House Gaunt Breaches The Black Walls

Military: Battle

The forces of The Gaunt Duchy breached The Black Walls, first at Cardenfall and then all along their length, though it came at a terrible cost, and left behind a thick, poisonous Black Cloud.

After a brief siege, the forces of The Gaunt Duchy stormed The Black Walls that fortified the Southern border of The Kingdom of Irogonie.
The use of trebuchet had proven ineffective against the towering Blackstone fortifications, so the army engaged with siege towers and covered rams to breach the gates.
At the gate outside Cardenfall, the party led by Duke Orrel Gaunt and his brother ser Rodner Gaunt were the first to breach the walls, however no sooner had the warhorns sounded their success than the walls began to melt, the Blackstone shifting and flowing like thick black tar, raining down on the heads of the soldiers below. This process also unleashed a thick, poisonous Black Cloud which clung to the ruined walls.
Between the raining liquids and the choking clouds, all those involved in storming the walls or breaching the gates were killed along with the defenders. Later investigation into the area found only twisted skeletons, blackened as though burned under an intense heat, which crumbled to black dust or shattered into splinters of Blackstone when they were touched.
The cloud hung low to the ground for several hours, with any sent into the cloud either falling dead immediately, or stumbling out of the cloud to die covered in a layer of black dust which choked their lungs.
It was not until noon the following day that the cloud rose enough to cross safely. ser Theadwyn Wynch, widow of ser Rodner Gaunt, was the first to cross below the cloud, whereupon they exacted their vengeance on the surviving Irogonians on the far side.