Lectal

The town of Lectal was a old Giants settlement in Rauver valley, located in the Umamthakom Mountains. It was eventually destroyed by the dwarves after an incident that spiralled out into the Troigh Leud.

## Description

Lectal was a small town defended by a wooden palisade made from trees that have been ripped from the ground. Inside the walls of the town stood several thatched houses made out of boulders which had been stacked on top of each other, the biggest of these was the jarl's lodge in which he handled matters of state. In the centre of town stood a market square where fisherman, hunters, and smiths used to trade. Close to the market was a small fighting arena in which citizens settled disputes. There was also a park in which the local river flows through. In the middle of this park there was even a waterfall which the Giants used as a public shower.

## History

The town of Lectal had been able to avoid direct subjugation from the Dwarven Imperium for years by grace of its primitivity and strategic unimportance. In 357 AD the luck of Lectal would run out. The Dwarven Imperium had grown so massive at this point that they began to vasalize any remaining free settlements the could find as a way to keep conquering. These settlements had coexisted with and near the imperium for years and as such it came as a great surprise to many when a young prince showed up to demand that the inhabitants of Lectal pledged themselves to the Kaiser. The Jarl of lectal, named Havroun, was at first merely confused at this change of attitude, but when the prince began to treat him and his courtiers as mere beast he became outraged. Havroun locked the prince and his entourage in one of his cells, which he would later learn was a fatal mistake. Eventually Havroun would collect himself and he sent a messenger to the Kaiser that he would be willing to negotiate a deal between the Imperium and the people of Lectal if he personally apologised for the behaviour of his prince.

When The Kaiser received the news and he was furious. He swiftly raised his legions for war and dispensed them to this pathetic little village. The legions reached the wooden palisade of Lectal, demanding the immediate surrender of the inhabitants in exchange for their lives. The people of Lectal armed themselves with anything the could get their hands on. Their jarl Havroun had locked himself in his lodge. He knew that Lectal had no chance against the might of the Imperium. In a desperate attempt he called upon the ancient accord of kinship that the giant clans of the Umamthakom Mountains had to protect each other from invaders. He began to blow his mighty lituus, filling the air with a mighty horn that drowned out the sounds of his people getting slaughter in battle with the dwarfs. The dwarves flooded the town, slaughtering every Giant that they crossed paths with and the streets were filled with the sounds of screams, howling, and warhorns. They eventually reached the jarl's lodge, where they bound Havroun and pulled his massive body to the ground. As the dwarves dragged him out through his now crimson streets, Havroun saw the horrible sights of the village's children tied upside down with their heels slashed open. Then Havroun was place in front of the centurion in in such a way that his face looked up to warlord that had ravaged his home. Few know what was said to him by their leader, but after the centurion was finished he had raised his spear, and plunged it into the Havroun's heart. The only Giant who was able to escape the slaughter was jarl Havroun's own son Svengir Havrounson who would eventually lead the united Giant clans against the Imperium.