OK so here it is... My first BC 2009 entry.
Fall of Castle Bloodmoon
Gazkalith’s rise to head the Bloodmoon kingdom had been swift and without reproach. None could link this orc from an enemy kingdom to the murder of the former king. Gazkalith had given King Balrath, a very ambitions and increasingly powerful monarch, an able and capable captain. Where King Balrath had increased his kingdom two fold, Gazkalith had, after his arrival in the Bloodmoon lands, increased it ten fold. It seemed to all that Gazkalith was the perfect soldier and servant: brave and cunning at war and completely obedient to his master’s will. King Balrath had even broken an ancient custom and allowed one of the great, or dark orcs blood, to be named supreme-chief-greatest-ultimate-superlative general, the highest rank under king in the realm.
This had angered Prince Olganth but he was powerless to do anything. When the king died by tripping and falling from a window the prince suspected foul play, especially since there were no windows in the room. Olganth stewed and schemed but Gazkalith ruled with cunning and force, and soon it became clear that if the prince raised an eyebrow wrong he’d be the next to be thrown from a windowless room.
Months passed and Gazkalith’s power and influence grew and Olganth’s diminished. Then came the armies. Angered at the Bloodmoon’s growing power and constant wars many of the surrounding kingdoms had joined together to crush Bloodmoon Castle, the castle King Balrath had built to emulate the Lion King’s fortress and King Gazkalith had usurped and secured for himself.
Now the castle was under siege. For months the attackers had bombarded the fortress with their many massive engines to no avail. The masterful orc masons had done their previous lord well when they cut the strength of the mountain and placed it into this castle. It would not fall to any catapult, trebuchet or other machine.
Would the castle stand? Would Gazkalith defeat the united army? Would Prince Olganth have his revenge? Or would the Bloodmoon Kingdom be destroyed at last by the united army against them....FirstSecondThirdFourthFifth
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