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| - Tunnels of Ice is the sixth scenario in The Sword of Frost, the eighth part of Heroes Chronicles. Tarnum's army followed Gelu's forces into the tunnels beneath a glacier, bringing the Nighon troops into an environment that felt more familiar to them. Zallisa, the leader of the medusas, discovered that Kija's barbarians had also reached the area, and could use the tunnels for ambushes. Trongar, Tarnum's minotaur king bodyguard, suggested that if they hit the barbarians hard enough, the tunnels wouldn't matter.
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| - Tunnels of Ice is the sixth scenario in The Sword of Frost, the eighth part of Heroes Chronicles. Tarnum's army followed Gelu's forces into the tunnels beneath a glacier, bringing the Nighon troops into an environment that felt more familiar to them. Zallisa, the leader of the medusas, discovered that Kija's barbarians had also reached the area, and could use the tunnels for ambushes. Trongar, Tarnum's minotaur king bodyguard, suggested that if they hit the barbarians hard enough, the tunnels wouldn't matter. Tarnum visited his prisoner Ufretin for the first time, and when the dwarf asked his captor to take off his helm and show his real face, Tarnum did so. Ufretin instantly recognized him as Tarnum Dragonfriend, who had saved the good dragons from Mutare's control. Tarnum asked for his help to stop Gelu, but Ufretin called him a traitor. Tarnum tried to convince him that Gelu could end up destroying the world, but to no avail. In order to gain his trust, Tarnum told Ufretin about his immortality. In front of the shocked dwarf, he plunged his dagger deep into his own heart, before standing back up. The following day, he told Ufretin a shortened version of his story, about how he'd committed horrible atrocities, and after his death, the Ancestors refused to let him enter Paradise until he'd redeemed himself. Kilkik wanted to torture the dwarf for information, and was surprised when Tarnum didn't let him. In secret, he began to drive the army to the point of mutiny. Tarnum realized that there wouldn't be peace as long as he kept Ufretin prisoner. In the middle of the night, Kilkik made his way into the prisoner cage to kill the dwarf, but Tarnum had already freed him, and Zallisa jumped from the shadows and stabbed the beholder to death as revenge for her slain medusa sisters. Before Ufretin left, Tarnum asked him to try to talk Gelu into giving up. The dwarf told Tarnum that Gelu was going to Volee, an ancient, lost Vori elf city. That was where he'd find the Sword of Frost. After dealing with Kija's troops, Tarnum could follow Gelu's trail.
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