Battle of Uzer
| File:Ruins of Uzer.png The ruins of Uzer as they appear today. | |
| Conflict | |
|---|---|
| Kharidian Desert Campaign | |
| Date | |
| Approximately Year 3669 of the Third Age<ref name="VarmenNotes">Varmen's notes, RuneScape."With that information I can say with confidence that these are the ruins of Uzer, an advanced human civilization said to have been destroyed towards the end of the Third Age (roughly 2,500 years ago)." *</ref> | |
| Place | |
| Uzer and surrounding desert | |
| Outcome | |
| Complete destruction of both forces. | |
| Combatants | |
Uzer Forces
|
Zamorakian Forces |
| Commanders | |
| Unknown | Thammaron |
| Strength | |
| Unknown | Unknown |
| Casualties | |
| Complete defeat; only one known survivor | Complete defeat |
| Next battle | |
| Battle of Ullek | |
The Battle of Uzer was a conflict that occurred in roughly the Year 3669 of the Third Age.<ref name="VarmenNotes"></ref> It was amongst the largest battles of what would become known as the Kharidian Desert Campaign. The battle was fought primarily between the forces of the desert city of Uzer and the military of the Zamorakian Elder-Demon Thammaron.
During the early Second Age, Uzer was a fairly small town with little military fortification.<ref>Golem's remains, "Missing My Mummy", RuneScape. "Uzer is a small village of no importance. There are no golems stationed there." *</ref> By the late Third Age, however, the city had become one of the desert's largest, surpassed only by Ullek. As the God Wars developed, military golems were programmed to defend the city. When Thammaron launched a siege on the city, these golems were its primary military force. It seems that the entire Golem force was annihilated, with the exception of one.
Thammaron's forces were initially victorious, but Thammaron, who had fled back to his demonic realm through a portal in the now ruined Temple of Uzer, later died of his wounds sustained during the battle. His remaining forces were slain less than a day later by the Zarosian Mahjarrat Azzanadra, who drove them to utter defeat, so strong was his will to oppose the efforts of Zamorak to claim the Kharidian Desert.
With the exception of a single clay golem, virtually all of Uzer's settlers either fled or were killed in the attack. The destruction of Uzer alerted the nearby city of Ullek to the threat of invasion, which may have helped its inhabitants to flee to Sophanem following the Battle of Ullek.