Fortudatum Crusade

Combatants| **Kingdom of Workhold*** Northern Army
* Royal Army
* Couriers
* Ardians
* Black Scions
* Legio Centralis
* KOMS

Remaining Company

**Empire of Alarass*** Astanorian Guard

Commanders| **Lannes Hay*** **Diarmud Baathúr**
* **Mennor Enkell**
* **Hamina Beyard**
* **Gerald Guilleam** †
* Dann Strickt
* Solomon Tyrus
* Hirano Kanzaki
* Henrivier Nizenkampf
* Guthmundur Ethfried
* Jubal Hakur
* Cerin Wodf †

**Saul Decius*** Carius Trajan
* Typhon Oltaras

Fortudatum Crusade is a military expedition planned by the armies of Workhold, to vanguish the mordant Vangad-Shei and to slay the terrible beast known as Azrael. The Fortudatum Crusade is the largest consortium of Worvian armies since the Borian War.

## Background

The Kingdom of Workhold has for long sought to explore and conquer the region north of the Contest Mountains. The Worvians always knew of the existence of the old race of the Glissarians and that they inhabited the north. Hence when the Worvians began to settle the north in early 3rd century, they were very cautious. The King of Workhold, King Jiri, sent his Baathúr Warriors and the Royal Army to protect the settlers, but the armies were limited. Settlers increased very slowly and by the time it began to accelerate, the Borian War began and halted the process completely.

During the Borian War, a Glissarian noble by the name of Azrael arranged the first notable incursion into the northern settlements of Workhold. The incursion was brutal and bloody as Azreal's men spared no-one. This was the birth of the Vangad-Shei blood clans that seek solely to hunt and kill all men south of the Contest Mountains. At last in 299, the Royal Army was stabilized and could respond to the Vangad-Shei occupiers. The Vangad-Shei were quickly driven out. This lead to the Worvian court to believe, that the Vangad-Shei was not a threat and left the North largely unsupervised.

The Vangad-Shei re-emerged in 305 attacking Worvian settlements en masse. It was in 306 when the Worvians learned of the Great city of Selenine and that the Vangad-Shei used the city as their base of operations. The Hawk Administration plotted a revenge and engineered the Fortudatum Crusade consisting of many renown army units of Workhold.

## Worvian Preparations

The Worvian Armies met at High Castle, where Warmaster Lannes Hay led the United War Council. The Worvian Armies were very competitive and argumentative with each other, most of which the Legio Ardostum and Legio Centralis, who were hurling insults at one another constantly.

Lannes Hay managed to keep the strategium in order and briefed the various different army commanders, that their aim was not to destroy or to annex all of the Cold North, but instead put a stop to the Vangad-Shei and slay Azrael. Following this, Lannes left the strategium to tend for the armies back in Edelmaa. The Worvian Commanders took a while until order was once more returned and they decided to split their armies into two, the Western Army of Hamina Beyard and the Eastern Army of Diarmud Baathúr.

## Crusade

The Crusade began with a huge trek over the large forests of the Cold North. The Eastern Army was tasked with capturing the Froth Castle, whilst the Western Army was to seize Fort Olbia. The Froth Castle was also a very important castle to take, as it had a dockyard, and the Worvians wanted to secure a naval base for the Parabellum Fleet that was arriving to assist in the Crusade.

The Western Army arrived at Olbia first and began to besiege the small Fort. However, the Western Army was entangled in a skirmish at the Wolf's Forest that lay next to Olbia. In the Forest, a detachment of the Legio Centralis riders were destroyed in an ambush plotted by Azrael himself. Hyperion Atlas and his Samarran Guard tried to aid the Legionaries, but were themselves ambushed too. This forced the Charlington Brigade under the command of Solomon Tyrus to attack the forest. The Battle of Wolf's Forest became the first encounter in the crusade and it was largely a draw between the two sides. Succeeding the battle, the Western Army immediately assaulted Olbia and began the Battle of Olbia which was a decisive victory for the Western Army, as Solomon Tyrus managed to quickly slay the enemy commander, Castlelord Davarr Litjer in a duel.

Meanwhile, the Eastern Army was besieging the Froth Castle, as it was more formidable than Olbia. But as the Parabellum Fleet drew closer, the Eastern Army's time began to run out. The Admiral of the Parabellum Fleet, Dann Strickt, demanded the Eastern Army to take Froth immediately, as Dann decided to attack the Glissarian fleet. Mennor Enkell then took command of the Eastern Army and began to assault the Froth Castle. Simultaneously, the Parabellum Fleet engaged the Glissarian fleet in the first ever naval battle of the new Royal Navy, the Battle of Froth Bay, which resulted in a Royal Navy victory. Froth Castle was captured not soon after, and the Parabellum Fleet managed to dock at Froth.