Tempest's Eye keeps its vigil from the summit of the Titanspear, a mountain so vast in Aqshy that the city's watchtowers pierce the cloud-line and look down upon storms. From that height its lookouts scan every horizon, and the city's oldest boast is that nothing has ever taken it by surprise. Warning-beacons, aelven scouts, and swift signal-drakes form a net of vigilance cast leagues in every direction, so that Tempest's Eye is always the first to see trouble coming and the first to be ready for it.
That readiness is its genius. No free city musters faster; its merchants, aelven outriders, and duardin gunners can march fully armed while rival cities are still sounding their alarms, and this speed has let Tempest's Eye reinforce distant allies before a siege could properly begin. Overhead, the ironclads of the Kharadron Overlords ride at anchor among its spires, for the sky-duardin prize a partner who reads weather and war alike from so lofty a perch.
Within the Cities of Sigmar, Tempest's Eye is the ever-open eye: a city of watchers and quick swords that trades the luxury of surprise for the discipline of never being surprised, and has outlasted grander neighbours on that bargain alone.
Order of battle
The Tempest's Eye field the units of the Cities of Sigmar, a detachment from the roster:
Other Cities of Sigmar formations
Greywater FastnessA fortress-foundry rising from the marshes of Ghyran, where the sky is permanent gunsmoke and the civic anthem is the ring of hammers. Greywater Fastness arms half the free cities from its Ironweld manufactories, and its answer to every threat is the same: more cannon. The Sylvaneth have never forgiven it the forests fed to its furnaces.
HallowheartA city of wizards in the Realm of Fire, raised above a chasm of raw magic whose glow gilds every tower. Sorcery runs so close to Hallowheart's surface that even its street-sweepers carry warding charms, and the battle-wizards of its Whitefire Court wield the arcane with an aggression that unsettles allies almost as much as enemies.
HammerhalThe Twin-Tailed City, greatest of all the free cities, built across two realms at once: Hammerhal Aqsha amid the fires of Aqshy and Hammerhal Ghyra in the green abundance of Ghyran, joined through the Stormrift Realmgate. Its Freeguilds are the proudest and most numerous in the realms, and where Hammerhal plants its standard, civilization tends to stay planted.
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