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Lore:The Great Siege of Orsinium

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{{Lore Book
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|description=On the famous First Era conflict between Orcs and their neighbors in the Iliac Bay
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{{Lore Link|Ra Gada}} fought the tusky folk

From {{Lore Link|Hammerfell}} they drove them

In wrath withdrew they northward to

{{Lore Link|Orsinium}}, {{Lore Link|Orc}} city


Where found they welcome at the hands

Of King Atop the Scarpment,

{{Lore Link|Golkarr}}, mighty, Orc of wiles

Who thought to take advantage

To use infusion of new blood

To broaden Orcish holdings


Demands he made of {{Lore Link|Breton}}s south

Along the {{Lore Link|Bjoulsae River}}

For tariffs, tolls, ransoms, fees,

Or down would come Orc hammer


But {{Lore Link|Joile}}, the king in {{Lore Link|Daggerfall}}

Rejected Golkarr's dictum

Sent to {{Lore Link|Gaiden Shinji}} of

The {{Lore Link|Order of the Diagna|Order of Diagna}}


Urged him with the Bretons join

To siege and sack Orc city

Marched they then to {{Lore Link|Wrothgar}} Scarp

Orsinium invested


They thought that Orcish walls could not

Withstand their worthy weapons

But city high upon the scarp

Was triple-gate defended


Obdurate Gates: each one greater

Than the one before it

Smelter, Hammer, Temper, they

Were called, by Orcish stonewrights


The folk of {{Lore Link|Mauloch}} stood atop

And hurled down baneful missiles

And Breton, {{Lore Link|Redguard}}, smitten sore

Drew back to lower regions


Laughed then the Orcs, and bared their tusks

At warrior Men confounded

While Golkarr smiled in high Scarp Keep

And praised the Wrothgar clan-kin


But Gaiden Shinji and King Joile

Were not abashed or shaken

They summoned grandees, knights, and counts

To bring their armsmen thither


Orsinium surrounded they

And settled in to siege it

While plots and plans were schemed and made

The walls and gates, to breach them


The Orcs were quite content to wait

From Jugular well-watered

And fed by fertile fungus fields

In Caves of Dark Abundance


The Men, they thought, would tire and leave

To go back to their families

They reckoned not the fire that burned

In Joile and Gaiden Shinji


Ten years their men sieged outer gate

And finally Smelter faltered

A decade more at second gate

Till Hammer then was broken


Ten years again were spent in toil

Till Temper fell asunder

Then wrathful Men at last went in

Orsinium to plunder


Golkarr prayed in Grudgement Hall

For Mauloch to defend him

But King Joile took him by the hair

And Gaiden Shinji slew him
{{Book End}}
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