Orders for Ernst Goltz

Journal entry

 * Ernst, stay away from Deadwight Wood. Forest’s full of overgrown wolves and the ground emits some kind of rancid gas. Plus a week or so back I sent a detachment of men there. Told them they were to do bit of reconnaissance, but that was all hogwash. We’d finished scouting that place out long ago and know the Wood's a deadly trap. That’s why I gathered up the worst of my lot, the ones who don’t do a lick of good to make up for the cost of feeding them, and sent them to a certain death. I know, I hear you asking: is it a dolt’s fault he’s a dolt? Well, these cretins could prove a serious threat to us in battle. During the last skirmish with Radovid’s reapers, two of those idiots failed to recognize our emblems on our shields in the heat of battle and attacked our own men. Which makes me wonder if those numbskulls ever even made it to that wood...


 * M.