Lord General Mergen Crychee

right|300px Died 21st of Heris, 1735
Lord Mergen Crychee was a General of the Trynsern Imperial Army who fought and died in the early days of the war of Gormann's Horde. He saw capable if not distinguished service during the War of Seven Castles as a staff officer. Risen in ranks by 1735, his army made of a smattering of Imperial troops and a collection of veterans from Terenden and around the kingdom of Garrus went into fortifications along the border of Mondrulavia after Gormann's Horde conquered that country and looked like they were getting active again.
Due to certain political considerations, he failed to reconnoiter Mondrulavia adequately when Gormann abruptly moved his horde away from the border, and he wasn't aware that he had marched into the Goblin Wastes. Still, he did not relax and he resisted the calls for his troops to be recalled to their homes until he could find out where Gormann went.
A week later, the humanoids attacked the forts holding them in their Humanoid Reservation, starting over thirty days of bloody warfare. Trying to continue to monitor the border, he was compelled to dispatch one unit after another to the local commanders handling the humanoids. These units were often destroyed piecemeal.
Finally, noting the humanoids' impressive performance and the not so much of the local Imperials, he assumed command of the forces fighting the humanoids. He arrayed his forces to trap and destroy the humanoids at the village of Haimwaide, but he found himself ambushed when Gormann's army sprung out and crushed his flanks. Out of his army of 22,000, 10,000 were slain. Crychee and his army were routed to Terenden.
Knowing that he would be relieved from command in disgrace after losing this battle, Crychee quickly assembled a new army to attack Gormann and avoid this fate. Instead, another fate awaited as he sent his estimated 23,000 troops against Gormann at the Battle of Hawkrest. On the 21st of Heris General Crychee perished along with fifteen thousand of his troops. The survivors fled to Terenden again and many died when Gormann destroyed that city.
The last that was seen of him alive was when several ogres stampeded Crychee's command group. Gormann was later to be seen carrying Crychee's tanned face stretched over his breatplate. After the Battle of Heddenfields it was recovered and given a military burial.
At no point did General Crychee understand what he was going up against.
Category:Gormann's Horde