Beluaterra/Fifth Invasion/Timeline

Dec 02 1011

A few days ago (or over a week even), three priests of daemon worship have been sighted.

In Enweil, a priest called '1st Son' has been seen preaching in Lopa.

These priests seem to have some kind of evil power to drain a noble of all his energy ( = turn hours to 0; informed from Thalmarkin) and have some magical scrolls with them. 3rd Son is believed to have been captured by Sint, although he later escaped and 2nd Son was injured at some point (probably by followers of the Order of the Golden Feather in Lastfell).

As well as the "Sons", another Daimon known as Overlord has been spotted leading troops in Enweil.

Nightfall of the North attacked Wailing Wood in Thalmarkin with 100 daimons (5800 CS) and launched a brutal takeover.

Dec 03 1011

Nightfall of the East attacked Piwani with 50 daimons (4400 CS). Glongin (Riombara) is going through a brutal take over by Nightfall of the South (leading 80 daimons = 5500 CS).

Dec 04 1011 - 1st battle of Wailing Wood, 1st battle of Piwani

Thalmarkin attacked and defeated the daimons in Wailing Wood. Nightfall of the North was wounded in the process. Enweil lost to the daimons in Piwani.

Dec 05 1011 - 1st battle of Glongin, 2nd battle of Piwani

Enweil lost the second battle as well. Someone used magic. Most likely the daimons.

Magic in the Air The ravens croak and the sky darkens for a moment. Someone has failed in an act of magic nearby.

Magic in the Air The ravens fly and the sky is changed. Someone has cast a magic spell in the vicinity.

Riombara did attack and defeat 80 daimons of a strength of 5700 in Glongin. 'Nightfall of the South' did retreat into the blight with 30 remaining daimons.

Dec 06 1011 - 3rd battle of Piwani, 1st battle of Naraka

by using a magic scroll, Enweil defeated daimons in the third round. Nightfall of the East retreated to Tey Gren, regained strength (230 daimons with over 4k CS)

Magic in the Air The ravens fly and the sky is changed. Someone has cast a magic spell in the vicinity.

Nothoi lost to daimons in Naraka

Nothoi vs. Netherworld Estimated strengths: 400 men vs. 120 men

The leader of the daimons might be Nightfall of the West.

Nightfall of the South did recruit 270 additional daimons in the blighted Rueffilo (the human population did not diminish), growing to a strength of 5600 again. He moved into Ardmore the following day, starting another brutal takeover.

Dec 07 1011 - 1st battle of Ardmore

Enweil and Riombara working on a peace treaty to fight their true enemies, daimons. Enweil discussing a plan to attack Tindle, a new spawning ground for daimons led by Nightfall of the East.

Riombara did defeat Nightfall of the south a second time: 12.800 did attack 280 daimons of a strength of 5.100. Riombara won, losing 1.100, 70 wounded daimons did retreat into the Blight.

Dec 08 1011

Nightfall of the South did once again recruit, this time in Rii, bringing his strength from 70 to 260 daimons of a strength from 500 to 4.200. He then returned to Ardmore but did move on to Avengmil immediately, starting a brutal takeover during the next day.

Dec 09 1011 - 1st battle of Avengmil, 1st battle of Bil Havil, 1st battle of Reeds

Nightfall of the North was defeated in Bil Havil and captured by forces of Melhed and Thalmarkin.

Nothoi defeated Nightfall of the West in Reed, the capital of Nothoi.

Nightfall of the South was defeated and killed in Avengmil. Those daimons surviving the battle did vanish.

Dec 10 1011 - 1st battle of Tindle

Fronen lost a battle in Tindle against daimons led by Nightfall of the East in the evening.

Dec 11 1011 - 2nd battle of Tindle

The daimon worshipper Nightfall of the North was publicly executed in Agyr.

Fronen and Enweil defeated Nightfall of the East by the morning

Dec 13 1011

1st Son did steal gold in Fheuvenem.

Dec 14 1011

Over 31000 CS of daimons spotted in Tor (Total of 1610 daimons) led by Overlord (740 daimons / 15000 CS), Midnight of the North (540 daimons / 10000 CS) and Nightfall of the West (330 daimons / 6000 CS).

Dec 16 1011

Overlord and Nightfall of the West, leading over 19000 CS, are heading straight for Enweil. Enweil responded last to Overlord's demands. Enweil is now recruiting as many units as possible to face Overlord and his daimons to buy other realms some time.

Midnight of the North is now in Winifael, leading 10100.

Dec 17 1011

<Morning>

Overlord and Nighfall of the North are moving from Zuhle to Piwani with 19.300.
Midnight of the South has been spotted in Lopa, moving to Yncaalo, leading 7500.

