New Westmoor

Regional News 8 August 1011 Monsters! Monsters have been seen in the region of Salta. The local population is requesting help and fears that the monsters will eat their food and destroy their houses. Prisoner escaped Murdoch has vanished from his cell in Westmoor! The guards are being questioned and witnesses searched, but it is likely that he has already left the city. Huge Battle Fought Rumours spread and tales are sung about a huge battle in Igno: Caligus vs. Ibladesh Estimated strengths: 750 men vs. 460 men The Caligus Red Gryphons (Caligus), sponsored by Cuthbert Von Ulthuan, Duke of Hamadan, were led into battle by Marshal actron II Burep. The Caligus' Golden Talons (Caligus), sponsored by Dobromir Menethil, King of Caligus, were led into battle by Marshal Elisedd Deytheur. Sir Cedric Wentwood (Knight of Tokat) is spotted wielding the Emerald-Studded Arrow of Flame. Sir Cedric Wentwood (Knight of Tokat) is spotted wearing the Astonishing Ring of Enchanting. Livia Augulus (Dame of Tokat) is spotted wielding the Elemental Aegis. Attacker Victory! Battle in Evora (rogue) vs. Westmoor Estimated strengths: 10 men vs. 130 men Defender Victory! 7 August 1011 Monsters! Monsters have been seen in the region of Oberndorf. The local population is requesting help and fears that the monsters will eat their food and destroy their houses. Sabotage! Vsevolod Nasica's guards, in Greatbridge, have captured Akron Hyde, an infiltrator working for Fontan while he was trying to escape from his successful assault on Vsevolod Nasica (Knight of Morshes). Knight temporarily absent An assassination attempt on Vsevolod Nasica (Knight of Morshes) has left him seriously wounded. Battle in Greatbridge Fontan vs. Westmoor Estimated strengths: 10 men vs. 10 men Defender Victory! Sabotage! Guards in Oligarch have arrested Zartos ut Daris, apparently an infiltrator from Fontan, while he tried breaking into the tax offices. Sabotage! Gold has vanished from the tax offices in Oligarch. The tax collectors are certain that thieves or enemy infiltrators are at work. 6 August 1011 Region Takeover Sirion has taken control of Al Amarah , a former rogue region. Sirion now controls 24 regions. Region Revolts The people of Oberndorf have revolted and declared independence from Fontan! 5 August 1011 Monsters! Monsters have been seen in the region of Commonyr. The local population is requesting help and fears that the monsters will eat their food and destroy their houses. Battle in Commonyr Westmoor vs. Fontan Estimated strengths: 40 men vs. 60 men Defender Victory! Looting Activity Someone from our realm has gone on a killing spree in Commonyr (Fontan). Sabotage! Guards at the tax office in Oligarch spotted a dark figure entering the vaults, but they managed to drive him away. Religious Unrest There is unrest in the realm after a priest of Flow of the Balance was arrested: Peasants in Morshes complain loudly and there are strikes and protests. 7 peasants are killed by militia to restore Peasants in Hagley complain loudly and there are strikes and protests. 4 peasants are killed by militia to restore Peasants in Westmoor complain loudly and there are strikes and protests. 6 peasants are killed by militia to restore There is a general strike in Troyes in response to the arrest, and massive protests. 5 peasants are killed during the Peasants in Poitiers complain loudly and there are strikes and protests. 5 peasants are killed by militia to restore Peasants in Bruck complain loudly and there are strikes and protests. 5 peasants are killed by militia to restore Peasants in Greatbridge complain loudly and there are strikes and protests. 4 peasants are killed by militia to restore In Oligarch, the peasants are slightly upset. Ruler Elected The realm of Fontan has elected Basilius Decimus as its Chancellor. He received 39% of the valid votes cast. Ruler Elected The realm of Sirion has elected Ilias Thunthorn as its Prime Minister. He received 59% of the valid votes cast. 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).'  Zartos escapes? 8 August 1011 In what seems to be an embarrassing blunder for Westmoor Zartos ut Daris seems to have gotten away. It seems our judge Antonius Turner was wounded without our knowing in Bruck and was unable to pass any sentence on the infiltrator. However it still remains a mystery how Westmoor's most wanted managed to get away without any of us being told. We wish the lord justice a swift recovery and hope he (when recovered) can shed some light on why we have never yet been able to place a ban on Zartos. There was widespread impatience across the realm that Westmoor was unable to hand our justice at such a crucial time.  Zartos captured! 