Mainline in: 0.7 to 1.1.2, 1.3.3 and after
Created by: Benjamin Drieu (Benj) (conception and original design), Taurus (completion)
Year of events: 842—858 YW
Created by: Benjamin Drieu (Benj) (conception and original design), Taurus (completion)
Year of events: 842—858 YW
Kapou'e is the son of legendary orcish sovereign Black Eye Karun and leader of a small clan in the Far North. It's been years since peace have been achieved by his father and Rahul I of the Northern Alliance. However, after their deaths, tensions between the orcs and the humans rise. The most powerful human warlord, Earl Lanbec'h, attacks Kapou'e lands, forcing Kapou'e to get help from the orcish shamans. However, humans and their elves and dwarves allies have invaded other orcish lands too, so Kapou'e must step up and lead all the orcs in the Far North against this invasion.
This campaign provides examples of:
- The Cavalry: At the end of "Clash of Armies", Earl Lanbec'h and his elvish and dwarvish allies Thelarion and Durstang have been besieging the Orcish city of Prestim for four days when the Shamans of the Orcish Great Council show up, with the Great Horde behind them ready to steamroll the opposition. Lanbec'h retreats immediately, and the player wins the mission by simply having held out that long.
- Final Battle: The last scenario is a final battle against Earl Lanbec'h and the traitor Shan Taum.
- Hold the Line:
- In "Clash of Armies", Kapou'e must defend Prestim from an alliance of humans, elves, and dwarves for four days until The Great Horde arrive and makes the enemy retreat.
- In "The Human Attack", Earl Lanbec'h wants to take back Dorest from Kapou'e, so Kapou'e and his army have to hold off the humans. When time runs out, Howgarth III of Northern Aliiance suddenly arrives and calls for both sides to parlay.
- Permanently Missable Content: if you don't save enough saurians in "Saving Inarix" or Inarix dies at any point, you can't recruit Saurian Skirmishers or Saurian Augurs.
- The Reveal: How Black-Eye Karun died is a mystery at first although orcs assumed that Northern Alliance lured and killed him. Just before the final battle, it's revealed that Shan Taum is the one who killed Karun on his way to the Northern Alliance base.
- Shifting Sand Land: "The Desert of Death", where the orc protagonists must cross a desert filled with scorpions and human bandits to reach an oasis.
