Slash of the Trident

Commanders| * King Darwin I de Poullain †
* Dowager Queen Miranda de Reaume
* Duc Armel de Gigot †
* Duchesse Marie-Noëlle de Bonne (after death of Armel)
* Marquis Louis de La Croix †
* Duc Simon de Vasseur
* Comte Leo de La Barre †
* Comte Peyter de Fleury †
* Monsieur Noel de Baume †
* Comte Eugène de Papes †
* Duc Ralph de Auvrey
* King Marc de Raeume
* Queen Antonia de Poullain †
* Royal Consort Mace de La Bourbansais †
* Comtesse Eden de Hachin
* Monsieur Robert de Hachin †
* Comte Eustace de Blois †
* Duc Alixandre de Herbaux
* Marquis Theodore de Gizeux
* Duc Jean-Yves de Ouvier
* Monsieur Henri de Ouvier
* Monsieur Fouet de Leavitt †

The **Slash of the Trident** was a civil war fought during Poullain rule in Clercon. A war of succesion between King Darwin I and his half-sister Princess Antonia over their fathers throne, the war was fought from 199 NE to 201 NE during the war both claimants would die and Darwins brother would be crowned King Herle I.

## Prelude

### King Stuar IV

King Stuar IV de Poullain had three children by his first queen, Alicia de Hachin, two daughters Princess Antonia and Princess Marie and one son Prince Jean, but Stuar’s only son Jean heir to the throne died shortly after birth and his wife Alicia soon followed. Without a son Stuar began training his oldest daughter Antonia to be his heir, the young princess was included in discussions about affairs of state and sat on meetings of the royal council much to the dismay of many council members. After the death of Queen Alicia in 178 NE, Stuar named his daughter Antonia heir and had the nobility come to the capital and swear their allegiance to his daughter, he then named his late wife’s brother and daughters uncle Monsieur Barthagon de Hachin, Duc de Lune as his personal advisor and the head of the royal council. The king remarried in 179 NE to Princess Miranda de Reaume, Princess de Béroux the daughter of King Jaspar V de Reaume, King de Béroux. The new queen was young and healthy giving birth to six children, four of whom were male, the princes Darwin, Herle, Louis and Stuar and the princesses Elisabeth and Angélique.

After the birth of his first son many, including the queen, believed that he would replace Antonia as heir, but Stuar remained adamant that Antonia would be his successor. In 189 NE Stuar strengthened Antonia’s place in the succession by marrying her to Monsieur Mace de La Bourbansais, Marquis de Champitou, who himself had royal blood through his mother Princess Marie. The same year a tourney was held in Volpe to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Stuar and Miranda’s wedding, at the opening feast the Queen spent her time arranging secret betrothals of her children to secure powerful allies for her to usurp the throne for her son when the time came. She gained the alliance of Comte de Orme and Comte de Papillion and strengthened the alliance with her home by betrothing her daughter Elisabeth to her youngest brother Louis. At the tourney Antonia’s champion Monsieur Gyeffroy d’Arpajon unhorsed all but one of Miranda’s champions the Monsieur Jean de Rose who unhorsed Gyeffroy and was crowned the tourney champion. Jean then appointed the commander of the Queen’s Royal Guard by Miranda herself.