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It's war again.
Peace, is never everlasting. It has been almost 16 years of full peace all over Nortrig, after the Baecho. But it is in times of peace, that countries have spare resources to dedicate to their own interests, in this case, territorial.
East overpopulation is a well known problem which is also what led to its neverending invasion attempts in order to expand its territories.
South, on the other hand, has never hidden its interest in new richesses and more resources, especially, gold mines.
It happens, that in the last years, free of problems and battles, both East and South dedicated fo explore the seas in search for new territories to conquer, each one for its own purposes. And it also happens that both countries find a same archipelago of extremely rich, unhinabited islands yet to be reclaimed by any nation.
Eastern arrived there first and set a base to explore the place, to check if it was fitting to be inhabited and it didn''t hide some unpleasant surprise. Too bad the Southern arrived too and actually exterminated the Eastern explorers in order to reclaim the new land as their own. The Eastern had not yet found out, the islands of that achipelago are insanely rich with gold and red copper.
Needless to say, the extremely provokative attitude of the South brought a reaction from the East, Choi might be young and rather good, but a number of innocent men were killed rather unfairly and as Emperor he simply couldn't just sit back and watch from afar.
A new squad of Eastern was sent, full of soldier, in bigger numbers than the Southern and of course, they exterminated the Southern explorers back, claiming those islands as Eastern territories.
And the Southern (new) King, didn't accept the thing one bit, declaring war to the East as a reaction. Truth is, the South was long ready for a war, their army full of elite and skillful soldiers thirsty of blood, all they really needed was a pretext to start a war, and they just got a perfect one.
After the Baecho, the situation in the North is still rather bad, the country is still way too weakened to participate to a war, even to defend itself from attacks. According to the International laws of war, written by the War Council centuries before, it should be left alone, but it is way too much of an appealing prey, for the South.
The only materials the South doesn't own (speaking of minerals) are Obsidian and Red Copper. The chance to conquer the North so easily and thus erase the problem forever (also for what concerns agriculture which in the South is close to unexisting).
West, mainly because of the fact the Queen is the sister of the new Southern King, for the second time in the history of Nortrig, decided to join side with South and attack the East as well. West and East are pretty much opposite in mentality and culture, which made the choice to side with the South even easier.
Generally speaking though, it can be affirmed that South and East are currently the main military forces and strongest nations in Nortrig and there are all the bases for a very long war that will not end soon, nor easily and it will probably have no winners.
What concerns us.
The news of this war between East and South and also the fact West decided to join side with South, worried Anthony beyond measure. Both South and East are allies of the North and the whole problems resumes in this: If North joins no side and one of them will win, North will be alone and next to be invaded. If North joins either of those sides, the country will be left entirely undefended as they would have to send even Royal Guards to reach 1000 fighters. And it is already too vulnerable.
Almost as soon as he received the news, Anthony summoned a inner council, to meet all the Lieutenants, Generals and important officiers of the North in order to decide how to act.
The current numbers of each military organization and unit in the North are: 175 fully trained and ready soldiers of the army; 25 ready Elite Guards; 210 Royal Guards; 88 Kings' Guards; 70 Hunters. A total of 568 trained and effectively ready militars. Not even close to be an army and far from enough to defend the country from an invasion, which right now is the main worry for the North.
Obviously, they need help from every possible source, but the threat is much more immediate than Anthony and the others would have ever immagined, as right while discussing at the council, a huge number, but truly huge, of Southern soldiers are already marching from the southern coasts of the Continent, with the exact intention of invading the North to also open themselves a second path to attack the East from two fronts, as the East is the strongest on the sea and it is wiser to send a massive land army.
A messanger interrupts the meeting to refer absolutely terrible news: the Southern army secretly docked by the safe harbour and in less than three hours a massive army marched on Weisslande and Kempflande. The cities of Crowley and Kempf feel within minutes under the siege. The way too few guards protecting the areas could stand no chance against organized groups.
The number of the victims is still unknown, but it was reported that many died trying to protect the city. The Archduke of Weisselande was killed, executed publicly in the middle of the conquered city along with a few counts and dukes. No news about Dominic and Mortimer that were surely there at the moment of the attack. Nor it is clear whether Mort was among the executed Counts.
The Archduke and Archdutchess of Kempfland instead, managed to escape the city of Kempf with a few survivors and reached Jericho for a last stand. Basically the last obstacle to reach Thylum.
Anthony knows they cannot protect the whole country from this and his first worry, is to save as many Northern lives as possible.
He looks at Reyja, Edward and Dorian. •The absolute priority is to evacuate every single person from the Shadowmoor River to Jericho, let's open them a totally empty path to the Eastern border, we can't obstacle them. Royal and Elite guards and Hunter go and take every single living person in the area to Thylum. Every village, town or city, every Nimox, Auriold or human, take them all here. • Then he looks at William and Samandel. •King's Guard and army, fortify Thylum, if this city falls the country will fall with it.
I want the Schwartze Kadel and the Special Squad to Jericho. If you can't repel them, just keep them busy as long as it will take to bring away all of the civilians.• He says the last part to Fang-Yi, then gives a rather desperate glance to Amiir, which is enough for him to understand what to do and he takes his leave outright. Edward and Samandel go to do as ordered as well, immediately.
