Battle of Vallava

Aaronx4b and ZenoHUN at the Vallava town hall at the end of the battle

The **Battle of Vallava** was a battle between the Grand Archonate of Sylvania and the Morladron Mysterlu. The battle took part in the city of Vallava on the 18th of September 2022 and resulted in a Sylvanian victory. The battle was the fourth and final battle of the Morladron-Sylvania War.

### Prelude

After the Second Battle of Vermilion, Sylvania and Morladron once again engaged in peace talks, with Logui Fielinya Olmero and Aaron Fielinya meeting with Morladron representatives Pringles and Alvertex in Pompaelo to discuss a potential peace settlement. However, these talks quickly broke down with the Morladron contingent leaving Sylvania one last offer of 3.2 million in increments of 100 thousand gold coins every three weeks (approximately 2 IRL years) or the war would continue. Sylvania chose not to entertain this offer with an answer and instead the war command of the Sylvanian side approved of a counteroffensive into Morladron.

The Sylvanian wartime leadership, after some debate, chose to attack the city of Vallava in the Morladron constituency of Netvia due to its historical significance to Morladron and due to the very poor defensiveness of the city. After deciding on the city to attack, the Sylvanian government reached out to its Eldham Alliance allies, who had just finished winning the Furry War. Due to them now being freed of other engagements, the Empire of Shirokaneza pledged its full military support for the battle. Additionally, Sylvania received extensive material support in the form of potions and armour from the Eldham Union, particularly the United Socialist States of Eldham.

Morladron, after hearing of the impending attack, swiftly began fortifying the city, constructing a large lavacast wall around the northern island and building a large glass grid in the sky above the southern island. Morladron also employed the services of the Haligdom mercenary group, who began building traps all around the northern island of the city.

Sylvania swiftly began to scout out the new defenses of Vallava, with Aaron Fielinya and Lethe of Laria conducting a large amount of recon operations into the city. During these missions, the two discovered a cave leading into the underside of the northern Vallava island (which was hollow due to its artificial nature) and a way for the Sylvanian forces to take control of the grid overlooking the southern island. Additionally, due to their contacts in numerous mercenary contacts, some within Haligdom, the Sylvanian side managed to find out the Morladron supply base in the neighbouring city of Mesara.

Aaron and Lethe met with Agr3ssion, commander of Shirokanezan forces, and a plan of attack was fabricated. The force would be split into 4 groups. The main force, mainly made up of Shirokanezans and Sylvanians led by Agr3ssion, the special squad made up of Aaron, Lethe and KatoLeAsian, the defense squad staying back in Vermilion led by Windsler and Logui and a small Shirokanezan raiding party led by Vanax.

### Battle

Before the battle, soldiers of both sides gathered at their respective resupply bases to gear up and listen to the battle plans made up by their leaders. Additionally, both sides launched small raids into each others resupplies, which were for the most part unsuccesfull. After they had prepared for the battle, the main bulk Sylvanian forces rallied at the Vanshirian town of New Liberio and began moving up north towards Vallava. Meanwhile, the special squad approached Vallava from the north and south simultaniously.

At around 3.15 pm EST, Sylvanian forces reached the western side southern island (designated island Alpha) and the main part of the battle began. Shirokanezan and Sylvanian forces quickly overwhelmed the few defenders stationed on the southern island and began capturing it, while Aaron entered the inside of the northern island (designated island Bravo), and began detonating the traps and defenses from within. At the same time Lethe and KatoLeAsian climbed onto the Morladroner skygrid and after a short fight, managed to assume control over it entirely. Realising that they were at risk of losing control of half the city, Morladroner forces quickly rallied out of the walls of the northern island to try and push back the tide of attackers, but were quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of Sylvanian troops and the tnt being rained down on them from the skygrid, and withdrew into the relative safety of the northern island. At the same time, a small Morladroner raiding party consisting of Alvertex and Feblu infiltrated the Sylvanian resupply base in Luxwind, managing to slay at least one resupplying Shirokanezan soldier before being seriously injured and driven off themselves by a Sylvanian response team.

After assuming control of the southern island, the main attacking force advanced on the north, while dispatching the raiding force under vanax to raid Mesara. The attackers managed to swiftly overcome the walls and brutal fighting began inside of the city, with the defenders being heavily outnumbered. Ater around 10 minutes of brutal fighting amongst the gank pits and traps of the island, a large part of the Morladroner troops and mercenaries had either died or fled into trap tunnels to bait in attackers. After the end of the more conventional phase of the battle, Sylvania begun taking some minor losses due to Morladron troops, namely Tea Brewtaker and GuardReady, using invisibility to knock their soldiers into pits which the Sylvanians had failed to notice before the battle. This resulted in the injury of Lethe and Aaron, while the Shiro commander Elkool was trapped in a cave underneath the city and heavily wounded by Haligdom mercenaries.

However, after an hour of fighting was done, it was clear Sylvania was in essentially total control of Vallava and the battle came to an end, The Sylvanian forces withdrew in good order back to Vermilion while the remaining Morladron troops slowly emerged from the tunnels under Vallava, seeing the devastation that had been caused by the battle.

### Aftermath

After the battle, negotiations were once again started between Sylvania and Morladron, but were once again unsuccesful and both sides began preparing for another battle in Vallava, which would take place a week after. However, the Morladron side began facing monetary issues, lacking the funds to pay Haligdom for the previous battle let alone for another one. While Morladron tried to remedy this by selling an elytra, they failed to find a buyer in a timely fashion. After realising this situation and Sylvanian command informing them that after the next battle there would be no more negotiation, Morladron agreed to return to the negotiation table. After a few hours of talking in the ruins of Vallava, a peace deal was made, with Morladron relinquishing their mainland territories and pledging to pay 2 million to Sylvania as war reparations.