Sunday 5 February 2012

Ogres face new challenges

At the start of the 6th century PC the Ogre Kingdom of the Mallvass Mountains faced increasing challenges as the Empires around them began voraciously expanding their borders. In 500PC a dispute with the Lizardmen over trade saw their caravans ambushed and seized while passing along the Easting Road. Eventually the Ogres began sending armed caravans to the Norh of the Holy Sigmarite Empire, as Empress Matilda was unwilling to allow even a small military force from the Ogre Kingdom pass through her realm.

The dispute came to a head in late 500PC, when a protected caravan, bound for Graag, was ambushed by a force from Cuitlaxaochitzin. Despite not being the largest battle, hundreds were involved on both sides, and the Ogre defence force was overcome and the precious goods seized in the name of the Slaan priests. Following this the Ogres gave up trying to trade with their kin in Graag, sending their goods to the Empire and Kaalroen Empire instead.

The sacking of the trade caravan had been watched with interest by the newly active goblins of the Cloudy Mountains. Seeing how this plunder worked, a small band of goblins tracked its way around Castle Mallvass and Mallengeist, and down the spine of the Mallvass mountains. From there in 502 the goblins launched a series of successful ambushes of Ogre trade caravans, running off with the loot before the Ogres could send a proper army to track them down.

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