The clansmen returned to the lowlands victorious for the first time since the Battle of the Seven Stars but at a great cost. For a long time, Knights of the Vale had slowly whittled off the savages that had fled into the mountain, and they had not been a true threat for centuries. Shagga, self-proclaimed King of the Mountain, had scarcely enough men to hold the Gates of the Moon, and he lost a third of them taking over the Bloody Gate.