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Troubles at the horizon.
The day Althus saw Tyger and Reyja, was definitely not a good day for the South nor for the rest of the world.
A group of rebels to the Queen, managed to get rid of her and her husband to steal the throne. The Princes, most of the nobles as well as many of the people who refused to accept the new King were imprisoned, some killed. The South has always been more brutal than other Realms, taking as main principles strength rather than honor and fairness.
The Queen and the King were imprisoned in different dungeons, she left in a dark place, chained to a wall.
It happened in less than three days, before anyone could have the time to react and before the other Realms could even notice something was happening in the South. Strangely for a group of men of the South, the plan was well thought and organized, not just a reckless "try for all". It literally shocked every reasonable person in the South, but due to the Law of the place, the one who managed to defeat the Queen is the rightful new King. (They made sure no word would be spread on how the Queen was actually "defeated", in a worthless and totally unfair way which absolutely didn't prove, in any way, the strength of the man.)
Anyhow, in less than a week, the new King ensured himself a close relationship with the East and convinced the West would join anytime, the two Realms together suddenly and without any negotiation or specific reason, called war against the North. François is convinced that in less than a month, the whole world will be his own and he'll become its rightful ruler. He is clever, but he lacks the knowledge of many dinamics regarding their worlds for what concerns things like this
Anyhow, the war indeed begun, the message was sent to Anthony, delivered to him by Rujha herself. Since he is not yet coroned (has to pass 1 month from the death of the previous King before a new one is coroned), he does not yet hold all of the powers and duties of a King, even though he formally is already the King.
The new King of the South claims a "decisive battle". Basically, in that battle deciding the winner of the war, without further battles, sieges and whatever, actually something very typical of the South. "The one who proves stronger wins the other's Realm". Rujha is smug, overconfident and way too convinced this is going to be just a piece of cake. «I'll take the Hunters too, I want to end it quick and give them such a burning defeat the future generations will laugh of them till the end of the world.»
«It'd mean to leave the borders totally undefended. It will endanger our citizens.»
«That's what Elite Guards exist for. Cover our spots when the real militars actually do their jobs.»
«There aren't enough Elite Guards to cover the entire area.»
«What are you so scared of? You are not even King yet and are already pissing yourself at the first sound of a warhorn.» She spits on the floor. «Pathetic. Your word matters nothing on this matter, you are not King yet, this decision is left to me, as I am still the Minister of Armed Forces.» And to that she leaves, sending her orders to the Hunters, taking them to the battle indeed.
Anthony is pissed off at it but he truly has his hands tied. Sure thing is, he won't forget this when he will be officially the King. But something doesn't sound right to him, the whole matter. He knows that Shana is not just a strong woman, she is a beast, like 10 lionesses in one, he is not buying someone so easily defeated her, in the legal way. So, screwing every formality, he can decide nothing anyway, he decides to go to the South and investigate on the matter. And to do so, he intends to be captured and be taken in the same place as her, which proves to be as easy as he thought, with the exception of two spears piercing him side by side in the chest, that though are not endangering his life. Just provoking the rebels by asking them to see Shana, they chained him next to her in the same dark place, in which the two speak and he finds out what he thought: she wasn't defeated in a duel, she didn't have the chance to fight at all, she was knocked out in an unexpected moment by a traitor servant and it led to this. Making the new King, not a King, basically.
While she gave up, very low morale due to everything, mainly due to how many people betrayed her and having no clue what has been of her children, Anthony refuses to give up instead and regardless of the two spears he starts to struggle heavily to break free from the chains.
Meanwhile in the battlefield. Rujha, the Royal Army and the Hunters reach the established place, and surprise surprise, the only opponents they find is a little group of chained prisoners, BUT they are in an area of which magnetism affects the ability to teleport, and it's a pretty huge area (the only one in entire Nortrig, chose with the excuse of "no cowards will escape their fate from the battle", very typical from the South, so not really suspicious.) It will take them all whole hours to return to the Realm, which is the place that really needed them, as the whole Southern and Eastern armies are sent there to literally erase the whole place, to ashes. But the South and East have truly no clue what awaits them.
They split, in order to send more attacks at the same time, attacking the main cities at once, thinking it'll cause even more havoc and impossibility to react.
The combined army of enemies reach Thylum at 11 am. The day is cold, cloudy but no rain yet, despite Autumn 1 begun since a couple of days.
A group of rebels to the Queen, managed to get rid of her and her husband to steal the throne. The Princes, most of the nobles as well as many of the people who refused to accept the new King were imprisoned, some killed. The South has always been more brutal than other Realms, taking as main principles strength rather than honor and fairness.
The Queen and the King were imprisoned in different dungeons, she left in a dark place, chained to a wall.
It happened in less than three days, before anyone could have the time to react and before the other Realms could even notice something was happening in the South. Strangely for a group of men of the South, the plan was well thought and organized, not just a reckless "try for all". It literally shocked every reasonable person in the South, but due to the Law of the place, the one who managed to defeat the Queen is the rightful new King. (They made sure no word would be spread on how the Queen was actually "defeated", in a worthless and totally unfair way which absolutely didn't prove, in any way, the strength of the man.)