<Evening>

Overlord and Nightfall of the North started a TO in Piwani. Nightfall of the East arrived in Ulallo from Villriil. Midnight of the South moved from Lopa to Yncaalo.

Dec 19 1011 - 1st battle of Enweilios

Midnight of the South attacked Enweilieos. Neither him or Enweil won the battle. The main armies of Enweil and Riombara are closing in on him.

Dec 20 1011 - 2nd battle of Enweilios

Enweil and Riombara (10.000 and 9.000) did attack Midnight of the South (7.600) in Enweilios. Due to a militia unit having been recruited in Enweilios, Enweil was considered to be the defenders and thus Riombara did stay neutral. Still, after a bloody battle the brave enweilian army did overcome Midnight who withdrew to Gorin, followed by the Riombaran army. At sunset Riombara again stood by, watching roused enweilian peasants beat the remnants of Midnights horde.

Dec 21 1011

Midnight did withdraw further to Ulallo, meeting Nighfall of the East there who had started a takeover after having seperated from Overlord in Piwani. Both lesser daimon leaders withdrew to Piwani instead of facing the combined allied army.

Dec 22 1011 - 1st battle of Vur Hagin

Enweil, IVF and Riombara had gathered in Ulallo - to the rejoicing of the local peasants. However, other news were grim: Nightfall of the West did attack Fronen in Tey Gren with 6.300, defeating their force that had bravely gathered to aid the southern realms in an attack against Overlord. At the same time Midnight of the North - who had sucessfully evaded Melhed, Old Grehk and Thalmarkin for a week - did storm Fronens capital Vur Hagin with 6.200. In addition to those two leaders, there were a total of 23.100 under Overlord, Midnight of the South and Nightfall of the East in Piwani.

Dec 23 1011 - 4th battle of Piwani, 1st battle of Ketampkin

Overlord moved out of Piwani to Ketampkin while the other daimon troop leaders moved in other directions. The combined army of Enweil, Fronen, Riombara and IVF hit Piwani and massacred 10k CS daimons. After the battle, the allied army chased Overlord.

When the allied army attacked Ketampkin, Overlord was not present. But even without their master, the daimons were fearsome as ever, crushing human infantry lines and cleaved their way through human archer lines, wounding numerous nobles. The allied army was smashed while killing less than 100 daimons.

Dec 24 1011

Overlord did appear in the blighted Wlwau (north of Fwuvoghor) together with Midnight of the South. Both did recruit: 15.000 and 8.000 respectively. Then they marched to Villriil and started a TO of the region.

Dec 27 1011

Villriil was conquered by daimons - Overlord then moved towards Fengen.

Dec 28 1011 - 1st battle of Fengen

Midnight of the South did start a TO of Ulallo. Overlord attacked Fengen with over 25.000...8-9.000 CS militia were destroyed.

Dec 29 1011 - 1st battle of Fheuvenem

Nightfall of the East attacked Fheuvenem, killing most of militia units and starting a takeover with a strength of 8.000.

Dec 30 ~ 31 1011

Overlord began a TO of Wheling with a strength of 15.000.

Jan 1 1012 - 1st battle of Gorin

The situation at the beginning of the 'Second allied campaign': 5 daimonleaders in enweilian territory, each running a takeover: Overlord in Wheling with 15.000, Nightfall of the West in Ketampkin with 5.400 plus 10.000 daimon militia, Nightfall of the East in Fheuvenem with 8.000, Midnight of the North in Gorin with 9.500 and Midnight of the South in Ulallo with 9.000 - a total of 57.000.

After having refitted Riombara had assembled in Enweilios with 11.000, meeting the battered Enweilian army. The allied host then attacked Gorin (15.000 against 9.600), crushing Midnight of the North's army and wounding him during the battle. The daimon did withdraw to Darhauyo to recruit.

Jan 2 1012 - 1st battle of Ulallo, 5th battle of Piwani

After one halfday of rest, Enweil and Riombara advanced against Midnight of the South in Ulallo, who was leading 240 archer daimons (teeth weavers): 14.000 against 9.100. The allies won a hardfought battle but lost considerably. Right after this battle the allied vanguard marched against Piwani which was held by a daimon militia - it was suspected that a daimon ritual was being prepared that - once finished - would result in the blighting of Piwani. The allies won yet again, even though Midnight of the North did reinforce the militia from Darhauyo...and to the rejoicing of humanity, this daimon leader was captured by Field Marshal Selis at the same time as those staying behind in Ulallo did capture Midnight of the South.

