Harchist's Blockade

Harchist's Blockade is a former, fortified border running between the nation of Lastwall and the orc tribes of the Hold of Belkzen. Construction began in summer 4235 AR on the orders of the Lastwall hero General Harchist to support the ageing Sunwall.

General Harchist had predicted the collapse of the Sunwall in the face of an imminent orc invasion. Her warnings to her superiors were ignored, forcing her to take matters into her own hands. Disguising the labor of her troops as training exercises, she ordered them to dig in on the southern banks of the River Esk. When the Sunwall fell in 4237 AR, Harchist pulled back to the new defensive line and successfully repelled the invading orcs, culminating in the Battle of Last Hope at Fort Morrine. The blockade was later improved upon by the Vigil leadership, who quickly strengthened the line with a series of forts connected by a low stone wall and named it in the general's honor.

Fall

The demonic rune of Urxehl.

Harchist's Blockade became the border between Lastwall and Belkzen for about 250 years, until it too fell in 4482 AR, at which point the defenders fell back further to construct the Hordeline, which was only finished in 4515 AR.

Current status

Harchist's Blockade now stands in ruins with the old fortresses providing little more than overnight lodgings for travellers.

However, Green Barox is the leader of a tribe of scrags that regularly use one of the western fortress ruins for ceremonial purposes. He believes that his patron, the demon lord Urxehl, lives in the ancient Thassilonian monument known as the Sleeper nearby.