The Nerathi assault on the Throneholds lasted three weeks. The first week Dolranth the Templar of Light lead the charge against the undead infantry that ringed the central cities of the Karkothi Empire. Dolranth falls taking down four legions of undead but the tide is turned and the first thronehold falls to the good magic users and dragons who dispatch the wraith that killed Dolranth. The Thronehold's lord flees west.
The second week Nerath pressed westward to the next Thronehold city, conquering the wraith leading their defenses. This Thronehold's lord kills the Crow Shaman in battle but is taken down by the Priest of Light, Ella the Enchantress, and the Lunarmancer. Their victory is short lived as three Karkothi dragons tear into the magic users, killing them and their acolytes, apprentices, and attendants, along with a dragon knight. The dragons then retreat back to Marhud, the capitol city.
In the third week, the remaining Nerathi Dragon Knights move onward to the Marhud, the central capitol, where the bravest of the remaining Karkothi lords ride out on dragons to meet them above the city walls. In an impressive display of magical and aerial combat the Karkothi High Lord remains victorious with his dragon army. The corpses of the metallic dragons are flayed and sent to the dark artificers to be turned into undead monstrosities and war machines.
Nerath fares better in the Winterskull islands, where a Chromium and Cobalt dragon storm the castle burning out the vestiges of Karkoth's reign. King Mithraelfast himself marches his forces south to Therund, where he joins his old friend Lord Ironfist on the road and continues on to Nera. Great preparations are made to receive the ruler of the Nerathi League and demonstrate the great lengths the forces in Nera have gone to in securing the defense of the border with the Iron Circle.