Jan 3 1012 - 2nd battle of Ulallo

Midnight of the West broke off the takeover of Ketampkin to attack allied forces withdrawing from Piwani through Ulallo: 5.500 against 3.100. The human defenders were overrun qickly at little losses to the daimons. Interestingly Overlord himself did also break off his takeover of Wheling at the same time and moved to Ketampkin.

This meant that the allied army of Enweil and Riombara, numbering a total of 19.000 including stragglers did face an enemy host of 58.000 and still did manage to break 2 takeovers, disrupt one suspected ritual, defeat and capture 2 daimon leaders and lead 2 other daimon leaders to break off their takeovers. This did save 4 regions from being taken by the daimons and likely one from being blighted - at the cost of Enweils army being near completely shattered and Riombaras effective army halved. Though with the Overlord again being mobile his wrath was expected to be deadly.

Riombara did start a takeover of Vilriil.

Jan 4 1012 - The north marches south

Overlord did start a TO of Ketampkin with 15.000, Nightfall of the West a takeover of Ulallo with 5.500.

The Armies of Thalmarkin and Melhed march south through Fronen to lend their strength to the battles in the south.

Old Grehk takes the rogue city of Wudekin.

Jan 5 1012 - Fheuvenem falls and Ketampkin is taken

A dark day - after a long takeover, Fheuvenem finally fell to Nightfall of the East - who marched towards Sandlakes next with his 8.500. As if this would not be enough, Overlord did finish subjugating Ketampkin after a surprisingly short time. However, another dire news did reach the allies: the captured Midnight of the North is spotted in the Blight at the northern border of Sint - leading 190 daimons of a strength of 33.000. These have to to be the largest fighting creatures ever spotted on Beluaterra.

Jan 6 1012 - 2nd skirmish of Fengen, 3rd Battle of Ulallo

Enweil did recruit again - which seemed to irk Overlord. He did assault Fengen - but was spotted in time and nearly the whole enweilian army of 6.000 evacuated to Gorin. At sunset the attack against Nightfall of the West in Ulallo took place - however, of Enweil, IVF and Riombara only the last did attack: 4.000 against 4.500. The resulting battle was lost, but the daimons did suffer roughly equally as the humans. In addition Riombara managed to break the daimon takeover.

During the past days Melhed and Thalmarkin had marched steadily southwards.

Jan 7 1012 - 4th Battle of Ulallo

Nightfall of the East - marching from Fheuvenem - did reach Ulallo on sunrise...but on sunset the allied host (Melhed, Thalmarkin, Enweil and Riombara) did attack: 20.800 against 10.600. The result was a clear victory for the humans. Both daimon leaders lost near all of their forces and their new takeover was broken.

Jan 8 1012 - 2nd Battle of Fengen

Overlord was spotted in Zuhle - leading 250 daimons of a total strength of 127.000. Initial reports of daimons as large as small castles were not believed.

At sunset the alllied host advanced against Fegen - held by Overlord's fearsome daimon militia and the retreated lieutenants: 21.600 allied forces against 16.500 daimons. The battle was fiercely contested and losses were heavy on both sides - but at the end the daimons were victorious. The human battleline simply could not withstand the daimon charge. Losses were 11.000 for the allied forces, 8.000 for the daimons. Still, at least humanity managed to capture Nightfall of the West.

Jan 9 2012

Overlord did move into Piwani with 130.000, Midnight of the South moved into Lopa with 40.000, comitting genocide.

Jan 10 2012 - 3rd Battle of Fengen

In a desperate act, the allied forces did attack the daimons in Fengen. Due to Overlord closing in from the north and Midnight of the South threatening from the south the battle could not be postponed, even though the promised reinforcements from IVF did not arrive: Enweil, Melhed, Thalmarkin and Riombara with a total force of 11.800 did confront 10.400 daimons....and due to the will of the gods, did prevail, driving the daimons before them.

At the same time Nightfall of the East did appear before Fwuvoghor with 40.000 - and promptly stormed the city.

Jan 11 2012

The northern army (mainly Sint, Nothoi and Fronen) clashed with daimon militia units in Piwani, defeating them with ease. The northern realms then marched southwards towards Enweil.

Jan 12 2012 - 5th battle of Ulallo

The northern army attacked Ulallo where Overlord's main force of 60k was stationed. Humans emerged victorious and found that the actual strength of Overlord was only around 9k.

Meanwhile Midnight of the north marches through Baqua cutting through all the defenders in his path.

Jan 13 2012 - 6th battle of Ulallo

Netherworld attacks Fronen and Nothoi in Dyomoque but are unable to breach its walls.

