THE FLIGHT OF TAR-ZÔRZAGAR

[Emery 958]

 

 

 

AR IS UPON THE IMPERIUM. The Druscans know it best, for their strength has been tried in battle, and they are second to none in the realm. Their enemies however, the men of Myrine and Númenost, could scarce say the same, for their forces were wholly unready for that which drew nigh. This much would be proven when the Druscans took to the roads, their host numbering some four thousand strong.  First, the Allied host arrived at the keep of Myrine. Three bannermen found their way into the castle, but Calias ‘the Spanked’ shut his doors and fled the violence, fitting as the insolent boy he is. The forces then moved to their next destination: the gates of the White City, to deliver the Druscan Answer personally to the half-breed allies of Calias ‘the Spanked’.

 

And when at last the unsightly white walls of Númenost lay before them, the Druscans found neither the great host promised by Calias, nor the retainers of Númendil to meet them in battle. Instead, he found shut gates which guarded an empty city. Not to be denied, the Druscan host pressed into the mountains, rode up its peaks, and from there scaled the walls to breach it. 

 

To no surprise of anyone, the meager host of Numendilians and Myrinians hid behind their palace gates. It was made very clear today that the Numendilians have successfully taken a page out of the Balianite Novellen playbook: to speak brazenly while cowering behind their doors.

 

Even the Tar of Numendil abandoned his own people! Upon hearing the Druscan bannermen charge through the city square, the Tar of Numendil vanished into thin air, leaving his own subjects to be apprehended by the knights of the Alliance. 

 

We celebrate the cowardly Tar of Numendil for sparing the lives of his citizens, by magically vanishing upon this day.

 

Hurray to the Allied forces! Ave Drusco!

 

 

 

[nunlover 579]

"BLOOD FOR ASHFORD" spoke lucien

[sam33497 7356]

"A fair first assault. I only wish that one of the civilians had not been shaved and murdered." Maximilian Caius muttered with great ire, reflecting upon the sights he had seen earlier that day. "Roger's men betray his own nobility - conflict the Crown has approved, but not this." To deliberations with his brother and father he soon went.

[ratlordmagic 1484]

"Hey, don't put us in the same boat as Numendil, at least we actually showed up to fights." Grumbled Miroslaw Jazlowiecki, Lotharian veteran

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"What do you expect from the servants of the Tar? Cowards, the lot. Ave Petra, I will see you freed." Swore Alaric von Theonus, Petran defector to the Druscan cause.

[MRCHENN 4741]

Derfey stands upon the Numendil battlements, as “Blood for Ashford!” chants ring through the square.

 

Quickly, he broke inside the palace, alerting the Numendil Tar of the Savoyard breach. With a snap of his fingers, he blessed Zorzagar with magic invisibility, so that he may escape.

 

”All hail Ex. Anti-Pontiff Derfey and Saint Zhulik,” He chanted to the Myrinian and Numendil population hiding behind the palace gates. “For through the powerful Fleeper rituals, Derfey hath granted invisibility to your Tar, thus repelling the Savoyard menaces upon this day, and avoiding mass bloodshed!”