Drake Snow

Drake Snow is a bastard child of whom grew up in the Forks orphanage. Drake Snow would be seduced by Taylor Mannover, and because of this he basically became a member of House Mannover and has waited years for Taylor to accept his constant pleas to marry him. Drake Snow has one child in the form of Erik Snow of whom has also joined him in becoming a loyal member of House Mannover's honor gaurd.

Drake Snow grew up in the Forks orphanage and during this time he became bitter about the state of darkness in the city. When he met Taylor Mannover everything seemed brighter, and he fell deeply in love with her to the point that he did everything that she asked of him. This would eventually lead him to becoming a member of House Mannover where he has served with for the entirety of his life. Drake Snow accompanied a House Swan trade mission north to Dresdan and while travelling gaurding the merchants he and the merchants were attacked by skeletons. Drake was able to beat off the skeletons alongside the other gaurds of the train, but with the skeletons dead a single person stepped out of the forest and proceeded to walk into the train and kill every last member of the gaurds until he reached Drake Snow. Drake would fight this man for minutes until he two was overpowered and waiting for death. Instead the man spared him, and told him that he was a vampire and that he was going to leave him a sword which was his reward for being an able soldier. Following this he has become known for his extremely powerful sword which he called Night Terror after the man that seemingly came out of the dark to terrorize them.

Early History
rake Snow grew up in the Forks orphanage and during this time he became bitter about the state of darkness in the city. When he met Taylor Mannover everything seemed brighter, and he fell deeply in love with her to the point that he did everything that she asked of him. This would eventually lead him to becoming a member of House Mannover where he has served with for the entirety of his life.

Road to Dresdan
Drake Snow accompanied a House Swan trade mission north to Dresdan and while travelling gaurding the merchants he and the merchants were attacked by skeletons. Drake was able to beat off the skeletons alongside the other gaurds of the train, but with the skeletons dead a single person stepped out of the forest and proceeded to walk into the train and kill every last member of the gaurds until he reached Drake Snow. Drake would fight this man for minutes until he two was overpowered and waiting for death. Instead the man spared him, and told him that he was a vampire and that he was going to leave him a sword which was his reward for being an able soldier. Following this he has become known for his extremely powerful sword which he called Night Terror after the man that seemingly came out of the dark to terrorize them.



Invasion of Yerness
Main Article : Invasion of Westbridge, Battle of Yerness

For the Invasion of Westbridge to be a success the Lucernian army had to do something about the threat of the large Westbridge which was anchored in the massive fortress of Yerness. Yerness Island was basically a massive port on the south of the island which contained the vast majority of the Westbridge fleet, and then four large castles at the north, west, east, and center of the island with the most powerful being the center fortress called Castle Yernede. Controlling Yerness would also mean the difference between an easy boat ride for rienforcements in the cast that the battle drug on for days or longer, so it became clear that Yerness could not be ignored and needed to be taken. The difficult task of taking Yerness fell upon House Swan, alongside its vassals in House Clegane, House Yerness, and House Black along with many of their sworn houses. In order to actually take the fortresses their were several options.

Option A: They could use the Lucernian Fleet and land on top of the actual Fortress of Yerness from the south. This was a very risky option as the fortress was heavily gaurded from this angle, and if they were spotted they would have no means of laying siege as they would simply be wiped out.

Option B: They could go up the eastern side of the Rhine River and then use hundreds of small boats to ferry their troops to the island itself. This option would allow for them to put the fortress under siege, as the only means of stopping an attacker from landing on the eastern side was the small Castle Menmont controlled by House Menmonet. This castle was under construction after a brief civil war in the house had heavily damaged it.

In the end Option B was chosen by House Swan, and they along with the rest of the army travelled north to Lorderon where they took boats as far north as possible before travelling on foot to the eastern bank of the Rhine.



Castle Menmont
The broken Castle Menmont was of vital importance to the defence of Yerness as a whole but the calls for resources to rebuild the castle from Westrbridge had met with nothing and thus they had to do it all themselves and for this reason the rebuilding, and repairs were drastically behind schedual. House Clegane led by Mathew, and his brother Hedrik led the initial boats across the waters and they quickly eliminated the sentries that watched the water for anyone coming across. With the sentries eliminated the other houses landed on the banks of the castle except for House Black of whome landed farther north and would be taking control of the small village of Downden as the base of operations for their siege of Yerness.



Taking the Castle
Matthew, and Hedrik Clegane led their forces into the depths of the castle, as they planned to move from within while the forces led by Charlie, and his nephew Brody Swan would lead House Swan, alongside House Yernese in a breakthrough of the castle itself. With the sentries down the castle had minimal defences that late at night, and thus the forces broke through all over the place with minimal casualties, but House Swan ran into a problem when Jordin Menmont barred the front gate of the keep and thus blocked them into the courtyard which they now had near complete control over. Without siege weapons they attempted to find other ways in but basically waited for House Clegane to complete their side of things. Matthew and Hedrik moved with their small force inside the castle completed unaware to House Menmont who as Hedrik moved into the throne room was preparing to send Ravens away to warn the rest of the island. With this House Menmont surrendered and Castle Menmont along with House Menmont were not under Lucernian authority.

Downden
When House Black arrived with their near five hundred men on the outskirts of Downden they moved quickly into the village and took the entire village under their control. With the village under their control they sent word to Castle Menmont that the next stage was ready to begin. Everything went according to plan in Downden up until the point where Aldo Yernese the Patriarch of the House who was an old man fell down a hill and died upon hitting the bottom. For House Yernese this could have thrown the entire operation into disaster but instead Volker Yernese quickly gathered the troops together along with their sworn houses and made sure they all knew everything was fine, and that he would lead the house effectively. With Volker Yernese now in command of the house he quickly set about burrying his father on the hill he had died on, and then he begin preparing his force to move south and meet with House Clegane for the attack on Castle Yernede.



Movement
With Castle Menmont taken the forces of House Swan moved completely unhindered towards their next goals. House Black moved with its sworn houses towards Castle Irinsi where they waited for a small fleet to arrive before they would hit the castle during the next night. House Mangles broke off from House Black and moved between Castle Yerness, and Castle Yernede and from here they would attempt to stop anyone from making it towards Castle Yerness. House Clegane moved towards Castle Yernede and through the day they spent the day surrounding the Castle from all sides, and constructing siege machines, and defences for their archers. Archers were placed throughout to stop any Ravens that attempted to get away. While this was going on House Swan made a coast line boat ride towards the port of Yerness where they prepared to take the Port from the front where it had no business being suprised in. While House Swan moved in this direction ten ships from the Lucernian Navy moved towards the port and prepared to make sure no boats were able to sail away.