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War in France
France pre -Fall of Hispania
The Lands of France before the War in France.
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Location France
Start of Conflict 5107
End of Conflict 5111
Result Empire of Emblam Victory
  • Destruction of France
Combatants
Empire of Emblam Bretonian Alliance
Commanders
Empire of Emblam

Raven Order

Kingdom of Senegal

Under Empire

  • Throlk Lowweaver
  • Thol Pineback
Kingdom of Bretonia
  • † Harvey McCraten
  •  Fled Theodwynn Eadig
  • † King Tanlian Eisenburg
  • † King Maltivian Eisenburg

Kingdom of Lothlorian

  • Kael'Thalas Sunstrider

Empire of Matron

Kingdom of Lucerne

Roman Empire

† = Killed in action
(†) = Missing
 Surrendered = Captured
 Fled = Fled the Field
Strength
Empire of Emblam Kingdom of Bretonia
Casualties
Empire of Emblam Kingdom of Bretonia

The War in France or The Seventh Emblam Waaagh was a devastating war fought between the Empire of Emblam, of Africanas against the Kingdom Of Bretonia, in its home territory of France. While the conflict would originally be maintained in southern France, a breakout of Orcs would cause the spreading of the conflict to the farthest northern parts of France. The War ended the once very powerful Kingdom Of Bretonia, although they now are reborn in their once backward province of England. The War would also lead to the destruction of a vast number of the surrounding humans of the region, and in this way it destabilized the entire central European region.

The Kingdom of Bretonia would not underestimate this conflict and threw in basically everything that they had in order to try and hold off the Orcs but they would fail to defeat them at the fortress of Andorra and this would mean the destruction of much their Kingdom. Following their fall in France they were forced to accept a new way of living, now that they were not one of the elite kingdoms in Europe and couldn't count on the support of their allies of whom no longer bordered them. The Kingdom of Bretonia was emotionally scarred by the losses, and the Nationalism that existed in the Kingdom over being Frankish has declined significantly in some provinces as they have found they are now out-numbed in several provinces by the Saxons.

The Orcs would bring together the largest army in the history of their people in order to take France. They planned this as if they were no longer fighting the vulnerable Romans and this time they sent in a larger amount of High Orcs to plan the assault and this would lead to some dramatic maneuvers in the beginning that the Bretonians did not think them capable of. Following the defeat of the Humans at the Battle of Lyons though the Orcs found themselves victorious over Europe with only the Empire of Matron, and the Elves of Lothlorian to defend against their onslaught. As they took over the last port of the Bretonians and prepared to launch their finishing blow against the Empire of Matron, and the Lothlorians they found themselves under a massive invasion from the Murlocs. This war has been devestating for the Orcs and they are being pushed back inc by inch into eastern France, and Hispania.

The War in France would begin in reality the moment the Orcs crossed the landbridge at Grbalter where they would following this overrun the Roman Empire in Hispania despite heavy reinforcements arriving later in that conflict. Following this the Kingdom of Bretonia would massively fortify the fortress province of Andorra and the Roman Empire fortified Valencia and together the two forces prepared for the eventual assault of the Orcs. The Orcs during this time consolidated their numbers and received nearly a million more Orcs across the land bridge before the forces of the High Elves would destroy the bridge cutting of the Orcs from crossing anymore, but along side the land bridge reinforcements a lack of knowledge of Orcish physiciology led to all of their losses coming back in spores and their numbers increasing dramatically.

Origins of the War

Bretonnia Coat of Arms

The Kingdom of Bretonia

See Also : Kingdom of Bretonia

The Kingdom of Bretonia had begun its power within the region of France, and its continued expansion out of France, was always maintained as the center being France and everywhere they moved to being nothing more then colonies. In this way the regions of France, and especially the southern regions became extremely populated, and the armies of Bretonia swelled.

Much in the same way that the Orcs were repelled in their invasion east and then forced to expand in a different direction, the Kingdom of Bretonia was repelled in a brief war with the Romans in Hispania, and this caused a peace treaty and also caused the Bretonians to move into England. As the Bretonians expanded into England, and really got down to setting roots their the news begin to shuffle in that a massive invasion of Hispania was underway. The news coming in originally was that the Romans were in near complete collapse and that Hispania was going to fall. With this news the forces of Bretonia marshalled their armies, and begin moving into that conflict.

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Orcs of Africanas

See Also : Orcs of Africanas

While the Bretonian Kingdom was growing steadily inside the region of France, the Orcs of Africanas completed their overrun of nearly the entire Africanas continent. With this conquest complete they begin setting their eyes on continued expansion. The Orcs attacked east towards Lahmia, and Nerubia, but they were repelled and this made them interested in going north. Realizing the only way across was the straits of gibralter they begin plans for building a mighty bridge there that would allow them to cross into Europe.

For nearly ten years the Orcs built a massive wooden bridge across the straits of Gibralter, and with its completion they massed huge numbers of their armies on the Hispania border. When the Orcs finnally launched the war that is now called The Fall of Hispania , the importance of Hispania wasn't lost on Bretonia, and towards the end of the war it was mainly Bretonian armies fighting the Orcs. Despite a valient effort Castile fell to the Orcs, and this signlaed the end of Hispania in Human hands.

