OOC dont worry I was not panicking I just figured the new job was being more demanding than expected & you missed me being away myself with a stinking cold I ended up having to work through during which I got nothing done.Tepet Agarm is delighted to have some one around who speaks the language of a civilized man even if he is a little disappointed to find that Bob is an outcaste and cant fill him in on all the realm gossip he would like to hear about. He is interested in the manner in which two legions managed to defeat the Bull when the eight he was with failed.
As far as he can tell and he was in the middle of it as a middle ranking commander so was not privy to every thing which happened especially outside his legion but the Bull drew the Tepet legions further north than they intended and manoeuvred them into bad country which favoured his irregulars more than it did the legions offered battle several times and was apparently defeated but not decisively and then once the Tepet legions where separated over a large area of the Icewalker lands over whelmed them individually in well planed ambushes and raids which targeted there supplies and support troops first. He managed to fight his way out but ran into the winter and bands of warriors moving north to join the Bull and without supplies and the time to try to live of the land the inevitable happened.
He suspects that the Bulls repeating his tactics worked against him and that the smaller size of the Realm force made it harder to chop up into dainty morsels. From what Bob knows of the battle where he was killed it apparently took place in open country along the edge of the northern sea and the Bull was killed by a strike group such as the one Bob was involved with at
Ifonaris. To which Tepet Agarm adds that none of his 5th legion saw any thing of the Bull in person and all the fighting was done against mortal or near mortal tribesmen.
Tepet Agarm is interested in events in the east but can shed little information on it though he is saddened at the loss of Thorns which was a valuable Realm satrapy in an unfriendly area. What little he has heard of Mask of Winter in the underworld suggests that he is amongst the weaker of the Deathlords and may be trying to build a power base in creation he cant in the underworld.
Tepet Agarm is not sure of the Bulls reasons for making war beyond the hatred of the Anathema for the righteous, and indeed most of the Tepet legion officers he spoke to before going to the north thought he was another Lunar anathema Like
sleeves of war against who the realm fought
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