Second Sorrow Pass War

In the Year 1475, the Black Tide was marching north with the objective of conquering the Lands of Purity. The owners of the Gathol Hills, the Gimhak centered on Strumpktar, refused the Black Tide's request for passage. The Black Tide had no choice but to fight these "long-time defenders of Sorrow Pass".

The Black Tide and the Orchish Empire secretly formed the Eye-Skull Pact. As was mentioned, the military objective of the Black Tide of Thasmudyan was to open a route into the Lands of Purity. The objective of the Orchish Empire is even today unknown. Military theorists claim that the High Command sought to redeem their honor lost in the First Sorrow Pass War. In Han-Schworn's book "War Strategy", famed strategist of the Council of Bile, wrote that the Orchish Empire sought to weaken the Black Tide by allowing them to stretch their forces across Hells Womb and into Lands of Purity. The rabble that made up the forces of the Black Tide, though powerful and nearly unstoppable in its initial stages would disintegrate over time from internecine conflicts, and have to deal with a powerful insurgency of good creatures in the Lands of Purity. If the Black Tide was powerful enough to take the Lands of Purity, then it would probably turn against the Orchish Empire at some later date.

A century after the Second Sorrow Pass War, Han-Schworn's theory proved correct. The Black Tide was driven out of the Lands of Purity in the Athenian Crusade (1539 - 1551), and then out of Hells Womb and off the continent in the Artery War (1546 - 1554). Theorists today say that such a long-term strategy, covering nearly a generation, was the product of Emperor Blac'drugulois and his advisors, the Court of One Hundred Eyes.

In the Second Sorrow Pass War, the combined forces of the Eye-Skull Pact proved overwhelming. Gimhak's southern holdings, ignoring offers of foreign help and military alliances, went alone against the mighty armies of the Orchish Empire, and the undead legions of the Black Tide.

The last citadel to fall to the Eye-Skull Pact was Targind-Nal. In 1477, Gimhak's lost all of its southern territories.