Editing Brekhan (section)

== Notable Conflicts ==

(963-968 CA) Radezhka’s 18th Crusade: Another attempt by Radezhka to push further below ground and reclaim part of the lost territory of the Kadazhem Empire where the dwarves were trying to retake the deeper caverns several miles south of Kalladian Mountains. Brekhan was young at the time and part of a dwarf foot patrol that scouted for the famous general Marakal HéBroazh. Originally the dwarves thought the region only held by an army of goblins, but it turned out that they were slaves to the creatures that had first driven the dwarves from the area. Brekhan and his team were routed and nearly slaughtered by yallith, degenerate mind flayers that had long ago descended into barbarism and mysticism. Thanks greatly to his actions, however, they managed to fight their way through enemy lines and regroup with the bulk of the army. Brekhan claimed several yallith that day as well as a score of their deformed goblin slaves. The crusade ended rather successfully and resulted in the garrison that currently guards the crossways near the ruins of Dor-Imekeh. 

(970-976 CA) The Goblin uprising: A series of conflicts between the dwarves of the Kalladian mountains and the goblins being driven up by more sinister threats from even deeper. While the dwarves were able to hold their lines and scatter the goblins, other things for which there is no name arose in multiple caverns and slaughtered all that stood before them. Brekhan was never present for these incidents, but after the dwarves realized what was happening he was part of one of the teams that systematically sealed all connected caverns in hopes of keeping the nameless horrors from advancing further. To this day the tactic seems to have worked.

(980-988 CA) The Bleakwood War (The War of the Undelivered Letter): A tragic war that lasted for nearly ten years, fought by the dwarves of Radezhka and duergar allies from Dar-Talekhem against both the elves of Bleakwood and the men of Adain’s Hollow. Brekhan actually outmaneuvered elven scouts and was one of the few members of his unit that survived under what became called the “Bloody Boughs of Bleakwood” by many of the dwarven veterans. Neither side gained significant ground, and after ten years it was revealed that the war had all been over a misunderstanding. The elven nobles had signed a treaty with the dwarves that had been sent via messenger. When the messenger was waylaid by orcs on his return trip, the dwarves through some misdirection took it to mean that the elves had killed the messenger and rejected the treaty. Some blame did lie with the elves however, who did not explain or negotiate, and the whole affair was a major embarrassment for all sides involved.

(1006-1008 CA) Hrold’s Glory: It took place in a barren piece of shit hillside country, from which the Barbarians of Leafsgate tried to drive out the people of Aldersborough. This sparked a major response from the local barons who sent in troops to crush the barbarians. The initial assault was badly handled and while the barons’ forces technically won, the barbarians entrenched themselves throughout the countryside and began retaliating with guerilla raids. The battle for Aldersborough turned into a two year campaign and depleted so many of the barons’ knights and pike men that they were forced to call in outside help. The final battle, on the hill called Hrold’s Glory, was a five day affair during which the barons lost significantly less men, mostly because there were few of them participating and those that were had long since figured out that listening to the mercenaries over their own officers offered them a better chance of survival.

(1015-1017 CA) Faldor’s Creek: One of many conflicts during the ever raging wars of conquest in the Freedlands.

(1022-1029 CA) The Black Crusade: The drow vampire lord Rhone Tavier rose from the Black Temple in Ep, blanketing the surrounding countryside in a shroud of darkness and raising the dead. He slaughtered thousands as his rapidly growing army marched east and then south, burning town after town and blighting the very ground that they walked upon. Priests and lords alike tried separately to stop him and were crushed beneath his heel, which caused many of the warlords and various faiths to put aside their differences and work together to put down this monster. While at first the Black Crusade was limited to noble men and ecclesiastical warriors, it soon became apparent that even their combined numbers would not be enough to stem the undead tide and so they sought help from whomever they could, bringing in dozens of mercenary companies to help replenish their ranks. Brekhan fought during the last few years of the war and he faced lunatic death cultists more than Rhone’s undead lieutenants. He was however part of the final push to fence in what became known as the Necrolands. When the now sainted Diaclese the Stern, high priest of Erabis, plunged his sacred spear into Rhone, trapping the vampire lord inside of the Black Tomb, Brekhan was fighting the dead in the city streets and nearly lost his life had it not been for the help of an Ashtran novice named Silas Vaetes.

(1042-1045 CA) Avandor’s First War of Conquest (the Taming War): Avandor sent its armies north into the Freedlands to bring them into the fold of their budding society called arrogantly the Holy Erabisian Empire. The campaign was unpopular to say the least so rather than conscript and face probable revolt the nobles simply taxed their subjects and hired mercenaries to augment their armies (augment of course meaning act as meat shields). Brekhan fought in this war very early on and stayed with it for several years, during which time he met Conric Planter and the two became reluctant but good friends, Brekhan finding that Conric was not as useless as he appeared and Conric finding that Brekhan was harsh but goodhearted. Both left the war a year before its conclusion, disgusted by the generals’ brutal tactics and political infighting, that and they both had already made significant money to hold them over for years.