Regalia Goes To War!

Following the Lo/Anahera celebration at the Kade Chancellery, no doubt the many guests spoke for hours about the wild words spoken by the Crown Prince about his decision to lead Regalia to war with the Elven Kingdoms of Daendroc. Hours following the announcements, dignitaries (or rather tribe shamans) of the Blood Orc Clans arrived in the harbor on their way to to the Orc Embassy, a hastily converted Orc camp in the previously burnt out husk of the Maiar embassy.

The following morning after the party, the first messengers relayed the news to Regalia. While none of the Elven Kingdoms possessed a strong fleet, only the Kingdom of Haelstram surrendered at the first sight of Regalian warships. Urged onward by the Kingdom of Thellassia, the Kingdom of Medlem Talar levied it's sovereignty to the Kingdom of Thellassia, thus creating the Elven Sovereignty under the Kingdom of Thellassia's rule. The Regalian warships quickly arrived on the Elven coasts, opening a destructive storm of cannon fire on the nearest coastal cities of Thellassia and Medlem Talar. Thellassia's cities of Derella, Medlem Henarina and Dalloria were shot with explosive cannon rounds, a recent invention by Regalia's Dwarven work force. The fleet then continued to strafe it's way along the coast, disabling any Elven coastal settlements, forts or naval forces. The Elven Kingdoms in the north suffered a terrible cost of their defiance, nearly 1200 Elves dies in the initial hours of the shelling, many more homeless after fleeing into the interior of the land to get away from the loud rumbling of cannons. With the coastal defenses disabled, The Elves passed on the message to the fleets that they refused to surrender, and that the Elven Sovereign as the now referred to themselves, would resist the Orc and Human armies in their lands.

The Crown Prince meanwhile summoned the land's lords to raise their banner for war. All nobles were called to arms, an optional call to arms, but a call to arms nonetheless. Many nobles immediately committed to the war, promising their support. Others stayed back, observing the situation from a far and determine their stake in it all. The summons was declared to Portimao, the capital of the Lusits Kingdom. Daenshore was also mobilized, the Junistas rangers sent into the Orc lands to aid the Orcs in defending their borders.

The Kingdom of Haelstram that immediately surrendered saw a fleet pull into it's coastal capital, Haël. The Regalian banner soon flew over the fortress of the warrior king Tindarin Quicksilver, a fortress that once prided itself over never having fallen to Orc armies. The Kingdom was declares a subject to Regalia, unfortunately the local assimilation was not effective. The border towns declared their allegiance to the Elven Sovereign, resulting in the Kingdom almost halving, the southern half joining the Regalian Empire, the northern half joining the Elven Sovereign.

The Regalian High Command marked the following locations as targets for invasion:

• Taure Tinchor, the Forest shield of the Elven Sovereign. The forces are estimated around 20 baronies in size, having favorable terrain to the Elves. 5 barony sized Orc detachments are expected to reinforce whatever army decides to attack Taure Tinchor.
• Madar Tallarna, The river city of Thelassia. The forces are estimated around 50 baronies in size, having terrain favoring nobody. No reinforcements are expected.
• Hellar Tallarna, The river outpost before Madar Tallarna. The forces are estimated around 5 baronies in size, having terrain favoring the Elves. No reinforcements are expected.
• Perfwenn, a small village crucial to the Elven iron supply. The forces are estimated around 10 baronies in size, having terrain favoring the Elves. No reinforcements are expected.
• Marin Dalar, a coastal city with a crucial supply depot. The forces are estimated around 15 baronies in size, having terrain favoring the Humans. Regalian ships are expected to use indirect fire to shell the city during an assault. This may cause collateral damage to Regalian troops, but also aids in the battle chances
• Outrock, a large Elven citadel. The forces are estimated around 60 baronies, having terrain extremely favorable to the Elves. 10 barony sized Orc detachments are expected to reinforce whatever army decided to attack. Outrock has the chance of turning into a protracted siege, a direct assault may cost the lives of many soldiers.
• H'rellen, a small elven town on a river island. The forces are estimated around 25 baronies. The terrain is favorable to the Elves. It is unclear why the Elves put so many soldiers in such an insignificant town, the battle itself or the outcome may result in surprises. No reinforcements are expected.
• Mullenda, a small southern town on the Haelstram border. The forces are estimated around 15 baronies. The terrain is favorable to nobody. 5 reluctant and resistant Elven barony sized detachments will join whoever attacks.

