The Liberation of Treskkant
Deep into the War of Flames, many settlements had been lost to the hoards of fiends from the Blackflame Gulch. One of those settlements was Treskkant, which was largely destroyed during the invasion in 247. Several decades later, with new technologies and strategies at their disposal, the Guardians of the Sacred Flame attempted to regain control of Treskkant.
The first necessary victory was securing the road between Scarroton and Treskkant and setting up a military base near the fortress, in 277. After that, the Order attempted to recruit the forgefolk of Cottongrove back into military service. By then they had not been involved in war since the founding of their home a hundred years prior, and they were highly reluctant to join. Instead, Sierra the Seer approached the Order of the Sacred Flame. She had taken on a leadership position in Cottongrove. Being one of the few sentients that respected the forgefolk as autonomous people, and being a very powerful spellcaster, Sierra had their loyalty if not their reverence. She readily offered to help the cause of liberating Treskkant, in exchange for a quantity of cold iron. Although it was never revealed what she used the cold iron for, the Order of the Sacred Flame agreed.
IN 279, Sierra took the lead, joined by a few select warforged willing to follow her, and another mysterious person called Wendigo. Historians believed them to have been an extremely powerful shifter. Several Owlketeer warriors and Sacred Flame knights formed a battalion to protect Sierra while she prepared her magic. Together they took Treskkant by storm, literally. Driving out the fiends with the power of winter cold. Their assault left a glacier near the town that persists till today, and is actually the greatest tourist attraction of Treskkant. While too unstable to traverse in the summer months, the glacier provides ample slopes for winter sports in the colder months of the year.
It is generally agreed upon that, without the leadership of Sierra the Seer, the liberation would not have come to pass so quickly and so smoothly. Many more would have died in the attempt, and the fiends would have left the town a ruined husk barely worth saving before being driven out. Because of the power, the speed, and the coordination of this attack, Sierra managed to drive them out before they could cause any damage to the enslaved inhabitants and the defensive structures they had maintained.
The first necessary victory was securing the road between Scarroton and Treskkant and setting up a military base near the fortress, in 277. After that, the Order attempted to recruit the forgefolk of Cottongrove back into military service. By then they had not been involved in war since the founding of their home a hundred years prior, and they were highly reluctant to join. Instead, Sierra the Seer approached the Order of the Sacred Flame. She had taken on a leadership position in Cottongrove. Being one of the few sentients that respected the forgefolk as autonomous people, and being a very powerful spellcaster, Sierra had their loyalty if not their reverence. She readily offered to help the cause of liberating Treskkant, in exchange for a quantity of cold iron. Although it was never revealed what she used the cold iron for, the Order of the Sacred Flame agreed.
IN 279, Sierra took the lead, joined by a few select warforged willing to follow her, and another mysterious person called Wendigo. Historians believed them to have been an extremely powerful shifter. Several Owlketeer warriors and Sacred Flame knights formed a battalion to protect Sierra while she prepared her magic. Together they took Treskkant by storm, literally. Driving out the fiends with the power of winter cold. Their assault left a glacier near the town that persists till today, and is actually the greatest tourist attraction of Treskkant. While too unstable to traverse in the summer months, the glacier provides ample slopes for winter sports in the colder months of the year.
It is generally agreed upon that, without the leadership of Sierra the Seer, the liberation would not have come to pass so quickly and so smoothly. Many more would have died in the attempt, and the fiends would have left the town a ruined husk barely worth saving before being driven out. Because of the power, the speed, and the coordination of this attack, Sierra managed to drive them out before they could cause any damage to the enslaved inhabitants and the defensive structures they had maintained.
