the departures, and those who stayed/meeting with ordhelm

*Through Archos's mind ran many thoughts as his troops began boarding the many ships, and men were pulled from every standard who would remain behind to ensure no WO army managed to make a second landing on such hard won territory*

*would he return the land he had won, to the Mutiny Alliance? When he landed in Galen Thal, would he keep that and set up his kingdom anew. These were questions he had no answer to, he knew that someday he would found a new Empire within the east, but he did not know if this was that time. he shook his head. he would contemplate this more during the journey, now, he had arrangements to make. a small relief force was dispatched to tsana dragonesti, and a score of messengers were dispatched to cypress, to let him know that the Empire would come to aid in crushing the WO on their front. he cursed when he heard of the WO's victory over the callinthians. and briefly he considered sending a part of his own forces to give them aid in a second push. but he decided against it, he would not spread his army thin. he would need every man elf dwarf and dragon for the taking of Galen Thal.

The illusion would work he was certain, both ships seemed to be loaded, but in the dwarven ships, that went well below the sea, a passage way existed, that would permit troops to travel from one ship to the next in secrecy, and so, even should spies witness it, they would have no notion of what they were actually seeing, and none would be so foolish as to use magecraft, as even the crudest mage could detect quiet magic if he were watching, and Archos was no crude mage, and he was always on the watch when on campaign*

*seeing that his wishes had been attended to, he went to the command tent where Ord was waiting for him, a personal discussion? Archos had a notion as to what it might be in regards to, but he could not be certain. Ordhelm and Ordell were more unpredictable now than they once were*

thou wished to speak with me Ordhelm?