Battle of the Barrow's Den

Battle of the Barrow's Den	
Battle of the Barrow's Den
Date July 3rd, 377 
Location
Result Brun Victory	Date July 3rd, 377 
Location
Result Brun Victory
Belligerents 	Belligerents
Kingdom of Brun 	Colony of Laashburk
Commanders and Leaders	Commanders and Leaders
Lord Protector "Snowfire"
Lord Savrek Brownback	Magnate Lenna
Magnate Tevoth
Strength 	Strength
10,000 	5,000
Casualties and Losses 	Casualties and Losses
259 	288
Preceding 	Subsequent
Siege of Teraholm 	Battle of the Stony Ford
After the lifting of the Siege of Teraholm, Magnate Lenna returned her army back to Makenth and reunited with the garrison there in mid April, bringing her troop total to 10,000. She was unsure of how to continue the campaign against Brun. Makenth was situated in a very defensible location, surrounded and anchored by mountains; however, strategically, the future for the drow was murky. Obviously, the attack on Brun had been an opportunistic grab for land and power against a weakly perceived opponent; now, it was clear a quick strike had utterly failed, and the Brunians' blood was up. In addition, Laashburk was now at war with Brun's new allies, Brell and the Woodland Realm, which the Colony's high command viewed as much more pressing to defeat. Lenna received orders detailing her to send 5,000 soldiers to that effort while pulling back from Brun. 
Dutiful soldier that she was, Lenna almost immediately complied with the order, and detailed half of her army to march back north, leaving her with just 5,000 effectives. This was too few to continue an offensive, which was perfectly fine with Lenna, who prepared to withdraw from Makenth. To her surprise, a dragonborn army of 10,000 arrived a mere week after her. Lenna had anticipated that the Brunians would need to spend a great deal recovering from their losses at Teraholm and give her some breathing room, but Snowfire had not let up. Logistically, the drow were in a tenuous spot as well. Foraging had been nigh-impossible with Brunians farmers burning their fields, hiding their stores, and driving away or slaughtering their cattle rather than yield any of it to the drow. Lenna was forced to waste precious numbers to gather food. Rather than lock down her army in a potential siege she had no hope of escaping from, she decided to withdraw from Makenth entirely. 
Snowfire presses the attack, putting the drow on the back foot, Lenna ordered to pull back from Brun and send 5,000 troops to the now more pressing war against Brell and Woodland Realm, she does so but this severely limits her ability to commit to further offensive operations, now with 8,500 effectives, she suffers from severe logistical problems due to dragonborn knowledge of area, presuming that Cravis is dead, Savrek is chosen to lead the Brownback tribe, large scale skirmish at the den of a barrow (evil spirit), rather than let the battle become something larger, Lenna decides to pull back from Brun entirely and yield the country to them. Snowfire keeps a sizable army of 10,000 under the command of Savrek at Makenth to deter any future drow actions and then returns to Teraholm to run the kingdom on the behalf of Bard