Prelude

Hispania Falls

Main Article : Fall of Hispania

Fall of Hispania Bretonians Breakthrough
"When Hispania fell it was like a light went off in every human in Europe's mind telling them that this was serious. It was as if HIspania suriving had allowed us the hope that the threat would just go away. When we lost at Castile there was no more dreaming of that."
-Bill Lovie

Hispania's fall signaled the War in France beginning days. Without the buffer of a surviving Hispania even in the form of a rump state, the Kingdom of Bretonia was wide open to assault from huge numbers of Orcs. As a partner in the Fall of Hispania the commanders in the Bretonian army were well aware of the vast numbers of Orcs that were all over Hispania. The Orcs were opposed from getting into France by two distinct strong points in Andorra held by the Bretonians, and the second location being the last surviving Roman fortress of Valencia. The Bretonians believed strongly that the attack would come against Andorra as it provided the most direct route, and the Orcs had shown little strategy for avoiding strong points.

Bretonians Hunker Down

Andorra
"The whole strategy was simple enough. We build these elaborate, and heavily fortified castles and the idiot orcs would simply get bogged down. Once they were bogged down the First Army would destroy them. I guess we should have questioned how they had built a massive bridge across continents before we blindly accepted how stupid they truly were."
-Harvey McCraten

The Bretonians were very worried about the Orcs in Hispania, and because of this they pulled back their forces from England and moved them into the regions surrounding Hispania. A huge part of this buildup was in Andorra where the Bretonians poured massive amount of resources into building castles, and forts throughout the region

Defence of Andorra

in the hopes of being able to stop the Orcs. In Andorra they believed that no matter what the Orcs threw at them they would be able to beat them back. This was due to the fact that in the year of the attack on Hispania the commanders and Lords in southern France had met, and all agreed to pool their resources to fortify the Andorra region to a point that it could be held against massive numbers. King Tanlian Eisenburg was the main propenent of fortifying their position and while some argued that it might be time to retaliate against the Orcs and do hit and run actions he was steadfast in his defencive strategy.

"We decided our only hope was to fortify the Fortress of Andorra so much that the Orcs would be horrified about the context of attacking us, and this would by us time. While Andorra was fortified we were brigning in more and more troops from England, and our allies were moving closer to understanding how desperate this fight was. It was such a well though up plan. We just didn't anticipate the Orcs being able to replenish the millions they had lost in Hispania in a matter of months."
-Tanlian Eisenburg

The Andorra region was fortified with a number of heavily fortified, and large scale castle constructions that were meant to hold the Orcs in place so that the large Bretonian army that was present would be able to simply move from one hot spot to another, all the while being able to move quickly and quite unnaposed by the large but stupid Orc armies.

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Lucius Vorenus briefly in command of the defenders of Valencia.

The Orcs Build up

"They lost millions all across the battlefields of Hispania. We used the logic of what would happen to a human Kingdom if that happened and that was our problem. We didn't know that there dead just came back as spores if the battlefield wasn't burned. We thought we had time. We thought wrong."
-Lucius Vorenus

While the Bretonians were building their defences, the Orcs numbers were swelling with an endless stream of Orcs crossing the land bridge in Gbralter. Where all logical strategy said that they must have diminished the Orcs numbers, the actual truth was that the orcs were almost 3 times as large and growing yearly. Africanas sent in tens of thousands of Orcs into Hispania every week as they spread the rumor amongt the Fell Orcs that the truth behind becoming a HIgh Orc was by going to Hispania and ending the human menace. As this was happening there was actually a really close moment when Lucius Vorenus travelled to Rome and petitioned to have the royal Roman Navy attack the south of Hispania and attempt to cut off the flow of reinforcements. This plan would have worked perfectly as the Orcs have absolutely no navy, but the Roman Senate and the Emperor believed that they did, and didn't want to lose their navy as they were surrounding Valencia, Sardinia, Cordoba, and Italy with the navy as a shield against possible attack.

Lord Landuin

First Steps

"Packs of these wolf riding Orcs just rode around the lands surrounding our castles. If we attempted to ride out and fight them they turned back. If we didn't move out then they just kept riding around. It took us too long to understand that they were probing our strategies. We had it built in our mind that these were mindless zombies, and we ignored all the examples of where they were very good at following directions."
-Lord Landuin

A great moment happened for the Bretonians briefly before the Orcs would attack on mass, and this was the arrival in Andorra of Lord Landuin and nearly fifty thousand of his elite troops all the way from Rhohavion in the far north of England. His arrival galvanized the belief amongst the defenders that they could win the fight, and shortly after arriving he was given command of the defences, and he pushed the construction teams to new levels of building as he saw the defences as too small to do what they were going to need.The first movements that told everyone the war was going to start soon, was the movement of hundreds of thousands of Orcs all along the Andorran, Valencia, and Bretonian Border. Andorra and Valencia were the most heavily defended regions, and because of this it was felt that the Orcs would focus on taking them first. This strategy would lead to the 450,000 elite Roman legionares, and 150,000 strong Bretonian army in Valencia to basically sit in Valencia for the entirety of the war.

