The fortress horns hit first, two long blasts from the ramparts that rolled across the valley and pressed against the chaos already filling it.
Void felt the gates beneath the shattered barrier swing wide, despite her eyelids being closed. Blacksteel infantry poured out in columns four abreast while the cannon batteries above adjusted their aim to the plains and opened fire into the melee.
The plains beyond the tear opened by Kaede had gone past battle into slaughter.
Undead surged through in waves that never thinned, rotting bodies throwing themselves at anything alive with the expendability of things already spent, and behind them thousands of dwarven elite infantry in full blacksteel plate marched in formations so tight the shield wall looked like a single organism, war hymns rising from their throats.
