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webmanus
Learned Scribe
Sweden
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 Posted - 09 May 2005 : 22:44:41
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While working with my homepage some days ago, I stumbled upon some paper copies of old documents that I wrote. Now, this evening, I cannot find that document, so, I continue to write from memory. We had a battle in Teshendale, and, one of my thoughts with the battle was to end in a status quo. That is, make a battle, but not change politics too much; Daggerfalls would continue to belong to Randal Morn, Teshwave to the zhents, and so on. However, I would have new possibilities for intrigues and andventures. OK, that is the background ... So, is there anybody who would like to read the following and come with feedback? How about help with wording, language?
What follows is copy paste from my homepage:
The Shame over the Destruction of Teshendale
A summary from what is written in A Grand Tour of the Realms.
Situated along the valley of the River Tesh, the region that was Teshendale is now piles of ruins overgrown by brambles and shrubs.
Teshendale was overrun by the orcs in the mountains and the forces of Zhentil Keep in the Year of the Gulagar (1316 DR). Its people were slain, driven off, or enslaved.
During the destruction of Teshendale, both Daggerdale and Shadowdale were under pressure from Zhentil Keep agents, and could not have aided even if they wanted to. However, the shame of their lack of action remains on both communities.
The Teshendale Campaign
A noncanon campaign.
In the Year of the Tankard (1370 DR), lord Randal Morn and lord Mourngrym Amcathra decided to take the Dalesmen to battle against the zhents in old Teshendale and drive them away from the Dale.
Lord Randal Morn gathered a 700 men strong army, while lord Mourngrym gathered around 1,500 men under his baner. And, from Mistledale came 100 men. The armies consisted mostly of common folk from the Dalelands´s countryside, but there were also a big detachment of purple dragons from Tilverton, disguised as mercenaries, and a small mercenary company from Sembia.
The Dalesmen split their army in three, and the main army, which consisted of 1,400 men, followed the Tesh Trail towards Teshwave, while the second army, which consisted of 700 common folk from the countryside and was called Freemen from the Dales, followed the south bank of the River Tesh towards Teshwave. The third army, consisting of 200 "fylkingsmen", made the main army´s reserve.
The main army met the Zhentish army from Teshwave. The commander of the Zhentilar was Guthbert 'may not be killed' Golthammer. He was fooled by Harper spies that the main objective was Zhentil Keep, that the attack would come from the south, and that the attack towards Teshwave was only a diversion. So he met the Dalesmen with a much smaller army that he had at his disposal. Neverthelee, the battle was horrible. Zhentish war wizards launched spells at the Dalesmen and the Cormyrian war wizards returned the fire. When the wizards were ready, many of the Dalesmen's longbowmen lay dead or badly wounded, and the zhentish heavy cavalry whent to attack. Here, the Dalesmen were about to commit a tremendous error. The commander of the Cormyrian detachment had been arguing that he should lead the frontal attack against the Zhentilar, but the Dalesmen were too praud to let a foreigner take all the credit. In the last minute, the Dalesmen were convinced that the Cormyrian commander should play a major role in the battle, and he and his detachment of cavalry rode together with the Mistrans against the zhentish cavalry. Infantry from the both armies followed the attack. The remaining longbowmen shoot as best they could, and took down many zhentilars. At the end of the day, the battle was won, one could say. Both armies were almost destroyed, but it was the zhentilar that retreated first. But, this battle would not have been won, if not for the "fylkinsmen".
During the battle, the 200 "fylkingsmen" from Shadowdale waited anxious to join the battle. Sudlently, against all information that Harper spies had gothered, an zhentish army from the Citadell of the Raven arrived. It is said it was 1,000 men strong, but other say it was double the size. The battle was fierce, and led by their war chief, the "fylkingsmen", commoners who served as part-time soldiers, held their ground. By the time the zhentilar were finnished with the third attack against the Dalesmen's vanguard, the main zhentilar army was in the retreat. Half of the army from the Citadell of the Raven was still standing, and ready to ride down the remaining "fylkingsmen", less than ten, when the Zhentilar commander received the order of retreat.
To be continued ...
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 May 2005 : 22:32:25
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| Web, I'm glad you run your group in the Dales too . . . I may not use everything in your campaign posts, but it really helps keep my imagination running to see what you are doing with your version of them. |
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webmanus
Learned Scribe
Sweden
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Posted - 10 May 2005 : 22:48:09
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Hi KnightErrantJR,
Our campaign date is around 21st Marpenoth 1371 DR, should look up my notes ... The battle occured 1370 DR ... A better title to this post would have been "Teshendale and the Teshendale Battle" ... or something like that. Could Braveheart have been the inspiration to the events at Teshendale ... 
Although my focus is in the north, if you would like to coordinate something, just drop me a mail, notice, post, or anything.
Best regards,
Manuel (webmanus) |
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Iliphar1
Learned Scribe
Austria
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Posted - 16 May 2005 : 00:14:16
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interesting story!!
in my campaign Randal Morn did a very similar thing (my PC party came up with the idea), but he organised a larger army (also including Cormyr) and attacked. Theshendale's Zhent army was weakend because they tried to attack Daggerfalls, but were defeated. (funny story, it all began with the Dragon Cult trying to attack Theshendale to destroy a Zhentish force, at the same time the Zhentarim wanted to attack Daggerdale to claim rulership. They also used the PCs to get rid of a Dracolich with a lot of Zhentish help and when the Dravolich was gone the Zhents were free to attack Daggerdale - but lost in the end)
Morn should have won, if there wouldn't suddenly appeard a flying castle with an Beholder in it and 100 Nagas. The whole story ended with the PCs, Randal Morn and Ren of the Blade sneaking into the flying castle and killing the beholder. When he was dead the Nagas weren't coordinted and with the help of some elves from Cormanthyr they were defeated (after much hassle and a lot of hit and run). Guthberg escaped in my campaign.
As a reward (and to keep his back free) Randal Morn and Mourngrimm offered rulership to my PCs. Great deeds should be rewarded |
'You see dead bones? ... I see an army!' Ezechiel 37 |
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webmanus
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 16 May 2005 : 21:07:19
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| OK. In my campaign, the zhents were not driven out from Teshendale. It all ended in a kind of status quo. |
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