Invasion of Andorra

Battle of Andorra

Main Article : Battle of Andorra

Andorra
"They died in their thousands charging at the walls for days, and all they got out of it was wasting alot of our arrows. When we finally massacred the army on the field I couldn't help but ask myself what they were thinking"
-Lord Landuin

Andorra was always going to be where the true battle begin, and it was here that the conflict would be decided. As discussed elcewhere the defenders of Andorra were extremely prepared for an attack against the main fortress of Andorra itself which was protected by the massive 1st Army, but they were not prepared for the Orcs to focus on the smaller castles that surrounded the Andorran mountains. The first act of the war was a silent but probing attack against Andorra by a force of some sixty thousand Orcs of whom attacked the fortress with the only purpose being so that the High Orcs would know the capabilities of the defence. The Orcs would move into the area around the fortress and put it under siege, but they could not even get to the walls as they were being massacred by the hit and run attacks of the first army, and the masive firepower of the defenders. The Battle would end eventually when the First Army accepted noone elce was coming, and proceeded to surround the Orc force and massacre it. During this masacre though they revealed to the onlooking Orcs that the First Army was in place to surround any force that attacked Andorra and because of this the High Orcs decided that a frontal assault would not sucede, and thus they moved to surrounding Andorra itself.

We never had a larger plan at play here. I am so stupid to have put my faith in men like you.
Poncet Mariette

This change in strategy was something that was completely not caught on to by the Bretonian defenders and this coming ambush would be discussed heavily by the Order of the Raven agents present at the Orcish occupied city of Logrono and it was during these discussions that Poncet Mariette would finally make his stand. Realizing from the talk of the top raven in Logrono in the form of Rodrigo Diaz that there was no larger plan in mind behind the obvious Poncet would prepare to leave Logrono for the Andorra fortress to warn them, but was discovered by the other Raven and thus as he made his way north the Raven used Magi divises to warn the larger Raven Order of this, and it was Sayden Ah-Salemi that commanded dozens of Raven all over the area to attempt to intercept the legendary Poncet. Of those sent one of the most notable was Ludwig Krieger of whom loved Poncet as a father but had never truly recovered from what had happened during his time with the Chaos Cult of his youth and thus this would be a turning point for the young man in making his choice. Poncet would be ambushed by two raven while crossing into Bretonia but managed to kill both of them but suffered a wound to his arm which slowed him as he made his way towards Andorra. Poncet would be once again delayed when he found the bridges for crossing the Andorra River had been destroyed by the Bretonians and with the Orcish main invasion still months away the Senegal had not repaired them yet forcing him to travel further downriver to a land crossing but this once again heavily delayed him. Francisco Abarquero, and Gilbert Bonpre IV. arrived in Andorra with a team of Raven before Poncet and the seven raven would prepare an ambush against Poncet of whom having finally reached the area around Andorra realized that his delay would have given the Ravens a chance to reach Andorra before him and thus was prepared for an ambush. During the ambush against Poncet it was the elderly Poncet that would kill them all but took near fatal injuries during the fighting and it was in this state that he was discovered by Ludwig Krieger his former son of sorts.

2nd Battle of Andorra

Orcs surround Andorra
"There were some that begin to whisper that the King had made a mistake in making us believe the conflict was so dire. It seemed to me and many of my men that we could be much more use in the northern battlefields then down here defending against a race little more then children. I mean we were absolutely massacring them all across the lines, and other then a few castles falling everything was going perfect."
-Julien Brunel one week before he died in the Fall of Castle Bayonne

With their strategy in mind the High Orcs would assemble an army of some one million and place it infront of the fortress of Andorra and its goal was to lock the first army into the Andorra fortress by continuesly sending small pieces of its force against Andorra itself. These attacks appeared massive but their purpose was never to win, but from the inside the attacks would look like the blind charge of a stupid race. As they followed this strategy another Orc force of seven hundred thousand locked the forces in Valencia so that they too what be able to be surrounded and destroyed in the same manner. The first true battle in the war would start with horror for the defending forces. News began to break throughout the border that nearly a million Orcs were attacking scout castles all along the Andorran border. What was in truth happening was the Orcs were attacking all along the border but were focusing their attention on trapping the main Bretonian army in the Fortress of Andorra.

The Noose closes

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"The fall of Bayonne was something none of us saw coming, and there was a hesistation amongst us about what to do about its fall, and while we waited the Orcs were heading towards us, now from all directions."
-Lord Landuin

As the defenders of Andorra butchered the attacking Orcs time and time again they failed to understand that the First Army and nearly half of the Bretonian army was being surrounded in Andorra, and the first signs of this was a few vague reports from field commanders that begin to flow in saying that two massive armies were attacking up the flanks of Andorra towards Bayonne, and Bordeaux. These reports were seen as falce by those who saw them and thus it took the fall of Bordeaux and Bayonne for the defenders to understand what was happening. The defenders of Bordeaux were mobilizing to relieve the caslte of Nox south of the town when they discovered tha the Orc army attacking Nox had already destroyed the castle and by this point the Orcs had Bordeaux surrounded and proceeded to massacre the city whose main army had left, and the army fled northwards or risk being trapped in Andorra with the First Army. Nearly at the same time the fort of Bayonne came under assault and while the city itself held out, the castle was overun and fell in less then a week. Because the city had survived the defenders were able to send ravens, and griphon messengers to Andorra with the information that the Orcs were surrounding Andorra and they needed to escape the trap. By this point Lord Landuin was already getting reports that Bordeaux had fallen and as the attacks came from the west and east he knew the time for running was over.

