Ambush at the Black Pass

The entrance to the Black Pass was a narrow, winding canyon carved through walls of solid obsidian glass that rose four hundred cubits into the desert sky. The canyon floor was barely fifty paces wide, littered with razor-sharp black boulders and treacherous drifts of volcanic sand. It was the only route through the jagged mountain barrier that shielded the Sunken Spire from the northern plains. First Marshal Rowan Blackwood halted…