All hail noble ladies and gentlemen!

Horrible years have past in Schmiedefeld. Since the peace treaty with the „Hopliten“ has been signed and also the orcs have shown up only seldom, our life has become more comfortable. The blacksmiths and carpenters work hard without fear of the morning and so the wealth grows steadily in Erzlande. Alberich recruited more scholars and so the investigations on different fields are processing.
Since we have sold our ships to other lords, I see with increased regularity white canvas on the horizon when I'm on the top of the Kupferzinnen and look to the sea. I'm a little bit proud that many seafaring realms use ships from our prodction to cruise the seas and to discover new countries. Already a few times foreign lords from other islands stopped by us and so we were able to find new trade partners who are interested into our goods. Several times I saw man-o'-war equipped with rows of long oars to help to get a high speed. With the ships also some maps from other island aquired to Alberich which I immediately added to the enormous collection of scrolls which are treasured in the library next to my office.
Thats why I know now that there exist substantial bigger islands than Eternia. For example, Anorien, the island where the lords Brightblade and Heinrich live, is literally gigantic in contrast to our home island. But there are also little, quiet places where just eight or ten lords live.
Lately I heard many a time about Lord Egberg who lives on the island Minhiriat. On this island several lords live there together in peace but they suffer under the attacks of orcs. For a long time we haven't been able to learn much about Minhiriat, because the lords there don't want to reveal a lot about their home.
This Egbert has one of the biggest realms on this island and fights again and again bravely against these green hordes. Thereby he also helps lords with little realms to liberate from the holding attack by the orcs, because they are almost not able to defend themselves. Lord Lionheart, one member of our alliance who settled down in Minhiriat as I wrote this before, has really much luck to establish his new realm in this neighbourhood. Everywhere outside of Minhiriats everybody is full of praise for Egbert's heroic deployment and so I notify here that a big armament can see use not only in devastation, but also help and protection for other countries.