3rd Battle of Andorra

"We killed nearly a million Orcs in that Battle but our army was ruined. Half my commanders were dead, and the men that weren't injured were tired from the fight. When I gave the order to return to Andorra I knew I was ordering a last stand but what choice did I have."
-Lord Landuin

The Third Battle of Andorra was the finality of the conflict in Andorra and it would be a victory for the forces of Bretonia but it would also result in the defeat of the first army which in its absence would make the fortress of Andorra fall months later. Lord Landuin believed in his mind that the army attacking in the south was the largest, and for this reason he created a strategy where he and the first army would attack the force using the shock that their arrival would be to destroy the force. The next day the Orcs would attack and when they did the first army was not their to greet them and thus they put the fortress under siege. The First Army had moved south silently and hit the main force of the south with the entirety of their strength, and over the course of that day the two forces would fight to the death. The Orcs would break ranks at the end of the day and most of the million troops were killed in the battle, but the first army was broken. Of the four hundred thousand men of the army there were less then fifty after its conclusion, and what was left retreated into Andorra in the hopes that they had destroyed the main force and could now hold out until relief came.

Fall of Andorra

Invasion of Toulose and Aquintaine

Invasion of Central France

Battles of Central France

The Orcish Invasion of Athel Loren
This forest protects us. You shall never pass these walls. Never.

Orcish Invasion of Athel Loren

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Regina Eisenburg and Valeera would bond giving to the elimination of the resistence of the expanding relationship between Malitivan and Kael'Thalas.

Maybe not today. It might not be tomorrow. It might not be soon, but the truth is that every day you bring us closer to the humans is a day closer to them leading down a very bloody road. Blood and death are all there people know.
Valeera Sunstrider

The Kingdom of Lothlorian had historically been laize faire towards the Kingdom of Bretonia with the two mighty nations basically ignoring each other, but this changed dramatically following the meeting of Maltivian Eisenburg, and Kael'Thalas Sunstrider. Watching her husband grow closer to Maltivian it was Valeera Sunstrider that was constantly vigilant about protecting her husband from growing to close to the prince of the Bretonia. She warned Kael that the humans were not long for this world, and that getting involved with them would do nothing but bring trouble to the forests of Athel Loren. Despite her warnings Kael and Maltivian grew to be great friends and it was because of this friendship even more then the strategic importance that the Lothlorians became heavily involved in the War in France.

Second Assault

Total Defeat

The Orcs would mass one more time with a larger force then the second time as they received nearly a hundred thousand more troops incoming from Hispania, and moved forward towards the First Gate Once More. This time the army was led by two High Orcs in the form of of whom Incorporated dozens of Orc Magi into their assault of which greatly weakened the effects of the Elven Magi defenses allowing the Orc scouts to move into the actual forests where skirmishes quickly broke out between the Sentinels defending the trees and the hundreds of Orc irregulars that flowed into the forests around the main gate.

Fall of Viche

Main Article : Fall of Viche

Vichy
"Everyone was just standing around too frightened to move. There was an aura of death that just melded over everyone in Viche. It was as if we knew our time was numbered, we just hadn't come to terms with how quickly it was all going to unravel around us. You just wanted to shake the king in that moment and beg him to flee the city. Beg him to save as many lives as he possible could. His death meant much more then just his life, and that was what he failed to see in that moment. He failed to understand how much his death would handicap us in the exact moment in which we had one last chance to win back our homes."
-Harvey McCraten

With the Orcs destruction of the city of Toulose, which was believed could never be taken, the nobles, and military commanders of Bretonia became horrified that the King refused to leave the ancestoral home of Viche. There was at this point a nearly constant attempt for nearly a week to make the King leave the capital but at this point he basically refused to accept the seriousness of the situation and believed that his forces would protect him. On top of this he hinted at a darker more religious view that since he was the son of God in terms of what the Bible of Bretonia stated he could not be harmed, and thus no amount of Orcs could threaten him in the capital.

Preparing
"As it became hopeless to make a responsible retreat, and since the armies of Bretonia were basically fighting at all fronts, it fell to me to hold off hundreds of thousands with nothing but a patchwork army of survivors of previous losses, and untrained knights."
-Harvey McCraten

With the Orcs arriving all over the area, the main army of the region was led by Harvey McCraten and he was given the order to delay the Orc forces while the main Bretonian army moved forward. During this time the council was begging the King to leave Vichy, but he refused to leave, and in this decision he forced his one son, wife, and daughters to remain in the city as they would never abandon him.

The Siege

The city itself was not meant to be attacked which was the main reason it was so far into the French territory. This defenclessness was the main reason why so many forces were expended in attempting to halt the Orcs before they could enter the city. But with the Orcs rampaging around the area the defenders were forced to attempt to defend the city. The first attack against the city was actually repelled with heavy losses to the orcs, but in actuality this was only a small orc splinter group that had wandered away from the main host and became stuck against the defenders. When the commander saw how much it took to just defeat that small group he realized there was little hope, and attempted to once again convinse the leadership to pull back through the eastern gap that still remained open to them.

