The Battle of Silver Lake

Military action

In an attempt to ensure his legacy King Boranex launches a pacification campaign into the Eldeen Reaches, it is short-lived, ending in a loss at the Battle of Silver Lake.

After more than thirty years in power, Breland's King Boranex began to think that his largely defensive approach in the war had left him without a meaningful legacy. He decided that he would bring an army north into the newly declared Eldeen Reaches, offering protection and a “civilizing” force.   With great fanfare, he gathered 2,000 well trained heavy horse, 2,000 dragoons, 7,500 heavy foot, 500 Brelish Rangers, 4,000 crossbowmen, and two companies of wands, the Wroat Wands and the Sharn Towers. The newly independent Wardens of the Wood had no interest in trading one uninvolved royal for another. Although pressed by King Aarott’s campaign in the north, they called upon forest denizens to counter the Brelish on the north shore of Silver Lake.   The Eldeen defenders numbered 20 heavy treant shock troops, 300 satyr skirmishers, 900 centaur light horse, 3,300 human infantry, 1,200 elf and half-elf archers, and a company of druid “wands.” All told, the Eldeen army barely topped 6,000. Although outnumbered, the Wardens zealously guarded their homelands and cunningly outmaneuvered an overconfident and poorly planned Brelish incursion.   The Reachers drove the southerners back across Silver Lake. King Boranex was wounded by mageshot and almost captured when his boat capsized. By shedding his armor, the king remained afloat long enough to reach shore, but he contracted a coughing plague and was taken back to Wroat on a litter. Despite the ministrations of several clerics, the king’s illness refused to pass. He would spend the rest of his days in declining health.