The Elven Chronicle/September'10

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Printed in Sirion		September 2010 Edition

News Headline    September 16, 2010    Nightly Battle Report Fontan vs. Sirion Battle in Commonyr Estimated strengths: 160 men vs. 480 men The Glinmar Light Raiders (Sirion), sponsored by Alain Revan, Banker of Sirion, Count of Glinmar, were led into battle by Marshal Leoma Tahlim. The Red Dragons (Sirion), sponsored by Sir Ecthelion Tezokian, Duke of Sirion, were led into battle by Marshal Romul Galmel. Defender Victory! Small forces from Sultanate of Asena attacked Obando, but were quickly surrounded by overwhelming defending units. Vastly outnumbered, the attackers surrendered and were all captured.    September 16, 2010    Daily Battle Report Battle in Commonyr Fontan vs. Sirion Estimated strengths: 430 men vs. 580 men The Red Dragons (Sirion), sponsored by Sir Ecthelion Tezokian, Duke of Sirion, were led into battle by Marshal Romul Galmel. The Glinmar Light Raiders (Sirion), sponsored by Alain Revan, Banker of Sirion, Count of Glinmar, were led into battle by Marshal Leoma Tahlim. Defender Victory! Small forces from Sultanate of Asena attacked Obando, but were quickly surrounded by overwhelming defending units. Vastly outnumbered, the attackers surrendered and were all captured.    September 15, 2010    History of the Beginning of War with Fontan by ex-Prime Minster of Sirion Baron Romul and nobles of Sirion, Your review of history was good but you seems to imply that I left the realm out of how we really sided with OR and not Fontan. I have mentioned this many times over the years so I didn't hide it. For the most part what Romul said was correct. The part is not is I didn't side with OR right off the bat. When Fontan broke our federation agreement they immediately declared war on us. They did this so they could fight OR. Fontan expected Sirion to not get involved even though Fontan just broke the strongest bond you can have between realms. With that said Sirion did not act on the declaration of war from Fontan. Twice 1-2 units from Fontan attacked Oligarch city (at that time under the Sirion flag). I warned their ruler the first time but he claimed it an accident. Then it happened again. Fontan again claimed it an accident but I informed Fontan that if it happened again then Sirion would act. Now this is where the story is told differently in Fontan. Fontan claims that after these small attacks that Sirion joined forces with OR and then attack Fontan. They claimed we started the war with them at this time when in reality they broke our treaty and declared war on us first. Now contrary to Fontan's claim that we went to war with them after these small attack we didn't. I should know I was Sirion's ruler and know when Fontan pushed us to act. After the small attacks Fontan was giving their final warning. Fontan was not allowed to use any Sirion region to travel through so they couldn't attack OR. At that time OR held the region of Bruck. Sirion sent about 2-3K into Bruck to keep Fontan from attacking or taking OR's region. With all that happened between OR and Fontan I was trying to get them to work it out. Blocking Bruck was an attempt to keep talks going and not push this into a full blown war. Now Sirion forces were in Bruck for at least a day when Fontan sent a large army into Bruck thus attacking both Sirion/OR troops. This was the final straw so at that time Sirion put all their armies into motion to stop Fontan from destroying OR. Now one slight change to Romul's message is that OR would probably have fell with just Fontan/SOA/OI attacking them. Sirion was aiding them the best we could even though we lost Avamar city to Fontan. It would have been a slow death but they would have eventually taken all the regions. What sped up the process was Westmoor joining our enemies which tipped the scales so much that Sirion could no longer protect OR and thus it fell quickly. Westmoor claimed to me that they had no ill will against OR. Even though they said this when I told them OR would be destroyed because Sirion couldn't protect them they claimed it was not their fault. This came from the realm that went to war with us because they claimed we kidnapped their King (ooc:the player went inactive) when they couldn't provide proof we did such a thing. I offered them many times to send their nobles around Sirion to investigate, so they could see we didn't have him but they never did. Matter of fact they never tried to look for him just brought their army along with Fontan/SOA in attacking our regions. Sir Handow Meadowcrest    September 15, 2010    Nightly Battle Report Small forces from Fontan attacked Commonyr, but were quickly surrounded by overwhelming defending units. Vastly outnumbered, the attackers surrendered and were all captured. Small forces from Sultanate of Asena attacked Obando, but were quickly surrounded by overwhelming defending units. Vastly outnumbered, the attackers surrendered and were all captured.    September 15, 2010    The Elven Tribute Starts Again The Elven Tribute to be printed again. All the latest news stories from the land of the Mighty Elves is here. Sign up to your copy delivered monthly.