"On that, ye got me full support! Let's head out there before,"

"Span out, block the exits!"

The loud voice of Adolph could suddenly be heard outside the study. At the other end of the large hall outside, arriving from the stairs was fourteen white cloaked mercenaries from the White Hand, lead by Adolph in the first row.

Captain Adolph walked with fierce determination into the room, his eyes fixated upon the open door to the study where Ragnar and Kathlin were. On either side of him, his men were flowing by him like a river, quickly spreading out on either side in the room. The noise of their rattling armor and heavy footsteps echoed under the tall, arched roofs of the main hall.

Most of them were armed with halberds, razor sharp and freshly polished. On the walkway up above them in the hall, four other wind hand mercenaries emerged from the doors. All of them were carrying long muskets, except for one of them who was carrying a staff, with a book hanging below his arm in a leather strap. The latter in question seemed to be a battle mage, and there was another battle mage visible downstairs, walking behind Adolph.

"Sheit!" Ragnar cussed when he glimpsed the White Hand members outside the room, turning back to Kathlin.
"Quick, get the book, lass! We need tha move before they tighten the noose!"

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The new fortifications that were being built on the tall reefs north of the Stormwind harbor consisted of a great fortress situated at the top of the tall, dark reefs. It's only direct access point from land seemed to be a bridge connecting the castle to the bastion wall overlooking the harbor, the bridge itself controlled by a series of heavy metal chains. Beneath it was a vast drop of no less than two hundred feet, leading straight down into the dark, winter water below where the waves rolled against the heavy reefs.

Although the castle was being built at the top of the reef, its towers and walls spreading out across it, a few fortified cannon posts built into the reef walls themselves and pointed out across the entrance to the harbor could suggest that there was also an intricate network of tunnels and rooms inside the very reef itself.

Short of the bridge that was overseen by both White Hand mercenaries and Stormwind soldiers, the only other visible entrance to the castle was by seaway; a large cave opening at the bottom of the reef that lead inside a hollow pocket. The cave entrance itself was fortified by a heavy stone structure built around it, and from the distance Rae'liel stood at one could barely glimpse some heavy metal bars at the top of the entrance to suggest that there was a movable metal gate that they could raise and lower to control entrance to the mini harbor under the reef itself.

Although the lower parts of the castle seemed finished, most of the main towers and keep remained incomplete; wooden support structures and scaffolding surrounding it. Distant noises and hammering traveled with the fresh sea wind to the docks itself, from the workers hard at work on the castle itself. 

The harbor was as busy as ever, with ships sailing in and out. There was also a supply ship with a heavy rock load anchored next to the reef with the castle, positioned beneath a complex staircase of cranes and elevators used to lift the construction rocks up to the top of the reef to be used to build the fortifications.

The small group of White Hand mercenaries who approached Rae'liel were talking among each other, but as they passed the Blood Elf, they quieted down as a lot of the men turned their heads to look at the silent elf.

Walking in front of them was a dark haired human. It was Sevarian, the grandmaster of the White Hand. He wore a heavy set of silver-polished plate armor under his stainless white tabard and cloak, trimmed with gold linings and a pair of eagle wings decorating his shoulder. Under his left hand was an ornate, silver broadsword sitting in its heavy sheath, and in right hand he held a tall, white Oak staff covered in mystical arcane runes engraved in the rare wood. The Grandmaster took a moment to gaze at Rae'liel whom he passed with his men, seemingly curious at the odd little elf with the bizarre pair of goggles.
However, the White Hand members choose to ignore her as they continued on their way to the stairs leading up to the bastion walls surrounding the harbor, and ultimately, the bridge connecting to the new castle.

"Beautiful sight, isn't she?" One of the dockworkers who were passing by had noticed Rae'liel who was staring at the castle. Putting down the crate he was carrying to take a rest, he stood next to the Paladin.
"They say the castle's name is Hero's Watch, in commemoration of all the heroes who gave their lives in the defense of Stormwind during the Orcish attacks. Amazing piece of work if you ask me. They even got Dwarves and Mages alongside the normal human worforce, all working together to make the construct possible."