Anyhow, in less than a week, the new King ensured himself a close relationship with the East and convinced the West would join anytime, the two Realms together suddenly and without any negotiation or specific reason, called war against the North. François is convinced that in less than a month, the whole world will be his own and he'll become its rightful ruler. He is clever, but he lacks the knowledge of many dinamics regarding their worlds for what concerns things like this
Anyhow, the war indeed begun, the message was sent to Anthony, delivered to him by Rujha herself. Since he is not yet coroned (has to pass 1 month from the death of the previous King before a new one is coroned), he does not yet hold all of the powers and duties of a King, even though he formally is already the King.
The new King of the South claims a "decisive battle". Basically, in that battle deciding the winner of the war, without further battles, sieges and whatever, actually something very typical of the South. "The one who proves stronger wins the other's Realm". Rujha is smug, overconfident and way too convinced this is going to be just a piece of cake. «I'll take the Hunters too, I want to end it quick and give them such a burning defeat the future generations will laugh of them till the end of the world.»
«It'd mean to leave the borders totally undefended. It will endanger our citizens.»
«That's what Elite Guards exist for. Cover our spots when the real militars actually do their jobs.»
«There aren't enough Elite Guards to cover the entire area.»
«What are you so scared of? You are not even King yet and are already pissing yourself at the first sound of a warhorn.» She spits on the floor. «Pathetic. Your word matters nothing on this matter, you are not King yet, this decision is left to me, as I am still the Minister of Armed Forces.» And to that she leaves, sending her orders to the Hunters, taking them to the battle indeed.
Anthony is pissed off at it but he truly has his hands tied. Sure thing is, he won't forget this when he will be officially the King. But something doesn't sound right to him, the whole matter. He knows that Shana is not just a strong woman, she is a beast, like 10 lionesses in one, he is not buying someone so easily defeated her, in the legal way. So, screwing every formality, he can decide nothing anyway, he decides to go to the South and investigate on the matter. And to do so, he intends to be captured and be taken in the same place as her, which proves to be as easy as he thought, with the exception of two spears piercing him side by side in the chest, that though are not endangering his life. Just provoking the rebels by asking them to see Shana, they chained him next to her in the same dark place, in which the two speak and he finds out what he thought: she wasn't defeated in a duel, she didn't have the chance to fight at all, she was knocked out in an unexpected moment by a traitor servant and it led to this. Making the new King, not a King, basically.
While she gave up, very low morale due to everything, mainly due to how many people betrayed her and having no clue what has been of her children, Anthony refuses to give up instead and regardless of the two spears he starts to struggle heavily to break free from the chains.
Meanwhile in the battlefield. Rujha, the Royal Army and the Hunters reach the established place, and surprise surprise, the only opponents they find is a little group of chained prisoners, BUT they are in an area of which magnetism affects the ability to teleport, and it's a pretty huge area (the only one in entire Nortrig, chose with the excuse of "no cowards will escape their fate from the battle", very typical from the South, so not really suspicious.) It will take them all whole hours to return to the Realm, which is the place that really needed them, as the whole Southern and Eastern armies are sent there to literally erase the whole place, to ashes. But the South and East have truly no clue what awaits them.
They split, in order to send more attacks at the same time, attacking the main cities at once, thinking it'll cause even more havoc and impossibility to react.
The combined army of enemies reach Thylum at 11 am. The day is cold, cloudy but no rain yet, despite Autumn 1 begun since a couple of days.
2 | Jul 26th 2015 17:48
Timothy. «By the Gods...good luck, I will push the Square area. The reports from the school say Malicedom is 100% secured, the barrier is on, so...don't get close to it if you want to keep your lives...» He motions his son to follow and runs to the square with a couple of men following them.
She looks at Thomas with big eyes, very scared and having no clue who he is.
Malaria. «Ah, he is not one of those black faces. I should wear glasses.»
Richard. He goes away from the school as it's totally safe, the situation hyped him and he wants to help. He meets Dexter on the way. «We need to check the villages, priests and humans too need defence!»
She soon ends up lost from the other children, she actually leaves on her own.
After many struggles, Anthony managed to break free from the chains, nothing incredible, and freed her as well, but sure thing is, the new "king" was never expecting it.
Shana forced him into a fight and defeated him badly, but didn't kill him. Nop, she ordered her own white Lioness to eat him alive.
On the other hand though, in the process of escaping the dungeons -where Anthony stayed back to let Shana reach the throne as soon as possible- ended up in a quite poor and close to death condition, as while fighting, a guard coming from behind stabs him through the belly with a short sword.
As Althus arrives he lets himself lie on the floor and takes a deep breath. «Focus this, they will claim to read your mind about this..» He gasps for a moment and takes another deep breath. «The...next heir of the throne...is Dorian...» He is convinced he is basically dead and must make sure to let someone know who his follower must be, to not risk a whole mess to occur. «And...the first thing he must do...once King...is...demote Rujha forever...» He slowly closes his eyes and passes out.
Tyger. He and his little army of loyal fighters arrive at the palace not long after, after reclaiming the city and getting rid of the scum they came across.