The Remains of Fort Taunton

Current State

Fort Taunton currently lies in ruins, a result of a fierce battle near the war's end. The land it occupies is now the eastern Blandenberg Protectorate.

History

Fort Taunton was once a border fort in northeast M'Chek. Since much of eastern M'Chek is untamed wilds, this fort was one of the most important supply depots and staging points for all M'Chekian operations against Eastern T'Nanshi. The Fort changed hands many times throughout the war, which is one of the major reasons M'Chek was never able to stage assaults northward along the eastern coast without utilizing its navy.

Towards the end of the war, when both sides had been drained of soldiers by the plague, T'Nanshi made a gamble to capture the fort and end M'Chek's hopes for an advance on that front. The T'Nanshi Army successfully captured Fort Taunton, but hadn't counted on M'Chek's desire to recapture it, nor on their new artillery arrived from the Kurathene Empire.

M'Chek marched an army to the Fort and demanded its surrender by sundown. When the answer was "no," M'Chek began a bombardment which reduced the fort to almost nothing, and killed or wounded many of the defenders. However, T'Nanshi's troops proved cunning and rather than surrender the fort, they drew a sizable portion of the M'Chekian army into it under a flag of truce before detonating the store of powderkegs they held there.

The fort was reduced to a smoldering heap of rubble and gore.