The Attack on Kal’Azgaryum

[SimplySeo 6999]

The Siege of Kal’Azgaryum, 1698, written by Jorvin ‘Kazrinkadan’ Starbreaker.

The following is the latest recount from War-Historian, Jorvin Starbreaker, also author of ‘The Fall of Kal’Tarak’, and ‘The Battle of Prince’s Folly’.
 

Allow me to preface by saying, right off the bat, yes, I am a soldier within the Legion of Dungrimm, and a loyal one at that, however do not allow this to cast doubt upon the authenticity of my writing. I consider professionalism to be the utmost importance, along with the fact I do not find the act of kinslaying to be a fitting propaganda piece.

 

The Battle took place on the 1st of the Grand Harvest, 1698 underneath the twin peaks, and before the gate of Agnarum, it was a clear day and little was out of the ordinary. I myself was many miles from the city at the time during the battle, as I was off on a ranging towards the Southeast, investigating suspected bandit activity. When I was informed of the attack via messenger raven, I rushed back, but arrived too late, as the fighting had already begun.

 

Clan Frostbeard, formally exiled from Agnarum, attacked with between nine and twelve thousand soldiers, led by Garrond Frostbeard (assumed? If anyone know the exact number, and leader of Frostbeard forces during the battle, please send bird.) with the intent of raiding the city, possibility in retaliation for the near-shaving of Garrond Frostbeard a short while prior.

 

The attack was sudden, and the Legion caught off guard, bells sounded throughout the city to alert the guard, and the commanders quickly rushed to assemble some fifteen thousand men to the defense, leading these forces was the Grand Marshall himself, Dain Metalfist, as well as a majority of the command staff. Rushing up the stairwells to confront the Frostbeards, Legion forces were not afforded time to coordinate a defense prior to the attack, leading to a rather disjointed entry onto the battle, at least until assuming a shield-wall before the gate.

 

The Frostbeards peppered the defenders with arrows, and though the main line held relatively well thanks to their shields, those trading missiles with the enemy through arrow-port, and windows were hammered with projectiles. Despite this, there were relatively few casualties on both sides during the skirmishing period of the battle, the Frostbeards held, and so did the Legion, as the two’s shield walls occasionally clashed with each other.

 

It was an hour after the opening of the battle, disaster struck. Due to a tactical error of the highest sort, there was a miscommunication in the ranks, forces of the Silvervein Clan, led by Dwarger ‘Savior’ Silvervein charged ahead of the main battle-line, assuming support from the rest of Legion’s vanguard. Without the aid from the rest of the host, some three thousand men of Clan Silvervein were soon surrounded by Frostbeard forces. Forces from Clan Metalfist, led by the Grand-Marshall himself attempted to intercept, breaking the encirclement, but were unable to reach the Silverveins in time, leading to the Marshall being wounded, and evacuated back to the gatehouse by Gimli Metalfist. Things looked grim, as the legion took substantial casualties in the attempt to pull out the Silverveins, but the Frostbeard attack itself was slowing.

Silvervein warriors had managed to inflict a significant amount of casualties upon Frostbeard forces during their charge, despite being heavily outnumbered. Eventually after this deadly confrontation, the two sides slowly begun pulling back, as despite the heavy damage they had inflicted, the Frostbeards proved unable to break the Legion’s lines in a reasonable amount of time, and further assault was deemed too costly to carry out. The Legion, meanwhile had fallen back to the gatehouse, tending to the wounded and forming the shield-wall behind it’s metal porticulius. It soon became clear that, unless heavy siege weapons were brought to bear against the gate, there would be no breaking the Legion, and as such, the Frostbeards soon sounded their retreat.

 

Official numbers will vary over the next week, as we are still counting all the dead, though it is roughly estimated that three and a half thousand were lost of Angarum’s side, with just as many wounded, while the Frostbeards suffered similar, albeit slightly lower casualties, due to their own smaller force. It is the personal belief of the author that this battle has done much to highlight the deteriorated state of Dungrimm’s Legion, as I described in ‘The Host of Dungrimm’, and I suspect action will soon be taken to begin reforming Dungrimm’s Legion, in terms of discipline.

[NotEvilAtAll 10906]

Daisy Applefoot sighs “Oi ‘ope tha’ t’ey dwarves don’ break ou’ in’o ah civil war. T’ose usualleh don’ end well”

[Algoda 885]

Kóri ‘The thin’ Stormbreaker nods slowly “Tis a shame that we keep on fighting, but grudges has to be settled i guess. Nicely written account of the battle though.” 

[DrHope 609]

Kazrin while happy to see his old friends returning once more into Atlas, He looks at the dead dwarfs and many more wounded. He grabs his alchemy kit as he helps care for the wounded 
”once again, ‘istoreh is repeatin itself jus bah a differen name and met’od...”

[NTE_Killer4life 52]

Brummiir looks up from what he was reading and nods firmly. “Vereh well written....ah’m impressed.”