The King's Guards immediately give the alarm all over Thylum, ordering all the people able to fight to join them, and the others to lock themselves into their homes, to keep the streets totally free from any civiliant.
Meanwhile, in the East, upon being warned about the war by Sao and about the critical situation in the North by Benjamin, Carlie sends the children (Frerin, Sigurd, Tomiel and Myrae) to Erebor to stay in safety with Thorin. Tristan is not at home but is actually somewhere in the North, for safety measures heavy spells were cast all over the country which makes mental communication close to impossible, thus she has to go there to find him, worried like crazy.
Anthony also tried to summon all the Alphas and the Demigods in the North, desperate enough to beg even them to help protect the country from this threat. Jackil though, ignored the call, just until he returned home from work.
Carlie left a servant there to warn him about everything once he would return and other than telling him everything. She even tells him that Mort was executed in Crowley, even though it's nothing sure, it's just what she understood. And that, together with the fact both Carlie and Tristan are missing and are in the North, is pretty much enough for him to take his old amulet -the one with the Dolash weapons- and prepare to go make a massacre in the North, frenzied big time.
To resume: Crowley and Kempf fell to the Southern and are currenly kept by a few hundreds of southern soldiers.
Carlie is in Shadowmoor, thinking Tristan went there to visit Benjamin.
Tristan is in Thylum instead.
The fate of Mortimer, Absynthia, Heidi and Dominic is uncertain as they all were in Crowley when it was attacked.
Wessex is as ready as ever to receive the Southern instead.
Elite and Royal Guards together with the Hunters are evacuating the citizens to open an empty path to the East for the South, to reduce the number of the victims.
Demigods and Alphas are discussing with Anthony about the terms for their help in this.
Jackil is heading straight to Crowley.
East overpopulation is a well known problem which is also what led to its neverending invasion attempts in order to expand its territories.
South, on the other hand, has never hidden its interest in new richesses and more resources, especially, gold mines.
It happens, that in the last years, free of problems and battles, both East and South dedicated fo explore the seas in search for new territories to conquer, each one for its own purposes. And it also happens that both countries find a same archipelago of extremely rich, unhinabited islands yet to be reclaimed by any nation.
Eastern arrived there first and set a base to explore the place, to check if it was fitting to be inhabited and it didn''t hide some unpleasant surprise. Too bad the Southern arrived too and actually exterminated the Eastern explorers in order to reclaim the new land as their own. The Eastern had not yet found out, the islands of that achipelago are insanely rich with gold and red copper.
Needless to say, the extremely provokative attitude of the South brought a reaction from the East, Choi might be young and rather good, but a number of innocent men were killed rather unfairly and as Emperor he simply couldn't just sit back and watch from afar.
A new squad of Eastern was sent, full of soldier, in bigger numbers than the Southern and of course, they exterminated the Southern explorers back, claiming those islands as Eastern territories.
And the Southern (new) King, didn't accept the thing one bit, declaring war to the East as a reaction. Truth is, the South was long ready for a war, their army full of elite and skillful soldiers thirsty of blood, all they really needed was a pretext to start a war, and they just got a perfect one.
After the Baecho, the situation in the North is still rather bad, the country is still way too weakened to participate to a war, even to defend itself from attacks. According to the International laws of war, written by the War Council centuries before, it should be left alone, but it is way too much of an appealing prey, for the South.
The only materials the South doesn't own (speaking of minerals) are Obsidian and Red Copper. The chance to conquer the North so easily and thus erase the problem forever (also for what concerns agriculture which in the South is close to unexisting).
West, mainly because of the fact the Queen is the sister of the new Southern King, for the second time in the history of Nortrig, decided to join side with South and attack the East as well. West and East are pretty much opposite in mentality and culture, which made the choice to side with the South even easier.
Generally speaking though, it can be affirmed that South and East are currently the main military forces and strongest nations in Nortrig and there are all the bases for a very long war that will not end soon, nor easily and it will probably have no winners.
What concerns us.
The news of this war between East and South and also the fact West decided to join side with South, worried Anthony beyond measure. Both South and East are allies of the North and the whole problems resumes in this: If North joins no side and one of them will win, North will be alone and next to be invaded. If North joins either of those sides, the country will be left entirely undefended as they would have to send even Royal Guards to reach 1000 fighters. And it is already too vulnerable.
Almost as soon as he received the news, Anthony summoned a inner council, to meet all the Lieutenants, Generals and important officiers of the North in order to decide how to act.
The current numbers of each military organization and unit in the North are: 175 fully trained and ready soldiers of the army; 25 ready Elite Guards; 210 Royal Guards; 88 Kings' Guards; 70 Hunters. A total of 568 trained and effectively ready militars. Not even close to be an army and far from enough to defend the country from an invasion, which right now is the main worry for the North.
Obviously, they need help from every possible source, but the threat is much more immediate than Anthony and the others would have ever immagined, as right while discussing at the council, a huge number, but truly huge, of Southern soldiers are already marching from the southern coasts of the Continent, with the exact intention of invading the North to also open themselves a second path to attack the East from two fronts, as the East is the strongest on the sea and it is wiser to send a massive land army.
