With the destruction of the chiefdom, the Orcs scattered further into Skyrim or back into the mountains of Wrothgar. How Hakkvild learned of this obscure Orcish ritual is not known, but with their leader’s defeat, Yashnag’s followers abandoned the chiefdom.

It is said that Hakkvild challenged Yashnag and a host of Yashnag’s Orc champions to a ritual trial by combat. The young jarl inherited little more than a crumbling hold largely occupied by Orcish invaders from the west. Hakkvild became Jarl of Falkreath when Yashnag killed his father on the field of battle. The chiefdom was a bane upon Western Falkreath for more than thirty years, until it was burned out by Hakkvilld Yashnag-Slayer in the year 467 of the Second Era. The King of West Skyrim, Svartr, was ineffective in holding back the Orcs and the Reachmen that plagued the West Kingdom during his rule. Yashnag and his people, exiled from High Rock, fled east to reclaim lands in Skyrim they felt were theirs by ancient right. With the destruction of Orsinium by the combined Breton and Redguard forces, the Orcs were scattered across the North in a great exodus. The height of Orcish power in Skyrim came with the establishment of Yashnag’s Chiefdom in the early Second Era. It’s said that the ancient Orc stronghold of Cradlecrush in Eastmarch has never been taken by force or abandoned, despite the complete exhaustion of the mineral vein it sits upon. Some strongholds have persisted in this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Worse, destroyed strongholds often return within a generation of their destruction if not countered by a Nord fort that needs a constant supply of troops and provisions.įew jarls can afford to defend piles of rock for more than a few years, and thus the Orc strongholds remain a pox upon our land. Many jarls are remembered in song for dying vainly while attempting to root a stronghold from their lands. Each contains the infrastructure to support a dozen or more families, surrounded by walls designed to repel anything but the strongest martial force. Orc strongholds are well defended outposts often situated around deposits of mineral wealth. Though few written accounts still exist of that time, there is mention in the histories of the Companions uprooting Orc strongholds even as they burned the Snow Elves from the land. The tusked people claim occupancy of our fair realm, stretching back before the time Ysgamor crossed the Sea of Ghosts. No pest has proven more resilient to the Nords of Skyrim than the common Orc.

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