[h2]Sir Tyaethe Radistirin[/h2]

There was no doubt as to where the paladin was going to be found in the instance of a charge: right at the forefront, taking full advantage of a sword nearly long enough to double as a lance, ploughing through an orc... and then seemingly making one of the most novice errors possible in a charge and being thrown from her horse. Of course, to call it a novice error would imply that it was unintentional, as the paladin rose to her feet, raising the orc she'd run through and flinging it aside into the carnage.

And kept going. The others would be able to cut through the mass of orcs easily in time, Tyaethe was only interested in bringing down their trolls. Those [i]could[/i] do some damage if they were all allowed to get in close... which meant getting to them as quickly as possible. Something made harder if she stopped to cut down each and every foe that got in the way.

So she employed a tactic more at home in a crowd or a brawl, elbowing and shoving her way deeper into the chaotic mass. She was stronger than the orcs, heavier than them--and those that tried to hit her from the front found that she could still smash the shield into them hard enough to crunch bones. Anything that turned around to hit her from behind? Almost guaranteed to get killed by the rest on her side. Shockingly, before she had reached the trolls, something seemed to manage the implausible--piercing armour and body, though not so much as to be incapacitating... and was ignored. Orc or some of the magic falling around her, it mattered not. She was at her destination.

With her sword gouging into the troll's leg, the paladin looked up. Time to refresh her memory on how tough these things really were.

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[h2]Lilianna Belwiss[/h2]

As embarrassing as it was to be sidelined so easily, there was just no way around it--she was [i]not[/i] suited for cavalry charges, or fighting mounted at all. Chasing a fleeing foe to run them down, or harassing archers were more in line with her abilities. This massed charge at infantry would have put her in mortal peril whilst contributing almost nothing... and so, she had been positioned back with the mages, keeping an eye out for any orcs that might slip by--or any reinforcements that might come up.

It certainly gave a front row seat to the magic.