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The Battle of Torbruck or First Battle of Torbruck was the largest battle in the Great Acalitan Raid. The battle was fought between the Kingdom of Dalcia and the Acalite League.

Chieftain-King Owyndin Donaill advanced on the fortress of Torbruck, a key defense that was considered the "gateway" to the Dacian heartland, with three quarters of his strength intent on besieging and capturing the castle and its surrounding lands. In opposition, King Gerald gathered his own host and marched as quickly as he could, hoping to relieve the embattled garrison and defeat the Acalites once and for all.

The battle is renown as one of the largest and bloodiest in Dacian and Acalitan history. It ended with a Dacian victory when Chieftain-King Owyndin Donaill was killed at the Tor Bridge. Trapped in a bloody press, Donaill's horse was felled by the Butcher of Torbruck, a warrior immortalized in legend, who proceeded to crush Donaill's skull with his war hammer before tossing the Chieftain-King's corpse over the side of the bridge into the river below. With the loss of their charismatic leader, the Acalitan force crumbled and were routed, fleeing into the east. By the end of the battle. the River was said to have ran red for miles, and was stuffed with corpses.

However, despite the defeat of the Acalitan force, it was a Pyrrhic victory for the Kingdom of the Dalcia. King Gerald and his heir, Crown-Prince Prester, had both been slain in the fighting, and the Dalcian army had suffered catastrophic losses. It would be months before the last stubborn Acalitans would be put to the sword or pushed back into their mountainous home, beyond the boundaries of the Dalcian Kingdom.