Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24302820-20150521173001/@comment-24302820-20150521174507

Scourge Wars: Throughout history, the many Orcken tribes were a disjointed and distrusting mess. Alliances among one or two of them would be uncommon, and never last long. One Orcken warlord, Skirje, fought to unite all of these disparate bands. He would unite them under a single banner, his, or destroy the continent in the attempt. When most of the tribes and bands had joined Warlord Skirje others began to flock to him purely as a defensive measure, even among the proud highlanders. After many decades of fighting the highland tribes to unite them, they swept through the Valley within a month. Technically, the Valley united first not under Skirje, but united in order to better surrender to him without most of them being slaughtered first. With nearly all of the Orcks under his command, Skirje relied heavily upon the political graces of his son to keep the Orcks from literally eating one another. Junior lacked his father's martial prowess, but possessed a rare and keen gift for logistics and politics. Junior's son, on the other hand, was even more brutal a warlord than his famous grandfather, and also had his own father's brilliance. This greatest of all Orck chieftains sent his forces out in large pirate navies, raiding coasts worldwide.

A Heldannic warrior gathered mercenaries to counter-attack The Scourge. He amassed a sizeable number of troops and ships, aided by political alliances among the Killian and other Greatsea island nations. Admiral-General Blackguard attacked the islands north of Osterre, and from these bases sent troops into that eastern continent. As he had been doing upto this point, Blackgard gathered allies among the locals. After years of bloody struggle, the Kingdom of Formour finally sent their marines with the 3rd Expeditionary Fleet. They landed in the Valley just as the Orcken army was surrendering to Blackguard's forces in the north. Blackguard's forces stayed on the lands that they conquered, forming the nation of the Northern Protectorate.