Forge: Kaagaat

[Target entity — the current file, to be filled]
{
 "aliases": [
  "The Last Clutch"
 ],
 "content": {
  "character": "Effectively unstormable by the standards of the age and effectively unstarvable in the short term, since its water was internal and its stores deep. What it could not do was end. There was nowhere further to withdraw to and nobody left to relieve it.",
  "legacy": "Still inhabited. Garrisoned by the Empire under the terms of the surrender, and administered by a Mulaagjun, which makes it the clearest physical statement of what the settlement of 1305 actually was. In Saarotsos usage the name has drifted into an idiom for an ending everyone survived, which Zegtuzsos speakers find intolerable.",
  "overview": "A highland fastness built into and under a mountain, holding its own springs. The last seat of Zegtuzsos independent authority and the place the surviving Mulaagjuns gathered after Urtkaa.",
  "role_in_the_war": "Invested in the winter of 1303. Kaemisyol declined to assault it and instead built rings of fortified road around the mountain over twenty-six months. The delegation that went to Vusokaar under the white-scorched banner in 1305 came from here."
 },
 "id": "locations.kaagaat",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. 'Kaagaat' is a generate_names candidate (sigtaara).",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "Kaagaat",
 "native": null,
 "relations": {
  "region": [
   "Eastern Silgolt"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": "mountain fastness",
 "summary": "The final Zegtuzsos mountain bastion of the Great Wyrm War, besieged 1303-1305 AZN and surrendered rather than taken.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war"
 ],
 "timeline": {},
 "type": "location"
}

[Schema template & register reference — Netin'Fojaa (locations-netin-fojaa). Match its SHAPE and VOICE; do not mirror its content.]
{
 "aliases": [
  "The Ash Gate",
  "The Throat"
 ],
 "content": {
  "character": "Steep-sided, roughly two thousand paces long, with no parallel route that does not add a season's march. Holding it held the highlands. Losing it lost them.",
  "legacy": "One of the two engagements of the Seventy Claws that every Saarotsos officer can name. Zegtuzsos travellers passing through it are traditionally silent for its full length.",
  "overview": "A narrow defile at the eastern end of the Saark. The Zegtuzsos name for it, the Throat, is older than the war and purely descriptive. The imperial name is not: netin is ash or coal, fojaa is gate, and the Empire named it for what it did there.",
  "role_in_the_war": "Taken in 1294 by Kaemisyol in person, using Kori at a scale not previously seen in the war. The floor of the pass afterward lay under coal-ash deep enough to kill the ground; the imperial road through it was laid on ash rather than soil and nothing grew in the defile for roughly sixty years."
 },
 "id": "locations.netin_fojaa",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. Lexicon compound: netin (ash, coal) + fojaa (gate). Sigtaara grammar ordering not fully applied - see translate tool caveat.",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "Netin'Fojaa",
 "native": "Netin'Fojaa",
 "relations": {
  "adjacent_to": [
   "The Saark"
  ],
  "region": [
   "Eastern Silgolt"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": "pass",
 "summary": "The only practical pass from the Saark cliff country into the northeastern highlands. Burned open in 1294 AZN and dead ground for a generation afterward.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war",
  "seventy_claws"
 ],
 "timeline": {},
 "type": "location"
}

[Related canon (summaries)]
### Netin'Fojaa / Netin'Fojaa  (military_conflict, canon id: military-conflicts-netin-fojaa)
The Ash Gate The Throat Netin'Fojaa ends the Road War and opens the Cliff Sieges. With the pass held, the highland clan-holds could be reached individually and could no longer reinforce one another. He burned it open. Kori was used at a scale the war had not previously seen and the Kori Codexes were standardized within a generation partly on the basis of what was recorded here.

The imperial name is literal rather than figurative. After the fighting the floor of the pass lay under coal-ash to a depth that killed the ground; nothing grew there for a generation and the road through it was built …

### The Saark  (location · cliff-line, canon id: locations-the-saark)
Dry, windy, and defensible to a degree that made assault pointless. Water came from springs within the rock, which is why the Yuliz citadels had to be traced and cut rather than simply blockaded. A long escarpment where the fen basin ends and the highland country begins. The Zegtuzsos cut citadels into its face rather than building on top of it - approach from below is exposed and approach from above requires already holding the highlands. The Road War, 1286-1297. Revakgol advanced along the cliff base by fortified road, reducing citadels in sequence. Three fell during the Yuliz Sieges of …

### The Siege of Kaagaat  (military_conflict, canon id: military-conflicts-siege-of-kaagaat)
The Last Clutch The refusal to assault is the tactical fact underneath the political choice the parent entry already records. Storming Kaagaat would have killed the surviving Mulaagjuns, and Kaemisyol wanted the Paathur system intact and legitimate enough to govern through. A bastion taken by storm has no one left with the standing to surrender it.

The delegation went to Vusokaar in 1305. The Paathur system was preserved beneath the Dovahrein; imperial garrisons were admitted at key sites; the Mulaagjuns kept authority over Zegtuzsos villages. Kaemisyol invested it in the winter of 1303 and …