Thread:Aresius King/@comment-33562861-20180504171122/@comment-4264245-20180504173954


 * The Dwarf Armybook says in 2302 then-Thane Thorgrim met with the Norse Dwarves after the Battle of Kislev, maybe in late winter or spring, and then went on to visit Karak Ungor, Karak Drazh and some other Lost Holds. Around 2304, Thorgrim returned to K-a-K, and the Norse Dwarf kings came along to speak for him. After his crowning, Thorgrim and Thorgard exchanged rings. Therefore, Kraka Drak must have had some way to maintain contact for the next years.


 * Meanwhile, the Chaos Armybook says Valmir waited for summer of 2302 to attack Kraka Drak because he did not want to be at a disadvantage in the snowy passes, so Thorgrim must already have left. Long story short, some guy named Silverbeard (apparently as kingly as Thorgard?) lost the first battle outside the hold, and ordered his artillery to bring down the mountainsides to bury Kraka Drak's entrance. The Dwarfs and some surviving Chaos Warriors are trapped inside the tunnels, and the Dwarfs get butchered for the next 86 years. If they could have gotten out, they could have brought in aid from their neighbours or warn Thorgrim or something.

So we have two different kings from the same hold and the same year, but one lives on to befriend Thorgrim, and the other dies right away and his people end up dead... Either Kraka Drak has two kings at the same time like Sparta, or Silverbeard was some kind of regent while Thorgard left with Thorgrim - or simply the writers of the Chaos Armybooks never bothered to check the Dwarf sources, which sounds rather likely xD