Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150125010554/@comment-25683991-20150126134848

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: SaladMate wrote: Madanach gathered some of his "priests" and sent them to Haafingar to spread the Worship of Hircine, these priests knew magic, and could hold their own in a fight so they wouldn't immediately be killed once they started spreading the religion. (It is now the 5th Month of the year.)

Once the Jarl of Solitude, a ruthless man, found out about this he had his Gorehounds hunt down the priests and make sure they were killed. This incident caused the Jarl to dislike Markarth more, he started to gather his men and bolster their ranks. He still didn't dislike the Forsworn enough to declare war but he was getting there.

(What are Gorehounds?)

Madanach had a large army, roughly 1,200 trained Forsworn of both genders. With mages and warriors, stealthy ones and Briarhearts. He also brought with him about 100 Dwemer Spiders in several carriages close to one another along with catapults, trebuchets, siege towers and ballistae. They marched to the outskirts of Karthwasten as he readied his men for the first battle of the Forsworn-Haafingar war.

Before that however, he sent some of his elite stealth Forsworn to gain intel from Dragon Bridge and Solitude. And one of them was an assassin, Madanach's finest stealth Forsworn and she was tasked with killing the Jarl of Solitude and cause chaos in the city where he resided.

"My people! Today we fight an enemy, who took a part of our land while we were still divided and weak! Unable to take back that part! Now we are united! And for as one for our gods! And for our pride! And for our territory! Make the God of the Hunt proud! And hunt down these weaklings! Hurrah!"

He announced to his men before the Battle for Karthwasten started with ballistae firing enormous steel bolts onto the village folk, killing most of them in the process as the footmen of the Forsworn shouted words such as "Hurra!" and "For the Forsworn!"