Drakenburg Assault
Summary
Adventure: Drakenburg Assault
GM: Jono Bean
Season: Autumn 794 WK
- Party
- Shin Fein Spy & others
- Bleyze the fire mage.
- Sabrina Warrior.
- Blitzkrieg Warrior.
- Urraagh Warrior.
- Martin Warrior.
- Time on adventure
- tbc 826 WK to tbc 826 WK
- Employer
- someone rich
- Mission
- Hired to do a job
- Pay
- Lots
Scribe Notes
These are not the official scribe notes, but a simple date holder.
Rumours of Aquila mustering troops to then spend 3 weeks marching to Drakenburg. The party was hired to defend the small city of Drakenburg.
The troops of Aquila in a surprise move captured the outside of Drakenburg township in a single night. In the morning around 12,000 troops from Aquila held the town. The Aquila troops also supported by Order of Unmatched Tempering, and lead by the Bishop of Mordeaux, both of which earned the respect of the party. Richard of Foxcourt was also leading.
- The battle started with the Lightning of Dawn, and tactic from Aquila - involving firing hundreds of 'Lightning bolts' into the air at the start of battle to demoralise their enemy.
- The party did extremely well and defending against the Order of Unmatched Tempering.
- The party captured Richard of Foxcourt on the field of battle.
A few weeks later after the withdraw (for the safe return of Richard of Foxcourt) of the forces of Aquila (withdraw by magic and rune portals under the cover of darkness), the party pursued them into southern Aladar, where the party ran into the Ruby Scourge (Drow god dragon), and some Drow warrior/assassin/priests, involved in a large early winter Weather control ritual. They party reached a deal after defeating the Ruby Scourge that he would not return to these shores as long as no Guild party went to Terranova. Some party members still wear dragon skin armour from this encounter.
Extract from SGT
The dominant forces in June were the seiges of Novellar and Drakenburg City, capital cities of Alidar and Drakenburg. This was reported to be an attempt by the Aquillan forces to quickly end the war, however this did not eventuate and the seiges turned into long and drawn out battles. Guild parties were involved in both cities, acting as defenders. Bleyze, editor of The Seagate Times and involved in the Drakenburg defence commented on thebattle’s scale: “The bodies of the first 600 Urielite troops were anexcellent vantage point to prepare for the second minute of combat. At least we could then see the other 10 thousand-odd troops we were about to deal with.”
The Aquilan siege of Drakenburg City was lifted when reinforcements from Eltrandor attacked the seigers from the rear. The Aquilan forces were beseiged for two weeks between the Drakenberg and Eltradorian forces before they were forced to withdraw. It is believed that the Aquilan forces used Rune Portals to escape the Aladarian forces. However where they went is still unknown.
Novellar fell to the invaders in late July, with reports of over 5000 casualties on the Alidarian side.
Reports from the city are scarce as it is under military rule with the local populace under strict curfew. But food and other essential materials are said to be running extremely low and there is concern that the famine currently experienced by the citizens may soon be compounded by plagues caused by the large numbers of dead bodies.
At the same time, the battle for the highlands continues to range unabatted between the main armies of Aladar and Aquilain. This long contested area is being closely fought and correspondents say the two sides are evenly matched and looks like it will become a long drawn out bloody campaign.