Villriil is Blighted

A huge tower of light suddenly shoots skywards from somewhere within Villriil. It illuminates the landscape, despite the early hours. Bright and strong, it looks like a beacon of hope, reminding some of you of the Temples of Light. The column of light stands there, pulsing and moving ever upwards. Up and... away. After a short while you feel something like a current all around. It seems to attract light and hope and good. Attract and... swallow. The beam grows pale, slightly darker as it swallows more and more of the light around, sucking away hope and energy. It darkens as the Light is moved out of this world. You feel the current strongly now, sucking on you. When you look again, the sky has begun to go dark. You are having difficulty breathing. You realize that the Blight is closing in, and the beam of light - has gone.

Jan 14 2012 - 7th battle of Ulallo and 8th battle of Ulallo, 1st battle of Firbalt

Midnight of the North attacks Firbalt and is killed by a defending militia unit.

Midnight of the West ambushes parts of the northern army in Piwani as they return from the southern campaign.

Overlord appears in Sheja and ambushes the northern contigent half a day later.

Jan 16 2012 - 1st battle of Grehk, 2nd battle of Grehk, 1st battle of Sheja

After storming Fwuvoghor, Nightfall of the East had marched southwards, burning as he went. On Jan 16th he did storm Grehk - which was not fully defended as Riombaras refitted vanguard had pursued undead in Lopa and Droxago and its reminder had not been ready to face the daimonlord.

Jan 17 2012 - 3rd battle of Grehk, 4th battle of Grehk, 2nd battle of Firbalt, 2nd battle of Sheja

Desperately the riombaran defenders attempted to retake their capital - however, it was not to be. During the 4th battle, the riombaran hero Jethro Snow, former chancellor of Riombara fell. Soon afterwards however, Nightfall of the East marched to Mio Dupaki as the riombaran defenders did slowly regain their strength.

In the north, Darkest Hour of the North attacks Firbalt and breaches the walls where his predecessor Midnight of the north had failed.

Jan 19 2012 - 6th battle in Piwani

Enweil tried to retake Piwani but Overlord and Midnight quickly attacked the region to stop the TO. It seemed like that Overlord doesn't want any human in the region.

Jan 20 2012 - 9th battle of Ulallo

Nightfall of the East did take Mio Dupaki, threatening to cut Riombara off. The riombaran army had prepared to attack him there but did arrive one halfday too late - Nightfall did evade towards Enweil. Further east Overlord did assault Enweils withdrawing army in Ulallo, defeating it again.

Jan 21 2012

Darkest Hour of the North attacks Winifael and forces Thalmarkins army to chase him across the frozen plains into Gemke.

Jan 22 2012 - Piwani blighted

Overlord finished the TO of Ulallo. Nightfall of the East still in Lopa killing peasants. Riombara retook Mio Dupaki. However, with Ulallo taken Piwani was blighted - this was a grave blow for humanity as now the south was cut off from the north.

Jan 24 2012 - 1st battle of Bisana, 2nd battle of Bisana

Overlord began a TO in Gorin, killing hundreds of peasants during the process. He was soon joined by Midnight of the South. In the north, Melhed did confront and defeat Midnight of the West in Bisana in two consecutive battles.

Jan 27 2012

Nightfall of the East had marched from Lopa via Yncaalo and Wheling to Drinilla - thus IVF was practically cut off as both Drinilla and Ketampkin were held by daimon forces.

Darkest Hour of the North evades Thalmarkin and Old Grehk in Gemke and heads for the mountains of Jedinchel.

Jan 28 2012 - 2nd Battle of Gorin and 3rd Battle of Gorin

Enweil and Riombara lost the morning battle but won the evening battle. Overlord lost most of his units during the first battle and disappeared from the battlefield by the evening.

Jan 29 2012 - the battles of Gorin and Jedinchel

Enweil and Riombara lost a battle in Gorin against reinforced daimons (Overlord returned with 12 k CS and Midnight of the West joined him with over 8k CS).

Darkest Hour of the North and his unit of Black Daimons had begun a takeover of Jedinchel but through two days of heavy fighting in the mountains, he is thoroughly defeated and flees back to the Blight. 2nd Son was also arrested lurking in the mountains.

Jan 30 2012 - 4th Battle of Fengen and 5th Battle of Fengen

Midnight of the West attacked Fengen to destroy the retreating Enweilian army but he failed to accomplish his mission. During the second assault, Overlord and another Midnight joined in to aid Midnight of the West. The overwhelming forces of daimons left nothing but ruins on their path. After their victory, daimons have began a TO of Fengen, the capital of Enweil.

Jan 31 2012

With a new group of Black Daimons, Darkest Hour of the north attacks Lastfell but quickly cuts south into the lands of Melhed.