Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Benalor/The World Engine (section)

=To Siege a Mountain=
Soon after the identification was made, one of the walking mountain's massive legs reached up and swiped at the flying machines, taking down a number of them with the one strike. To the remainder who evaded the attack, they recorded audio of Siev claiming his dominion on the mountains of Benalor, the "World Engine" as his throne. As the Recon Brigade retreated, so did Siev into one of the walking mountain's caverns. What ensued was a barrage of assaults to take the behemoth down before it reached the populated areas of the Ebony Tower and the communities spread around it. Waves of flying battle machines emptied entire arsenals of munitions into the craggy golem, all before flying carrier machines dropped regiments of soldiers upon the walking mountain. The soldiers scoured through the caves in search of Siev, only to run into packs of soulless, smaller golems that ripped through them like a hot knife through butter. Throughout the course of days, the battle raged on, the World Engine slowly but surely making its way to its target, the Ebony Tower, where the evacuees within the subterranae heard the rumblings grow steadily louder and felt the earth shake around them more and more.

With munitions and soldiers going to waste on the mountain and quickly running out of options, the military was approached by one of their own, a retired general by the name of '''Trausten Scyld'''. Though retired, the former general maintained a sense of youth and vigor with both his body and attitude. He was best known for leading his Beneloran forces to defend the western fort at '''Minaumec''' (present-day Minnamack) against a Drakonid invasion, even though they were terribly outnumbered in the offensive. Reluctantly, the military took Scyld upon his offer, temporarily reinstating his commission as a general in order to give him more freedom in doing so. Unsurprisingly, Scyld got in contact with soldiers who were under his command at Minaumec, but he also got in contact with Rickol at the College. Whatever was making the mountain move, it was the work of Siev's highly advanced Shaping - he was indeed credited in the presentation about the Work Engines, after all. He would need someone with a similar caliber of Shaping to reverse it.

All other units were pulled back and two more carrier machines flew towards the mountains, a swarm of lesser golems waiting for the soldiers to drop. From one of the ships came Scyld and his troops, making their way with only their sturdy armor and broad shields - no traditional weapon outside of ship-mounted cannons could even damage, much less destroy, a golem. After the men forced their way into one of the caverns, said cannons cut loose, creating a cloud of mountain ash in their wake. As the landing zone was secured, the second machine landed there, dropping off Rickol surrounded by a retinue of similarly shielded soldiers, taking on the next wave of golem attacks as they trudged into the caverns behind Scyld's advance party. The fate of Benalor was in their hands.