Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150125010554/@comment-25683991-20150127033831

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: (@Goldflame: You wouldn't know that the Forsworn have attacked Karthwasten. Not even Solitude knows, at least not yet. Your character having that information is Meta. I mean the attack just happened, so no one not there would know about it.)

Karthwasten's soldiers fought valiantly but they couldn't hold against them forever. In the end they fell to the Forsworn, but they managed to take roughly 200 of the Forsworn's men with them. (As they did number 500.)

The sacrifice of the 500 soldiers gave the remaining people and soldiers enough time to escape, as the Forsworn were busy fighting to stop the evacuation. The refugees, led by the Thane and the remainder of the 100 soldiers, headed for Dragon Bridge.

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Within a two days after the attack Solitude received word of it via a raven sent by the town's thane. After hearing about this the Jarl ordered many of his soldiers to head to Dragon Bridge to bolster the town's defenses and stop the Forsworn from continuing up into Haafingar. He sent nearly 800 men. Who along with Dragon Bridge's 800 would make a defending army of 1600 soldiers.

However as he now hated the Forsworn the Jarl of Solitude sent a raven to the Jarl of Hjaalmarch and requested a momentary alliance to deal with the Daedric Worshiping Reachmen and stop their advancement into the rest of Skyrim. With Hjaalmarch's 1000 men fighting along side his army he knew the Forsworn had no shot of advancing outside the Reach.

Madanach was glad he took Karthwasten, but mourned the loss of the 200 warriors. After they rested a bit, they started building stakes and wooden fences from debris of the buildings. He was wise enough not to chase the 100 of Karthwasten down, he wrote a letter to both Falkreath and the Staleheart Covenant, asking for help in the war against Haafingar.

My good friend and ally.

''I ask for your help in a war against Haafingar, years ago they took land from my people. Now I have taken it, but the area which they took, Karthwasten, will not hold against the full might of Haafingar. I've decided to continue my war against them, in order to take Solitude and the rest of Haafingar.''

''My people are mighty and bloodthirsty, but they cannot hold against a fully trained army. This is why I ask for your help my friend. Once these areas are taken, gifts will be given from me to you, so it is profitable for your people as well.''

Thank you for reading, I hope you are with me in this war.

Night came, and Elia acted. She walked through the bushes to the stables of Solitude and analyzed the area.