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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5869947" data-attributes="member: 463">My Southlands Sword & Sorcery campaign ended last night with a '300' style last stand at the Bisgen Bridge against a thousand ghouls and their Necromancer commander, a Prince of Nerath Restored:<a href="http://4esouthlands.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/southlands-chapter-1-campaign-timeline.html" target="_blank">The Southlands Campaign: 4e D&D in the Wilderlands: Southlands Campaign Timeline</a>S20 Night Day 44 29/7/4434Bisgen's defense of the north wall has been led by Gurstang, a Skandik Paladin of Mitra. Parre leads Varek, Eldrin Halfelven, and Gurstang with a force of her veteran Lancers to hold the bridge against the onrushing Ghoul horde. They fight fiercely, but the ghoul horde is hundreds strong and supported by the vampire lord Nexull and by Boritt Crowfinger, whose death magic roots Varek to the spot. First Gurstang falls, then Varek. Then Parre is  overwhelmed.  Eldrin, the last one standing, is on the bridge amidst a sea of ghouls when the masons finish their work and the bridge collapses, sweeping him and several ghouls into the deadly torrent. The ghoul horde is trapped on the north side of the river, and Parre has already given the order to abandon the town.  With Tal Lorvas and his Dread Warriors miles to the south pursuing the retreating Altanian barbarians towards the Onslaught Stream the people of Bisgen flee east, screened by their remaining soldiers, towards Winged Ape Clan territory.  The future will be harsh and uncertain for them, but they evade the armies of the dead.  As dawn rises over the eastern mountains, with the noble Rameses now Clan Chief of the Winged Ape it seems likely that many will survive.Tal Lorvas at last returns to meet his old master, Borritt Crowfinger, in the semi-ruined city of Bisgen.  The new capital of Restored Nerath is now a ghost town, where only the dead walk...There was a chance of it going more like Horatio on the bridge at Rome, but the PCs deployed too far forward, allowing the ghoul horde to attack them from three directions instead of just one. It did make for a suitably epic three-hour final battle.</blockquote>

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