The Siege of Kvatch

The siege of Kvatch is where Jason first emerges as a key military figure and it also serves as the beginning of his rise in the kingdom of men. No doubt that without the Siege of Kvatch or if it had failed, Jason would not have been such a prominent figure in the history of Alea.

The Castle of Kvatch
Kvatch was a castle situated some 30 miles away from Vardenfall and its main purpose was to act as a hold out so that enough reinforcements could arrive at the cities beyond it in time. In short Kvatch was made so that it could either slow the advancement of enemies or force them to take a longer route past it. The structure of the castle was fairly complicated, it had one wall but multiple towers that were placed along it. There was a smaller wall to separate the training grounds which served as killing grounds in a siege from the main building of the castle. The barracks and food stores were locked in the castle with the commander of it being Jason the Brave at the time. Most of the garrison were conscripted men who were taken from the local villages to serve as the castles' garrison. They trained on a daily basis and almost every man had some sort of armour, archers had a hauberk placed over boiled leather, they wore a tunic underneath and their boots were made from any hides they could get their hands on. The infantry had steel chest-plates and boots as well as arm-guards, they too had a tunic underneath and were equip with a shield and a longsword. There were three levels in the castle, one