The Greenheart Campaign

Military action

The Wardens of the Wood raise the army of the Greenheart and in a single season crush many of the bandit armies ravaging the Eldeen Reaches.

Other than the long siege of Drum Keep and the nearly unopposed Brelish invasion north of Silver Lake, little of military import occurred in the western reaches of Aundair. Still, Karrnath, the Lhazaar Principalities, and even Breland fomented rebellion. From isolated highwaymen, the difficulties grew to include entire companies of bandits and even bandit armies (one seized and looted the city of Alvirad in 954, and another razed Niern the following year). Neither the Aundairian rangers, the wizards of Arcanix, nor the court of King Aarott could spare the troops to root out the bandits. Every petition to “provide safety on our roads and peace in our villages” was answered with stony silence, with suggestions that it was a local matter, or with counterrequests for additional troops to send to the front against Thrane and Karrnath.   In 956^YK, the Wardens of the Wood decided to act. They raised troops from the human, centaur, and elf inhabitants of the western reaches into the Army of the Greenheart, and in a single ruthless season they found and crushed nearly all of the major bandit armies. Although this act was generally cheered by the Aundairian nobles, a few of the more prescient saw the coming danger and urged the king to dismantle or at least reassign the newly mobilized forces.