Escalation in the Cauldron

Military action

Forced to abandon the siege of Eston, Soldiers of the Legion of the Pure sacked Starilaskur and engaged Valenar mercenaries in Breland's employ south of Vathirond. Farther west, Thrane overran Cragwar and Sword Keep, driving Brelish troops south to Hatheril.

In 950, the raiding of the halflings and the commissioning of new Cyran naval vessels based in Scions Sound made it impossible for Thrane to maintain the Fourth Siege of Eston. Another conclave of the tribes took place, and the halflings decided that they had succeeded in restoring the balance of honor. They departed Cyre, taking much food and wealth from the countryside around them.   Thrane responded to the tribes’ departure by redeploying the troops from the siege into the Cauldron. Soldiers of the Legion of the Pure sacked Starilaskur and engaged Valenar mercenaries in Breland's employ south of Vathirond. Farther west, Thrane overran Cragwar and Sword Keep, driving Brelish troops south to Hatheril. Brelish reinforcements, buttressed by the Manifest Legion, later drove the Thranes out of Starilaskur, but, as had become all too common, nothing was really settled. Breland's reversals in the Cauldron and west of Lake Brey resulted from a lack of troops. Thrane caught the southern kingdom as it was focused far to the west.