Orlbar
Orlbar was a village on the junction of the Loagrann and Greyflow rivers in the Delimbiyr Vale in the mid-to-late 14th century DR.
It lay on the north bank of the confluence of the Greyflow and Loagrann.
It lay on the north bank of the confluence of the Greyflow and Loagrann.
History
In the Year of the Bright Blade, 1347 DR, on a mountaintop deep in the Greypeaks, a cult of Talos summoned the Tempest, a storm elemental, and unleashed it on Orlbar and Llorkh. The Tempest tore apart cottages with its terrific winds and assaulted the land with a barrage of rain. It seemed driven to lay the whole Grayvale to waste before the Green Regent Kalahar Twohands destroyed it.
Orlbar was once known as a simple, sleepy village. But then, in the summer of the Year of the Gauntlet, 1369 DR, a Zhentarim caravan rolled into town and set up a new government, and put an end to the people's freedom. A former lieutenant of Geildarr Ithym of Llorkh, Felishar Ivarzin, became leader of the village.
The construction of a temple to Xvim—said to have been done with the help of devils—dashed the last hope of the people of Orlbar for freedom. They soon revolted against the Zhents' tyrannical rule, and the leadership of Loudwater backed them. Unfortunately, Jesym Rein of Loudwater turned traitor to both the Orlbar rebels and the Loudwater soldiers by revealing their battle plans and their concealed caches of weapons and potions to the Zhentarim. Thanks to her, the Zhentarim and clerics of Iyachtu Xvim brutally crushed the rebellion and Loudwater was forced to sign the Oath of Orlbar, a peace treaty that marked a border between the two states in the years after and ensuring the Zhentarim's control of the village.
During the Gray Migrations of the High Forest orcs in the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR, by Eleasias a story was going around the Grayvale that Thelbrimm's Nine had found five families in a homestead east of Orlbar massacred by orcs and their homes destroyed, and that the orcs had taken nothing and done it for kicks. Another version said it was Thelbrimm's Four, that it was only two families killed but also all their animals, including the cats.
In time, Orlbar became a simple shepherding village once again. But after 1485 DR, the village was abandoned, with its last inhabitants driven away by the stone giants of Deadstone Cleft, as part of Thane Kayalithica's campaign against human civilization. Utterly erasing the village, the giants leveled every building, buried the lumber and iron debris, and made piles of the stones. After they moved on, a stone giant hermit named Zorkh stacked these stones in interesting arrangements up to 20 feet (6.1 meters), forming a small stone forest. The survivors fled to Loudwater. A Zhentarim-occupied fortified tower watching over the Delimbiyr River west of Orlbar was abandoned in the face of another stone giant attack, and the stone giants began to dismantle it unless interrupted by adventurers.
In 1489 DR Orlbar was resettled by settlers from Waterdeep and other nearby settlements lead by Taran Kroft, who would go on to be named Grand Mayor Taran Kroft of both Orlbar and Llorkh.
Orlbar was once known as a simple, sleepy village. But then, in the summer of the Year of the Gauntlet, 1369 DR, a Zhentarim caravan rolled into town and set up a new government, and put an end to the people's freedom. A former lieutenant of Geildarr Ithym of Llorkh, Felishar Ivarzin, became leader of the village.
The construction of a temple to Xvim—said to have been done with the help of devils—dashed the last hope of the people of Orlbar for freedom. They soon revolted against the Zhents' tyrannical rule, and the leadership of Loudwater backed them. Unfortunately, Jesym Rein of Loudwater turned traitor to both the Orlbar rebels and the Loudwater soldiers by revealing their battle plans and their concealed caches of weapons and potions to the Zhentarim. Thanks to her, the Zhentarim and clerics of Iyachtu Xvim brutally crushed the rebellion and Loudwater was forced to sign the Oath of Orlbar, a peace treaty that marked a border between the two states in the years after and ensuring the Zhentarim's control of the village.
During the Gray Migrations of the High Forest orcs in the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR, by Eleasias a story was going around the Grayvale that Thelbrimm's Nine had found five families in a homestead east of Orlbar massacred by orcs and their homes destroyed, and that the orcs had taken nothing and done it for kicks. Another version said it was Thelbrimm's Four, that it was only two families killed but also all their animals, including the cats.
In time, Orlbar became a simple shepherding village once again. But after 1485 DR, the village was abandoned, with its last inhabitants driven away by the stone giants of Deadstone Cleft, as part of Thane Kayalithica's campaign against human civilization. Utterly erasing the village, the giants leveled every building, buried the lumber and iron debris, and made piles of the stones. After they moved on, a stone giant hermit named Zorkh stacked these stones in interesting arrangements up to 20 feet (6.1 meters), forming a small stone forest. The survivors fled to Loudwater. A Zhentarim-occupied fortified tower watching over the Delimbiyr River west of Orlbar was abandoned in the face of another stone giant attack, and the stone giants began to dismantle it unless interrupted by adventurers.
In 1489 DR Orlbar was resettled by settlers from Waterdeep and other nearby settlements lead by Taran Kroft, who would go on to be named Grand Mayor Taran Kroft of both Orlbar and Llorkh.
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