The Ihtaa Fens
locations.ihtaa_fens
location
wetland
A wetland belt across the northeastern approaches that cost Revakgol twelve years of the Great Wyrm War.
Content
Character
Seasonal. In high summer the peat firms enough to bear infantry on foot but not carts; in the wet season the whole belt becomes impassable and the channels move. Fever is endemic. Revakgol lost more soldiers to the water than to the Zegtuzsos in every year of Phase II.
Overview
A belt of standing water, peat and reed running roughly east-west behind the Medestul, wide enough that no army had ever crossed it in force and shallow enough that it could not be sailed.
The Zegtuzsos did not defend the fens. They lived on the far side of them and let the ground do the work.
Role In The War
The Drowned Years, 1274-1286. The Empire attempted to build the Busyl Causeway across the belt and lost the attempt and two Tufae generals in 1281. After that the fens were drained at the margins and flanked along the Saark rather than crossed.
Relations
- Region
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- Eastern Silgolt
Raw JSON (for debugging)
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"character": "Seasonal. In high summer the peat firms enough to bear infantry on foot but not carts; in the wet season the whole belt becomes impassable and the channels move. Fever is endemic. Revakgol lost more soldiers to the water than to the Zegtuzsos in every year of Phase II.",
"overview": "A belt of standing water, peat and reed running roughly east-west behind the Medestul, wide enough that no army had ever crossed it in force and shallow enough that it could not be sailed.\n\nThe Zegtuzsos did not defend the fens. They lived on the far side of them and let the ground do the work.",
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