The Blight of Breme

on February 14th 202RA a group of scouts spotted a large Bersker horde of some 6000 moving towards the Great Hall of Thurwigten, Jarl ower the Breme. the scouts however were unfortunately killed before they could warn the great Jarl and the Bersker descended upon Breme like a plague. the Blight of Breme marks the first of what are known as the Blight Wars. and is significant for making the peoples of the Great Valley extra indolent on the Dark Remnant threat, in some cases even completely ignoring it. as well as triggering the Sasso-Kraut Invasion of the Svenic Highlands.

by March 2nd 203RA the Bersker (and a few additional Goblin bands who joined along the way) were crushed at the Siege of Baselfettank. the scattered forces were regrouped and cornered the remaining horde out. when all was said and done a total of 27,000 had been killed, the Sfenyc peoples numbered roughly 52,000 while Breme itself made up roughly 1/3 of the valleys total population. so yeah a lot of people. yet most 3rd Children and even 2nd Children accounts discredit the Western Sfenwyr population as being far sparser at a mere 28,000. this statistic is of course only further exacerbated by Sasso-Kraut Lore, and effectively Modern Svenisch, which portrays themselves as only barely escaping and that very few of their peoples remained. when of course the 8,000 Sasso-Krauts fail to exclude the 17,000 who fled across the Sarefpine Mountains and into Eastern Sfenwyr.