Unfortunatly the blindness that the king had shown earlier was still present and he refused to accept that the city could even fall. With the hope of escape seemingly gone the last hope for the city came in the form of a raven declaring that Theodwynn and his army had arrived in the area and was going to attempt to clear the field of Orcs.

Battle of Vichy Gate
Theodwynn
"The Orcs were utterly endless in their numbers. The castle behind their army looked like an ant surrounded by a wave of bears. I knew in that moment that it was over, but thinking that didn't change the fact that I couldn't leave it to die that way."
-Theodwynn

Theodwynn approached the area and as he and his commanders surveyed they saw that their army of only 20,000 was going to be of no match against the Orc army of well over two hundred thousand, but Theodwynn realized that if he didn't try then he was declaring the King a dead man. He attempted to find out if there was anyone nearbye so that he might wait and make some sort of actual battleplan, but the ravens returned with little information of anyone nearbye. With this information it was with a heavy heart that Theodwynn moved his army forward and prepared to charge through the Orcs outfront the gate in the hopes of forcing the Orcs to pull back and deal with their flanks as opposed to simply destroying the city.

King Tanlian Eisenburg
"It was a brave moment for the Kingdom of Bretonia but it also changed nothing."
-Theodwynn

The army of Theodwynn charged the Orc army, and the entire city held their breath as the forces of Theodwynn charged through the flank like butter. For a moment there was hope that the desperate charge might suceded but this ended when the main body of the army was hit by a counter attack from the Orc worg riders who were 60,000 strong. With the body now stuck the front of the army contined charging as if they stopped they would be massacred but the vast majority of the force was now stuck in melee with a force that outnumbered it horribly. With little hope of success now the lead echolon broke through miraculously but they left behind almost 19,000 of their number dead on the field, and had not broken the siege of the gate.

The City Falls
"The defenders were sending a constant raven for a long time and it was with a heavy heart that we continued to respond that we were attempting to make our way through rampaging Orcs that were splintering northward and ransacking villages throughout the region. When we were told originally of the situation I knew my force wasn't capable of affecting the outcome but like Theodwynn that didn't stop us from trying to change its fate."
-Eomer Edwig

With the Battle lost the Orcs begin swarming into the area, and the defenders of Vichy steeled themselves to defend their King long enough for reinforcements to arrive that they believed had to be near. In fact the closest army was that of Eomer Edwig, and his force was far too small to make any difference. So unfortunatly no reinforcements were coming and even if the city had been designed to withstand a siege it's very unlikely its garrison could have held against the unnending horde of Orcs piling in on them.

Last Stand
"It was over the moment they attacked a city built to be a tribute to our power. This city was never meant to be held against any kind of real opposition, it was meant as a home for the King."d
-Unknown Fighter in Viche

The main thrust came from the western side of the city, and because of this the defenders placed nearly all their elite forces on this section in an attempt to hold the gate. The first few thrusts from the Orcs met with little sucess and large body counts from the accurate bow fire from the defenders. The problem continued when the Orcs just continued to throw more and more troops at the gate with a agrowing level of success as with each attack more and more of the defenders were falling prey to the attacks. It is a sad testiment that on the final attack on the gate, it was defended by less then 200 men against an orc force of upwards of 30,000. The Orcs this time simply bypassed the gate, and scaled the now basically defenseless walls. Once the ladders were up all over the wall the Orcs overran the gate, and were able to open it to the thousands waiting outside.

The Massacre
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Vich on Fire

"When the gates went down it was like the final truth that the world we knew had ended. There was no coming back from the the fall of Viche, it had just changed everything so completely the world could never hope to be the same."
-Maltivian Eisenburg

With the final gates gone, the Orcs piled into the Keep. There were a series of desperate last stands by the elite members of the Bretonian Kings gaurd, but in the end the entire castle was burned to the ground along with everyone in it. Bill Lovie would capture one of the Orcs that was involved in this final attack on the throne room, and it is from this orcs statement that everything is known about the final moments of the King of Bretonia. The Orc said that they had entered the inner throne room and found the King at the dinner table eating with his children, and wife huddled in the corner of the room holding eachother for somesort of comfort. When the Orcs burst in the King begin screaming at them that he couldn't be killed as he was the son of God, and he continued to yell this until an Orc stuck a spear through his chest. Following this the rest of the inhabitents of the room were murdered including the children and his wife.

Collapse of Southern France


First Battle of Marseilles

Main Article : Battle of Marseilles

Last Stand

Battle of Bordeaux

Olarys would gather his forces to Bordeaux and as the Orcs advanced on the fortress he would begin his spell, and as it neared completion he came to understand that it just didn't have enough power and thus in an act of sacrifice he used all of himself sacrificing himself but pushing the spell forward ripping the land around Bordeaux apart killing tens of thousands of Orcs and separating the Crater of Aquintaine from France.

Battle of Orleans

Main Article : Battle of Orleans

Prelude

The Council of Lyons had convened and decided that the fate of France would be decided in the Battle of Lyons. But in order for it to work the western half of Lyons had to be cleared. The only army with any strength with which any hope of success was Eomer's army and he was ordered to head to the city of Orleans and defeat the Orcs there so that they couldn't come in behind the alliance forces while they trapped the Orcs at Lyons.

