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4 August 1011 Looting Activity Someone from our realm has robbed the tax gold of Commonyr (Fontan). Looting Activity Someone from our realm has robbed the tax gold of Commonyr (Fontan). Fine issued Antonious Turner, Lord Justice of Westmoor, Count of Bruck has put a penalty of 75 gold on Gabrael Solostus (Knight of Greatbridge) for this reason: For unlawful actions against the realm and conduct unbefitting a noble of Westmoor. Looting Activity Someone from our realm has robbed the tax gold of Commonyr (Fontan). Sabotage! Guards in Westmoor have arrested Gabrael Solostus, apparently an infiltrator from Westmoor, while he tried breaking into the tax offices.

3 August 1011 New Lady General Your ruler, Maedros, has appointed Arica Maldives, Countess of Hagley as Lady General of the realm. Battle in Commonyr Westmoor vs. Fontan Estimated strengths: 10 men vs. 40 men Defender Victory!

2 August 1011 Battle in Krimml Westmoor vs. Fontan Estimated strengths: 640 men vs. 120 men The Westmoorian Column (Westmoor), sponsored by Gregor Relak, Duke of Westmoor, were led into battle by Marshal Thomas Foxglove. Attacker Victory! Region Takeover Fontan has taken control of Negev , a former rogue region. Fontan now controls 7 regions. Skirmish in Greatbridge The following units attacked "Arrows of Freedom" (Basilius Decimus, Chancellor of Fontan, Marshal of the Manticores, Fontan) Due to the overwhelming odds, however (10187 CS defending forces), the attackers were quickly surrounded and forced to surrender. The attacking units were dissolved, and their commanders taken into custody in Westmoor.

1 August 1011 'Looting Activity Someone from our realm has robbed the tax gold of Oberndorf (Fontan).' Battle in Greatbridge Westmoor vs. Fontan Estimated strengths: 320 men vs. 210 men The Manticores (Fontan), sponsored by Basilius Decimus, Chancellor of Fontan, Marshal of the Manticores, were led into battle by Marshal Basilius Decimus. Katsuyori Takeda (Royal of Fontan) was seriously wounded by Gregor Relak's unit. Attacker Victory! Battle in Oberndorf Westmoor vs. Fontan Estimated strengths: 310 men vs. 200 men Arica Maldives, Countess of Hagley is spotted wielding the Spiked Dagger of Bloodletting. Attacker Victory! Legendary hero buried The Gaeric family commemorates the dead hero Marcus, a legend known all over the world. Admirers, friends and even enemies visit his grave. Peasant Militia forming The citizens of Oberndorf have had enough with the looting. Since nobody seems to be helping them, they have formed a citizen militia. 250 men take up improvised weapons to defend their homes. 'Looting Activity Someone from our realm has gone on a killing spree in Oberndorf (Fontan). Witnesses report that the looting was conducted by Rhakanvar Schumacher (Knight of Hagley).'

Internal Dispute 4 August 1011 We were all rather surprised when a message was delivered to all nobles of Westmoor telling us that Gabrael Solostus Infiltrator of Westmoor had been arrested in Westmoor for attempting to count the Gold in the treasury. Wait what? This is the man who not so long ago ran for King and now finds himself in a prison cell opposite the chancellor of Fontan. With all the trouble we had from Fontanese assassins (and of course one Sirion) another attack isn't that surprising but from our own realm? The matter is however not as bizarre as it seems. It seems Gabrael impatient with the academies wanted to test his skills by attempting to count gold in Westmoor and notice of this was given to the lord justice Antonious Turner however only one hour before the event took place. The lord justice has reacted with a fine of 75 gold pieces on Gabrael which the knight refuses to pay: "I will pay no such fine. As promised I took no coin, and only took such action as a way to practice my skills whilst the academies were close, as they all too often are." There were mixed reactions from different nobles of the realm. More on this story as it progresses.

Arica returns 3 August 1011 General Arica today returned to active duty after recovering from the attack on her life a few days ago. In what is a bit of a shock to most of us the assassin was actualy not from Fontan but identified as Krabat van Belhanka from Sirion. The Sirion General has personally appologised to Arica for the attack and has assured us that the infiltrator will be punished for his crimes. This was however an unfortunate thing to happen while relations with Sirion and Westmoor were improving. All nobles of Westmoor are to alert the authorities if they see any suspicious figures in the realm especially the Fontanese infiltrator Zartos ut Daris who is still wanted for the attack on our king last month. Fontan's future? Fontan is in a very difficult position at the moment (more so than usual). Firstly their chancellor should have signed the handing over of Ashforth to Sirion weeks ago and is now in jail in Westmoor. You may think this is slightly inconsiderate of us but we can't help pointing out that we picked him up in Greatbridge which is nowhere near Ashforth. At this point the question arises if we did release him would he actualy go to Ashforth or would he continue to try and rally armies against us? If Ashforth isn't handed over to Sirion soon what would Sirion's reaction be? Send in the Red Dragons and take it by force? Fontan's diplomatic position is really at the moment very bad. Their new big friend Sirion seems to be rather less interested in being their friend than they might have thought. In any case thanks to Ambassador Jor we now have a copy of Basilus' speech in Greatbridge yesterday which we'll post for you on the letter's page.

Krimml falls! 2 August 1011 In what was a slightly undramatic battle, Krimml was completely overrun within a few hours today. The Westmoorian collumn showed incredible dedication by having every single one of its units in the correct formation by the time the battle started. Similarly to the battle of Ashforth the collumn opened with archer fire but this time lacking General Arica who is still recovering from her wounding. However even though our archers were much smaller in number Fontan had no archers of its own to return fire. Some confusion broke out in Fontan's ranks and noble Erwin Gall broke rank along with a number of peasants and performed a brave by suicidal charge at our front. With the gate down the Collumn was able to charge straight into Krimml and massacre the remainder of the Fontanese army. Scouts reported Zadek noble of Fontan at the rear of the castle with two calvary in a wedge formation (presumably one in front of the other?). With the city taken Marshal Thomas Foxglove gave out orders to damage the wall ready for further assaults. Westmoor has proven once more that it will not sit still while realms such as Fontan attack it in this case both politically and militarily. Basilus in chains! Basilus apparently gave some kind of speech in Greatbridge today, what this contained I do not know however he was still there when our army arrived and was rather quickly captured. With Basilus safely locked away in our dungeons (before he causes any more mayhem) is it too much to ask that the people of Fontan elect themselves a new chancellor? In the meantime Basil needs to be fed while he's here (hopefully not too often) so voting will be held shortly before each mealtime about what we should feed him. I hear Rat soup is first up prepared specially in Salta (the regional dish).

Gregor saves Greatbridge 1 August 1011 In what can only be described as epic Duke Gregor Relak took his massive unit of some 180ish infantry met with some angry peasants and defeated Fontan with some help from Feoran's unit of archers. Katsuyori Takeda (noble of Fontan) was seriously wounded in this battle. Basilus Decimus our most cheesed off foe was also present at the battle presumably taking time out from his long and laborious journey to hand over Ashforth to Sirion. Whatever the case we can only inform you that you were going in the wrong direction! Ashforth is up north you may have had the map upside down. Our congratulations go out to Gregor for winning the second battle of Greatbridge or as historians seem to be filing it as... the battle of Gregor.

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