Beinlandish Civil war

A painting of the Siege of Is Steinn

**The Beinlandish Civil war** also known as **The** **Haakonist War** or **The Usurper War** was a civil conflict that took place after the regicide of king Loft Leifson at the hands of his second wife Queen Delilah and her attempt to prop up their son as a puppet monarch. The war was fought between the Skærar Skyrtur (Bright Shirts) also known as the Legitimist and the Haakonists.

## Background

King Loft Leifson Einaren became King of Beinlandi at the age of 12 when King Leif Skráson Einaren died in the Battle of Svartur Hóll.

Loft would prove to be a good King as he reached his adolescence, in 174 Eftir Loft would marry a young Beinlandish noblewoman and the couple would give birth to a son, Odin Loftsson, in the year 175 Eftir. However after a few years of marriage the Queen would die of illness and King Loft would eventually take a second wife.

### Delilah af Cruzca

Delilah af Cruzca more commonly referred to as Cruzcan Wench or as Delilah the Usurper. Was a noble woman of Cruzcan birth who managed to wed King Loft despite the protest of many members of the royal court. She and King Loft would have a son of their own who they would name Haakon though behind closed doors most would refer to the baby as a Prince Svikaraskinn (Prince Traitorskin). 9 years would pass and Prince Haakon would grow into a petulant spoiled brat.

### Regicide

In the year of 192 Eftir, on the Feast of Sjant Gamalt King Loft would be poisoned by Queen Delilah. Swiftly Delilah would claim that before his death King Loft had named Prince Haakon his heir over the 17 year old Crown Prince Odin. This would fractur the royal court into the bigger legitimist camp and the Haakonist camp.

## The Civil War

Delilah and the Haakonists would strike first with her proclaiming the 9 year old Haakon king with her as his regent. Crown Prince Odin and the Legitimist forces would flee due East to Halthrak's Domain where they would be given shelter, equipment and some men for the army to retake Beinlandi.

### The Legitimist Advance

Queen Regent Delilah and her supporters believed that the Skærar Skyrtur invasion of Beinlandi would come directly from Halthrak and in the spring; this belief would prove false. During a harsh snow storm in the month of Nótt the legitimist forces marched on Beinlandi from the cover of the great northern woods. The legitimist army led at the helm by Prince Odin Loftson would cross the frozen lake at Beinlandis heart where the fortress of Einaren Kastala sat upon an island.

### The Battle of The Isbreiður

Lugging cannons and with their pikes at the ready the Skærar Skyrtur waited on the thick ice of the lake as the blizzard began to rage into the early morning. The Skærar Skyrtur opened fire on the castle with a barrage of cannon balls and arrows under the cover of thick snow and the whirling northern winds. The Haakonist forces in a disorganized frenzy flooded out of the castle and onto the thick ice of the lake resulting in the Battle of The Isbreiður where Odin’s forces would succeed in taking the island fortress.

### The Siege of Is Steinn

Crown Prince Odin alongside the Knights of Einar and with the aid of the Presturs and Presturas of the Daudinistic order laid siege to the great fortress of Is Steinn for months. The Haakonists would slowly starve within the walls that rightfully belonged to the Knights of Einar, and as the desperation set in certain Haakonists would change allegence. The siege would only be broken when the forces of Odin snuck in during the dark of night thanks to the aid of disgruntled Haakonists . The Skærar Skyrtur began to massacre the usurper forces and In the madness of the battle Delilah the Cruzcan wench was cornered and taken captive, thus ending the Beinlandish civil war.

### Aftermath

Delilah the Usurper would be tried and found guilty of high treason and regicide, she would be sentenced to death by beheadment and her corpse quartered and scattered across the mountains. The child Prince Svikaraskinn would be spared the fate of his mother instead he would be confined to a cell below Is Steinn under the watch of his half brother King Odin.