Eomer and his army arrived near Orleans and when they caught sight of the Orc army they knew it was almost hopeless. There army was only 15,000 while the Orcs has well over a hundred thousand. Eomer and his army made camp and prepared for a suicide charge in the hopes of destroying the Orc army, but everyone knew they would all die. During the night a Dwarven Messenger arrived and said that the Imperial Army of Matron was on their way to the area and would be able to assit in the retaking of Orleans. When the Dwarven Army arrived they were suprised to see how many Orcs there were, with the orcish army well over a hundred thousand in stength. The Dwarves skirted around the southern end of the city and connected with the human force under Eomer Eadig. Now together the Dwarves and humans quickly mobilized and moved directly towards the Orcish force that was now half inside the city and half sitting outside the gates.

The Battle

The main stength of the human/Dwarven force was the fact that the hundred thousand plus force was devided by the fact that they had broken into the city and were now miled about around the outside as much of the army massacred inside the city. The Dwarves and humans devided themselves and the Dwarves attacked the forces in the southern part of the city, while the humans charged the eastern gateway. These attacks were a complete shock to the Orcish forces and led them have their forces nearly completely destoryed outside the city. After hours of tough fighting nealy half of the Orc force lay dead, and the orcs that were not completely lost in bloodlust begin fleeing out the gates where much of them were destroyed by the Dwarves, and humans that now blocked all the gates. With the Orcs destroyed the Dwarves and humans moved into the city and cleared the city of the remaining Orcs.

The Battle was a victory but the delay in waiting for the Dwarves to arrive had led to the Orcs destroying nearly 70% of the city, and a similar percent of the population with nothing but those who had reached the inner castle still alive. With this in mind the city was quickly evacuated with the survivors either going west to the safety of Matron or going north towards Paris.

Fall of the Valley of Loudlon

Invasion of Tristfall

Main Article : Fall of Brionne

Battle of Velousitte

Main Article : Battle of Velousitte

Thilora would lead a force of sentinals from the Gate of El'Glighten to the Bretonian town of Velousitte where she was present to watch as the Orcs surrounded the city and launched sophisticated assaults on the town eventually leading to defeat in the battle but Thilora was able to keep control enough to lead a retreat westward back into Whitemarsh Forest with hundreds of surviving franks from Velousitte and most of her army in tact.

Invasion of Northern France

There was a lull in the fighting following the Orcish defeat at the Battle of Marseilles, and Battle of Lothlorian leading to the Orcs consolidating their holdings in Hispania further and moving there armies which were only now finishing with the final fortresses of Andorra to move northward. With the lull in the fighting the Elves of the Kingdom of Lothlorian would take the most agressive turn in the fighting with King Kael'Thalas Sunstrider reacting very badly to the death of his friend Malitivian Eisenburg's family at Lyons and led several ambushes on Orcish forces moving northward leading to two major events with the first being the Second Invasion of Marseilles which further tied down the Orcish forces, and the second being Kael'Thalas sending his son Kaelen'Tolas Sunstrider on a mission to bring the High Elves to the aid of France.

Battle of Gibraltar

You could win any battle you wanted. Kill any army you wanted. As long as that bridge stood they would just pile more and more troops into Europe. The bridge had to go down.
Kael'Thalas Sunstrider

Kaelen'Tolas Sunstrider would be commanded by his father to travel to Ulthuan using the Great Temple of Silvermoon, and arriving there he was able to convince Tyrion, and Teclis Aestarion to lead a naval force of High Elves to Gibraltar taking part in the Battle of Gibraltar. The High Elves would lead a large fleet from the Port of Lothern and would move towards the Straights of Gibraltar where the High Orcs had massed a large force of Orcs all across the bridge in case of attack by a naval force after the Romans had almost suceeded in destroying the bridge. Alongside these Orcish defenders the Orcs had managed to gather to their forces several hundred human pirate ships, and nearly three hundred heavily armored Umbar ships sent to the bridge on the command of Sauron of whom obviously wanted to see the success of this invasion. The Elves would gather to them nearly two hundred ships from their own fleet at the short notice they were given, while they would also gather another fifty from the Hispania region moving towards Gibraltar, but they were still outnumbered by the defenders in terms of numbers.

Mass Suicide at Viche

Main Article : Mass Suicide at Viche

Following the destruction of the Great Bridge at Gibraltar it was the High Orcs led by Imperator Thun-Tag that would decide that victory in the conflict was now no longer possible and that they needed to make sure that existence of High Orcs was not revealed above anything else. In order to achieve this goal of hiding themselves it was Thun-Tag who commanded a mass suicide and with this order now in place every High Orc was recalled back to Viche leaving the Orcish armies without their leadership caste for the remainder of the war outside of the several noticeable anomalies. Following the Suicide at Viche it was Ner-Zhul, Thrall-Goel, Desh-Toch, and Vor-Pill that would betray their oaths and not commit suicide and while Ner-Zhul and Desh-Toch stayed together and would launch an invasion of Eastern France it was Thrall-Goel who entered isolation with his Goel Clan, while finally Vor-Pill returned to Hispania where he planned on rebuilding the bridge to Africanas so that he could return home.

