For nine years, the Bonecrusher Tribe has carved an empire from the Worldspine Mountains, their great fortress of Skullpeak rising like a monument to orcish ambition and military prowess. Under War Chief Grashk Bonecrusher's iron rule, twelve thousand orcs have built a civilization that commands respect from the northern wastes to the civilized south. Yet their success has come at a price territorial expansion that has consumed the ancestral hunting grounds of the Tiger Tribe, driving the fierce northern barbarians to the brink of extinction. When young Kazzak Darkmoon discovers his people's sacred lands burned and their hunters slaughtered, he convinces his father, King Thorgar, that only total war can secure their survival. The Tiger Tribe will assault the impregnable fortress itself, risking everything on a desperate gambit that will either break their enemies forever or see their own extinction written in blood on mountain stone.
What follows is an epic of moral complexity where heroism and villainy blur beyond recognition, where the systematic destruction of an entire civilization becomes the price of justice, and where the choices made in a single night of violence echo through generations. As Kazzak leads a thousand painted warriors against Skullpeak's mighty walls, War Chief Grashk marshals every defender in a desperate battle for survival that will test the bonds between father and son, leader and follower, conqueror and conquered. In the tradition of the greatest fantasy epics, The Siege of Skullpeak Fortress explores the terrible arithmetic of war, where victory and defeat are often indistinguishable, and where the greatest triumphs demand the heaviest prices from those who claim them.