Silent Breath Redoubt (Ducateon)

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The Silent Breath Redoubt is a defense-works with room for 200 that is integrated into stone – seamless natural looking entrance/exit points of 10 ton counter balanced stone vibration activated . It can become airtight. Appears at a slightly different place each time, but always on the east side of The Autumn Wall – behind the lines of the Lich Lord’s minions. Sliding and grinding, a platform with war engines emerges from the stone. It is when the undead are in danger of overrunning one of the defense works on The Autumn Wall it appears. Wary the fire ball from trebuchet on platform, and ballista firing wire spinning rolls. They will climb out above dump pots of grease tar fire using claws to hold on. This place is one a place where any except the Ducateon serve in as part of the Realms Levy.

They are sealed and only occupied in an emergency. Dust of ducateon bones and glass is put in all rooms. on airflow, they circulate, angry spirits stirring it up to foul lungs and eyes = seems like a disease/curse.

It’s a numbers game to them. Once the last of them are killed and their song is no more, seals up again, incinerates everything inside and resets. Each year they send about 60 now. They last about 3 months before being overrun. but easily kill 6-10x their number.

shrine, access to wall foundations for healing. travel there by vibration. must have a priest and Well of Madur they leap into to travel.


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Rhyl Formative Events

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Rhyl Formative Events

CY 7007 The area of North Gate Garrison freed & The Red March created; Money, supplies, armaments, and manpower flow into the north to fight the Lich Lords.

CY 6514 The Grand Duchy of Rhyl is created by the High King. In exchange for the resources and organization that can be brought to bear against the now organized undead armies, the lands become part of the High King's domain.

CY 6909 The Fall of the Grand Barony of Altair from a curse by the Lich Lords. The main passage of troops and supplies from the hinterlands and nfar north to the The Grand Duchy of Rhyl is sacked by an undead army led by a ghoul king.

CY 5980 The Kingdoms of old Rhylan united settled as a single Kingdom of Rhyl to fight the Lich Lords drive south. After centuries of warfare between territories and races, the common cause of the threat to the north secures a lasting peace.
> For 3000 years, the Kingdoms of old Rhylan was the primary form of Rulership in the territory of the current Grand Duchy.

CY 5580 Fall of Dundaria in the North - Frostfang spreads, the Lich Lord power rises. Hordes of the undead, fortunately disorganized (at first), sweep south and west from the heart of old Dundaria.

CY 2330's Fall of East / Rise of the Dark Lands (Orrishai Abandoned); Refugees flee - some cross the Tolkisson Mountain Range into the 'Lands of Rhylan' that would become the Kingdoms of old Rhylan and finally.

CY 1000 (Approximately) The Dragon of Rhyl is killed and its influence ends in the area around the Great Forest of Rhyl and the surrounding territories.


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