Noble Progression Story Friends In High Furry Places

In the Regalian Archipelago

• House Skarpsten mobilizes their troops, citing their intention to join the Northern Pact. The turnout however is poor, given the duration and the current sides of the conflict, only few clans wishing to dedicate their warriors (numbers reduced because being on noble trial).
• House Skarpsten attaches their ships to the Tyrannian fleet, which sails around and leaves the Archipelago.
• House Delmotte sends a third of its army to the Kathar war effort while demobilizing the rest.
• House Eliopolous mobilizes its soldiers with a call to arms against the Kathar and dedicates their troops to said conflict. They additionally also send finances to Rote's colonies for rebuilding and curing efforts.

In Drixagh Specifically

• House Krupp splits their troops, sending the vast majority to the defensive line along Hadrian's wall, while sending a token force to the ex-von Rahm lands, militarizing the Krupp-Separatist borderlands. Without a military presence moving into these lands however, the locals merely see the militarization of the border as a lack of response to their separatism and declare their border region seceded from Krupp's sovereign land, forming the Wälderland Commune, led by a council of lumberjacks who lead a militia that now opposes Krupp in an independence war, leaving Krupp with the choice to fight them or accept their secession.
• Krupp tries to raise morale among his troops with a fanciful speech by appealing to legacy, but flukes when he mentions forefathers. His soldiers quickly remind him that his predecessor did not die a glorious and honorable death but died a failure choking on his own blood in a dungeon, and he was helped there by Maximus Krupp's own placid submission to the Imperial Guard. No morale changes are recorded.
• Krupp, Sterke-Enn and Sorenvik honor their demands from House Conntyr, who also honor their side of the agreement, fully demobilizing and sending all the Gallovian volunteers home.
• House Sorenvik and Sterke-enn send their troops south again to reinforce the remainder of the Krupp army against Hadrian's wall. They all remain in their defensive anti-cavalry positions.

In Norrland

• A single Viduggla warship is faced with the insurmountable task of holding off 45,000 Anglian troops under the Harhold banner that wash onto the coastline of Norrland like a plague of rats. The single ship valiantly tries to shoot as many transports as it can, sinking a few, but being unable to hold the entire army down as it lands. Viduggla's own half army left at home is able to respond, but is hopelessly outnumbered by the Anglian force, capable only of holding them back from attacking any high value targets immediately after landing. The Harhold force instead takes enough with a few civilian soft targets, occupying them and demanding gold. The only problem with this request is that the locals have no gold, so orders automatically default to letting their soldiers have their way for three days and three nights.
• It never gets that far. By the 36 hour everyone in the towns is dead. The Anglians take revenge on Velheimers indiscriminately for the traitors that fled their homeland little under a year ago during the pogroms Harhold performed on the non believer locals.
• News of the attacks in Norrland causes the Old Gods Rebels in the Veer to start packing up, this much is witnessed by the Harhold ships commanded to patrol the Tyrannian coastlines. They do not exactly move out yet, but the Veer Rebels are seemingly ready to set sail to Drixagh to support their distant relatives who fled north instead of south.

In the Colonies

• A Tyrannian-Skarpsten fleet moves closer to the Rote coastline, eventually finding themselves upon the Synod ships carrying the banners of the Reverends. The Tyrannian ship fires a single cannon at the Synod vessels, which given their inability to engage in naval combat with mere transports, caused them to immediately retreat. Before they properly made their retreat however, a large squadron of Frisque warships approached on their way to Rote borders. Blackjaw and Sterke-enn ships arrived with the intention of reinforcing the Tyrannian and Skarpsten ships, but are no match against the severely overpowering presence of the Frisque fleet. The four allied ships are no match for the 16 Frisque warships that engage them, and are soundly forced to retreat. No ships are sunk in the first naval battle of the Essalonian strait, but the Synod ships quickly return to the Rote coastline to fulfill their mission, rid of the Tyrannian led naval effort. Back in Regalia, news quickly spread that by firing a cannon, Tyrannian has declared open conflict with the Synod.
• In the wake of the Tyrannian fleet retreating, half the Viduggla (unrelated to the previous Tyrannian ships, but destined for war in the Viduggla colonies and declared an enemy by the Frisque ships) soldiers aboard transports decide not to risk breaking the Frisque blockade of their intended target, and retreat homewards instead, not being able to complete their mission.
• The Synod Claws of Union arrive in Rote lands, escorted by the Frisque fleet. Once there, they start hunting down the mercenaries who pillaged Rote lands. While unable to seize these mercenaries, they restore order nontheless.
• House Von Duerr makes a rather public statement of being pro-Rote by sending medical supplies and personell to quell the cholera outbreaks in the Rote lands, while sending absolutely nothing to Sterke-Enn lands.
• House Tyrannian mobilizes its colonial forces but does not move them yet.

