On the left shoulders of their grey kirtles they wore the king of Torrlond’s ensign: a white-capped silver mountain with a gold crown over it on a blue background. The soldiers wore the kirtles over their linked byrnies, though one had a corselet of overlapping steel plates and a costly shield with a brass ensign of Torrlond set in the middle. This same man had two red stripes over the ensign on his sleeve and a red crest on his helm, by which Dayraven guessed he held a higher rank. All the soldiers had removed their steel helms of a conical shape with long nose guards, but they wore their
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