Nagrand is a lovely place especially after the desolation of
the Bone Wastes. The Oshu’gun is located
here but I heard that the Mag’har tribe of orcs use it as a holy place in some of
their rites. I find it funny that a race
who tried to destroy us use a ship that brought us to this planet as a holy
place. Yet, I have seen demons in the
entryway of this so called holy place and it makes me wonder what has happened
within there but I have not had the chance to investigate.
The Kurenai were having problems with the ogres in the
area. They had come into possession of some
intelligence that the Boulderfist Ogres are planning an attack on Telaar. Mo’mor
of the Kurenai asked me to make a first strike at the Burning Blade Ruins where
they are currently amassing. I see the
logic of taking the battle to them and decimating as many of their numbers
beforehand as Telaar is not well-fortified.
While I made my way into the heart of the ruins, I ran across a young
Kurenai secured in a cage. He told me
his name was Corki and he was the son of the leader of the Kurenai in Telaar,
Arechron. It would have made too much
noise breaking him out of the cage so I searched among the Ogres for the
key. As I was thinning their number
anyway, it wasn’t much of a problem. I
found the key to the cage and release him whereupon he immediately fled the
area yelling a thank you, which then alerted several Ogres in the area of his
escape. I could have gladly killed him
myself at that time. With the Ogres on
full alert and aware of my action, I returned to Telaar to speak with Mo’mor
upon the subject of the Ogres.
Mo’mor congratulated me upon the dent I had made in the
Ogres’ numbers and told me that he had information of a large contingent of
Ogres collecting in the Twin Clefts and asked if I would be willing to do the
same thing there as I had at the ruins. I agreed to help and told him I would set out
the next morning. I managed to get a
decent night’s sleep and after a quick breakfast, began to head out. Before I got too far, Arechron stopped me and
told me that his son, Corki, had ran off a couple of days before to “help” with
the Ogres in the Twin Clefts. He was
afraid something had happened to the boy and asked if I would look for him
while I was out there. I almost turned
him down but I agreed to keep an eye out for him. Sure enough, I found Corki in a cage in the
back of the southern cavern at the Twin Clefts. This time I had checked the bodies
beforehand for keys in case I found the little twit and was easily able to
release him. He once again ran for the
exit like his tail was on fire but at least he didn’t raise an alarm like he
had the last time. I was able to pick
off the Ogres one at a time for a longer time than I had at the ruins before I
was discovered. I returned once more to
Telaar.
Upon arrival in Telaar, I sought audience with Mo’mor who
told me that his sources had found the leader of the Boulderfist and it was an
Orc. He asked me to go see this
Lantressor of the Blade and seek a peaceful resolution to the situation. I didn’t believe I could do anything to bring
about a peaceful resolution, especially after having spent days killing the
Ogres but I agreed to give it a try.
I found Lantressor at the back of the Burning Blade Ruins
and we spoke. He was not interested in
peace but I stressed the fact that we would fight to the end; that we would not
stand idly by while his followers killed our people and plundered their
lands. He took my measure and saw that I
spoke the truth and there would be large numbers of casualties on both sides
and there was still no guarantee that the Boulderfist would win such a
war. He agreed to a peaceful resolution
if I would do some tasks for him. He
asked me to go to Kil’sorrow Fortress and kill as many Orcs in the fortress as
I could and I was to plant a Warmaul banner in the heart of each of these dead
Orcs. I was then to return to him for
the next task he had for me. I could see
that his plan was to stir up hatred between the Orcs and the Warmaul Ogres but
it was better than having the Boulderfist attacking the Kurenai so I did as he
asked.
My next task turned out to be going to the Laughing Skull
Ruins and killing as many Warmaul Ogres as I could and planning Kil’sorrow
banners in the bodies. Once I had
cleared out an area around the central pyre, I was to use a signal blanket and
some Boulderfist Ogres would come and
plant Kil’sorrow bodies around the area to further indicate it was an attack on
the Warmaul by the Orcs. This was really
a pretty good plan getting the other faction of Ogres into a way with the Orcs
leaving the Boulderfist as the prominent tribe in the area and it worked like a
charm.
Upon completion of these tasks, I returned to Lantressor who
actually thanked me and according to our agreement, accepted the offering of
peace. He sent me back to Telaar with a
peace offering which pleased Mo’mor and the other elders immensely. I had managed to somehow avert a potential devastating
war which would have cost huge number of lives on both sides. Several weeks of hard work which was well
worth it.
Kahtraa((currently Level 69))
Kahtraa trying to free Corki
Kahtraa at the Kil'sorrow Fortress
Kahtraa at the Laughing Skull Ruins
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