Silver Scandinavian Takeover

The Silver Scandinavian Takeover was a slow but sure takeover of small areas of Scandinavia by the Coldsong Clan.

## Timeline

12/9/1090, 8:00 P.M. - Chan the Sliverhearted leads a (relatively) large force of Norseman to claim a smaller nearby clan, who had angered her by stealing her silver. The Coldsong warriors meet with the smaller clan (Hastenbuu'sae) at night, and immediately gain the upper hand. Chan demands they surrender, but being Norseman, they refuse, going down with a huge fight. Eventually, after a chaotic skirmish, the Coldsong Clan wins with only a few casualties. When they enter the Jarl's house, Chan demands again to give up. He refuses, and they clash, Chan's axe going to his sword. In the end, Chan lands a devastating blow to his neck, finishing him off with a swift strike to the top of head. In the basement of the house, they find few treasures (which mainly consists of the stolen silver, which is actually also stolen from Germans and Crusaders), but many slaves, most of which are Furmen (furries). Chan frees the Furmen rather than keeping them as their own slaves, but keeps the human slaves for herself. The Furmen agree to join Chan's clan, and some offer to join her band of warriors. She agrees, and suddenly begins to wonder, *is it possible that I could take **just** a little more land?*

The Silverhearted began planning for new attacks on other clans.

12/11/1090, 12:55 P.M. - After careful planning, Chan and her warriors attack another smaller clan (Ytterby), which was much easier to defeat due to their lower warrior count, and because their chief ran away while the fight was going on. Chan entered the center of the village and declared herself as their new ruler, who they must now obey above anyone else. Similar to Hastenbuu'sae, Chan finds slaves and few treasures, adding any Furmen slaves to her common population while keeping any non-Furman slaves for labor. Chan then begins plans for taking three other small clans nearby in a single move: Tisnarbro, Brunvalla, and Ulriksdal.

12/13/1090, 2:15 P.M. - The Coldsong Clan begins to siege the three small clans, surrounding the base with a large force, waiting until they are either weak or surrender. One of the clans, Ulriksdal, fights back immediately, trying to repel the attack made by Chan. They struggle, neither side gaining or losing any ground. Eventually, the lesser force of Ulriksdal retreats behind their wooden walls, where Chan's warriors continue to siege. Now all they have to do is wait for them to give up, or get weak.

12/21/1090, 10:00 P.M. - The Ulriksdal clan surrenders, and the Coldsong Clan's territory expands. Chan begins plans to make both defenses against a potential Crusader attack, and plans to take two more clans, both bigger than any clan they've fought yet.

12/31/1100, 1:50 P.M. - Due to a complete lack of Crusader invasions, Chan begins to prepare her forces to take on a clan that is bigger and more prepared than any other clan they've conquered yet, which has a special ace up their sleeve: they have 8 Berserkers under their rule who are very, very loyal.

1/1/1100, 1:30 P.M. - After careful planning, Chan makes a daring move: rather than siege the large clan, Chan sends men disguised as traders to both sell prisoned drinks, and to douse the village's walls and a few houses- including the enemy's Berserker hall- with oil. Upon the village buying and drinking the fine wine, they gave the signal (the "traders" begin pointing at the sky, acting like they see something odd), Chan launched the attack, having 40 of her men fire flaming arrows at the wall and houses while she personally lead her Norsemen and Furmen to sweep the north side of the village, while her 8 Berserkers (including Chan's personal bodyguards) came from the south, towards the enemy Berserker's hall to kill off anyone trying to stop the fires in the hall (including the Berserkers themselves, if possible). The villages tried to stop Chan's charge and, though disorganized and disoriented, both due to other people who had drunken the wine dying from poisoning and the sudden assault- halt the charge for a good long while, using their sticks and short-spears to fight off the advancing men. Chan creates a Hammer formation, having her shieldmen at the front pushing forward while the men behind them used their own spears to try to fight off the resisting force, all the while the 40 archers kept on firing. The Berserkers on both sides- 8 on Coldsong, 6 on the enemy, since 2 died from the poisoned drink- fought each other with huge weapons and sometimes their fists, the result being that only 3 Berserkers on the Coldsong side survived. With the 6 enemy Berserkers dead, the rest charge to help fight off the villages, who scatter at the rear attack. With the main threat gone, Chan marched to the chief and promptly killed him before he could even take out his bow. With this, the battle is won, and the Coldsong banners set up.

1/2/1100 - 8/12/1101 - Chan sent multiple parties to occupy forest area that was unclaimed, and killed many opponents in battle, until one day, she began to feel bad. Soon, the reason was clear: she was with a child. She ordered that the expansion end for now, and went on living peacefully except with the occasional merchant ship raid while she cared for her new son.

5/17/1118. 2/15/1120, 7/2/1126, 7/4/1126 - The Coldsong clan is attacked by a small band of raiders. Chan herself leads the charge to fend them off, but is hit by a poisoned sword. When it is over (the raiders all died), Chan was brought back and complained of heavy pain in her arm, where she was cut. A Crusader merchant wanders by, and the chiefs bodyguard, a Berserker, asks in rough English for help. The merchant gives him a bottle of deadly poison, thinking the man wanted some due to a translation error, when he really wanted a *cure* for the poison. Chan drives it in one swish, then painfully convulsed and died. The Berserker then tore the man apart limb by limb. Chan's son, Ull, takes over as chief, only to fall into a two years later lake and die of pneumonia. His son, Orgnar, takes over, but dies six years later when he shoots himself in the knee while practicing tower archery and falls off. Deciding it's too risky, his son, Snow, leaves with the family axe to join a wolf cult up North.