User:Zone Descriptions Project/King's Pass

Being the southern pass through the Central Mountains, King's Pass was one of the economic centers of the Old World, guarded by the Stronghold of the High King.

The local economy started to decline in the year 94 BF, when the High King died in a mysterious accident. Since he left no heirs, a struggle for power arose that lasted over two decades. This struggle ended in the year 70 BF when a new High King was crowned. Even then, King's Pass only reached a shadow of it's former glory since Freeport, the largest city of the Humans, refused to acknowledge the High King and terminated all land trade through King's Pass.

The end of King's Pass came one year later, in the year 69 BF, when an army of renegade Dark Elves led by Baldakos the Betrayer razed it, enslaved the residents and laid siege on the High King's Stronghold. Over the following twenty years, the remains of the human population of King's Pass were decimated even more by slave labor and starvation. This gruesome situation did not change until the year 49 BF, when an Iksar army came to reinforce the siege-laying Dark Elves and the human population was massacred altogether... as a food source for the Iksars.

Today King's Pass is only inhabited by the restless dead who were slain when High Keep finally succumbed to the besieging armies and risen in an unholy ritual.