Siege of Pertwill Hall

The Siege of Pertwill Hall was an event partway through the Scanbroughan Secession. It pitted the heirs of Houses Pertwill and Farnton against each other in the siege of the Pertwill seat of Goldenleaf.
== Background ==
In the early stages of the war, the Scanbroughan Caped Men had not yet learned to work together, leading to miscommunication and several Scanbroughan nobles struck out by themselves, looking more for personal glory than war score. One such man was Sir Trilliam Farnton, the heir of his house. Having been deemed a knyte by his father at the outbreak of war, he had collected levies from the farmlands surrounding Arkwell and joined with the forces of several other knytes to lay siege to Goldenleaf.
On the other side, the head of House Pertwill had already taken his levies and joined the Faramondian royal army, leaving his son Oswald with a skeleton guard. Believing the enemy to be far away, Oswald neglected the defences of the township itself.
== Siege ==
In January 635, Farnton's column reached Goldenleaf. Pertwill, caught entirely by surprise, was forced to give up the township itself while his forces ushered the townsfolk into Pertwill Hall, the only fortified part of the settlement.
Initially Farnton was happy to wait the defenders out; his men encircled Pertwill Hall and built campfires to make their force seem larger. This firewood came primarily from the forested slopes of the hills south of Goldenleaf, and included the trees of Goldenleaf's namesake grove.
As the months passed, Farnton grew impatient. He had assumed Pertwill would have run out of food by February, being unprepared and having sheltered several hundred townsfolk. Since his men had little knowledge of siegecraft, Farnton was reduced to goading the defenders from shouting distance. The few ranged horsemen in his complement fired burning arrows into the settlement with varying results, though this only hardened the resolve of Pertwill's forces.
In April, Farnton was forces to withdraw as his force of four hundred was approached by the Faramondian royal army, numbering in the tens of thousands.
== Aftermath ==
Oswald Pertwill was confronted by his father Count Ricwulf Pertwill following the siege and, though disappointed in his son for his complacency, seemed pleased overall in the staunch resolve of Oswald and his forces.
Trilliam, on the other hand, returned to Scanbrough at a time when House Higwalding was rallying the Scanbroughans. He met up with the main force and subordinated himself to his father, the Caped Man of Arkwell.
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