Last Great war of Maligon

1030-1035

While the specifics are only really important to characters who are specifically interested in military history, the last war of Maligon defined many of the modern countries, introducing a new age of nations across the Merec-Maligon continent. Like many international wars, the greatest victors and the defeated laid lowest were barely related to the original combatants. In the spring of 1030, Maknilur The headsman of Eautipet began building a keep on the far eastern border of the land, a little further into territory claimed by Ragnnloth. Tensions became high and the Pontiff Anglisa Doroto sent her highest clerics and knights to the west of purity to establish a bulwark.

1035

After five years of isolated incidents, on Takamid 32nd of Samtaren 1035 a young priest called Lehothellus was attacked while giving a private prayer service to some converted goblins and this was the powderkeg that had exploded the war. Pontiff Anglisa sent the entire cloister company of courage paladins to the border, something that had not been done since the war against the madness of Sixir. Bishop General Lehoblessed the dragonborn decided that it was best to pre-emptively strike Ka-prit-prit as both nations were primarily goblinoid. Because of this, Caraniv and varsit fearing needless goblin persecution both declared war on Ragnnloth on the 12th Vitarek. Receiving word from his distant cousin King Chararic of caraniv, King Kastor Arizu Risgobisen IV advised by the familys of Nualbulfosp and Klaplonzeecks attacked its neighbours Gadprig and jusadal to give the goblin-gnome armies dominion of the west coast to attack Ragnnloth by sea. A little over a month later on the 15th of Mistloft across the Lumthonom mountains, unprovoked Kalev attacked Zimayik and occupied it which causing an instantaneous retaliation by caraniv. On the 30th of mistloft Uranganso castles unified as a nation and declared that they were a friend to Eautipet, Caraniv and Tryb, but didn’t make any notable attacks. They instead used their mages and spies to contact the other armies, officially naming themselves ‘The allied’ and attempting to recruit others to the course. Conflict was a stalemate, with cities changing hands weekly between companies of foot. At the On the Sixirmorn 1st of Zeenoith, loudly and proudly, Labremuylor declared their entry of the war with a three pronged attack with cavalry at refuge, a march on Kalev and an armour column through yeroifox to attack the west coast. By the end of the year on the 35th Refuge had entirely surrendered to Labremulyor

1036

1036 began with some of the remaining nations declaring their involvement, 7th of lifesnew Ibid the avowed of oweib used illusion magic to declare that he had joined the ‘Allied of Urangso’ a very pointed phrasing indicating who had won his favour. Behallow and Trichstes declared they were standing with their gnomish and halfling brothers, and both began attacking kalev and saihal together. Following this, the largest battles of the war thusfar began. Urangso fielding an army of mostly serfs and mercenary slave drivers clogged the fields of Zarnova against both labremulyor and Kalev in Lifesnew and the war took to the waves fully with winomadle joining the allied in the second week of Obreydin and attacking Ragnnloth. In Pontiff Anglisa Doroto, seeing Ragnnloth walled in and attacked from land and sea, sent angels to Kalev to appeal to it’s King Khabarov Vladislavovich. Khabarov responded favourably to Ragnnloth and quickly unified Ragnnloth Gadprig, Jusadal under a new banner, ‘The army of the bear’ which his infiltrators ran banners and weapons to the nations starting on the 19th of obreydin. The battle of Pritberg across the fourth week of Dewsheath was the first decisive victory for Kalev since the war began. King Khabarov and his brother Duke Vladmir had both fought in personally in the streets of the paved city and by occupying it, they had both denied Caraniv half of its enormous population and made a way to contact ringiff, who while being assailed by varsit knights and winomadle fleets had not declared an allegiance yet. With Ringiff officially showing the colours of the army of the bear, Ragnnloth could concentrate more on Eautipet and Ka prit prit without worrying about a second front of the coast. The first meeting of the orc fleets was the exceptionally bloody battle of Kushinoon the 3rd of Torioh, where no less than four vessels were sunk. With this, it was predicted that the war would be over by Hokekaso Festival, but unexpectedly near the end of torioh several large tribes of Zonamadaaman pledged their allegiance to the Allied, paid off with Uranagso money, it was assumed. With the entire complexion of the front changed, the war once again slowed to skirmishes and attempts to regain lost land as many tried to predict the routes by land the two forces would take. The next three months were standstill, with Kalev trying to keep a tighter grip on Pritberg and the majority of open conflict being lone vessels from Ringiff and Winomadle attacking each other in territories around the south-east. The next cog changing moment of the war was an unexpected charge by the Ka-prit-prit young high priest of the five pathes Gkranin on Lehofall

