Episode: Breaking the Silence
Posted by Story on 03/22/17
As word of the victory led by Lady Calypso spreads, worries mount of her forces being able to return to Arx in time before the bringer army. Fortunately, it becomes clear that the remaining three columns of the bringer army has been harassed and delayed by forces led by Duke Cristoph Laurent to the west and Marquessa Demura Lyonesse to the east. Duke Cristoph's forces made up of Laurent, Nightgold and Ashford soldiers badly harass the foraging parties and bled the second column of the Bringer forces, managing to avoid a decisive battle while slowing the bringer column down to a crawl that proceeds starved and disorganized towards Arx. Demura's forces made up of Lyonesse, Kennex and Blackram soldiers manage to drive the fourth column of bringer forces mad with their consistent skirmishing and destruction of their scouting parties, finally bringing the bringer forces to battle in a choke point that sees over a thousand shavs dead and the bringer column in full retreat. After that victory, the bringer column finds itself moving through at a glacial pace through marshland created by the Marquessa Demura's destruction of levies, and then into a giant firetrap. Miles of the Gray Forest are obliterated with much of the Bringer column in it, killing thousands of shavs, and earning Demura a nickname among the commoners as "the Firebird of the Gray Forest". While some of the Grayson held crownlands will be of questionable value for some time after the war, it is considered a small price to pay for slowing the bringer army down to a crawl, and buying more than enough time for Calypso's forces to return to Arx.
Though make no mistake, the Bringer army is still coming, and preparations for an impending siege continue.
Though make no mistake, the Bringer army is still coming, and preparations for an impending siege continue.