Orcs encounter elves in northern forests

In 285PC the Cloudy Mountain Orcs resumed their tentative expansion of the lands around the great dividing mountains, searching out new areas to plunder as their population grew. Ranging north however they encountered a strange new group of elves, rustic in appearance, in the sparse forests to the north of their realm. Although unable to rout the orcs, the elves of the forests were able to fight them to a standstill, even mustering a significant army to prevent the orcs from entering the forests. The orc assumption that their expansion north would face little resistance had proved incorrect, although the orc bosses were now able to claim hegemony over the valleys north of Orvaeg Pass, and the strange arcane stone circle which nestled in the foothills of the mountains.