A map of the Border Princes in 2276 IC during the Age of Three Emperors with the names of the various reigning Border Princes of the time. Thessos is located in the northern Black Peninsula.
Thessos is a settlement of the Border Princes in the northern Black Peninsula. In 2276 IC it was ruled by Baron Oswain Lothar of House Aquilena.[1a]
History[]
A map that outlines the campaign of the Tomb King Settra the Imperishable in the Border Princes that culminated in the Battle of Matorea.
In ca. 2276 IC, taking advantage of the momentary absence of the knights of Baron Oswain Lothar, the Blue Face Orcs of the southern coast grew bolder. A host of these Orcs had almost razed Thessos, before a charge of the baron's daughter, Karolina Lothar, and her knights had finally broken the Greenskins' assault when she spitted their warlord on her spare lance.
Later, the vanguard of the Tomb King Settra's invasion force landed at the northern end of the Black Peninsula, where it wasted little time in laying siege to the settlements of Kasos and Thessos. The objective was to raze the settlements to the ground and drive scores of refugees ahead of the Undead host, sowing fear into the population of the Border Princes as it advanced towards the Citadelle Bouelia and then onwards to the large coastal town of Matorea.[2a]
However, the Tomb Prince Ptolethor the Radiant, one of Settra's naval commanders and the leader of the Tomb Kings' vanguard forces, did not account for the fearsome resistance he would face. Riding to the defence of the two settlements came several infamous warriors, outcasts from their homelands who had fled to the Border Princes years before and had grown powerful in this lawless and warlike land.[2a]
Through long and bitter experience of past battles against the Undead legions of lost Nehekhara, these fallen princes and the veteran mercenary regiments they commanded knew that the key to victory against the armies of the Undead was to bring down the foul wizards and cadaverous Liche Priest that animated the skeletal forces.[2a]
Armed with such knowledge and incentivised by promises of fortune and fame, these veteran armies were able to inflict significant damage on Ptolethor's forces in their defence of both Kasos and Thessos, but not enough to stop the Tomb Prince's vast host from grinding the defences to dust and putting the Human garrisons to the sword. With the first part of his grim task complete, Prince Ptolethor continued his march towards Citadelle Bouelia.[2a]