Battle of Nora

Commanders| **Lannes Hay*** Al Toffel
* Henrivier Nizenkampf
* Neithard Noble
* Heuteclere Nilsson
* Grisweld Mittelhoss
* Varvarus Olembor
* Jubal Hakur

The Battle of Nora was the first engagement of the Nordic War and the first encounter between the Worvians and the Edelizeans. It was a deadly battle for the Worvians who hadn't gotten used to the cold temperatures, but the Worvians prevailed in a pyrrhic victory against the Glissarians.

## Prelude

With the beginning of the first Edelize Blood Army blood march in 298, the Worvians began to assemble a response force. However, following the Borian War, the Royal Army had a troop deficit. They had to request help from the Legions as well as to being a massive recruiting campaign, which worked perfectly as the Worvians wanted to defend their home from the Nordic barbarians. The Royal army, under the leadership of Lannes Hay, trained their troops for half-a-year until finally marching North to meet the Glissarians.

## Battle

The Glissarians had captured two Worvian settlements, Nora and Sansoussi. Azrael, the leader of the Glissarians, had divided his army into two. The stronger army was held at Nora and the weaker at Sansoussi. He aimed to trap the Worvians into attackin Sansoussi and then envelope the Worvians from Nora with the larger force. The Worvians however didn't fall for this trap and attacked Nora immediately taking Azrael off guard.

The Worvian brigades, under the command of Henrivier Nizenkampf and Grisweld Mittelhoss, attacked and enveloped the Glissarian Army of Guthmundur Ethfried at the city of Nora. Brigadier Mittelhoss fainted an attack and a retreat which caused the Glissarians to give chase only to crash into Mittelhoss's defensive line, which decimated the Glissarians attacking it. Brigadier-General Nizenkampf used this opportunity and gambled her armies to the flank of the Glissarian commander Olembor. This was risky, as it exposed Nizenkampf's flank to the smaller Glissarian force at Sansoussi. The gamble however, paid off as Nizenkampf and Mittelhoss utterly destroyed the Glissarian forces at Nora.

Heuteclere Nilsson attacked with his Steel Order into the smaller Glissarian army, commanded by Jubal Hakur, at Sansoussi, in order to pin the units from attacking Nizenkampf's rear. Nilsson's knights however began to wither away. Seeing this, Brigadier-General Neithard Noble led her brigades to help Nilsson. Not soon after, Nora fell and Mittelhoss and Nizenkampf consolidated their forces and attacked the flank of Hakur Jubal's forces. This was a crushing blow to the forces of Jubal, who began to realize that their reinforcements at Nora were already defeated. This caused a mass rout in Jubal's forces. Meanwhile, Azrael, who was cursed with a bad observation position, couldn't see what was going on in the battlefield. He thought about rushing in and killing the enemy commander, but after being informed of General Ethfried's defeat at Nora, Azrael ordered a retreat.

The battle was a resounding tactical victory for the Worvian forces. It showed the brilliant mind of Lannes Hay, who defeated the larger enemy force in detail, as well as Nizenkampf and Mittelhoss who managed to envelope a vastly larger force with diversionary attacks and risky flanking manoeuvers.

## Aftermath

The Glissarians were driven out of Nora, Sansoussi and later even Nida as the Glissarians retreated even at the mere sighting of the Royal Army. The Royal Army however, suffered huge casualties because of the cold that ate away their poorly clothed men. This victory, though brilliant, led the Worvians astray as they became too high minded and withdrew their larger force from the Cold North, which allowed Azrael to build up another army. Later, Henrivier Nizenkampf would return as the General of the Northern Army to command the Selberon Defence system.