Saurask Wars

Military action

After teaching the Human tribes of Tansian the techniques of beast mastery, spurring the construction of Tec'Tahos atop the ruins of Garheim, Tahos and his companion, Takanda, had earned the respect of every tribal leader.   Tahos summoned many of the great tribal elders to a great area that would one day be the Throne of Tahos and laid his case before them. He told them of a gathering Saurask army in the Tansin Wilds; a looming danger that threatened their extinction. Tahos implored the tribes not to meet the saurask as they had in the past; standing apart from each other. That would only lead to their defeat and deaths. With Takanda stood by his side, Tahos called on the tribes to unite, calling it the crucible of a new nation. Tahos was chosen by the council to lead the tribes' combined armies, and Tahos' final shout of "To war!" was answered with a cheer so loud that it was heard over the mountains.   He rode atop his jaguar, Chotl'Mirr with the combined forces of humanity and Takdanda's saurian beasts at his back. The long campaign against the bloodthirsty saurask that Tahos waged was called the Saurask Wars, and the united human tribes gained massive amounts of territory over the next decade as they tore victory piece by piece from the teeth of the scaled menace.   Tahos and his armies met the saurask on what would one day be the A'latl Grasslands and fell upon them like a tide. The force of the assault stopped the saurask's advance and pushed it back. Tahos' raptor-riders descended upon the saurask's flanks, and fear overcame them as they broke ranks and fled. Their leader, Warchief Sorsok, rallied his forces atop his vicious tyrannosaur and made a counter-attack. He and his barbarians came face to face with Tahos and his warriors.   Tahos and Sorsok entered into single combat. Astride Chotl'Mirr, Tahos ascended the back of the tremendous beast and ripped the war chief from his mount, but at the dire cost of Chotl'Mirr's life. Cleaver clashed with claw, and after nearly an hour of fighting, enraged at the death of his loyal companion, Tahos killed Sorsok by shredding his neck with his metal claws. The death of their leader broke the saurask's armies and they ran back to the Ak'tuin's Back Mountains. The slaughter that followed at the mountain pass was terrible to behold, and they fled back into the Iotian Rainforest beyond. The loss of life was so great that they were never able to raise an army of similar magnitude again until the Reign and Ascension of Takanda, and the Slumbering of Taurask.