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<blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 5206064" data-attributes="member: 2012"><p><strong>The First Ogre War and the Eastern Council</strong></p><p>In 449 N.C., an event happened that would cease the Black Wars and bind humanity together. Hordes of humanoids rose from the deepest swamps and swept down from the desolate mountain peaks, to ravage the cities of the north. Lead by tribes of huge ogres loyal to the gods Gruumsh and Vaprak, these hordes of gnolls, orcs, and goblinoids nearly swept humanity from the face of Harqual.</p><p></p><p>In fact, in some places they were successful in destroying entire city-states in less than a week. So busy fighting each other, the humans were taken totally by surprise. The strange part was that the hordes simply took what they wanted each time they attacked and then continued south past the Great Expanse. It was here that the hordes truly overwhelmed humanity as they wiped out human cities, towns, and fortifications in the Far South.</p><p></p><p>For a hundred years the First Ogre War, as it was called, raged across the land and humanity hung on for survival. Only with the help of the dwarves of the Greystone and Sunus Mountains did humanity survive in north. The dwarves, who knew how to fight ogres better than anyone, helped organize the human city-states and scattered soldiers into a force to be reckoned with. Soon the humanoid hordes found themselves outmatched; they had spread their forces too thin and retreated to out of the way places to gain strength and seethe in anger (the First Ogre War officially ended in 551 N.C.).</p><p></p><p>The dwarven people had hoped that all of humanity would reunite and bring stability back to Harqual. Instead, most of the humans retreated to the coasts to distance themselves from the humanoid hordes and started to build and fortify new militant city-states. The dwarven Thanes shook their heads in disbelief and returned to their mountain homes, vowing that humanity would stand alone the next time the hordes came.</p><p></p><p>Only a small group of city-states on or near the eastern coast of Northern Harqual realized that an alliance amongst themselves would protect them all from another humanoid horde. Thus, in neutral lands in the west near the shores of an (then) unnamed lake did the city-states sign the Treaty of Lake Nest and form the Eastern Council (555 N.C.) Binding them in honor and war against any that would threaten even one of them (including other members). No one knows why the lake was given that name by the council or why other city-states near the lake were not offered a chance to sign the treaty.</p><p></p><p>As time passed, the members of the Eastern Council became more like countries than city-states and the Kingdoms of the Eastern Shores, as they are now called, has been one of the most civilized areas of Northern Harqual since the end of the First Ogre War. Once dominated by a few kingdoms — Minar, Stonn, Thallin and Wolffire, the power base of the Eastern Council has changed significantly over the last ten years. (See under the Fifth Era section for more details about this change.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knightfall, post: 5206064, member: 2012"] [B]The First Ogre War and the Eastern Council[/B] In 449 N.C., an event happened that would cease the Black Wars and bind humanity together. Hordes of humanoids rose from the deepest swamps and swept down from the desolate mountain peaks, to ravage the cities of the north. Lead by tribes of huge ogres loyal to the gods Gruumsh and Vaprak, these hordes of gnolls, orcs, and goblinoids nearly swept humanity from the face of Harqual. In fact, in some places they were successful in destroying entire city-states in less than a week. So busy fighting each other, the humans were taken totally by surprise. The strange part was that the hordes simply took what they wanted each time they attacked and then continued south past the Great Expanse. It was here that the hordes truly overwhelmed humanity as they wiped out human cities, towns, and fortifications in the Far South. For a hundred years the First Ogre War, as it was called, raged across the land and humanity hung on for survival. Only with the help of the dwarves of the Greystone and Sunus Mountains did humanity survive in north. The dwarves, who knew how to fight ogres better than anyone, helped organize the human city-states and scattered soldiers into a force to be reckoned with. Soon the humanoid hordes found themselves outmatched; they had spread their forces too thin and retreated to out of the way places to gain strength and seethe in anger (the First Ogre War officially ended in 551 N.C.). The dwarven people had hoped that all of humanity would reunite and bring stability back to Harqual. Instead, most of the humans retreated to the coasts to distance themselves from the humanoid hordes and started to build and fortify new militant city-states. The dwarven Thanes shook their heads in disbelief and returned to their mountain homes, vowing that humanity would stand alone the next time the hordes came. Only a small group of city-states on or near the eastern coast of Northern Harqual realized that an alliance amongst themselves would protect them all from another humanoid horde. Thus, in neutral lands in the west near the shores of an (then) unnamed lake did the city-states sign the Treaty of Lake Nest and form the Eastern Council (555 N.C.) Binding them in honor and war against any that would threaten even one of them (including other members). No one knows why the lake was given that name by the council or why other city-states near the lake were not offered a chance to sign the treaty. As time passed, the members of the Eastern Council became more like countries than city-states and the Kingdoms of the Eastern Shores, as they are now called, has been one of the most civilized areas of Northern Harqual since the end of the First Ogre War. Once dominated by a few kingdoms — Minar, Stonn, Thallin and Wolffire, the power base of the Eastern Council has changed significantly over the last ten years. (See under the Fifth Era section for more details about this change.) [/QUOTE]
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