14 of Vitarek, 1036. With trained martial arts, battle tactics and his powerful control of the elements, The Prit defence army and some disruptor troops from the bogebarracks took purity, the capital of Ragnnloth and slayed Bishop General Lehoblessed the dragonborn. With the pontiff held hostage, Ragnnloth withdrew support from the fronts and waited for an opportunity. In the north east, having humbled Yoluger, Labremulyor attacked both kalev and trichstes while rejoining the column of General Warmaster Gaius Brange with the forces heading through the yeroifox forest. The Ringiff navy was dealt an enormous blow when its fagship was nearly put out of commission by a winomadle whaling boat, but admiral Roshawna Axeheart quickly beached it and invaded neutral Oruti to gain a forward position for repairs. Oruti had no standing army and was embarrassed to surrender its whole nation of tabaxi to less than two boats of orcs. As mistloft turned autumn to winter, the war began to take an agricultural and ecological toll. Food stores ran dry and less and less could be spared to send to the front lines. Rather than retreat from his position in Pritberg, King Khabarov withdrew many of his attacking forces to attempt to sit on pritberg and Zarnova only, at least until the end of 1036. This was something that infuriated their allies in Ragnnloth, who felt the King’s duty should be to free the pontiff and purity. Ragnnloth threatened to leave the army of the bear until this was done, but took no further after loosing many of their Priest Knights to the varsit Summer shields on the fields near petal skol. With the exception of some Labremulyor attacks against the castle of Grimburn, the winter of 1036 was as slow as Khabarov had hoped for. And while some of the allied revelled in what seemed like the end of the defences of the army of the bear, Kalev’s forces simply reprioritised.

