Campaign Timeline
6.050 T.E.I.
380 Yinka Timeline
Summer
The transition into the summer goes unnoticed, Raznir, Korch and Maegor
heading deeper into the Gray Mountains, not even knowing where they are, only a heading.
Cyrus,
Ashdar and Tadjeb are screaming under the terrible torture of the Cloudlords.
The guards change for Cyrus, Tadjeb and Ashdar and the torture stops, they get fed and also get a lot better treatment, but the days go by without any chance of escape.
Meanwhile Razid, Korch and Maegor goes deeper and deeper into the cold snowy mountains hunting whatever they can to stay alive and using magic when no pray around, but little by little they are getting closer and closer to their goal.
After almost two weeks of travel the characters stand above a beautiful vale, the Vale of Mersia, at the far end they can see the glimmering from the hold of the Cloudlords. Raznir decides that it is better for him to go alone and he stalks away and scales the walls of the fortress. After brief combat he manage to free the characters and they escape, escaping down a well to a underground river they do not know if they are from the ashes into fire or if they will be safe.
Ash Lairs
Following the river upstream so they will not come up into the vale they walk in the darkness for hours before they arrive to where it comes out from the mountain with no apparent way through. Backtracking for a while they find a small crevice that leads a little up from the main path, they follow that one instead, a much harder trail Ashdar has an accident and falls into a hole and into a cold fast underground river, the others are not able to hold on to him and he is swept away. Tadjeb is lowered to see what happens to him but falls and is swept away too, in a while followed by the others.
They are washed out in a small underground lake, pitch black, Raznir lights his magic light and after the others are finished trying to drown they manage to get up on some small land strip. At the further end of the lake a rope bridge is showing, Tadjeb and Ashdar gets there first with Raznirs help, and Raznir returns to get their equipment and Cyrus who is not so good swimmer.
For Tadjeb and Ashdar the rest is very short, while they sit there in the darkness they suddenly see red luminous eyes watching them, and something they can not see is capturing them, and short struggle starts and a falling enemy alerts Raznir and Cyrus that something is happening, when they get there though there is no trace of the characters but they surprise a small ugly green skinned creature... a Goblin.
Trying to escape from there swimming they are soon captured too by the goblins in some strange boat, they get all taken to a throne room where some Goblin king resides, Tadjeb and Ashdar who comes there first gets to prove themselves to the Goblins by fighting a captured Lugrôki, not knowing this creature at all they get to fight hard for their lives before they prevail with a well aimed throw by Ashdars sharp golden axe. After that things change for the characters fast, from being prisoners they are suddenly honored guests and after a while and a rather disgusting banquet they find out that the their hosts want to hire them as war leaders against some Lugro town deeper into the mountain, seeing no way to say no they start agreeing on a price, after that is settled (a purse of jewels each and two Rikka-tikka) they get to rest for a few days while preparations are made for the battle.
Wars under the mountain
The time for battle comes fast, Raznir and Tadjeb leads a force attacking from the outside, Ashdar and the Goblin king leads the main force and Cyrus providing cover. They all succeed above all expectations and has soon driven the Lugro forces into their center room where a Lugrôki king and some shamans reside, meeting much stiffer resistance now the tide does not change still, hardly slowing they are driving the enemies forces back until something happens with the Shamen, they have been chanting since the battle began and now they let loose some horror that is worse then all nightmares of the characters, the remaining Lugrôki comes into a religious frenzy and for a while it seems the tide is almost turning.
With Cyrus in the lead, followed by Tadjeb and Ashdar they attack the demonic creature and after a long and bloody battle they prevail. Meanwhile the king has escaped, taking some path deep under the city he travels north, Raznir follows them quietly but after being attacked by some smaller demonic creature is exposed and forced to retreat. He saw that the king and his guard wore a sign of a red claw, not knowing what it means they believe it being important still.
