Battle of Zakkasil

The Battle of Zakkasil was a pivotal confrontation between the Eldar-Men Host, and the replenished Gakta Horde, during the First Wars.

Battle
As the new Host marched northwards, all of the twisted creatures of the Dark God-Gakta, Gurka, Trolls and the terrible Dragons-were massed from countless pits and mines were they had bred, and the combined might of the World found itself beset on all sides by the very enemy it had set out to destroy.

In their thousands, the Gakta withered like leaves in a wildfire before the powerful sorcery of the Eldar, and the Weapons of Light struck down thousands more, but their sheer numbers seemed inexhaustible. The Trolls and Dragons exacted a terrible toll, and even more terrible were the massed legions of Kasijaks, sweeping the earth with their unholy songs, apparently unaffected by the sorceries of the Eldar. Casualties became unbearable, especially among the Men.

But the massed legions of the World were far harder to defeat than the Dark God thought. The first King of Men, Jaleuh’husi, broke both wings of Salkuthu the Terrible, and proceeded to cleave his way through more lines of Gakta, strangling the greatest of the trolls with his bare hands. Cil-Nuhûtis wielded the Moon Lance, one of the most powerful Weapons of Light, and vaporised the Horde-General, the Flesh-Angel known as Nair-Horrûnc. It became a battle of the mighty against the mighty, and as in every great battle many countless heroes were slain. And for a moment it seemed that the great Combined Hosts would triumph.

Then Jaleuh’husi fell under raving masses of Gakta and trolls. With no leader his men were routed and overrun, and they fled southwards. Cil-Vanhutû, the brother of Cil-Nuhûtis and King of Non-Selpossis, was slain by the great Dragon known as Xalasen the Black. The Gakta piled further onto the overwhelmed lines of Eldar, and soon the battered remains of what had been the Combined Hosts was struggling in a sea of dread. Unkhil-Kakkarunc, the King of the Mansion of Torruôn, fought his way to Jaleuh’husi’s position, but found only piles more of his comrades. The Sunspear, the Weapon of Light stolen long before by Gakta at the Battle of Xunûr, struck down Inghulia, ancient Lord of Saötis.

Realising the ultimate doom of their Hosts, Cil-Nuhûtis fled southward, his shattered men dismayed and terrified for the future of their race.