Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-25344655-20160129011717/@comment-25975584-20160129022734

Name: The sixth battle of Thunderhorn

Background: The fractious Moredain tribes each claimed to be the true disciples of their great god. Unfortunately this meant that they were easily attacked by their enemies. Until, one of the more powerful chieftains began to have visions of the Great Lion. He, emboldened declared himself Lion Incarnate, and through valor in war, he rallied all the tribes under his banner. They made war in the name of their god from one end of the far south to the other. Ferociously attacking the crumbling Tauredain empire, and the various people's who had broken away from it. The Tauredain, knowing that the Dwarves loved precious things; agreed to pay them for their help in defeating this genocidal tide of Moredain warriors. However, the Dwarves had underestimated their foe, were surrounded, and slaughtered during the battle of Lion's Maw. The Moredain proceeded to engage the now severely weakened Dwarves in a series of bloody sieges, where valiant although hopelessly outnumbered Dwarven defenders slew thousands upon thousands of Moredain fanatics. Until at last, the Thunderpeak stood alone, surrounded by a diminished, although still massive number of Moredain who had attacked five times before...

The Start: The Dwarves decided that it was all or nothing, sending out their pikemen, and crossbowmen to hold their ground at the gates, while the others would take the long route, and attack the Moredain war host from the rear. The Moredain rushed onward like a hurricane, smashing into the Pikemen, and weighing down their mighty weapons with hundreds of bodies. But, as victory seemed all but certain, and the primitive rams began battering at the gates, the horde was hit from the rear, and all the chieftains were slain save the son of the Lion Incarnate. Disheartened, the Moredain broke, and were slain relentlessly by both the Dwarves, and the ferocious Stone Wyrms of the mountains. Barely 5,000 managed to return to their villages alive, slowly gathering their strength so that once more the Lion Incarnate would possess the High Chieftain...

Dwarven Casualties: 3 holds ransacked, and destroyed. 15,000 civilian dead, 4,000 soldiers killed, or permanently maimed, 2 Stone Wyrms killed.

Moredain casualties: 30,000 soldiers killed, entire regions bereft of adult males, death of the majority of the leadership.

Other outcomes: Collapse of the Old Tauredain Empire, Foundation of the Cerinrim Temple by disillusioned Moredain, full independence of the Limwaith principalities. Beginning of The Long Dark for Far Harad.