Broken Ladder

A race for regional supremacy between the Orks and The City-State of Excium ends in a crushing defeat for the Karrusk. Excium's price of victory is high, however, as the massive amount of energy poured into the war effort slowed the city's expansion for decades and residual orkish resistance in the mountains has halted eastward growth ever since. Regardless, the carrion picked remains of the ork's first attempt at their Amalgam Ladder lies as a testament to Excium's military might, which proved uniquely suited to countering orkish Necrotecture.