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1)What, in your estimation, would this war look like? Would either side have a clear advantage? My assumption is that Impiltur has Quantity, Damara has Quality, basically making it a wash.

2)Other than the obvious revenge factor, I've set it up that Sonellion hopes that, once Impiltur falls (providing that it does) it will no longer BE Impiltur, and Soargar's banishment will no longer apply. The question being, does this thought hold any water, or was she banished from the region, not the political entity?

3)Also, in my Campaign Damara has 'annexed' Vaasa almost in entirety (Gareth raised an army, handed it to one of his Barons, and in return for giving them Baronies in the newly conquered lands, gained the support of the adventurers running Darmshall), thus giving him a port on the Moonsea. What sort of reponse can he expect from Zhentil Keep?

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16. Gareth may go to war against the Talontyr and his blightlord forces (UE p82,191
a. The Rotting Man’s blightspawned Volodni forces have burned Damaran homesteads near Rawlinswood (UE p82,191)
b. Talontar forces have become strong enough to force Gareth and the Nentyarch to form an alliance (UE p82,191)
c. Gareth will not allow Nar tribes or Talontar blightlords to harass any Damaran settlements and may deem it necessary to claim Narfell and/or Rawlinswood to make Damara’s borders more defensible (UE p191)
1. Secure mining sites in Giantspire Mountains (FRCS p109)
9. ‘The Giantspires – war between the hobgoblin hordes versus three Nar tribes and a Damaran regiment (FR9 p64)

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2. The Church of Tiamat (CotD p61) (DoF p69-74)
a. Hesthera Draketalons [LE Vaasan female cleric 14 of Tiamat] (CotD p62) (DoF p74)
b. Handmaidens of the Undying Queen (CotD p62) (DoF p74)
c. Multi-headed dracolich (CotD p62); The Undying Queen avatar – undead version of the Chromatic Dragon - used in Tiamat’s plan to subvert the Cult of the Dragon (PaP p134-137)
d. Seek metallic dragon eggs and corpses to feed the Undying Queen (PaP p136)
e. Chromatic dragons of Castle Perilous (FRCS p110) (FR9 p14,22,37) (GTotR p118) (DoF p9)
f. Tiamat is gathering a huge flight of dragons in Castle Perilous for revenge against the Damaran mortals who defeated her avatar (PaP p134-136) (GG p8) (FR9 p22,37) (DoF p9)
g. Oversee massive breeding program in Castle Perilous, creating Spawn of Tiamat, using monsters from the area (DoF p9,74)
h. Church of Tiamat and the Church of Bahamut followers race to seek out impact points of lightning strikes and gather eggs (DoF p10)

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That could either be a pass, or a tunnel (dug by Dwarves?). I'd personally go wth an ancient dwarven tunnel (a'la Moria), recently re-discovered, just because it's different (FR has tons and TONS of passes... but no mountian-crossing tunnels). In fact, 'cleaning out' that tunnel could ba a whole series of adventures unto itself.

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Canon Portal #2 - SUBSURFACE TUNNEL UNDER THE GALENAS

2.1 Tunnels connect Damara, Vaasa, and Thar (2nd edition Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms p120-125)
2.2 a subsurface (not necessarily underdark) means of travel
2.3 relatively safe once you actually get into the tunnels
2.4 now getting from Moonsea through the Ogre-infested land of Thar is another thing
2.5 Oddly enough this may be the safest route of them all. If Gareth is serious about attracting adventurers to help clear out the humanoid tribes in the Eastern Galenas, he may work out a deal with the dwarves to keep these paths relatively open.

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Thereafter, his long, unbroken line of kindly heirs ruled Damara well, only ending with King Virdin?s death. Until the most recent generation, the kingdom was a force on par with Impiltur. Damara maintained strong trade relations with the city-states along the Moonsea and along all the reaches of the Sea of Fallen Stars. The narrow gap between Rawlinswood and the southern expanse of the Earthspurs is still known as Merchants Run, and it is slowly returning to its former glory.

At the height of Damara?s glory, long caravans of merchants transported chalcedony down this pass to the fortress of Ilmwatch along the Easting Reach. They were welcomed and even protected by the legions of Impiltur. Fortified by brigades of Impilturian soldiers, the Damaran merchants then crossed through the Traders Bay region and into the great port of Sarshel. Ships from Thesk and all the nations floating vessels on the Sea of Fallen Stars met the merchants with open arms and open purses.

A second trade route, shorter but more difficult, carried the precious stone through Bloodstone Pass, the only sensible trail through the mighty Galenas. From there, the stone went to points north and west. Because it crossed through the wilds of Vaasa and through the mountains along Garumn?s Climb, this route was not preferred. But Garumn?s Climb has proven invaluable to Sembia and the city-states on the Moonsea, especially in times of heavy pirate activity, or on such occasions as when the Moonsea was cut off from the main waterway by a particularly nasty dragon turtle, as happened a few decades ago.

The bloodstone was traded in bars, each measured at 25 gold pieces in value. The crest of a Damaran noble house marked every bar, and on the opposite side was the year in Damaran reckoning. Nearly 1,000,000 gold pieces worth of the stone was taken annually from the mines in the Galenas alone. Particularly rich was the small region surrounding Bloodstone Pass, aptly named the Barony of Bloodstone. This annual yield of raw wealth more than kept the interest of merchants and speculators, and therefore the craftsmen, farmers, and ordinary folk of Damara lived quite well. Furthermore, Damara had little to fear from its neighbors. Protected by imposing natural boundaries, with the noble houses united under the rule of a single well-accepted king, there was little cause for unrest. The king maintained an army only to protect the caravans, and to defend the outlying rural communities from bands of raiding goblins or other wretched creatures. Certainly, the scattered tribes of Vaasa could never unite or pose more than a marginal threat. Peace was the norm, and the expectation of future prosperity, obvious.

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Originally posted by coach

Markus is that map from Mysteries of the Moonsea?

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Of old, the realm encompassed the eastern end of the Moonsea, and the mountains running north to what is now Glister. Beset by Orcs and Elven resistance to surface expansion, the Dwarves of Sarphil tunneled under what is now Mulmaster, going deep to pass under the Lis. Their delves, sought by adventurers in the Mulmaster region, are called "The Lost Ways".

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