#daily reminder that I got bullied out of studying free arts/literature

[thousandbuns]

Another OC lore dump, this time focused on Sandor's backstory.

(The only small addition I have in retrospect is that Hellmaws can't return to their fortress-world... because they already did that and found it to be a shelled, ashen ruin, equally destroyed by the Imperial attack and the good ol' "blow your positions up and deny the whole place to the enemy" trick that Iron Warriors love to pull off, meaning the main force was either destroyed or retreated to an unknown place. Hellmaws' brass was initially too stubborn to simply return to Medrengard and regroup under another warsmith's command, but their attempts to track down the fleet failed and gradually eroded their own force; by the time they made contact with the Opened Eye and its Lord-Sorcerer, a particularly bad run-in with enemy forces left them a skeleton crew stranded on a ruined voidship - and once they pledged allegiance to the Eye to save themselves and perhaps bargain with the warlock to help them find their allies, they would no longer operate with the same level of autonomy, and ultimately ended up being betrayed anyway.)