Battle of Reims

Main Article : Battle of Reims

Following the mass suicide at Viche it was Desh-Toch who led his Clan Toch alongside Ner-Zhul who led his Clan Zhul troops eastward as they made there way towards the Whiterock Mountain where they planned to form their own empire away from the ritual of Emblam, and moving eastward they would recruit thousands of now leaderless Orcs as they made there way eastward and they would mobilize in front of the fortress city of Reims which was the only way to cross the Reim River. Abena would enter the city of Reims during the Battle of Reims and alongside a cadre of her elite handmaidens she would assasinate several prominent members of the defenders and then disabled elements of the main drawbridge allowing the Orcs to enter Reims.

Battle of Karak Matron

Second Battle of Athel Loren

Third Battle of Marseilles

Ottilia's Gambit

Ottilia would during the Battle of Marseilles sneak behind enemy lines with a group of Romans on a mission to destroy the Senegal auxiliary forces who were causing so much damage to their defenses, and during this fight she managed to kill the Senegal leadership but was fatally wounded during the fighting, and went to sleep believing she would die alone on the field.

Battle of Lyons

Main Article : Battle of Lyons

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The opening to the battle would begin with the Human armies moving into position around the besieged city. The commanders in charge had placed a strategy of encirclement with the largest army in the Romans facing what was the strongest section of the Orcs, and the second strongest in The Empire facing the east side..

With this strategy the element of suprise was the most important aspect, and this was mainly due to the fact that the Orc besieging army had well over a million orcs in it. The human alliance was almost six hundred thousand but no where near big enough to compete without an ambush.

The Romans Failure

There is much speculation as to what happened in the Roman lines, and the fact that very few survived, and those that did do not speak of it doesn't help things. It is believed by most that the Romans believed they could take the army without the Bretonian, Lucernian, and Alcase assistence and because of this they begin bombarding the Orc lines. This attack did heavy damage to the closest Orc forces, but it also alerted the whole sieging force that they were surrounded. With the Orcs now at full alert they ignored the city of Lyons and simply charged the nearest human they could find, which meant that the million plus orcs were now charging as one massive pack, and the entire ambush was a failure.

The Aftermath

The Human armies were nearly completely destoyed in the aftermath of the battle, and the only survivors of the battle were many of the actual commanders, along with the most lucky of the men of the armies. Without relief the besieged within Lyons were doomed and the city would fall only a week and a half later, with the loss of its entire 120,000 population.

Final Invasion

Battle of Paris

Harriot Eisenburg would be inside the walls of Paris as the Orcs besieged the city, and at this point moral was extremely low following the disastrous Battle of Lyons and it was left to Harriot to take charge of the city, but the emotional losses she had suffered left her unable to do this leading to the rise of the Lord Duke of Paris in the form of Marcel Frolois becoming the central leader in the defense. With Harriot Eisenburg isolating herself within her personal quarters it was Marcel that at first led the city attempting to resist the advances of the Orcs, but when the Orc army arrived at Paris he quickly changed his mind and begin making arrangements with the Orcs to surrender the city in return for his remaining in power over the city. As a part of the deal for Paris's surrender it was Harriot that was meant to be married to Adonias Sgarfena the son of the Senegal General in command of the attack but when Harriot was alerted to the coming surrender of the city and her marriage to the Adonias she would throw herself from the tower of Paris.

Exodus of the Franks

Following the Collapse of France it was 

Aftermath

It isnt going on a ledge to say that this was the most destructive moment in human history in Europe since the Fall of Numeron. Tens of millions of humans lay dead across Europe, and one of the largest militaries in Europe had been obliterated.

Along side the destruction was the fact that the Orcs now had a breachead from which to attack the rest of Europe, with only the High Elven led Battle of Gibraltar leading to the end of the wave of Orcish immigration into Western Europe.

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War in France

Main Article : War in France

The War in France
First they killed there fellow Orcs, and we did not care because we were not Orcs. Then they came for the Africans, and we didn't care because we were not africans. Then they killed the Romans, and we did not care because we were not romans. When they finally came for us there was no one left to care for us. Let our shame stand over the graves of all those who died here.
Andorra
"They died in their thousands charging at the walls for days, and all they got out of it was wasting alot of our arrows. When we finally massacred the army on the field I couldn't help but ask myself what they were thinking"
-Lord Landuin

Andorra was always going to be where the true battle begin, and it was here that the conflict would be decided. As discussed elcewhere the defenders of Andorra were extremely prepared for an attack against the main fortress of Andorra itself which was protected by the massive 1st Army, but they were not prepared for the Orcs to focus on the smaller castles that surrounded the Andorran mountains. The first act of the war was a silent but probing attack against Andorra by a force of some sixty thousand Orcs of whom attacked the fortress with the only purpose being so that the High Orcs would know the capabilities of the defense. The Orcs would move into the area around the fortress and put it under siege, but they could not even get to the walls as they were being massacred by the hit and run attacks of the first army, and the masive firepower of the defenders. The Battle would end eventually when the First Army accepted noone elce was coming, and proceeded to surround the Orc force and massacre it. During this masacre though they revealed to the onlooking Orcs that the First Army was in place to surround any force that attacked Andorra and because of this the High Orcs decided that a frontal assault would not sucede, and thus they moved to surrounding Andorra itself.

