| Ladth Date/Gan-Burik
Year Events
1365/0 Union of orc and goblin warbands under Parasthetes
and surviving Navrthainians refugees who did not follow Azgad in flight..
1369/4 Completion of fortified town of Gel Burn, early capital of the
Kingdom.
1387/22 Death of Parasthetes in Virran raid. Short power struggle for
command of what has become known as the Gan-Burik.
1388/23 Khoras Im, a nephew of Parasthetes, with the support of the
Cult of Dark Night, gains power and is crowned King of the Gan-Burik, ruler of goblins and
orcs.
1391/26 Formal reorganization of the Cult of Dark Night as the primary
cult of the Gan-Burik. Orc and goblin warbands put under cult leadership and their own
primitive demon worship is quelled.
1395/30 Construction of the Chain of Stone, the Kul-im-akpar, a series
of tower forts along the northern frontier. Each tower-fort was supported by one orc and
one goblin war-band, under the command of a Darkling troop.
1396/31 War against the Ladth of the Allium March. Raids and counter
raids. The Gan-Burik abandon chariot tactics, turning to horsemen and wolf-riders.
1397/32 Khoras Im is slain in Gel Burn by Times, called Orc-father,
the last southern born Gan-Burik king. Times purges the command structure of the realm.
1422/57 Times Orc-father dies quietly in his sleep. His half-orc sons
war for control of Gel Burn.
1427/62 Rek Toad-killer defeats his brothers for control of the
throne.
1432/67 The goblin tribes of the west are re-subjugated by the
Toad-killer's elite orc/darkling cavalry forces. Construction of a new city is begun;
named Gel Rek, but soon after called Goblinskull, because of the major element in the
construction of the city walls.
1437/72 Virran cult and priesthood in the east is crushed. Many Virran
tribesmen forced into slavery or slain.
1438/73 Rek Toad-killer launches an attack against the forces of Antes
Splendora. Sack and plunder pour into the goblin kingdom.
1440/75 The Paladin, Lord-Captain Brazos Ankarios, defeats and slays
Rek Toad-killer in battle along the Chain of Stone.
Dral Darkomen, a surviving son of Times Orc-father, is chosen as king by the orc and
half-orc warbands. The Cult of Dark Night and Darklings of the towns acquiesce.
1444/79 After three years, quietly consolidating his power and
allowing the goblins to continue raiding Antes Splendora, Dral Darkomen leads a purge of
the Gan-Burik leadership. He targets the Cult of Dark Night, the Toad Cult, and Followers
of the Black Light. Dral is supported by the orcs of the south and the orcish Cult of the
Bronze Reaver.
1445/80 Darkomen leads his warbands against the fortresses of Dark
Navrthain in the high mountains, earning the enmity of Azgad and Upharsin. Much loot and
tribute are paid to the Gan-Burik king.
1449/84 Dral Darkomen uses the loot and tribute from Azgad and
Upharsin to further fortify the Gan-Burik border with the Ladth. Three great fortresses
are built: Cahin Dorn, Cahin Phar'zad, and Cahin Im-Dral.
1456/91 Bloody campaigns against the Ladth; Peace of Grey Wells fixes
a border between the Gan-Burik, Antes Splendora and the Lord-Abbot of Valerian Steps.
1458/93 Dral leads his warbands and Virran raiders against the
encroaching Duchy of Lazarass.
1462/97 After three years of hard fighting in the south, Dral Darkomen
is murdered by his second-in-command, who manages to seize power. Bain Dark-killer is
crowned the Sixth King of the Gan-Burik. Bain was a Cult Leader of the Bronze Warrior, and
was known after his death as Bain Bronze-skull.
1474/109 Having successfully extricated the Gan-Burik from war with
Lazarass, Bain declares a Holy War against the Ladth and leads all the military might of
the Gan-Burik against the Valerian Steps and Antes Splendora.
Upharsin crosses the High Mountains and takes back the fortresses in the passes lost to
Dral Darkomen. Many goblins flock to his black banner.
1476/111 Bain's war in the north results in the slaughter and
shattering of the feared orc warbands of the Gan-Burik at the Battle of the Drowned Wolf,
Gol-namarth, or as the Ladth named it, the Battle of Amarios Ford. Using foul wizardry and
demonic allies, Bain survives the rout but is forced to yield power to the resurgent Cult
of Black Night.
Upharsin sacks and destroys the city of Goblinskull, leaving the ruins to the goblins
and the dead.
1477/112 Upharsin and his forces withdraw to the High Mountain passes,
taking many goblin vassals with him.
Bain leads a small army against the so-called Goblin-king who controlled the ruins of
Goblinskull, but is defeated. Bain is ritually murdered by the Cult of Dark Night; his
bronzed skull becomes a powerful artifact, endowed with much power, but is lost during the
final fall of the Gan-Burik kingdom.
1478/113 A new king rises from the squabbling successors to Bain
Bronzeskull. The son of a Dark Night priestess and a demon-lord, Gaebrim Daemonsfoal
struck fear and horror in the hearts of all.
1480/115 Daemonsfoal leads the renewed forces of the Gan-Burik against
the Virrans of the east in a two year campaign of rape, slaughter and hostage-taking.
1482/117 Daemonsfoal completes the construction of a series of tombs
for his predeccesors to the royal throne of the Gan-Burik. Three are near Gel Burn, two
near Goblinskull ruins and one along the Chain of Stone.
1485/120 The Gan-Burik turn upon the Duchy of Lazarass. Three years of
war result in the orcish warbands sacking the Lazarite city of Navassanas.
1489/124 Daemonsfoal turns his forces, swollen with new cadres of
goblins and orcs, enhanced by dark magic, upon Antes Splendora. Though the WarGod's City
is besieged, it does not fall, and the Gan Burik withdraw to the Chain of Stone.
1490/125 The victorious Gan-Burik are immediately loosed against
Upharsin, provoking a huge reaction. The might of Dark Navrthain is loosed upon the
Gan-Burik.
1491/126 Upharsin, Achmetha, and Enrogel cross the High Mountains
against the Gan-Burik; a simultaneous crossing against Antes Splendora is led by Absalom
and Azgad.
After a series of great victories, the Dark Army is surrounded and cut to pieces before
the walls of Cahin Dorn as the Demonsfoal looses his hidden reserves and demonic allies.
Achmetha, Paladin of the Black Light, defeats the Demon-Lord Urgael the Weeper in open
battle.
1492/127 Dark Navrthain pays tribute to the Gan-Burik in return for a
truce. They allow thousands of goblinoid and undead reavers to slip the border and plague
the Gan-Burik.
1500/135 Gaebrim Daemonsfoal disappears from the knowledge of his
people after leading them in constant warfare against all their neighbours.
1510/145 The Goblins of the Void overrun Gel Burn. Although some of
the Gan-Burik half-orc and human leadership hang onto their towers in the Chain of Stone,
within 25 years, no trace remains of this once powerful realm.
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