Sarbreenar’s recent history

N the days of the Dwarves, Ravens Bluff was called Sarbreen. Sarbreenar was the dwarven name for its guardian outpost, protecting access to Elvenblood Pass so that Sarbreen never could be attacked by surprise through the mountains, or be isolated from Procampur when winter ice and storms made sailing treacherous. In those days, Sarbreenar was little more than a keep attached to a terraced garden and high pastures.

Sarbreenar devastated by Wyrm

LL trace of the dwarven keep has been swept away. It was torn apart by a huge dragon, remembered as ‘the Sarbreenar Wyrm,’ which decided to roost there and prey on the road traffic whenever it was hungry.

The Wyrm was a green dragon of the largest size; its tail hung down the shattered tower to the ground below as it slept, and men dared not approach; the road fell into disuse. Lack of food proved the Wyrm’s undoing in the end. When it grew hungry, it flew south to raid Procampur, tearing the roofs from houses and devouring all inside.

After the second such raid, the angry and fearful folk of Procampur hired a wizard, whose spells awaited the Wyrm on its third raid. The wizard brought the dragon crashing down into the harbour of Procampur in a rain of blood and bones – cut apart in midair by exploding ‘swordballs’ that flung the rusty fragments of old weapons in all directions (as a fireball hurls forth flames). So the Wyrm perished, and men crept slowly back to Sarbreenar, to rebuild.

They found orcs had come down to strip the place in their absence. After a bloody, week-long fight through the mountains, Sarbreenar was returned to human hands, but without any of the goods it had once housed. The orcs had taken or despoiled everything – including the meager treasure accumulated by the Wyrm. Their spoils were never found and presumably the hoard is still hidden in the mountains somewhere nearby.

Next – Sarbreenar rebuilt from the rubble

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