Massacre of Blood Creek

Part of History of Otheia
About 30 years before the Glorious Revolution, the Kingdom of Aral (now in the modern Steel Realm) was invaded by forces of the Kingdom of Haralast. Following a series of rapid gains, the Haralast forces seized the large town of Stecer, where they planned to wait out the fall and winter months.
However, the Kingdom of Aral had mustered a vast army, and besieged the army in their fortress. After two months, just before the first snows, the army surrendered, having been devastated by disease and starvation within their camp.
The Aral forces, commanded by Lord Scee, Advanced, offered the Haralast army safe passage to prison camps, however, Lord Scee, knowing of the poor harvest of the region, bound the surrendered soldiers, and marched them into a steep valley a dozen at a time. Once there, they were beheaded by their captors. The process was repeated until the entire enemy army, 5,000 in all, lay dead within the valley, thereafter known as the Slaughter Valley, and the stream at its foot called Blood Creek.
The massacre was controversial at the time, and remains to this day. Opponents of Lord Scee claimed he was a dishonorable betrayer, who broke his promise of safe conduct. Proponents of Lord Scee claim that he was against the action from a moral standpoint, but he knew that the year’s harvest was poor, and that adding 5,000 extra mouths would certainly doom the Aralers.
Whatever the case, the Massacre at Blood Creek has gone down in legend as one of the most infamous atrocities of the Late Warlord Period.
Category:History of Otheia