Battle of the Eckl-Skaald

The Battle of the Eckl-Skaald was the first major conflict in Eieber's Long March and considered to be among the most impossible victories in the history of the campaign. The exact facts are often seen as exaggerated, but the basic narrative is as follows: Eieber's army made careful use of terrain to maneuver into attack distance, then Eieber himself scaled the tower, killed the Arch magus, and shattered the Sigil Stone. His army attacked, and without a leader or the ability to use Chain Attack, the tower fell to Eieber's forces in a battle which lasted just fourteen hours. Many of the captured mages then swore fealty to Eieber and the ranks of his army swelled.

Background

After the initial breakout from Ataya and the disasterous winter campaign in Weagal, Eieber set his sights on liberating the Agras Plain from the countless waring nation states.

The exact location of the Eckl-Skaald Mage Tower has been lost to time. The only clue as to it's location is a line in surviving copies of Eieber's Honorarium stating "The tower commanded the region to the west of the Three Baras. Since a large network of towers based out of Water's Grasp commanded the entire Lake Bara region, it seems likely Eckl-Skaald was located closer to the High Mountains range on the boarder of Water's territory.