Battle of Rosefield

### Result

Lencori victoryLorenan the Great, king of the Lorenti, gains great fame and is crowned High King of Lencenor right after the battle.

The Gawedi Warlords in Lencenor are finally defeated and their lands recovered by the Lencori, most of which will later form the Kingdom of Redwood under the Ruby Crown.

Belligerents| * Lorentish Kingdom
* Tretunic Kingdom
* Sormanni Kingdom
* Kingdom of Rubyhold
* Iochander Cavalry
* Minor Lencori tribes

Commanders and Leaders| * King Lorenan the Great
* King of the Tretunics
* King of the Sormanni

The **Battle of Rosefield** was the first of the two great victories of Lorenan the Great against the Gawedi warlords who had plagued his homeland for the last 45 years, during the Gawedi Invasions of Lencenor.

## Prelude

The Lencori Warlord Period had lasted 45 years, and the last ten years had seen the meteoric rise of Lorenan the Great. The leader of the Lorenti, a tribe of the Rubenti peoples, had united these people into the Lorentish Kingdom in the year 523, dominating the Bloodwine River after defeating the Rubenti warlords downstream and, together with the dwarves of Rubyhold, organized a set of alliances to expel the northern invaders for good.

In the year 525 the last Gawedi Warlords made an alliance to oppose the Lencori, hoping to turn the tide by drawing the Lencori armies out of their advantageous positions to the south of the Redwood. To this end, they attacked the territories of the Lorentish Kingdom north of the Ruby Mountains, burned a good number of Lorenti settlements and waited.

As soon as the first groups of refugees made their way to Lorentei, King Lorenan called upon his allies and loyalists, and together with the influence of Rubyhold he received aid from the Tretunic and Sormanni kingdoms, and even a promise from the Entebic king to not attack his realm while he dealt with the invaders. This force crossed the Ruby Pass unopposed yet spent the next month finding nothing but empty, destroyed settlements. Unable to find the Gawedi, the only armed group that came to Lorenan was a large group of Iochander cavalrymen who had come to counterraid the Alenics. With the allied kings growing anxious, Lorenan had no choice but to order his men to begin the move south. His Lencori army made camp next to a large field of roses, and it was in the early morning of the next day when, out of nowhere, the Gawedi attacked.

## The Battle

While some called to abandon the camp and retreat, King Lorenan was undisturbed by their pleas and gave the order to face the enemy they had come to fight. With little time to organize, men from all Lencori tribes fought side by side as infantry while all the available cavalry (of mostly Lorenti and Iochander origin) was put under the direct command of Lorenan.

The battle was long and arduous, with many loses for the Lencori side as the Gawedi excelled in close quarters infantry combat. All of the Gawedi infantry was engaged in combat, however, and the tide changed when Lorenan the Great joined the fray. Covered in an armour of Rosemetal and Dwarven steel and with a lilac shield on his right arm, the king of the Lorentish charged at the head of his Lencori cavalry, forming a wedge and opening a breach in the Gawedi line. Instead of stopping to face the now broken line, however, Lorenan pressed on aiming for the Gawedi warlords themselves. He himself slayed the lord of the Redwood, and the Gawedi army fled in disarray.

## Aftermath

The whole Lencori army was by now covered in rose petals, blood or a mix both, and Lorenan himself and his horse, who were said to have pushed through more than one thick rosebush in their charge, most of all. A Gawedi arrow had pierced a great red rose and fixed it to the center of his shield: the first appearance of the Lorentish Rose in historical records. Lorenan took the symbol as his own, raising his shield for all to see and proclaiming all of them to be one united Rose Army. In response, Lorenan was acclaimed High King by both the soldiers and the kings of the Tretunics and the Sormanni.

Upon his return to Lorentei, Lorenan was presented the Ruby Crown of Lorent by envoys of the King of Rubyhold himself, and so began the High Kingdom of Lencenor. The Iochander soldiers had already acclaimed him as High King at Rosefield, and King Fizwick I Allspark swore fealty to Lorenan in the following months. The Entebic Kingdom, the last remaining Lencori realm not within Lorenan's Realm, wouldn't join until the birth of Caylen, the youngest son of Lorenan, and his betrothal to the Entebic princess Herlinda.

Meanwhile, many Gawedi fled north towards the Gawedi Kingdom after being expelled by the victorious Lencori, drawing King Godric II's attention towards Lencenor. The fight against the Gawedi wasn't over, and it wouldn't be solved until the Battle of Red Reach four years later.