7 August 1011 Zartos ut Daris along with his infidel friend Akron Hyde have both been captured. Zartos must be getting over confident trying to rob Olligarch twice in one night, especially seeing as Olligarch currently has more militia in it than the whole of the WC combined. Akron definitely has a ban on him already I remember writing about him back at the end of June but I don't recall that the rogue Zartos has been caught by Westmoor before which could make handing out justice a little tricky. Lord Justice Antonius Turner has yet to emerge from court and let us know what has been decided. General Arica and much of the nobility have been calling for harsh punishment on these curs. Considering the severity of Akron's crime he is likely to get deported. Zartos would be lucky enough to get away with anything other than an execution but this depends heavily on the ban and the laws of the ancient gods. Obsidian News power rankings The Obsidian News yesterday released the latest update on the power rankings of East Continent. This is after a month gap so the last time they did this was back in May. This seems like a good chance to recap on what's happened over the continent. Surprisingly Ibladesh has still managed to hold onto the number one spot although we can't imagine this lasting forever unless they start winning some battles. Westmoor remains in 5th place while Fontan has finally hit rock bottom after the Diocese of Axis was completely wiped off the face of the map months ago. Wait wasn't there some adventurer going round killing monsters and claiming that the Diocese was still alive? Well he's gone now along with the rest of those tree folk. Caligus and Perdan swapped places as did the Sultanate and the Obsidian islands leaving the rankings: "1st - Ibladesh :: 2ed - Sirion :: 3rd - Caligus :: 4th - Perdan :: 5th - Westmoor :: 6th - Sultanate of Asena :: 7th - Obsidian Islands :: 8th - Fontan " Fontan looks set economically to contract further once Ashforth and Oberndorf change hands but Sirion, Perdan and Caligus all look set for some rather extreme expansion.  Back into Oberndorf 6 August 1011 Once again we've headed back into Oberndorf this time with the intention of taking the region which went rogue earlier on today. Sirion soldiers and Basilus Decimus have been spotted in Ashforth, so we can only presume that Fontan is now handing over the city to Sirion which, in turn, will finally bring a conclusion to the terms of their peace treaty. If this take over is successful Fontan will be reduced to five regions when Ashforth is handed over. Had Fontan signed a reasonable peace agreement with Westmoor months ago then it is likely they would not be in such a bad situation at the moment. As it is, Westmoor will likely ask for some boon to let Fontan off the hook. Oberndorf is possibly that comodity. Apology from Talratheon family In a bold move George Talratheon owned up to yesterdays killing spree in Commonyr submitting himself to the Lord Justice. I George the III of House Talratheon, take full responsibility for the deaths of the Fontanese peasants in the region of Commonyr... ...I sincerely apologize for the embarrassment this may have caused to my fellow banner men and nobility in association... Punishment if any has yet to be handed out.  Murder in Commonyr 5 August 1011 While most of us are content to simply take gold and silver from the people of Fontan there will always be those who take their hate of the enemy to a more personal level. Someone from our realm murdered a number of peasants in Commonyr today against orders which were only for looting. Looting is a touchy subject in Westmoor and something we refrained from doing against Fontan until quite recently; however it is strictly against the law to murder peasants without military cause (unlike realms such as Perdan and Caligus to the south). The Realm council was quick to condemn the unknown culprit with harsh warnings coming from Marshal Foxglove and the Lord Justice Antonius Turner who promised to catch the culprit. Realistically the chances of catching this individual in wartime are pretty low unless he's stupid enough to try such an action again but hopefully the message is now crystal clear that this kind of attack is not tolerated in Westmoor. The debate over Gabrael's crime did continue this morning but there has been no further word from either Gabrael or the lord justice who refrained from commenting further on the fine. Zartos in Oligarch Yes any excuse to get Westmoor's most wanted criminal splashed all over the front page. Zartos has been spotted in Olligarch with his usual trip to the tax office. He was fended off this time and narrowly escaped being caught. Nobles are recommended to do police work if they have time while civillians should lock and bolt their doors and windows. Infiltrators have to eat on the move and stealing food from peasants is certainly not above their despicable ways. Priest arrested in Greatbridge A Fontanese priest was arrested in Greatbridge today to the dislike of flow of the balence peasants all over Westmoor after being suspected of trying to cause civil unrest. It is quite possible the priest was attempting to cause a riot and create instability in the region however being Fontanese these days is warrent enough for any kind of arrest in Westmoor.  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. Editor Mathros Archives