The Threian countryside was not what the warriors had expected.
The orcish territories were defined by the relationship between the land and the creatures that inhabited it, terrain shaped by wind and rain and centuries of slow geology. The Threian frontier was something else entirely. Fields stretched in ordered rectangles, their boundaries marked by stone walls and wooden fences that divided the earth into parcels reflecting ownership rather than geography. Roads connected settlements built from quarried stone and milled timber, structures whose permanence spoke of generations of occupation. Orchards stood in disciplined rows. Irrigation channels carried water in directions nature had not intended.