The get a couple of days to recover after the battle when they are disturbed by a sudden civil war among the goblins, the king who got wounded in the battle has been assassinated and now fractions fight for the power, before they are drawn deeper into this bloody conflict some Goblins loyal to the character leads them away, only managing to get one Rikka-tikka they are still happy to get out of there not empty handed.
Returning home
For several days they follow the goblins deep on cavern paths and after almost a week underground they come out of the mountain just a day from the Yinka capital, leaving the Rikka-tikka with Nebb and his goblins they return home, coming back for the Rikka-tikka later.
Cyrus and Raznir goes to report how their mission has went, get to talk to the Priest King himself, a great honor is bestowed for them. Meanwhile Tadjeb and Ashdar starting their recreation, fast spreading a rumor about them and their newly acquired wealth, they get many friends though.
The briefing with the Priest King does not go at all as planned, the Priest King is extremely upset on their behavior and does not want to throw the country into a new war with a force so dangerous as the Cloudlords. Upset and annoyed they leave the Priest King and turn to their Employers Papak and Nerva instead, Cyrus leaves the following day for Cinvat.
Recruiting
At Raznirs request Ashdar and Tadjed leaves for the goblin cave and bring down the Rikka-tikka under great secrecy, they hide it in a storage.
After a couple of days Ashdar, Raznir and Tadjeb leaves the capital for Ashren where Nerva resides. while there they find out that he shares their belief that something has to be done about the Cloudlords and that the priest king is not the man to do that, Nerva tells them he will start seeking allies and suggest that they travel south to find a man called Stephan in a slave mine close to the mountain border.
Said and done they travel south, sending the Rikka-tikka north to Cinvat and Cyrus, updating Papak and Cyrus with their plans through Ravens.
In the deep south in a slave mine they find the man called Stephan D'Artelle, a prisoner of war from Rhakhaan that is said to know a lot about war craft and sieges.
They return towards Cinvat with the new member of their group, the mood in the group is not getting better by Stephan's unwanted optimism and it is loading up to explode at any time.
Arriving in Cinvat they soon start with a lot of activities, Tadjeb and Ashdar does what they are good at, carousing, the more responsible Raznir goes to the temple, updates Cyrus and Papak in what have happened and introduce Stephan, later he also seeks out Korch and Maegor and updates them, meanwhile Cyrus and Stephan is starting to prepare the city for a major attack from Cloudlords and Myri
Tadjeb and Ashdar uses the way they are so apted on to search out new soldiers and begin a drafting for both an assault into Myr and the defense of the city
During the following days the force fast exceeds 1000 men, mixed army, church soldiers, brigands and raiders, Ravens fly to all parts of the country to gather up people the characters know, they only now realizing how many it is. From Ashren and Cinvat they also get almost a dozen clerics more or less trained in the arts of war and healing.
In the next few weeks the army is growing steadily, fortune hunters, mercenaries and brigands come from all parts of the land for the promise of gold and honor, in a while the situation is getting really problematic in Cinvat and a offensive needs to be started or the city will be torn down by it's own troops, the small city guard has no possibility to control so many warriors
The army is divided into two groups, a unit of about two thousand men will go into Myri land and provoke a response from the Cloudlords, meanwhile the remaining 1500 are fortifying the city under the lead of the foreigner Stephan, the units in the city is largely archers to counter a threat from above.
The campaign of Myr
The raiding army starts to move, working it's way into Myri land, destroying all resistance and leaving a trail of burned villages in it's wake. After a little more then a week the scouts see the first military Myri force in one of the major towns in the Myri land, a force of close to 1000 strong in a fortified town.
The morning after the attack comes, riders going in at dawn, showering the town with fire arrows, from inside
the town the Myri longbows don't do much damage on the fast riders, the water supply of the village has been
cut of further making it harder to put the fires out and then the rest of the force
is attacking, storming
the gates of the town and breaking through after only a little while of battle. Cyrus is one of the leading in
the attack, crazed by the feeling of some demonic presence inside the town and the rest of the troops are affected
by his battle frenzy.
