Battle of Evergreen

The Battle of Evergreen was a recent conflict on the border of L'Imperium D'Celeste, near the village of Evergreen. A Void portal was activated in a field outside of the village and messengers went to Drakkenhold city to ask for aid.

## Assembling Forces

Malichi Soulborne, Callie Aquinore, Hraimsir, Nadia, Caine, Sienna Veridiano and a number of others set out on horseback. They found the anti-slavers in the eastern forest and forty anti-slavers (the Yellow King's Men) decided they would meet them there.

Next they arrived at Raven's Vale, and fifty Caelan warriors led by Queen Laylanna and accompanied by Iceclad Hraimsir flew to the village. Their scouting forays resulted in several losses for them and many for the Void. The anti-slavers likewise suffered several losses. Erin arrived with a force of elves, most of whom stood on the village walls wielding bows and some who joined the ranks of troops on the ground.

Callie Aquinore's brother Cameron provided an army of over three hundred warriors. The gathering arrived at Evergreen where they met Sir Adrian of the Order of the Burning Rose, who explained that several anti-slavers had fallen and the village defences would not survive another attack.

## First Foray

The light mage Icicia led an attack on the portal, backed by Caine and Malichi. She damaged it but fell unconscious due to the strain and her wounds, and they retreated. Damaging the portal slowed the flow of Void warriors and their attack destroyed over a score of the creatures.

## The Battle

The fishfolk's spearmen advanced, and their first rank was nearly destroyed when blows were first traded with the Void. They were bolstered and held the line, then when the second wave of Void hit them they gained ground. By the time the third wave had reached them, their ranks were no longer in formation.

That was where the adventurers, anti-slavers, Caelan and elves shone through. Their efforts prevented the army from collapsing entirely. Malichi duelled and destroyed a Void titan. Meanwhile, Sienna led a group of mages including Alexandre Sutir to destroy the portal. Caine spotted several Void performing a magic ritual and, in a stroke of luck, used his abilities to void their spell. Malichi summoned a gang of daemons to aid him in battle.

A fourth wave tested the defenders, who had gained much ground, and a fifth nearly destroyed them, with over one hundred fish folk, the handful of anti-slavers who had left the village, and nearly all of the elves on the ground being killed.

## The Vampyre's Ploy

The Vampyress Regina arrived with Layl, who she had chained in enchanted silver. Layl's bone marrow had been used to create new werecats, ones without love and honour. These werebeasts charged, some with weapons and some with claws.

They crashed into the Void forces and some of them began taking bites out of the defending alliance forces, who now fought on two fronts. Sienna's group neared the portal and attacked it, very nearly destroying it, but their soon-to-be victory would be in vain if the hundreds of Void and werecats overwhelmed the alliance and the village.

## Ammeneda's Arrival

The lych woman Ammeneda had called in a favour with the emperor of the Abysians, and arrived with three legions of them at her call. The red-skinned warriors marched on the Void and the werecats with perfect efficiency, and the alliance began to retreat to collect themselves.

Erin's archery skills and Ammeneda's magic stopped Regina from slaying Layl, and the Vampyress sorceress retreated. Caine used his abilities to disenchant Layl's chains and then fell unconscious from the strain.

## The Beginning of the Tale of Sir Petyr

Petyr was a young man in the village who took up a pitchfork and a cooking pot and went onto the battlefield, where he himself slew nearly a dozen Void and discovered he was a mage, and attacked the portal, contributing to it's destruction.

He and several villagers brought Sir Adrian's body to the nearest Burning Rose stronghold, and he joined their order. After training and questing as a squire he was knighted as Sir Petyr. He then became a licensed mage under the Inquisition's new laws.

His tale began here.

## Aftermath

Sir Adrian of the Burning Rose fell in battle. Two knights of the Burning Rose and their ten retainers died in skirmishes before the main battle. Petyr's party also took their bodies to the Burning Rose's stronghold.

The Void portal was destroyed and the Void that weren't shrivelled up and dead fled into the woods.

The Void-afflicted Starborne Ceres remained behind to heal the wounded.

Caine went walking about the village and first met Luna.

Prince Cameron Aquinore was going to take Callie Aquinore back to her homeland, but three of Malichi's daemons rescued her.

The Caelans brought their dead and wounded back home. The elves arrived to collect their dead. A small force of Abysians went into the surrounding forests to hunt the Void and werecats.

## Alliance Losses

3 or so of the several daemons survived.

15 out of 50 anti-slavers survived.

22 Caelans survived.

All of the elves on the wall survived.

28 out of 300 fish folk survived.

The Abyssians lost fewer than 90 legionaires.

## Void Losses

1 Void Titan

Anywhere around 600 Void creatures, land and air, died.

Survivors fled into the forests.