Agartha's merry band of rogues are clinging on to dear life trying to wage the final jihad against our unholy conquerors. We hope their conquest has been costly, or at least a nuisance. We only ever wanted to be left alone to forge items for the rest of the world...
PS just for my own understanding of the game, I have bane venom charms in Issus, which is being sieged by Bogarus - are both the siegers and siegees getting diseased I wonder?