom's most destructive ground force.
The Cinder Corps numbered 8,000 — Pyreist-blessed warriors from the Cinderlands' volcanic territories, trained in a combat doctrine whose philosophical foundation could be summarized in four words burn everything that moves. The Corps' soldiers were not standard infantry. They were fire-warriors — individuals whose divine connection to Vaelthyr's Flame and Stone domains produced physical alterations that set them apart from every other military unit in the kingdom's order of battle.
