Heen (Realm)/Heenite Highlights/January '07
 Heenite Highlights
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| Price: 1 gold | Creator: Medium | January '07 |
| The sacking of Tahgalez | |
Early this morning, the army of Heen gathered in Watersdown, the biggest army in the desert in a long time. As soon as all were present, High Marshal Martana gave the order to attack Tahgalez, the stronghold capital of Varyamo Nolvo that has a Keep to defend. The Keep turned out to be pretty useless, however, since there were only 47 soldiers of Varyamo Nolvo to hold off the Holy troops of Heen, which counted a total of 193 men. The defenders were outnumbered and quickly overmastered by the troops of Heen. On the side of Heen all commanders remained untouched, while Mao, Duke of Tahgalez and Marshal of the army of Varyamo Nolvo was seriously wounded, and Wolfgang, Chancellor of Varyamo Nolvo, was seriously wounded as well. After the battle had ended, not a single soldier of Varyamo Nolvo was still fighting fit. The few that were still alive fled into the alleys of Tahgalez with their commanders, and the troops of Heen quickly spread out to intercept any transports of tax gold from Varyamo Nolvo. Surprisingly many bushels of food were also intercepted and burned, to prevent the troops of Varyamo Nolvo from finding high-moraled and well-fed recruits. King Scion the Skilled, who couldn't make it to Tahgalez in time, congratulated his High Marshal with this victory and declared that he was very proud of his troops. Lady Martana was, well, modest as ever, and said the victory was obvious. Still, you don't succesfully attack an enemy's capital every day. At last the long expected sacking of Tahgalez has begun. (MTS) |
| Dead Angel flees | |
After the overwhelming victory of the Holy army of Heen in Tahgalez, all the units from Varyamo Nolvo were scattered from the battlefield. Among those scattered units was the unit of Dead Angel, one of Heen's biggest foes. Surprising to see was that after he had rallied his men, he ordered them to set out to Kording. The coward ran away from his capital and sought help in a region with barely a few men of population left. It is stunning that the peasants of Kording even allowed Dead Angel to come, knowing that he and his fellows of Varyamo Nolvo have let the population of Kording get massacred by the rogues, and that Dead Angel was giving up his capital. The remark of Count Erin of Kif after hearing about Dead Angel's flee was completely justified: "Hahaahhahaha look! Dead Angel is running to kording! hahahahaha! Coward won't make a last stand in his own capital. If I were him I would stay and let the men of Heen kill me." (MTS) |
| Conquering of Hcallow and Watersdown | |
This morning, a few hours after sunrise, King Scion the Skilled arrived in Hcallow. He was there not just as a passerby, he had a goal: he wanted to spread the word of Heen and bring Hcallow under the same banner as Ling, Heen and Kif. His men quickly spread out to seek the local peasants and convince them that Heen was their home rather than the dying Varyamo Nolvo. Hcallow had been under the banner of Heen before, and Heen still had the claims over Hcallow. Considering the brutality Hcallow was conquered with by Varyamo Nolvo last time, the convincing process shouldn't take too long. Hoping that the peasants would be convinced quicker, more troops entered Hcallow. At about the same time, Beatrice and the unit she had brought from Joppo had the same goal. The takeover in Watersdown was practically the same as the one in Hcallow: it had been under Heen's banner before as well, it was brutally taken by a hatred enemy and now Heen tries to recapture it with a takeover-unit and other forces to support it. The only difference is that the hatred enemy that took Watersdown was Vice. During these takeovers, it's becoming more and more clear that this strike has utterly destroyed Varyamo Nolvo: Tahgalez is looted halfway to the ground, one region is being taken over and the last one is completely wrecked by rogues. The few troops Varyamo Nolvo had left were beaten while trying to defend Tahgalez. Rumours are already spreading that some prominent figures from Varyamo Nolvo would seek hail under the banner of Heen, hoping for mercy and a better life, better than the life they have been living in Varyamo Nolvo the past months. (MTS) |
| Shocking news from Joppo | |
Once again, Joppo has the unpleasant honour to be part of the hors d'oeuvre of the undead invasion. A scout report from Roland, Duke of Twillen (Mesh) has shown that a horde of almost 2000 undeads was seen plundering and destroying Joppo, the capital of the realm Jopppo - while it still lasts. With a total of 25.000 CS, they are a huge danger for the troops of Mesh. This horde will surely not leave the local population unharmed either. The 7500 citizens that have served Joppo for so long will all suffer from this. My sincerest condolences to the former Jopponites amongst our ranks, this must be a horrible news for them to see their former home being destroyed like that. It was not the first time that Joppo was targetted by undeads: Last month there were three undead hordes raging in Joppo, each of them smaller, but together as big as the one now. I am still wondering what the citizens of Joppo have done to enrage the gods like this. (MTS) |
