General Snowe fortified the dominion.
The Snowe family's estates occupied approximately forty square miles centered on Snowehaven, the ancestral seat whose stone walls and defensive towers had been built by the general's grandfather and maintained by six generations. The town's permanent garrison of eight hundred soldiers was peacetime staffing, not the garrison that twenty thousand dwarven-armed barbarians required.
Snowe requisitioned every able-bodied man between sixteen and fifty. The militia numbered twenty-two hundred. He armed them with the dominion's armory: boomsticks from the estate's hunting stocks, spears, swords from the family smithy. The boomstick ammunition was the hunting ammunition that the dominion's population had stockpiled for decades of sport and pest control, not military supply. It would do.
"They are farmers," his aide said, watching the militia drill.
