Until the final Battle of Grallan Field, where Hrak Gron fell, the Company of the Free had been undefeated in tactical combat. Even through Gron fell in that final battle the day was ultimately won for the Company. So ended the Great Uprising as the majority of slavers abandoned their claims and the orks took their rightful place among free Namegivers.
Lay accounts claim the Jewel never involved the city of Travar in the Uprising but a scrap of information about the "Battle of Red Rock" is mentioned in Idecht Bree's "Great Sorcerous Battles of the Burning". The mention of Red Rock is startling. Red Rock was a fortified keep on the trail from Travar to the Thunder Mountains. It was destroyed by an Invae assault late 101 TH c.. We know though detailed accounts that from the years 99 TH c. - 101 TH c. the Company used Red Rock on their supply line.
It is unlikely there was another rebel group using Red Rock at the time. There can be no other possible force of Blood Shapers and Warlocks large enough to warrant this attention. The unknown soldiers account must be a man in the famous Jewel's 6th Infantry.
Why the battle occurred is unclear. That it did occur and the Jewel's Warlock's were victorious is quite apparent.
"But the Red Rock rebels only fielded a handful of blood shapers. The Jewel had a dozen master warlocks. The warlocks bruised the sky with blooms of power that snatched up those rebel shapers in a single, surging wave until they were tiny figures riding a storm of flushed power. Tiny figures with limbs flailing and fragments of clothing whipping around like shredded wings. As the wave of burned sorcery swept over and past us the figures rolled and tumbled after it, webs of blood spreading out like a fisherman's net behind it.
Then they fell from the sky like stones. Dead long before they hit the ground.
It was too much power to witness. Dazed and ill by the display of such sorcery most of us were sick for days, if not weeks. That morning of that burned sky, if Invae had risen out of the ground around me then I wouldn't have felt no shock, only a wonder that they had taken so long to appear and could you be swift in ending it all, now?
Please".
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