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Odin's Footprint

Odin's Footprint - User-created Peace Scenario made by Stratego (http://stronghold2.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=740)

Story:

This story isnt based on any real historical events, I just picked up some historic background information and mixed it up with some interesting fictions from the Nordic Saga. So lets go back in time, way back to the Germanic roots and to the beginnings of Christianity in Northern Europe.

In ancient times, many primal churches and monasteries were founded on former pagan ritual places (e.g. groves), mostly being regarded as sacred places where all those missionaries assembled in doing their missionary work. On the other hand, there were also different locations like the megalithic graves being considered as evil and deterrent places, which superstitious people avoided as if being scared to death.

Our scenario plays somewhere in Gotland, thats where a mysterious lake exists. This lakes silhouette is shaped like a footprint, and the Germanic ancestors traditionally told us that Odin (the leader of all Nordic deities) once came down to earth leaving back his tracks after having created the human race. Others say it might be a kind of relic by a giant who descended from Utgard, the giants world. Nobody really knows, but one thing is clear: The lake itself is never drying up, because it is incessantly filled with fresh drinking water by a small brook. Surplus water is trickling away, and everybody believes that this cant be a product of nature but a unique godlike invention.

Currently, Gotlands peaceful times are gone. The blasphemer Olaf Grimroth, a Viking ruler and his raiders gained a foothold in this territory setting up a military base there. You can see their traces of devastation in this former prosperous country: A destroyed monastery and the deplorable ruins of an old mighty castle situated up on the cliffs of Quarry Island.
Now King Greybeard has charged you, a young and ambitious knight, with the