Asgard Informer/Issue Two

Asgard Informer
1 silver coin	Ad furorem Normannorum libera nos, Domine	Issue 2
News from the North

King O the Hill

by Rognak Dakka

December 19, 2007 The past few days have been a shining light in the recent dark turn takingin the war against Minas Ithil. Yesterday morning on December 18 33 brave nobles of Norland lead an army of ~700 men up the mountain of Elost against a defending MI force numbering slightly over 600 troops stationed in the captured fortifications of the region. These two impressive armies amounted to 8336 CS and 8308 CS respectively, the palisades tipping the balance in MI's favor. However excellent planning by Norland's Military High Command (consisting mainly of shots of shiverwood ale and an intense game of truth-or-dare) had resulted in the Viking horde arriving with in unison with enough siege engines to take care of the enemy walls. As the sun peaked above the over-sized boulder known as Elost te viking warriors of Norland made their frenzied charge, smashing through the wooden defenses andengaged the Ithilians in some of the most brutal fighting of the war. After three hours of vicious hand to hand combat the army of Norland was forced to fall back carrying the dead body of the Griffin Count of Shiverwood and second in command of the Spears. However this was not the end for the Viking army of reconquest, MI had also lost two heroes of it's own in the battle and its palisades had been destroyed in the fighting. Both sides rallied and prepared for the second wave. That evening Norland's forces struck again, this time driving off the MI defenders in a route made all the more decisive by the timely arrival of Duke Gimlack's cavalry company. After beating off a counterattacking Ithilian force the next morning, a friendly take over was started and the peasants of Elost no longer having to fear the oppression of King DA3 attacked and lynched the few remaining Ithilian militia, two peasants were killed in the process. Although this victory came at a high price in both manpower and leadership, Minister of Defense R'guard and the rest of Norland's nobles are still in high spirits over the first victory against a well entrenched Ithilian army of which there will undoubtedly be more. These recent events have shown the world that Lion of the North, though still facing great odds, will never back down and will ultimately prevail over the sun worshipping southerners.