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“Say you’ve got people getting tired of the war. Then you get a bunch of goblins showing up and wiping out a whole human village. Do you think those people are still going to be tired of it?”
Nessilka scowled. “That’s politics, Murray.”
“Well, yeah. Lotta people die of politics.”

“Perhaps we could go in disguise?” asked Gloober hopefully.
“We’re four feet tall and green. I think they’re going to notice.”

Her feet went out from under her, and she crashed into the wizard, who in turn crashed into the hole in the air.
The hole went “glorp!”
The wizard went “Arrrrgh!”
Nessilka went “Craaaap!”
Algol went “Sarge?”
The world went black.

Ominous!

“People have tried to set up wizarding schools, but rather than being charmingly quirky places with peculiar architecture, you just get a lot of very unhappy kids enduring puberty in an enclosed space, while wondering if their classmates are going to explode.“

The humans retaliated, the goblins retaliated for the retaliation, the elves got involved, the orcs got involved because the elves were involved, and by the end of six months it was a horrible, churning, entrenched mess, where troops on both sides sat around for weeks on end and occasionally ran at each other screaming.