At the Viduggla Colonial front specifically

• House Peirgarten's army was retreating on the way back from pillaging Viduggla lands, setting up defences on the borderlands. Once there however, the van der Veer troops finally arrive in a disarrayed state after just having moved from Rote lands south. They expect Viduggla troops to reinforce them, but on account of being stopped by Frisque's blockade, they never arrive. Peirgarten's troops were technically evenly matched, but better led, and better positioned, while van der Veer troops banked on reinforcements that never arrived. Van der Veer's army is defeated, but both armies retreat from the field eventually, as van der Veer retreats to Viduggla's colonial capital and Peirgarten's forces to their own.
• Rote and Peirgarten ships join the Rote homefront to keep their coastline safe.
• Peirgarten spends a small fortune to buy mercenary troops, sending them north under Rodrigo Peirgarten while the main army remains in the capital of the colonies under Julius Peirgarten.
• Despite the string of military failures, the van der Veer homeland now sees the purpose of a war in the colonies, and doubles down with reinforcements, sending more troops to the colonies. These troops are able to avoid the blockade and arrive in Viduggla lands, providing a small token of additional forces to the beleaguered van der Veer army.

At the Rote Colonial Front specifically

• Blackjaw and Sterke-enn attempt to rally morale of their soldiers in the siege camps, but are unable to do so as just in the middle of their speeches even, soldiers are seemingly randomly walking into food storage depots with lit torches, tossing them onto the food supplies. When restrained (for those not killed outright as traitors) they claim to know nothing at all and that they didn't do what others had just witnessed them do. Further reports of a "candles extinguishing randomly by themselves" and a "shadowy figure with golden-red eyes" moving about the camp destroying supplies cause chaos.
• Blackjaw doubles its attempts to force a break on the Rote defenses by using tunneling efforts to dig under their fortifications. Before they can make use of this however, they are attacked.
• Blackjaw and Sterke-Enn forces (and what remains of a trickling Viduggla colonial force) are faced with an attack from three sides. On the east, Digmaan Yaotl perched on his airship leads his Mu-Allar colonial forces, while on the west side, Rodrigo Peirgarten arrives with his mercenary host. The main force contends with Rote's army sallying from their defensive position, attacking the camp. Blackjaw led forces are quickly routed, their morale having suffered (and while Rote morale also suffered being starved in forts, it did not quite suffer as chaotically as the Dwarves had at the hands of sabotage).
• Rote's combined Yaotl-Peirgarten force drives Blackjaw troops all the way back to their borderlands, taking up defensive positions, while Sterke-Enn and Viduggla's colonial forces are wiped out. Sterke-enn's entire colony is occupied and Peirgarten's mercenary force leaves their employ again, having done what they were contracted to do, leaving behind Yaotl and Rote's forces camped on the Blackjaw border.
• With the help of von Duerr, Eliopolous and the Synod, as well as the string of military victories, Rote stability increases back to normal levels, recovering quickly from the damage imparted because of all the foreign aid pumped into the colonies.

In Hadaria

• Yaotl's border provocations have the opposite effect desired, with Sorenvik not falling for the provocations and the Allar riots even dying down, as they come to realize that the threat of Yaotl wasn't a fluke and that there really was a risk for invasion. Stability in the region rises again as a result of the population now readying against Yaotl.

In the Altery Lands

• House de Letoirneau spends heavy finances to improve grants and infrastructure both in their homeland and colonies, with the aim to improve living standards and attract more inhabitants. A sizable chunk of their treasury is depleted, and effects of these decisions will only become clear at a later point in time.

In Old Ceardia

• House von Drachenburg sends a colonial force to occupy another charter claim for themselves called New Drachenburg on the Ceardian mainland.
• House von Drachenburg is quickly followed by a Ravenstad force landing on the opposite side of the bay making their own claim. Neither force interacts with each other and claim their own respective spheres. Both these spheres are now open to be contested by other colonial powers.