Beinaric Civil War

Kóngur Odin I leading his skeleton legions across the frozen bay.

## Belligerents

Haakonist Pretenders

Skærar Skyrtur (Legitimists)

## Commanders

Odin Loftsson Einaren Ívarr Ragnarrsson Græn Kápa

Delilah af Cruzca

## Strength

Haakonist Pretenders - 15,000

Skærar Skyrtur (Legitimists) - 40,000

## Casualties

Haakonist Pretenders - 8547

Skærar Skyrtur (Legitimists) - 2000~

**The Beinaric Civil war** also known as **The** **Haakonist War** or **The Usurper War** was a civil conflict that took place after the regicide of **Kóngur Loft Leifsson Einaren** at the hands of his second wife **Drottnig 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

Kóngur Loft Leifson Einaren became Kóngur of Beinavöllur when Kóngur Leif Skrásson Einaren died at the Battle of Svartur Hóll.

Loft would prove to be a good Kóngur as he reached his adolescence, in 174 Eftir Loft would marry a young Beinaric noblewoman and the couple would give birth to a son, Odin Loftsson Einaren in the year 175 Eftir. However after a few years of marriage the Drottnig would die of illness and Kóngur 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 from a land called Cruzca, a land no one had heard of, and whom managed to wed Kóngur Loft despite the protest of many members of the royal court. She and Kóngur 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 Prins Svikaraskinn (Prince Traitorskin). 9 years would pass and Prins Haakon would grow into a petulant spoiled brat.

### Regicide

In the year of 192 Eftir, on the Feast of Sjant Gamalt, Kóngur Loft would be poisoned by Drottnig Delilah. Swiftly Delilah would claim that before his death Kóngur Loft had named Prins Haakon his heir over the 17 year old Prins Odin I. 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 Kóngur with her as his regent. Prins Odin I and the Legitimist forces would flee due North to Venillión, where they would be given shelter, equipment and some men for the army to retake Beinavöllur.

### The Legitimist Advance

Drottnig Regent Delilah and her supporters believed that the Skærar Skyrtur invasion of Beinavöllur would come directly from Venillión and in the spring; this belief would prove false. During a harsh snow storm in the month of Nótt the legitimist forces marched on Beinavöllur from the cover of the great eastern mountains. The legitimist army led at the helm by Prins Odin I would cross the frozen lake at Beinavöllur's heart where the castle of Einaren Kastala sat upon a peninsula.

### 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 castle.

### The Siege of Beinaheimur

Prins Odin I, alongside the Knights of Einar, and with the aid of the Presturs and Presturas of the Daudinistic Order, laid siege to the city of Beinaheimur 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 allegiance. The siege would only be broken when the forces of Odin I 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 Beinaric Civil War.

## Aftermath

Delilah the Usurper would be tried and found guilty of high treason and regicide, she would be sentenced to death by beheading and her corpse quartered and scattered across the mountains. The child Prins Svikaraskinn, would be spared the fate of his mother instead he would be confined to a cell below Einaren Kastala under the watch of his half-brother, Kóngur Odin I.