Forge: The Saark

[Target entity — the current file, to be filled]
{
 "aliases": [],
 "content": {
  "character": "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.",
  "overview": "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.",
  "role_in_the_war": "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 1288-1291. The line ends at the pass the Empire renamed Netin'Fojaa."
 },
 "id": "locations.the_saark",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. 'Saark' is a generate_names candidate (sigtaara).",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "The Saark",
 "native": null,
 "relations": {
  "adjacent_to": [
   "The Ihtaa Fens"
  ],
  "region": [
   "Eastern Silgolt"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": "cliff-line",
 "summary": "A cliff wall running along the northern edge of the Ihtaa Fens, holding the Zegtuzsos citadels reduced during the Road War.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war"
 ],
 "timeline": {},
 "type": "location"
}

[Schema template & register reference — Kaagaat (locations-kaagaat). Match its SHAPE and VOICE; do not mirror its content.]
{
 "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"
}

[Related canon (summaries)]
### Netin'Fojaa / Netin'Fojaa  (location · pass, canon id: locations-netin-fojaa)
The Ash Gate The Throat 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. 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. 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. …

### The Ihtaa Fens  (location · wetland, canon id: locations-ihtaa-fens)
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. 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. The Drowned Years, 1274-1286. The …

### 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 …

### The Yuliz Sieges  (military_conflict, canon id: military-conflicts-yuliz-sieges)
The Four Winters Each citadel was invested rather than assaulted, its water traced and cut, its approaches walled off by fortified road. The first fell in seven months, the second in five. The third held eleven.

The defenders of the third were permitted to walk out under arms. Kaemisyol's Tufae recorded this as clemency and used it in every subsequent negotiation. The chant Saarotsos children learn is a list of fallen citadels in the order they fell, and the list begins here. Officers who trace their command lineage to the Wyrmfront are almost always tracing it through a Yuliz siege line. …