Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150125010554/@comment-17114085-20150126171108

(@Goldflame: You wouldn't know that the Forsworn have attacked Karthwasten. Not even Solitude knows, at least not yet. Your character having that information if 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.