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As the winter gets very cold very quickly, a large ice bridges forms in the north. There is a giant island up north, Frosthaven, and that’s the home of thousands of frost giants.
2000 Frost Giants move across the ice to the mainland. They break into 20 raiding parties of 100 giants each, with about half moving south towards the halfling holds and the other half moving south east towards the edge of the Norwold territory, in a line for Alzar’s Barony.
They move 6 hexes every 7 days, so every week they move six hexes.
They began moving out from their island on the last few days of the end of fall. They crossed the hundreds of miles of ice, and then arrived at the mainland on the 10th day of this month. After 8 days of moving, an elf hold noticed them
On the 19th day of the month, Alzar receives a guest in his court – Claransa the Seer teleports into his hold at Evenarrow and lets him know about the oncoming frost giant onslaught. But they have some time. Alzar teleports to Barkal the Red to give his barbarians a warning a few weeks ahead of schedule.
The next day, Alzar decides to hit one band early, to slow them down. He scrys the front band moving southeast in his general direction and he teleports over to a spot a few miles away and he prepares a surprise.
Over the next few minutes he creates a nice sized army from the surrounding rock, ice, and air:
3 Earth Elementals (From 2x stones, and one spell)
2 Water Elemental (Ring, Spell)
1 Air Elemental (Censer)
1 Earth, Air, Water – all 16 HD double size (From Face of Xenous)
Invisible Stalker
Ebony Fly, Serpentine Owl
5 berserkers (from Horn of Valhalla)
2 Mordenkainen’s Faithful Shield-Maidens
He also has Aegis, the golem available pulled out of the Warp Marble, as a final bodyguard.
The frost giants enter range, and a few begin to grab nearby boulders to toss and others charge.
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