[h1]Aukhen Agon [/h1]
[h2]Ashen Dawn[/h2]

[b]Stronghold:[/b] A work in progress in the fields of Nurn.

[b]Commander:[/b] Tuskkar

Tuskkar was not a solder for the Dark Hordes of Mordor in the dark days of their fiery master; He had been spared becoming yet another slave solder of the eye to be thrown into the meat grinder of Mordor's war machine in order to serve as a farmer in the fields of Nurn.  Tuskkar stood around 5 and a half feet tall with some rather impressive muscle on his frame, but it was the muscle built from the hard work of toiling in the fields alongside his fellow orcs, goblins and human slaves rather then that of combat or dark experimentation like those found in the military.

Many believed that Tuskkar was simple minded for an orc, considered too stupid by the guards with whips to go out into the world to raid and kill the enemies of Mordor like a real orc and thus little better then the slaves tending the fields alongside him. In a way, they were correct; Tuskkar was very simple minded. He lacked the ability to come out with new methods of cruelty that the guards boosted of. He lacked the hatred for humans that drove so many of his kind to seek to kill them all. He didn't even have it in him to look down on the human and goblin slaves that worked beside him.

The thing that they got wrong was that simple does not mean the same thing as stupid. Tuskkar was [i]very[/i] intelligent. 

[b]Description: [/b]
When the Dark Master of Mordor fell and fire rained down from the skies, the overseers and guards of the plantation that Tuskkar was living at fell into confusion and panic; Something of great importance had taken place and something fundamental had changed, but they were blind as to what had actually happened and didn't know what it was that they were meant to do next. Had they been given time, they might have worked something out. They didn't. 

Led by Tuskkar, the farmers and slaves of the farm rose up in revolt and turned on their former overseers with their tools, a desire for freedom and pure rage. Understaffed and disorganized, armed more for 'motivation and fear' then actual combat, the guards and overseers were slaughtered to an orc. 

Before the rebellion had the chance to splinter and turn on itself due to old racial hatreds, Tuskkar started to speak. He spoke of the death of their dark master. He spoke of how they had all been slaves to him, willingly sacrificed for no purpose then to push his own dark designs. He spoke of their freedom and how easily they could lose it and their lives if they did not unite, if not to the other bands of orcs that were no doubt forming at this very moment then to the humans and elves even if they managed to escape Mordor; The orcs and goblins would be slaughtered outright while the humans would be reduced to little more then beggars and serfs, ignored and used by their kings because they were beneath them. 

Why be a beggar, a serf or a slave when together they could become something more? The Dark Lord that had enslaved them all had finally passed and in the place of his darkness it was an Aukhen Agon, an Ashen Dawn for them all. While the warrior can only spill blood, they were farmers and had one major advantage over their rivals; They knew how to grow something new from the blood soaked ashes of Mordor and that it would be [i]them[/i] who decided what Mordor would become.

Getting to work building up a new fortified settlement, Tuskkar's message was spread to the other farm camps like a fresh breeze; Orc, Human or Goblin, all would be welcome as equals to create a new nation and way of life for them all.         

[b]Resources:[/b] WIP

[b]Agenda and Concerns:[/b] Tuskkar has five main objectives for the Aukhen Agon: 
1. Create a secure base of operations in Nurn for the Aukhen Agon to operation out of.
2. Unify orcs, human and goblin under the same banner as equals. 
3. Spread the influence of the Aukhen Agon throughout as much of Nurn and Lithlad as possible; An army marches on its belly and having a monopoly on food production and possibly the water supply would greatly strengthen the Aukhen Agon's position, influence and power in Mordor.  
4. Defend against all aggressors.
5. Rebuild Mordor into something greater then it has ever been before,   
       
[b]Resource Allocation:[/b]
400 Humans [s]slaves[/s] 2 points
250 Goblin [s]slaves[/s] 2 points
10 Orcish Chirurgeons  2 points
10 Demi-Trolls 4 points


Note: The official and enforced position of the Aukhen Agon is that goblins and humans are no longer slaves and are considered equals. In the case of humans, they are given the following offer: Join the Aukhen Agon and work and defend your right to be a free and equal member of the new Mordor or be given some food and water and allowed to leave their lands unhindered. It is also made quite clear that in the unlikely event that they somehow get out of Mordor alive without being enslaved or killed by the other warbands of orcs, the environment, the wildlife, dying of thirst or starvation they would still have to cross a lot of hard to travel, hostile wilderness before they arrived anywhere even remotely friendly to them; At which point their reward for surviving the trip would most likely to be a serf or a beggar for the rest of their lives.