A messanger interrupts the meeting to refer absolutely terrible news: the Southern army secretly docked by the safe harbour and in less than three hours a massive army marched on Weisslande and Kempflande. The cities of Crowley and Kempf feel within minutes under the siege. The way too few guards protecting the areas could stand no chance against organized groups.
The number of the victims is still unknown, but it was reported that many died trying to protect the city. The Archduke of Weisselande was killed, executed publicly in the middle of the conquered city along with a few counts and dukes. No news about Dominic and Mortimer that were surely there at the moment of the attack. Nor it is clear whether Mort was among the executed Counts.
The Archduke and Archdutchess of Kempfland instead, managed to escape the city of Kempf with a few survivors and reached Jericho for a last stand. Basically the last obstacle to reach Thylum.
Anthony knows they cannot protect the whole country from this and his first worry, is to save as many Northern lives as possible.
He looks at Reyja, Edward and Dorian. •The absolute priority is to evacuate every single person from the Shadowmoor River to Jericho, let's open them a totally empty path to the Eastern border, we can't obstacle them. Royal and Elite guards and Hunter go and take every single living person in the area to Thylum. Every village, town or city, every Nimox, Auriold or human, take them all here. • Then he looks at William and Samandel. •King's Guard and army, fortify Thylum, if this city falls the country will fall with it.
I want the Schwartze Kadel and the Special Squad to Jericho. If you can't repel them, just keep them busy as long as it will take to bring away all of the civilians.• He says the last part to Fang-Yi, then gives a rather desperate glance to Amiir, which is enough for him to understand what to do and he takes his leave outright. Edward and Samandel go to do as ordered as well, immediately.
The King's Guards immediately give the alarm all over Thylum, ordering all the people able to fight to join them, and the others to lock themselves into their homes, to keep the streets totally free from any civiliant.
Meanwhile, in the East, upon being warned about the war by Sao and about the critical situation in the North by Benjamin, Carlie sends the children (Frerin, Sigurd, Tomiel and Myrae) to Erebor to stay in safety with Thorin. Tristan is not at home but is actually somewhere in the North, for safety measures heavy spells were cast all over the country which makes mental communication close to impossible, thus she has to go there to find him, worried like crazy.
Anthony also tried to summon all the Alphas and the Demigods in the North, desperate enough to beg even them to help protect the country from this threat. Jackil though, ignored the call, just until he returned home from work.
Carlie left a servant there to warn him about everything once he would return and other than telling him everything. She even tells him that Mort was executed in Crowley, even though it's nothing sure, it's just what she understood. And that, together with the fact both Carlie and Tristan are missing and are in the North, is pretty much enough for him to take his old amulet -the one with the Dolash weapons- and prepare to go make a massacre in the North, frenzied big time.
To resume: Crowley and Kempf fell to the Southern and are currenly kept by a few hundreds of southern soldiers.
Carlie is in Shadowmoor, thinking Tristan went there to visit Benjamin.
Tristan is in Thylum instead.
The fate of Mortimer, Absynthia, Heidi and Dominic is uncertain as they all were in Crowley when it was attacked.
Wessex is as ready as ever to receive the Southern instead.
Elite and Royal Guards together with the Hunters are evacuating the citizens to open an empty path to the East for the South, to reduce the number of the victims.
Demigods and Alphas are discussing with Anthony about the terms for their help in this.
Jackil is heading straight to Crowley.
4 | Dec 26th 2016 10:36
He looks at the three, °Announce yourself, we are a battallion of King Anthony. I am the general William Riddle.°
He looks at soldiers, they can`t defeat too much soldiers in three so he tries to seem kind. °We are messengers.°
He approaches they and glances at Yves, °A peace treaty?° he takes the paper and before to the read anything he tears it in pieces. °This is what I think reguard your peace treaty, Take them!° the soldiers approaches the three and starts to take them. °King Anthony maybe want to interrogate them.°.
When William tears the paper he makes a shocked face °Why you do that? You are mad!°
°The peace treaty are acceptable only when the invaders stipulate it before to invade the reign. Samandel take some soldiers and carry them to Thylum.°. He glances at the three and starts to walk with the others soldiers to go to Crowley.
When the soldiers approaches they he tries to struggles but they are too to defeat all and when Yves says that he stops to struggle.
He and his men arrive at Crowley, when he sees that the Southern don`t go to attack them he takes the pieces of the peace treaty and starts to scream that he and his King don`t want this treaty and some insult about the Southern.
While they are here the Western arrive and when Nataniel listens his screams he decides to attack them, they are enemies. The Westerns circle the Northerns °If you are here to fight I can satisfy you, we are here for this precise reason.° they start to attack them. The only problem is that the Westerns are a bit more than the Northerns and their defeat is sign.
The Western armor is composed of:
Green shoulders
Silver chest and trousers, multicolor gloves
helm seems the head of an Ara parrot, at last they have a multicolor mantle. The symbol of the Real family is an Ara parrot, and they use this animals like messengers.
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