Wolfshaunt Unleashed

The early days of 904 TA began with a great maelstrom from the Wolfshaunt - a magical storm designed to provide cover for the Wolfshaunt armies to create a foothold in the Eastern Reaches. However, the Hermit - a strange old man selling lightning rods - was apprehended by King Goodfellow and his cohorts. And the storms came to an end.

Back in Dwarrowdelf, General Dugald Axeworthy knew the storms foreshadowed a Wolfshaunt attack and a battle front in the Eastern Reaches.

To the south, an uneasy alliance between the Tomb Kingdom and the Wolfshaunt was forming. A summoning of great sandwurms - drawn to the souls of those taken by the Hermit - brought forth creatures capable of transporting armies across the vast bleakness of the Sands of Time. Only by the cleverness of Hylax was it discovered that the Wolfshaunt would use the wurms to focus a coordinated assault against the Forbidden Library deep in Sandal.

Dugald Axeworthy now knew the army's target. Even though four of the great sandwurms survived, his plan was formed to foil their rendezvous between the wolves and the skeletons.

As the campaign season began in March 904, the armies of Sandal marched north to siege Crossgate Castle in the Southern Reaches. The wolves of the Wolfhaunt moved east and south towards their predestined meeting - sacking Tattershall and Brandon River along the way.

Dugald Axeworthy was ready. With overwhelming aggression, the forces of the Reaches bore down on the Wolfshaunt army with a one-two punch of knights and dwarves. In the bloodiest fighting seen in the Eastern Reaches, two major victories were claimed by Axeworthy's armies. The Wolfshaunt army was decimated.

Meanwhile, the Elven navy surprised the Tang navy at the Spindrift Isles inflicting significant causalities. Finally, the Orcish Army under orders from Dugald Axeworthy defeated the Sandalese in the fields outside of Crossgate Castle.

March was a bloody good month for the Reaches. The season was won, and the armies withdrew to reformulate their plans. Other than the orcs sacking Whitehall Castle in April, the fields of battle were quiet until June.

Focused on the western shores of the Reaches, the Tang empire managed both a naval victory in sacking the port at Timberway and a army victory against the knights south of Teufeldorf. Pressure was on that a focused Tang invasion might sack Teufeldorf. Reinforcements were rushed to the west. Meanwhile, the orcs continued to plunder the southern reaches, this time with a major open field victory over the Tomb Kingdom.

In August, the Tang armada surprised the Elven navy scoring a lopsided victory which saw the bulk of the Elven fleet sunk. However, reinforcements to the west had arrived. The Tang dream of destroying Teufeldorf was over. To the south, unchallenged, the dwarves sacked the Castle of Mirrors while other sieges began in earnest.

September and October saw a half dozen sieges - Tang to the north and Reaches forces to the south. A minor victory for the Tang at Azgarde was the only conclusive battle of the year. It was unambiguously, a victorious year for Dugald Axeworthy and the Reaches Army - foiling all the plans of the Tang, Sandal, Tomb Kingdom and Wolfshaunt.