Battle by Maidenpool

## Prelude

> *Phineas: If what Goren says is true there running out of room to hide, and we can finish them off here.*
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> *Shamus: Id welcome the chance to end not one but two bandit armies in one war. But we cant trust this man's words so easily. Fools like him never have all the proper senses.*
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Goren's words had been so far useful giving away all the locations the order had used to hide for so long and the various raids had reduced the order down to its last legs. With there last ally in the Swine King killed earlier they were pretty much just trying to survive, unable to fight for Haywin any longer. Ser Jason was even caught and killed by a Redwater men when he pulled him off a women in a village costing the order another knight and leader. According to Goren they were trying to flee back to Bloodstone as they had connections in Maidenpool to get a ship and flee. Jory had no intention of them going there and bolstering Haywin's numbers and pushed his men to keep going to assure they were stopped. Lord Shamus Blackwolf who had helped defeat the Swine King at Wild's Den arrived in time to help eager to cut off all of Haywin's allies.

They chased down the order all the way to near Maidenpool and from there and managed to catch them as they were nearing the city, hoping to cut them off completely and assure that they had nowhere to go before they attempted to engage the enemy once more with the full intent of making sure they ended the Order in this final battle.

## The Battle

> *Jory: You nearly killed Ser Marq, now you face me and you will feel the full extent of your folly to oppose us.*
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> *Yohn: I fight in service to my king. And lived like one with this order. I'll live or die with no regrets, we'll see if you can say the same fool.*
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Trapping the Order before they could get far, there Calvary would move ahead to make sure they could run them down while the foot of there army chased them. Ser Yohn the ever brave and fierce warrior, if one can call such a man that after his years of raiding and raping turned to try and meet the enemy with his own men. Ser Jory was the first man he met and the two clashed for most of the battle, with the Redsteel proving to be an equal to the hand of the King. Ser Bard was chased down and clashed with the Calvary forces killing two knights in the army and 4 soldiers, but he took a few wounds on the way out and was finally stopped by Ser Rickard Greywinde, the injured man was no match for Rickard who after a few short clashes of swords finally lost his arm before Rickard plunged his blade into his stomach. Lord Iceberg and Lord Shamus took care of the rest of the army and they circled Ser Jory ready to aid him should Yohn somehow prove victorious. That wasnt necessary as eventually Jory parried an attack and that opened Yohn for a cut at his neck which Jory took to swiftly behead the last of the Order ending the group just as the Redwater had promised.

## The Aftermath

> *Goren: I wasnt willing to die for them but each of those men were my friends. Its a shame to know that the good times are really behind us.*
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> *Jory: I want to hear nothing about those 'good times'. The Stepstone lords I can begrudgingly respect for following there King, im not blind to how my actions might have turned them against the king. but they fight like men, you fight like cowards preferring people who cant fight back and taking advantage of the weak.*
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The death of the Order ended Haywin's longest planned fighting force leaving just his fledging Free city allies and his lords. Fighting on the mainland was nearly over and Jory had done a lot to mend his relations with Rickard from there campaign he would spend the rest of the war distributing aid to those who needed it trying to help mend the wounds Haywin's war had caused. All that remained was Haywin himself though the Darkspear King still had a few more hands to play even as the noose seemed to be tightening around his neck.