Borian War

Commanders| **King Jiri*** Hamina Beyard
* Lothbrok Voorst
* Mennos van Dire
* Willreck Rögna †
* Shankar Perickard†
* Soliar Varjangaria
* Gotthard Lichtenawer†

Borian War was a two-year long war between the Kingdom of Boria and the Kingdom of Workhold. It saw the Destruction of the Royal Keep and the beginning of King Jiri's madness.

## Background

The old noble houses of Workhold, the Varjangarias, Perickardians, Berghofs and of course the Niskains the old Royal family. All of these houses used to be the most powerful and renowned houses in all of Edelmaa, but all this changed after Jiri usurped them in 172.

The Houses lost much power even the Berghofs and Perickards that received their weak and small kingdoms. The son of Octavio, Charles established the Perivarian Alliance which sought the alliance between the Berghofs, Varjangarias and the Perickardians. All this was made possible by sneaky marriages where all of Varjangaria daughters were married to Perickard boys. The Varjangarias lost all their heirs this way as their sons were mainly celibate due to their professions. The Perivarian alliance became official around 250.

In the late 200's the idea of the Borians was also created by Charles. The Borians was supposed to mean; "The Old Ones (of the Kingdom)" and they craved for the resurrection of the old Workhold which they ruled. Charles went into a more extreme side and wanted to dismantle Workhold and establish a new kingdom of Boria and install either himself, Samuel Berghof or a willing member of the Niskain family to the throne.
The Borian War was surprisingly not foreseen by anyone in the Royal Court. Usually a rebellion was always looming the lands of Edelmaa, but King Jiri overestimated his Pax Baathúrica, which he though he brought about with the victory at Great Battle of Ravaged manor field. However, the secret Perivarian Alliance and the establishment of the Borians sought to topple the Pax Baathúrica.

After King Jiri was called upon by his younger brother Jamur to fight in the Eye of Olia Expedition, Jiri obliged and sailed forth to his old home continent.

## Surprise Attack phase

Now that King Jiri's best troops were gone, Charles saw the opportunity to attack. He amassed a huge force of merceneries and much of the Olav and Hefaian populace were drafted. The small garrisons near the southern and western coasts of Edelmaa were swarmed and taken over quickly before the Royal Court even knew what was happening. Regent Conraquis finally got wind of the invasion in 15th June, 15 days after the invasion had begun. Conraquis immediately called forth the best general in Workhold, Hamina, and gave her 6 000 men under her command. The Army marched southwest from the Royal Keep and met the Borian Army near the town of Wolfsee. The largest battle since the Edelmaa Great War occurred, the Battle of Wolfsee and it was a decisive Borian victory. Hamina, Prince Mick and Princess Katerose were captured and almost executed only kept alive by Charles, who saw them as important bargaining tools.

Soon the Royal Keep fell to the Borians and the Kingdom of Boria was established. Charles locked himself into the Royal Hall of the Keep and only ordered a small 40 man garrison to guard the Keep. In just half a year the entire realm was taken off guard and conquered by Charles. Much of it was because of his two genius generals Soliar Varjangaria and Shankar Perickard.

## Royal Army phase

King Jiri received news of the happenings in Edelmaa in early January 294. Jiri hastily rushed a battle with the Avargians and spectacularly defeated them in the decisive Battle of Ashak. After this, Jiri recalled his two new generals, Willreck Rögna and Mennor Enkell and sailed back home. The fleet sailed fast being lucky with the winds and the fleet arrived at the city of Fon already in early March. Some of the ships arrived later and the landing force numbered little over 1000 men. Quickly Jiri captured the city of Fon, and just like in 170, massacred much of the populace. After this Jiri marched his armies toward the City of Dives, which fell almost as soon as Jiri got there. Then Jiri split his army into three. His army, which would head north to the Royal Keep, Willreck's force which would head to Olav Castle and Mennor's force which would head to the Midlands. Jiri remained in Dives until late March when he finally began to sail by the coast to the Royal Keep.

Throughout this time, Mennor and Willreck had lots of troubles in the small city of Einez, where they were faced with a plague problem. Jiri's massacre in Fon had a hand in creating the Fon's Plague which began to ravage the southern coast. Willreck quickly rushed his army to Olav Castle which resulted in the horrible defeat of Battle of Olav. Willreck and his army were killed and Mennor did not dare to move to the Midlands and expose his flank, so he remained in Einez. He recruited a mercenery captain by the name of David to whom he gave the task of recruiting a big army and taking the Olav Castle. David did so and recruited a force of 6 000 men, which resulted in horrible logistics for the army in the south. Mennor sent David to make a suicide attack on the castle, but David bypassed the castle to infiltrate and join the Borian Army.

Jiri arrived at the Royal Keep in early April and captured it with ease, however, at the Royal Halls he met Charles who predicted a defeat. Charles began to threaten Jiri with prophecies and then he blew up the Keep with layers of gunpowder he had filled the Keep with. Jiri survived but was paralyzed and crippled. Jiri's son and heir Conraquis, who was captive in the castle also survived.

At this time, Mennor managed to take hold of the Midlands and united with Prince Diarmud and Leondras. They began to siege Levinburg from the south. Jiri marched his armies west and besieged Sally Castle. Both fell by summer of 294 and then Jiri united with Mennor's force. Together they took Charlington in a brief siege. Following the capturing of Charlington Jiri made a pact with Logan, the chief of Dullahan. They would ally together and defeat the Borians. Then the Royal Army marched to the Eion Valley to face the bulk of the Borian Army. This resulted in the decisive and massive Battle of Eion Valley which Jiri won. During the battle most of the Borian leadership was killed and all their field generals died or were wounded. After this battle the war lasted only a month until the remaining Borians sued for peace.

## Aftermath

The continent Edelmaa was almost completely united after this war except for Olav. Jiri annexed Suomenlinna and the prosperous town of Hamn Jovik. However, Jiri would begin to fall into paranoia from the threats of Charles. Jiri began to rapidly militarize his lands completely destroying the Pax Baathúrica he had envisioned. Not 6 years later, would Jiri begin the dreaded Scouring of Ili-Fien, the genocide of the Fianese people. Jiri would lock himself inside the Cainwall palace beginning the Realm Division. Jiri's mental state would worsen after the news of Leondras Baathúrs death in the Battle of Trident River. No-one knew, what the future held for Edelmaa, but everybody knew, peace would not exist during the reign of King Jiri "The Conquerer" Baathúr.