Re: The Fate of Triel Redux
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:52 pm
Gajutar Speakback, reknown Bloodhunter, chieftain of the Black Orc tribe...is dead.
The village of Triel, once common farming community with importance to harvest trade, lies in ruin...yet, with the Black Orc head severed from the body, the warring tribesmen are either dead or scattered to the four corners, and with spring on the horizon, even so soon after the recent events, the smallest of signs of plant life return to the fields.
As do the surviving villagers, even now, they return from the safety of their retreats, wondering why and how the events unfolded so that their sweet village on a hill is returned to them...
Falsities and truth concerning Triel intertwine like a rose amongst weeds. What is known is this:
When the fall of the Black Orcs under Gajutar ended, and the fires burned themselves out, what lay upon the fields were body after body of the Black Orc...and, to the astonishment of all that first returned to the village, the ripe-with-death carcass of a green dragon. The rumors had been true! The wisest of the returning villagers would instruct the farmer people to remove what scales they could muster from the carcass, to be sold upon the open market, providing funds for the village to enact repairs—it would be months before Triel returned to its idyllic part.
Rumor of two children having survived in the village during the Black Orc infestation, and during both battles to oust the Orcs...a miracle. A council of villagers has drafted a request to more official bodies in hope to find the children's whereabouts—it is said these two children are the only eye witnesses to who the true liberators of Triel are...and the village council is indebted to them, whomever they may be.
But many know what force lay behind the "liberation" of Triel—the mysterious and black power of the Zhentarim. These victors of the day not only faced the Black Orc horde—or what had been left of it after the Siege of Doron Amar—killing the great Chieftain Gajutar in the process, they also faced down an Alliance of the Righteous, whom although empowered and willing, themselves, to deal a fatal blow to the Black Orcs, did not manifest in time to save the village of Triel.
The forces of good and evil did meet face-to-face within Triel shortly after the fall of Gajutar, and many upon the side of the righteous urged for battle against the Zhentarim force...but the Zhentarim were strategically positioned upon the northern bridge in such a way that any that would charge them would be subjected to sword, claw and magic in overwhelming odds.
But the upper hand is never held for long.
The Zhentarim has made effort to now leave the area of Triel, marching their forces back north. The caravans are armored, but without the ally of the Green dragon as their disposal, their travel north is more easily subject to...
A shift in the power structure of the northern regions has occurred. To what effect the win against the Black Orc—and the continuing war to win minds and hearts of the people of the north—has amongst the towns, remains to be seen....
The village of Triel, once common farming community with importance to harvest trade, lies in ruin...yet, with the Black Orc head severed from the body, the warring tribesmen are either dead or scattered to the four corners, and with spring on the horizon, even so soon after the recent events, the smallest of signs of plant life return to the fields.
As do the surviving villagers, even now, they return from the safety of their retreats, wondering why and how the events unfolded so that their sweet village on a hill is returned to them...
Falsities and truth concerning Triel intertwine like a rose amongst weeds. What is known is this:
When the fall of the Black Orcs under Gajutar ended, and the fires burned themselves out, what lay upon the fields were body after body of the Black Orc...and, to the astonishment of all that first returned to the village, the ripe-with-death carcass of a green dragon. The rumors had been true! The wisest of the returning villagers would instruct the farmer people to remove what scales they could muster from the carcass, to be sold upon the open market, providing funds for the village to enact repairs—it would be months before Triel returned to its idyllic part.
Rumor of two children having survived in the village during the Black Orc infestation, and during both battles to oust the Orcs...a miracle. A council of villagers has drafted a request to more official bodies in hope to find the children's whereabouts—it is said these two children are the only eye witnesses to who the true liberators of Triel are...and the village council is indebted to them, whomever they may be.
But many know what force lay behind the "liberation" of Triel—the mysterious and black power of the Zhentarim. These victors of the day not only faced the Black Orc horde—or what had been left of it after the Siege of Doron Amar—killing the great Chieftain Gajutar in the process, they also faced down an Alliance of the Righteous, whom although empowered and willing, themselves, to deal a fatal blow to the Black Orcs, did not manifest in time to save the village of Triel.
The forces of good and evil did meet face-to-face within Triel shortly after the fall of Gajutar, and many upon the side of the righteous urged for battle against the Zhentarim force...but the Zhentarim were strategically positioned upon the northern bridge in such a way that any that would charge them would be subjected to sword, claw and magic in overwhelming odds.
But the upper hand is never held for long.
The Zhentarim has made effort to now leave the area of Triel, marching their forces back north. The caravans are armored, but without the ally of the Green dragon as their disposal, their travel north is more easily subject to...
A shift in the power structure of the northern regions has occurred. To what effect the win against the Black Orc—and the continuing war to win minds and hearts of the people of the north—has amongst the towns, remains to be seen....