The newly established Ogre Kingdom in the Moors of Mourn, just to the east of the Mallvass Mountains, was of great concern to the lords of the Kaalroen Empire in the early part of the 5th Century. Although the lords of Skraeland, Phallicia and Hovedstaden showed no real interest in the tiny kingdom of the Ogres, the Domovoi and the lord of Ayn'Qaahira, whose borders were most threatened, put together a plan to wipe the upstart realm off the map before it could grow.
In 408PC the Domovoi encountered a roving Ogre army on the plains of Canabrin, within the vast expanse of the Kaalroen Empire. The Domovoi soon raise dna army, led by Tanais, champion of elder Smargl, and managed to crush the Ogres on the plains west of the Branmeren Hills. However the Lord of Aayn'Qaahira was not satisfied by this. He knew the Ogres were in a key position to the south east of his realm, and needed removing once and for all. Later in the same year he negotiated a pact with the Cloudy Mountain Orcs, to invade the Ogre Kingdom and sack the Hall of the Overtyrant.
Fortunately for the Ogres, Elven magic divined the plans of Ayn'Qaahira, and before the Orcs could reach the Chaos city and march forth with their allies, an elven warhost arrived bringing news of an imminent attack to the Ogre leader. Together the elves and Ogres formed up before the mighty army of chaos and greenskins, in the largest battle to have taken place on Palurin since the battle of Sein Craban over a hundred years earlier.
The High Elves' motives were clear. Mellvellon, seeing the Kaalroen Empire expanding ever eastward, appreciated a distraction to their enemy's west. If they could foster a continuing enmity between the Ogres and the Kaalroens, then the lords of Chaos would have their gaze deflected from the Elven colonies in the east.
The battle of Alluvium took place between the tower of Ayn'Qahira and the Ogre realm's border, as the elf-Ogre alliance attempted to block their enemy's path south along the only useable road. The battle started badly for the chaos alliance, with the war shrine and chaos knights panicking at the Ogre and Elven firepower, and then proceeded to get worse.
By the end of the battle the chaos and greenskin alliance had suffered a resounding defeat, and fled back north. The Ogre Kingdom expanded its dominion to include much of Alluvium, so that they would receive more warning of chaos attack in the future. Even so, the small Ogre nation sat between a number of powerful Empires, and its very existence still teetered on the brink of annihilation. The elves had saved it this time, but would they continue to do so?
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