Common Knowledge / Easy Difficulty

The Dog Fort Breaches:The fort was built to monitor and provider first response to the two main breaches that had repeatedly disgorged Orrish for raiding in all directions. In addition to the breach holes themselves, there were several smaller tunnels and camps used consistently by raiders. Both breaches were repeatedly collapsed and filled, but the Orrish just kept coming, waiting years in between raids, even decades as the wariness eroded the will to maintain the many picket forts because of their cost, despite their usefulness as an early warning system. The dogs bred to smell them even underground got better and better, and the losses suffered increased dramatically.

Uncommon Knowledge / Average Difficulty

The fort was on a small outcrop of a tiny valley basic about 500’ elevation, itself overlooking the Dovender Valley.

A History of Violence: Several times in CY 8040 – CY 8800 many attempts were made by Orrish to come through. In CY 8802 the raiders – led by a full company or Orks – finally brought a large enough force to battle and overwhelm the local druids and forces of The Dog Fort. The inhabitants were slaughtered to the last defender, taking down a troll before their last gasp. Thousands of Orrish took 2 days, but it was enough to get the word out. Massive clouds of flies burst from the maggots infesting the corpses of the slain defenders, sheltering the Orrish from the sun. At the same time, another large force was assaulting The Watch Vault of Kunlay near White Lake on The Maithen Plateau.

After butchering many settlements nearby on The Maithen Plateau, the remaining druids of the Hawktail Hills were able to disperse the flies to weaken the horde and a combined host of Riverdan soldiers, a platoon of the earl’s archers and mercenaries hired by the Earl of Bar-Innis and knights of County Faer swept through the entire Maithen Plateau area and butchered them, sparing none.

Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty

The Assault of the Darkling Split-Eye: The few that survived were harried back to the breach point to warn their brethren. Their leader was still alive, and had taken refuge in the remains of the fort – although sacked, its thick stone walls and magics of the darkling made it difficult to crack. Rather than a siege or attack risking more lives or giving time for relief to come, the druids decided to drown and collapsed the fort and both breaches in CY 8803. They flooded them using the spring above the Dog Fort – causing it to pour forth a thousand fold its normal flow; it caused the Dog Fort to be covered with eroded soil and become useless – scouring everything out of it in a torrent of water, rocks and soil. It was too much work to rebuild, and in CY 8953 after decades of no Orrish digging, it was abandoned.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

The Standard of the Severed Head: The forces in CY 8802 were led by a darkling whose name translates to “split eye”. Said to be an evil magus and devotee of the Unholy Trio, his attendants were a contingent of minor demons that bore aloft and protected his standard. His standard bore a blood soaked variation of the Broken Eye clan of Orrish. The standard had a head atop of it, impaled, which continued to scream and snarl in agony, never dying. From this, it is said he was able to conjure the shroud of flies from the bodies of the fallen.

Pieces of the standard, but not the head, were found after the battle.

Obscure/Hidden Knowledge