1037

Lifesnew 1037 saw gadprig and Jusadal completely force Tryb to retreat into the yeroifox forest as the gnome automata that was in its earliest development and many of their impressive war robots froze and thawed broken over the winter. Duke Vladimir Vladislavovich had convinced the Guild parliament of Zimayik to join with the army of the bear, not apologizing for the annexation but instead implying that the occupation would end as the war did. The ironclad dwarves were deployed only as a bulwark against the various tribes of Zonamadaaman as the duke was aware that to send them to fight further from the boarders would be a rebellion waiting to happen. Much like the army of the bear Small fractures were showing in the allied as the war entered its third cogyear. In early Dewsheath, Duke Miro Ristovski requested a private audience with ibid the avowed to question the mage’s loyalty to their vision of a centralised Maligon. Ibid said he wasn’t aware of this plan, and had joined for his own reasons. Ristovski insulted Ibid and told him to make himself useful. In a rare moment of anger, ibid is said to have disappeared and reappeared in Atasac castle, having entirely destroyed the Ragnnloth army of prudence himself. After this, information from Uranagso about enemy positioning became more unreliable as the three castles attempted to trick their allies into sabotaging themselves. This was no more infamous than two months later with the battle of Okiyassa pass on Lehofall 4th of brongle where An entire infantry regiment of Trichstes with two companies of pike gnomes were charged unexpectedly by the calvary of Ragnnloth and cut from reaching occupied Pritberg by the crossbows of the Kalev guard. The gnomes of Trichstes reduced their efforts after that, focusing on their old enemy of Saihal, rather than the expansion of the allied across the continent. After remaining dormant occupying pritberg and defending Zarnova for months, on Kushinoon 38th of brongle, the Kalev army roared once more. The bear calvary supported by the marines of ringiff routed several Varsit summer shield chapters in a daring aetherdawn attack, with the true goal to set a new defensible front in Suntij, behind both Ashellberg in caraniv and depriving riddel and Petaskol of fresh water from the mcfae river. Khabarov through his brothers spy network had been in contact with the Suntij parliament, who had mostly been left as a sort of silent partner of their neighbours in the valley. Suntij would now provide food for any army of the bear the chains could distribute to in return for being made a protectorate of the army of the bear as the conflict got ever more destructive. On Etolight the 5th of Samtaren, Ceterat entered the same arrangment with the army of the bear. Despite neither nation having more than a towns guard level of defence, this land grab across the center of the maligon valley was once step closer from cutting off the population bases of the allied. While there wasn’t a direct counter attack, Eautipet, now under the rule of Lunkak the mad, attempted to bolster tryb by a fiery assault on the dwarves of gadprig that depleted most of the forces of fishget and lowerhold over three nights starting on Takamid 12th of samtaren. It said that on the 15th High cheiftan Grergabrur Bouldershaper of lumthonom stood and wept on the side of the mountain as he watched his dwarven kinsfolk burn, but could not be persuaded to declare a grand disaster that would open the chambers of the ancestor hall and unite the dwarves of the cog. Lunkak the mad would consolidate his forces in fishget and attempt to attack both jusadal and gadprig from this position for the rest of the year. Becoming convinced that Gesurb would not take a side in the conference, in the autumn the government of Torgil began purposefully disrupting supply lines and charging fees for any items that needed to be taken anywhere even approaching the north east. On multiple occasions, the landsknacht of Torgil would raid a passing army of the bear supply line and deliver the weapons and supplies, especially to the beleaguered tribes of Zonamadaaman who would pay triple the gold costs after the central valley united against them and their Allied forces stopped helping. The winter was as difficult as the previous two for the allied, but the army of the bear gaining Ceterat and suntij had allowed Khabarov to attempt to build some more infrastructure and supply lines, now with the hope of both feeding his allies and dissuading Torgil. On 20th Zeenoith of 1037 while the allied suffered ;the cold weather and starvation, The army of the bear in the central valley charged through Ragnnloth and attacked Ka-prit-prit unexpectedly. While a solid defence was mounted over a week and a half, this coordinated attack ended with the complete surrender of Gkrakin and his forces, which was quickly occupied by the remaining Ragnnloth forces. The Ka-prit-prit forces were said to be gracious in defeat, and this may have inspired King Khabarov’s decisions after the war.

1038

the spring of 1038 was an even earlier return to the fighting than the year before. as soon as the aetherdawn was light, battles began in the Yeroifox forest. With Tryb, Gadprig and Jusadal and Labremulyor all fighting for the territory, the confusion and positioning amongst the trees made any conflict bloody and brutal Another winter without the supplies of the central valley was becoming a crisis for the central column of the allied. In mid Obreydin, The summer shields of Varsit reconsolidated in Ashellberg and helped the badly trained Caraniv reserve troops make a new barricade to reclaim Pritberg, hoping to lay a siege on the Kalev forces within. As part of this plan, and one to retake suntij, the serf forces of Urangso marched against the Bear’s rear column in Zarnova once more. While the previous conflicts were clashes, this was a decimation. The banners of the wolves lay tattered across the fields of their castles. While this certainly helped the gnomes, goblins and halflings take back more of caraniv, the intended reclamation of Suntij was quickly routed by the unexpected presence of the angels of Ragnnloth. In early Dewsheath King Khabarov of Kalev left Pritberg silently, leaving a small contingent under orders to retreat into Ceterat if attacked. While he was expected to liberate purity with his main column, his brother Vladimir took charge of this important mission by the southern seas with Admiral Roshawna Axeheart, the commander of Ringiff. King Khabarov and a small siege force rapidly rode north for over eight days, into the merec wilderness. Reports by the spies of the allied either dismissed this as a decoy or claimed the king had a fit of craven cowardliness seeing the Varsit army bolster Caraniv. On the 20th of Dewsheath, four ships from Ringiff landed at the western beaches of Ragnnloth and dispatched three companies of Kalev knights. This charge liberated purity, but it was devastating for the bear and the allied. As the banners of the bear were seen on the beach, the clergy of the holy city actively began to rebel against their now two year long captors. As they had been obviously deprived of weapons, this was a bloody affair of fists against swords, candlesticks thrown at crossbows. The Pontiff Anglisa Doroto died during this, supposedly immolated if depictions of her beatification are to be believed.

to be concluded