The Battle of Ogre Island was the conquest of Ogre Island from the ogres by two armies of dwarves during the Ogre Wars in the First Age. It took place just a few months before the rise of the Dwarven Princes.

This took place in the first year of the reign of Prince Noreg of Stondar.

Dwarven ships from Azmar had located an island east of Azmar which seemed to be the source of the ogre attacks on Azmar and various other islands. They named this island Ogre Island and assembled an army of dwarven warriors from Azmar, Stondar and even one from Sheep Island. They attacked the ogres and drove them off, but were then attacked by the dragon, Zern. The dragon killed Karleg, the warlord and founder of the Realm of Azmar. Then the dragon disappeared.

Later, while Azmar was under the rule of Prince Yarl, ogres recaptured Ogre Island and also seized Sheep Island.

Details of the Battle of Ogre Island:

As the Ogre Wars dragged on, the warlord Karleg of Azmar was determined to defeat the ogres. To do that, he needed to bring the war to his enemy. Yet it was not known where the Ogre Raiders were coming from. It was believed that there must be some previously undiscovered island that was home to the ogre raiders. This island was called Ogre Island. Karleg set off with his warriors to find Ogre Island and they succeeded. Upon finding Ogre Island, Karleg returned to gather more troops. All the Azmar Army was assembled and couriers were sent to other islands to call for aid. Garon of Sheep Island came to help his cousin. Noreg, son of Thoreg, brought warriors from the Port Town Militia. They assembled at Azmarton the largest army the world had yet seen, then they embarked for Ogre Island.

Karleg and the Azmar Army came ashore on Ogre Island and set upon the ogres with unmatched fury. Their allies from Sheep Island and Port Town came with them. They set fire to the ogre camps and cut down every ogre they could. The ogres were defeated and fled eastward in ships previously captured from Azmar. But as the ogres were fleeing, a mighty dragon emerged from behind a hill. In its claws it clutched a magic staff that glowed with a blue light. Noreg recognized this staff. It was the staff once wielded by the gnome wizard Grivenek until it was stolen from him by a dragon. This, then, was the same dragon.

The Warlord Karleg showed no fear and led the Azmar Army in an immediate attack upon the dragon. They struck the dragon and wounded it, but it took flight and they could not follow it into the air. Azmar's elf allies, Thaero and Allort had spoken of methods of fighting a dragon while in flight. Thaero had spoken of bows and arrows, but Thaero was not there and Azmar had no archers. Allort had spoken of using his sheep spell to turn the dragon into a sheep so that it could not fly and could then be finished off by the Azmar Army. But Allort was not there either. Having no weapon but his voice, Karleg taunted the dragon in hopes of bringing it towards him so that the swords and axes of his warriors could finish off the wounded dragon. The dragon attacked Karleg, but fought bravely on until he was slain. The other dwarf warriors were dismayed to see their leader fall, but they attacked and the dragon again took flight, but it seemed too weak to make the flight to another island and instead landed upon the same hill it had previously been hiding behind. The warriors of Azmar charged up the hill, henceforth known as Dragon Hill. The dwarf warriors in the front rank later said they saw the dragon clutching at a small gold ring with a purple gemstone and then the dragon disappeared. It did not fly away. It simply disappeared.

Ogre Island then became part of the Realm of Azmar and settlers from Azmarton went there to set up a fishing camp. The fishing was better there than in the fishing grounds around Azmar. But it was not long before the Ogres returned in their captured ships and drove the dwarves from the island. Then the ogres again began to raid Azmarton. Without the Warlord Karleg to lead them, the dwarves were lost. They turned to Yarleg, son of Karleg to take his father's place. Yarleg said he was not a warrior and it would be absurd to call him a warlord. The dwarves of Azmarton then said they would make him their prince and be ruled by him and his heirs ever after. Thus did Yarleg son of Karleg become Prince Yarl of Azmar.