I'm a noble what does this mean to me?
It means you can take your troops from your baronies and go to war! You will need to raise your banner, gather allies, and retinue soldiers. for more information on the struggle rolls, read here. It is recommended for nobility with lands who don't plan to join in the war, to use their armies as a bargaining chip to get in favors with other families. If you have any further questions, contact MonMarty. Joining in these battles has benefits.

• You can use a victory or a loss in a political scheme.
• Battles can be used to further one's standing among nobility or plans
• Looting may result in interesting loot being found on the battlefield.
• Battlefield experience is the best experience you can get as a fighter. If you want to hone your skills, this is the way to do it.
• Many more benefits.

I want to join! How?! Contact MonMarty with a PM. State:

• What target you want to attack.
• Who you are taking with you as your retinue (mention their character name and IG name)
• What nobles are joining you with their levies, and who is leading your battle. (omit if you are going alone)
• What additional orders you have, if you have any.

The results will then be typed out as an event and posted here after the rolling done as described on the wiki page.

I'm a commoner, what does this mean to me?
You could try joining one of the nobles as a soldier in their war, or go for the higher honor and ask them if you would be given the honor of being one of their retinue, personal bodyguards. After the battle, you may use the battle event as a part of your character backstory, and it will count towards your character's fighting abilities, as battles are the #1 method of getting combat experience. Commoners distinguishing themselves in battles may also get the chance of being recognized as a talented leader, which may results in a shortcut to becoming a noble, city guard, or a person of fame. If you want to join a battle, contact your nearest noble.

 

If any of you nobles are hesitant, I suggest you wait for the first person to step forward and be the first one to go in, that should give you a good example of how things go, and whether you want to commit.

 

I warped the time around the effective bombardment a bit, technically this would have taken a week, but I crunched it into a day since I've been getting a lot of positive feedback about people being excited of putting their characters in battle. As for your injury, you are free to timejump. You may offend those who injured you, but that's up to you.

100% roleplay. Only roleplay characters, and the results will be posted as a roleplay event, written, and probably recorded on the Wiki.

 

Elves in Regalia will probably be more closely watched by the guard for any sign of treason, but Elves who have a house in Regalia, or consider themselves Regalian citizens, are for all intents and purposes, citizens. There will be no scrutiny by law against Regalian citizens. Any Elves showing anti war sentiments however, will be executed as traitors.

 

Absolutely not.

I have already heard of Jared Silverhand joining Thomas Kade under the Banner of the Anglian army. Anyone (even non Humans) can join a noble "host" as a retinue or a normal soldier, if the noble agrees, and they can participate in the battle.

The only thing that is currently not possible, is for players to decide to aid the Elves.

 

Obviously not, they are severely screwed. The Elven Human alliance was able to bring the Orc holds to a stand still, now the Humans turned on the Elves and allied the Orcs. This is a world story progression thing, that I implemented to give the military oriented families in Regalia something to make a name for themselves. We hate self insertion, which is why we want to use actual events to allow people to measure up etc.

sorry but no, this is a stepping stone towards an end goal. There is no real benefit to making other races more prominent, besides giving those unrealistic in-contemporary liberals more reason to start screaming about racial equality. Racial inequality is a major plot line, we will not change that.

 

I think the Orcs already had a pretty decent social standing in Regalia. The Kade household has always been a family that very strongly supported Orc rights for ulterior motives, and with the denunciation of the strongly xenophobic families, the suicides of the medavinci's, and Alexander on the throne, things look better for Orcs than any other non Human race in Regalia.

 

They can be very sovereign, under a Regalian flag.

But in a more serious note, there are still plenty of independent Elven kingdoms, as Shayin stated this is only 1/5 of the Elven population in Daendroc, and then we aren't even discussing the numbers living in Teled Methen or other states like Regalia and Ithania. There will unlikely be a "grand" Elven Empire, unless someone finds the legal heir to the Imperial throne, otherwise Elven society simply impedes their ability to cooperate or tolerate one another.

 

Thomas Kade runs the armies of the Angle Lordship, which is in theory "My army".

It'd be silly of me to publicize Kade antics and politics. Let's just keep it at "That's a very obvious conclusion, but you're very wrong".

Naw. Drowdar think the Elves living south are shits because they don't want to support "the good fight" against the demons on Drowda, where-as Regalia regularly sends military equipment to fund the Drows in their fight up north.

There is a server story plot line lying around somewhere about the discovery of the true Elven heir. There are currently no plans of activating this, and we have no real incentive to. But in theory, we could one day decide to give an Elf role player the papers to become the theoretical legal claimant to the Elven throne as a descendant of Medui's only daughter who survived the Demonic and Orc invasion.