[Hobolympic 1093]

“The final death rattle of a usurper kingdom.”

[J33xt101 316]

A’ s’ould ‘ave stayed in Mynebor, neve’ did a’ ‘ave te’ fig’t fellow kin in pitc’ed battle, if ye’ were a dwarf, a’ would give ye’ a new ‘ome, regardless of yer ‘istory! Balrog would shout throughout the halls  Te’ dwed s’ould be’ foig’tin te’ empire, nae t’emselves! 

[Hiebe 2493]

6 minutes ago, J33xt101 said:

A’ s’ould ‘ave stayed in Mynebor, neve’ did a’ ‘ave te’ fig’t fellow kin in pitc’ed battle, if ye’ were a dwarf, a’ would give ye’ a new ‘ome, regardless of yer ‘istory! Balrog would shout throughout the halls  Te’ dwed s’ould be’ foig’tin te’ empire, nae t’emselves! 

No one wants to tu beh in yer pit ove a citeh. Ye even gave refuge tu da frosties whi are no badder den bandits.

[J33xt101 316]

2 minutes ago, Hiebe said:

No one wants to tu beh in yer pit ove a citeh. Ye even gave refuge tu da frosties whi are no badder den bandits.

Nae, ye’ are right, te’ frosties are nae worse t’an ye’ lot. Keeping a grudge against a cite’ t’at offered ‘ome te’ gud dwed and bad alike. Ye’ could ‘ave done so muc’ more, but ye’ stood back, a’ dare te’ say a cowardly move, one t’at cost ye’ a c’ance at unite’. Mynebor foug’t fer Kaz’Ulrah, and a’ made peace wit’ bot’ t’em and ye’ long ago, e’t e’s nae ‘ard. 

[Legoboy7984 3155]

10 hours ago, SimplySeo said:

nine and twelve thousand soldiers

 

10 hours ago, SimplySeo said:

fifteen thousand men

 

Agnar Ireheart would wonder

"Hrm..”

 

OOC:

So there were 90-120 people vs 150 people... interesting.

If you mean 9-12 along with 15 people then rply it’d be 900-1,200 soldiers vs 1,500.

 

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1 hour ago, J33xt101 said:

A’ s’ould ‘ave stayed in Mynebor, neve’ did a’ ‘ave te’ fig’t fellow kin in pitc’ed battle, if ye’ were a dwarf, a’ would give ye’ a new ‘ome, regardless of yer ‘istory! Balrog would shout throughout the halls  Te’ dwed s’ould be’ foig’tin te’ empire, nae t’emselves! 

56 minutes ago, J33xt101 said:

Nae, ye’ are right, te’ frosties are nae worse t’an ye’ lot. Keeping a grudge against a cite’ t’at offered ‘ome te’ gud dwed and bad alike. Ye’ could ‘ave done so muc’ more, but ye’ stood back, a’ dare te’ say a cowardly move, one t’at cost ye’ a c’ance at unite’. Mynebor foug’t fer Kaz’Ulrah, and a’ made peace wit’ bot’ t’em and ye’ long ago, e’t e’s nae ‘ard. 

 

Agnar Ireheart would chuckle with a slight smirk upon his face.

“You’ve seen w’at te’ Empire can do plus it is useless. If you t’ink t’at finis’ing te’ people w’o are known for being dwedkillahs t’en I dunno w’at to tell you really. In my opinion justice s’all be served for all of t’ose fellow dwed t’at we lost to t’ese dwedkillahs. T’e unification of t’e dwarven people would never be a t’ing w’en Ulrah was alive, and I t’ank the Empire for dealing wit’ t’ose dwedkillahs. T’oug’ many w’o were blinded by Ulrah has joined Agnarum plus it was only a matter o’ time before Ulrah betrayed you just like t’ey did to some of t’eir own loyal people.”

 

[Hiebe 2493]

2 hours ago, J33xt101 said:

Nae, ye’ are right, te’ frosties are nae worse t’an ye’ lot. Keeping a grudge against a cite’ t’at offered ‘ome te’ gud dwed and bad alike. Ye’ could ‘ave done so muc’ more, but ye’ stood back, a’ dare te’ say a cowardly move, one t’at cost ye’ a c’ance at unite’. Mynebor foug’t fer Kaz’Ulrah, and a’ made peace wit’ bot’ t’em and ye’ long ago, e’t e’s nae ‘ard. 

You litterally gave safe haven tu raiders and bandits.... like whut you tinkin

[J33xt101 316]

1 hour ago, Hiebe said:

You litterally gave safe haven tu raiders and bandits.... like whut you tinkin

A’ gave t’em w’at te’ needed, purpose, so t’ey did nae make te’ same mistakes. And e’t worked, a’ ‘ad a city of criminals wit’ nae crime at all. W’at say ye’ te’ t’at?

[osumanduas 1442]

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