Great Clan of Frozenmaw is an outcome of the recent Gray Orc invasion in Vrorenmarch. This invasion put an end to the kingdom in East Alenic Reach and though orcs claim to be successors of Vrorenmarch, the kingdom as it was known before the invasion was lost forever.
History[]
Graytide (1420 AA - 1428 AA)[]
Gray Orcs mainly consist of the Orcish clans, which refused to accept Korgus Dookanson as a champion of their god and believed that he was a mere imposter. Unfortunately, their numbers were much smaller and after a short struggle all these clans were banished from caves and holds of Serpentspine mountains into wastelands of the Northern Pass.
Brasur Frozenmaw, young and ambitious chieftain, whose father was slain in personal combat by Korgus, was not satisfied with such fate for his people. He gathered other renegade clans, made them, by convincing or slaying other chieftains, to accept Brasur as their Warchief and commanded to start marching west. He remembered that Korgus was obsessed with invading human lands to the west of Serpentspine. Dookanson wanted to conquer the surface and eliminate other races and their gods in the name of the Great Dookan. Brasur knew that his clans were too small and weak to compete with Dookanson and his hordes, but his orcs could certainly compete with humans, if he could use his resources in a proper way. His kin could certainly find a better place to live, than barren northern forests, filled with dangerous beasts.
His horde started to slowly proceed to the west, and after crushing savage tribesmen of Giant's Tears, Orcs, whose skin turned gray like the lands they lived in, reached the borders of the Vrorenmarch Kingdom. From imprisoned tribesmen, Brasur knew that the kingdom was weak, not in people, but in unity, and kings struggled to keep the country together. And with this information the target was clear.
In 1420 Brasur’s horde crossed river Vroren and broke into Bal Vroren, slaying everyone who tried to resist. Sudden attack caught the royal family off guard and all of them were captured by Gray Orcs.
One strike - and the country fell into chaos. Without certain hierarchy and strong authority over them, nobility was not able to determine the leader of the resistance, because everyone wanted to protect their lands from orcs and refused to give soldiers to protect someone else. And this lack of organization sealed their fate. In the following five years, one by one, Brasur subjugated all lords of Vrorenmarch. Those who gave the strongest resistance were made an example - their cities were pillaged and burnt while local nobles were executed. But those who surrendered willingly were spared, but obliged to arrive at the coronation of the new Gray King of Vrorenmarch.
Orcish Kingdom of Vrorenmarch (1428 AA - 1483 AA)[]
Main article: Kingdom of Grombar