The Horde marched at the second hour past midnight.
More than seven thousand warriors in the night march formation that the campaign's operations had refined across four months of continuous movement through hostile territory. The formation's silence was the silence that the Horde's operational discipline produced when the operation's requirements demanded the silence that detection's prevention required: boots placed on earth rather than stone where the terrain allowed, equipment secured against rattling, the Rhakaddons' hooves wrapped in the cloth that muffled the beasts' massive footfalls, the warg cavalry's handlers maintaining the animals' silence with the specific commands that warg cavalry used for stealth movement.