The battle fast becomes a slaughter, the Myri don't have enough space to wield their long weapons are cut
down by the attackers, a big group tries a breakout but are surrounded and cut down. Meanwhile inside the
town Cyrus has located two demons inside the town, he kills one swiftly but is taken by the other one. When
Raznir tries to free him he is cut down by the demons sword.
After the battle Raznir wakes up, alive in spite of his numerous wounds, a sharp pain from his right hand
where his smallest finger is missing, Cyrus is next to him, unconscious but alive, no trace is left of
the demon.
Tadjeb has a broken leg after the battle, Ashdar is suffering from numerous wounds and burns, all the enemy has
been cut down and the town torched, the Cloudlord that was leading them is
crucified on the palisade.
Scouts come in and report seeing demonic tracks leaving towards the mountains, Cyrus, awake by now organizes a
hunting party of him, Ashdar and a group of scouts to track it down and kill it, the others stay there to organize
the return to Cinvat.
A few hours from the town they come upon a old burial site where one of the tombs are broken recently, the tracks
leads to the tomb and the group descends inside it. inside they get ambushed, Cyrus looses his hand and the light
with it, in the confusion that follows the demon escapes and the group is no longer in any shape to follow it. The
next day they leave for the main army.
The battle of Evod moors
Meanwhile the main army starts moving the morning after towards home, with almost half what is remaining of the army wounded it goes really slow for them and the morning after while in a plain area death strikes!
Coming in at low altitude the Cloudlords are over the army before the alarm sounds, almost two dozen of them spreading fire in the lines. After what seems like an eternity all that remains of the army is smoldering flesh and the sounds from the dying, then the rides land and slays and plunders all they can find.
By the time the scout group finds the army the survivors has gathered, less then a hundred from an army of once more then two thousand men, most of them broken and wounded. They all start for home and after almost a week they finally reach the city of Cinvat, the shock in Cinvat is hard when they hear that the Cloudlords have destroyed an entire army, but hastily preparations start for defending their city.
The battle for Cinvat
After a week of preparations a enemy army is sighted north of Cinvat, it is the largest enemy army ever seen in Yinka land, lead by mounted Cloudlords and 5000 men strong.
The army camps half a league from the walls of Cinvat, and a part of the army with longbows move on, stopping at over 500 meters the shower of arrows still reach deep inside the city, protected by the city walls and buildings the attack don't do much damage.
A couple of days go by before a sunny morning the entire army moves towards the city, the archers stopping at 500 meters, providing protection for the advancing infantry, helping them to reach the wall before the defenders can do any damage to them, the battle on the walls grow fierce but the defenders manage to hold the Myri back, with great losses though.
When the battle for the walls are at it's worse the darkness descends over the city, from the rising sun can suddenly be seen dozens of riders on their winged Pegasus, taking the defenders by surprise they quickly spreads out over the city wielding fire and steel, all attempts to bring them down seem futile.
Fires are raging all over the city and the fighting on the walls seem never ending, rains of arrows and glowing bolts of fire are going up towards the attacker, seemingly without any effect. When all seem at the most hopeless the new weapon is suddenly scoring hits, killing both a Cloudlord and it's mount instantly, in their attempts to take out the weapon another Cloudlord falls towards the city. Soon after two more fall to some strong beams of fire erupting from somewhere inside the city and the tide is turning fast in the battle, the surviving Cloudlords are trying to escape, leaving their Myri allies to fend for themselves, a counterattack is launched against the unprotected archers by Raznir and the Myri army breaks, being attacked all the way out of the land.
Repairs are started almost right after the battle, the city of Cinvat is badly battered from the attacks from the air and a couple of days later there is some incident inside the city where two houses are destroyed, a two dozen killed or missing, a foreigner is found among the dead, so suspicion is fast on the characters, but nothing is done since they are all heroes since the battle.
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by Jonas 'Drac' Cedher.