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Orientis stein was a settlement on the frontier of the eastern provinces. It was quite simply a standard medium settlement of around 15,000 people well laid out and well organized. It was however on the frontier and had only recently come under the attack of an Ork war band and had it repelled and send back into the forrest and over the great eastern river. It was when more and more and more attacks happen to more and more settlements were attacked the calls was made to request a legion to deal with the ever-growing threat of the Orks. The legion they got, however, was maybe not the legion they hoped for. They might have hoped for one of the famous 5 legions. The legions with the most fame and battle honour the legions that date their history back to the founding of the old kingdom of Kriech. Instead, they got the messenger hawk that they would receive the Aurem Minotari. A frontier legion that was not green but had bloodied itself in its nearly 120 years of existence on the northern frontier fighting orks barbarians and even the occasional Brunnic raid. They had earned their experience in those wars and fights and were responsible for the destruction of the barbarian mountain kingdom of Cunda they had simply put destroyed the kingdom and its people. The rumours surrounding the legion spoke of a legion where the more brutal fire bending techniques were practised, that its soldiers painted their uniforms red in the blood of their enemies.

The legion arrived and with it brought dark clouds and rain, they arrived singing their marching songs. The different centuries marching with their banners, with the legions standard-bearer at the front showing the Minotaur head. After the Legatus legionis the commander of the legion had met with the leader of the local province which was under attack. As the Legatus met the legion began setting up his camp and 3 days later the Legatus met with his commanders and a strategy was drawn up in another 3 days. Thus after 6 days, the Legion began packing up and marching towards their intended destination. They marched for 5 days and were joined by local auxiliaries. They began then the strategy of crossing the so-called Black stone border and the large bridges that connected Kriech with the other side of the eastern river. While the orks were going the via the mountains they knew that the Orks had a large settlement that would have to be simply burned to the ground.

To achieve this they set up camps and artillery began the construction of artillery around the settlements, they began setting up everything and they knew the Orks would likely come out and meet them it was thus that they were preparing. While the attached cavalry cohort began scouting and drawing out the Orks. It was 2 days later that the orks came but not as they expected the orks came in hard and fast and the battle turned brutal quickly, the Legionaries managed to push the orks away as the fire benders burned the orks to the ground that did not getaway. As they fled the artillery opened fire and thus the legate realizing that this Ork which was actually somewhat competent ordered the remainder of the legion to form up move forward and slowly but surely deal with the orks they would now go on the offensive.

It all came down to the great battle of the ruby river.

The Legionaries as their reputation was true to some degree moved hard and fast and brutal and the fact that the Orks were more numerous and larger did not matter for when the fight began the regimental and disciplined nature of the Legionaries managed to slaughter the independent ork warriors. It ended after some 2 hours of fighting and the army was burned to the ground, what followed then was the slaughter of the Ork settlement the legionaries knew what they had to do to rout out the Orks to make sure no more investigation would come after they left. Thus in another series of skirmishes, they defeated the last remnants. They then came into the settlement which was more like a small city destroyed its walls and then went on to murder every ork women and child and elderly it did not matter they were burned down. The screams of them were heard for leagues and leagues around.

For it was that they were not given a slow death, the hatred for the Ork ran deep within the Legion, for their shields were painted, black with the greenskin skull painted on the front of it in blood red. The Orks were put on spiked ran over butchered kicked stoned stabbed burned in cases of the older onces all sorts of horrible deeds were committed. All because they were Orks and within the Legion which had lost countless men to the Orks they wanted to see their kind death. Thus when the legion marched away from the now burning settlement there was nothing but ash and the surrounding area was aflame for this was how the Kingdom dealt with Ork investigations hard and brutal.