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Brother Against Brother

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Stare Down

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Squatters

# Garios at the Estates

## Lore

*Brother fights brother as the Calradic Empire descends into anarchy.*

*While the Senate's forces under Lucon's right hand man, Senator Veesor, cooperated on nearly everything with Empress Rhagaea, their coalition has begun to lose its original focus. Created originally to maintain what stability they could after Garios' rebellion, Rhagaea's adventures in the south have alienated the senate, which chiefly resides in the north and constantly lives under threat of legions descending on them. To make matters worse, Rhagaea's reliance on the Vlandian bastard Ethynol as commander of her militaries has only served to irritate what generals remain loyal to the anti-Garios coalition.*

*The usually mysterious Lucon has finally stepped into the spotlight, finding his reason to throw Rhagaea under the cart with the marrying of her daughter Ira to the aforementioned Vlandian exile. Refusing to accept her hereditary inheritance system with the prospect of a ex-Vlandian as consort, Lucon has broken with the royalists and declared the Calradic Republic.*

*This is no meek revolt. Lucon carries with him the support of the vast majority of the senate, and has many influential generals and archons on his pay roll. Taking with him the upper half of the coalition, the head of the senate has forced Rhagaea to be boxed into the south eastern third of the empire.*

*Unfortunately for Lucon, the fears of his senators were justified, as Garios' legions have begun marching at a furious pace towards the Northern Empire. Garios and Lucon had bickered in the years after Pendraic relentlessly, and it seems the situation is still personal as Garios' has arrived at the villa of none other than Lucon's second hand man, Senator Veesor. The Senate has managed to assemble a host to defend the estate, but should they fail it will no doubt be torched...*

## Post Event Lore

*The best people at killing Calradians had always been other Calradians, and the latest civil war finally turned hot.*

*Swiftly recovering from his injuries against the Vlandian probe at Usanc, Autokrator Garios returned to his legions eager to swipe the insignificant matter aside. After all, he had a greater glory to pursue in the destruction of Lucon’s so-called Calradian Republic. And his first target was the villa of Senator Veesor, Lucon’s own right hand man. Such a humiliation, especially with the follow-up stormings of the nearby castles, would give him the initiative. Needless to say, the reborn republic could not afford to suffer the first loss in the civil war, so Senator Lucon personally led the host to face the threat.*

*Senator Veesor had wisely evacuated his people already, leaving the wheat growing in the fields untended and the villa eerily silent as both armies faced off across from it. Fences meant to deter foxes would soon be shooting positions, roads would be paved with corpses as turtled up legionaries lost cohesion in the press of melee, and the woods would be filled with the dying horses and their riders baking in their armor. Three times Garios would advance, finding brief advantages in battles in the southern woods or a brawl in the villa, but finding his cohorts trapped within a barn or suppressed by crossbowmen atop the same structure. In the end, three fierce assaults were launched against the Senate’s republican legionaries, and three times they threw the Autokrator’s men back.*

*Another general-turned-Autokrator would have stayed and fought to the bitter end, fearing the loss of their legions’ loyalty for this defeat. Garios was wiser than those failures, and trusted the faith of his followers. Accepting the loss of the battle to prepare for the long war, he recalled his legions and withdrew to Amitatys. There, he could regroup and recover. Lucon, whether high on victory fever or seeking to complete the humiliation of his rival, marched after him.*

*Garios had been forced to abandon his siege train, and the republican legionaries eagerly seized it to bring the walls of Amitatys down. Knowing of a weak spot in the walls, the plan was to bombard it with Calradian Fire and then storm through before Garios’ troops could respond. In theory, an effective plan. But unlike in the Senate, Garios had a vote too. His troops sallied out, striking at the siege equipment and turning the Senate’s own supply of fire against them, stalling out the assault and leaving the assaulting legionaries in a kill zone against the walls. While eventually they were able to untangle themselves from this and get inside the city, Garios’ troops matched every assault and eventually bled the Senate’s momentum to a halt before the walls of the governor’s palace. Frustrated at the chaos of war, Lucon withdrew, and territories remained unchanged.*

*Garios had a bloody rag to wave and secured his men’s loyalty despite the failed expedition, but he had won battles before. The Senate, however, had a different message to send. That they had drawn first blood against the best Legions the Empire had to offer, and beat them in the field. They were not just old men in togas complaining of the days long gone - they too were the heirs of Calradios, and they had a cause to fight and die for.*

## Aftermath

No lands were exchanged between the Western Empire and the Northern Empire.

## Links

Event post: [1]

Wrapup post: [2]