The fall of Goleskanev

The mighty city of Goleskanev was thought to be virtually impregnable to any invading army. Certainly no attacking force had ever managed to breach the outer walls of the mighty city. What was the cities secret, there were two main reasons for the cities strengths. Firstly it have been built with war in mind. Its designers had planned the placement of every stone to maximise the defensive properties and protect those within the city but that alone would never have been enough to keep the city from falling. The real reason that the city never fell was its defenders, the trolls. Trolls can shrug off terrible wounds and be up and fighting again in no time. But that is not the half of it. They are a race that knows war well. Their society is built around it, they learn about war before they can walk and when the drums of war sound all of their people answer, male female, young or old, all fight with strength and brutality far beyond any other army ever known.

So when the undead arrived the Lich King knew that no simple tactic would work against this city and its stalwart defenders. The undead were unlike any other foe the trolls had fought before as wounds meant little to the undead and only killing them outright was an effective tactic but with the strength of the average troll being far greater that even that of an ogre they were able to adapt easily.

Millions of undead were thrown at the walls of Golaskanev and millions of them dies. Each night the necromancers of the Lich Kings army would come forth and restore the slain to unlife and the following day it would begin again. This went of for months and not once did the undead make any kind of breach in the walls of the city.

The city did have a weakness however that the Lich King was able to use to open the city. Knowing of the fabled strength of the city many refugees came to the place ahead of the undead army in hope of safety. Apart from the women and children the surviving knights from the order of Sash il Olay came and took to the walls of the city under the watchful eye of their commander Goreshank. Their home had been overrun by the undead but they were not about to pass up the opportunity for some payback against the undead and their strength was welcomed by the trolls. Also with the refugees came the young human King and his guards. The King had been rescued by his bodyguards at the last moment when the capital fell and they made for Goleskanev also believing that the trolls would aid them and the undead advance could somehow be stopped. Again the trolls welcomed them for they knew that if the mortal races did not band together now then the undead were sure to prevail.

With the king came a knight by the name of Sir Sorric Malnear. A strong willed man who had stood at the side of the king for many years keeping him safe. Unknown to the party that travelled with him Sir Malnear carried a heavy heart to the troll city. He had seen his wife and children fall as the undead ravaged the human capital and the grief was strong within him. One mans grief was to be the undoing of the mighty troll city.

The Lich King toyed with the mind of Sir Malnear, what game he played shall never be known but they worked. A year after the undead lay siege to the troll city the undead breached the outer walls. Not by force of numbers or strength of arms. Because Sir Malnear let them in. As the undead swept in to the city Sir Malnear was at their head, no longer the noble warrior who had defended the king but a cursed death knight of terrible power.

Goleskanev, the city an army of millions could not overthrow, fell to the love of one man.