Fatal omens

Usage examples of wraiths.

Earth Tree Grove, chewed into bloody fragments by the Skraeling wraiths as Azhure stood by, horrified, unable to act through her own terror.

For as far back as tribal memory stretched the Skraeling wraiths had existed.

Screaming for me to ride to his rescue, screaming my name as the wraiths chewed the flesh from his bones.

The Skraelings had sheltered him and loved him, but Gorgrael had led a miserable life among the silly wraiths until the day that, scampering across a small ice field, he had seen the cloaked figure striding towards him.

No doubt these Destroyer-driven wraiths now mass to eat the rest of my realm while you lounge about my court!

If the bands of Skraelings were relatively small, the wraiths were vicious and the fighting bitter, and his patrol had come home smaller than it had left.

Instead of attacking as they preferred, in a great mass of writhing, nibbling teeth and claws that panicked and overwhelmed most opponents, the wraiths were forced into pits and traps.

He had numerous thousands of Skraelings to work with, and he had learned early that it was better to use the wraiths in concentrated attacks than mass surges down the entire width of the WildDog Plains.

His wraiths had orders to retrieve any arrows and bring them back to the SkraeBold.

The Skraeling wraiths, massing in southern Ichtar since autumn, had finally begun their push south during Snow-month, but their efforts and determination had increased dramatically in the past three weeks.

Ichtar, the wraiths making way for their massive and obscenely bulging bodies.

Having been the crucial factor in the collapse of Gorkentown, vomiting their loads of Skraeling wraiths over the fortified walls, the IceWorms were again proving devastating here in Jervois Landing.

The defenses rested on the system of canals siphoning the Skraelings into narrow areas where the wraiths could be more easily attacked and killed than if men had been forced to fight them in open spaces.

They were winning the battle in the WildDog Plains for me and I hope that they can turn the tide of wraiths at Jervois Landing.

But this was dangerous, very dangerous, for both SkraeBolds and Gryphon learned quickly to await that moment when a significant number of the Icarii had landed, their eyes to the ground searching for arrows among the disintegrating Skraeling wraiths, and then launch an attack.