Archive:Greenwood's Grotto/2023-02/The Cold Field

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 * query     = Ed, I'm curious about the Cold Field, which lies between Harrowdale and Scardale. It's described as the site of dozens of battles in the 3e Campaign Setting book, and was featured in the War of the Spider Queen novels (Extinction) as scarred by dragonbreath and is where the Crescent Blade had been lost/was found, but I can't seem to find any information on exactly what battles were fought there, and by whom.
 * questioner = FireWraith#7158
 * answer    = In the earliest days, ogres fought each other there, and ogres fought (and defeated) hobgoblin and orc tribes, on various occasions. Some giants dueled each other there. When humans came along, there were many fights between petty lordlings and bandit-barons there, then between early dales, and then between dales and Sembia trying to swallow them up, a dale trying to prevent Hillsfar swallowing it up, and then between Hillsfar and Sembia, and then between expansionist Sembia and adjacent dales (again; this was after Sembia had occupied Scardale to use as a base from which to conquer all the dales, a doomed venture, particularly after the nearby elves attacked the Sembians to make sure they lost). Then attempts at conquest from Calaunt and later Mulmaster were defeated on the Cold Field by cobbled-together forces of the Dales reinforced unofficially by the elves and by Cormyr. And I may have missed a few battles. ;}