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Being an Account of the Dispossession of the Torviril
And of Their Coming to the North
As Told by the Orcs of Kiltor, that was once called Kilvas
Ten centuries ago was the time of the Torviril, who fished the near coast of Kellsith, the great southern land. There they swam the rivers and seas, and sailed their boats and took fish with hooks and spears of carved shell and bone. And knew the ways of the sea that was their living and their second home.
To the west stood the ancient city Ethvknan, the Wonder-Place. The Ethvkemil spoke not to the Torviril, and the Torviril knew only that the city had stood there since time immemorial, and that the Ethvkemil could work wonders far beyond their ability to comprehend.
Then came the Xorestoil, the black-willed ones. An army of creatures, with the hairless, green-mottled hide of a beach-runner, but tall, and cunning, and blood-hungry. They came out of the east and fell upon Ethvknan and razed it to the ground. And the Torviril were terrified, for how they could withstand a force that could destroy such beings. They fought as best they could, but tribe after tribe fell before that implacable army, until whole villages fled at their coming rather than stand to fight in hopelessness.