We never had a larger plan at play here. I am so stupid to have put my faith in men like you.
Poncet Mariette

This change in strategy was something that was completely not caught on to by the Bretonian defenders and this coming ambush would be discussed heavily by the Order of the Raven agents present at the Orcish occupied city of Logrono and it was during these discussions that Poncet Mariette would finally make his stand. Realizing from the talk of the top raven in Logrono in the form of Rodrigo Diaz that there was no larger plan in mind behind the obvious Poncet would prepare to leave Logrono for the Andorra fortress to warn them, but was discovered by the other Raven and thus as he made his way north the Raven used Magi divises to warn the larger Raven Order of this, and it was Sayden Ah-Salemi that commanded dozens of Raven all over the area to attempt to intercept the legendary Poncet. Of those sent one of the most notable was Ludwig Krieger of whom loved Poncet as a father but had never truly recovered from what had happened during his time with the Chaos Cult of his youth and thus this would be a turning point for the young man in making his choice. Poncet would be ambushed by two raven while crossing into Bretonia but managed to kill both of them but suffered a wound to his arm which slowed him as he made his way towards Andorra. Poncet would be once again delayed when he found the bridges for crossing the Andorra River had been destroyed by the Bretonians and with the Orcish main invasion still months away the Senegal had not repaired them yet forcing him to travel further downriver to a land crossing but this once again heavily delayed him. Francisco Abarquero, and Gilbert Bonpre IV. arrived in Andorra with a team of Raven before Poncet and the seven raven would prepare an ambush against Poncet of whom having finally reached the area around Andorra realized that his delay would have given the Ravens a chance to reach Andorra before him and thus was prepared for an ambush. During the ambush against Poncet it was the elderly Poncet that would kill them all but took near fatal injuries during the fighting and it was in this state that he was discovered by Ludwig Krieger his former son of sorts.

2nd Battle of Andorra

Orcs surround Andorra
"There were some that begin to whisper that the King had made a mistake in making us believe the conflict was so dire. It seemed to me and many of my men that we could be much more use in the northern battlefields then down here defending against a race little more then children. I mean we were absolutely massacring them all across the lines, and other then a few castles falling everything was going perfect."
-Julien Brunel one week before he died in the Fall of Castle Bayonne

With their strategy in mind the High Orcs would assemble an army of some one million and place it infront of the fortress of Andorra and its goal was to lock the first army into the Andorra fortress by continuesly sending small pieces of its force against Andorra itself. These attacks appeared massive but their purpose was never to win, but from the inside the attacks would look like the blind charge of a stupid race. As they followed this strategy another Orc force of seven hundred thousand locked the forces in Valencia so that they too what be able to be surrounded and destroyed in the same manner. The first true battle in the war would start with horror for the defending forces. News began to break throughout the border that nearly a million Orcs were attacking scout castles all along the Andorran border. What was in truth happening was the Orcs were attacking all along the border but were focusing their attention on trapping the main Bretonian army in the Fortress of Andorra.

The Noose closes

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"The fall of Bayonne was something none of us saw coming, and there was a hesistation amongst us about what to do about its fall, and while we waited the Orcs were heading towards us, now from all directions."
-Lord Landuin

As the defenders of Andorra butchered the attacking Orcs time and time again they failed to understand that the First Army and nearly half of the Bretonian army was being surrounded in Andorra, and the first signs of this was a few vague reports from field commanders that begin to flow in saying that two massive armies were attacking up the flanks of Andorra towards Bayonne, and Bordeaux. These reports were seen as falce by those who saw them and thus it took the fall of Bordeaux and Bayonne for the defenders to understand what was happening. The defenders of Bordeaux were mobilizing to relieve the caslte of Nox south of the town when they discovered tha the Orc army attacking Nox had already destroyed the castle and by this point the Orcs had Bordeaux surrounded and proceeded to massacre the city whose main army had left, and the army fled northwards or risk being trapped in Andorra with the First Army. Nearly at the same time the fort of Bayonne came under assault and while the city itself held out, the castle was overun and fell in less then a week. Because the city had survived the defenders were able to send ravens, and griphon messengers to Andorra with the information that the Orcs were surrounding Andorra and they needed to escape the trap. By this point Lord Landuin was already getting reports that Bordeaux had fallen and as the attacks came from the west and east he knew the time for running was over.

3rd Battle of Andorra

"We killed nearly a million Orcs in that Battle but our army was ruined. Half my commanders were dead, and the men that weren't injured were tired from the fight. When I gave the order to return to Andorra I knew I was ordering a last stand but what choice did I have."
-Lord Landuin

The Third Battle of Andorra was the finality of the conflict in Andorra and it would be a victory for the forces of Bretonia but it would also result in the defeat of the first army which in its absence would make the fortress of Andorra fall months later. Lord Landuin believed in his mind that the army attacking in the south was the largest, and for this reason he created a strategy where he and the first army would attack the force using the shock that their arrival would be to destroy the force. The next day the Orcs would attack and when they did the first army was not their to greet them and thus they put the fortress under siege. The First Army had moved south silently and hit the main force of the south with the entirety of their strength, and over the course of that day the two forces would fight to the death. The Orcs would break ranks at the end of the day and most of the million troops were killed in the battle, but the first army was broken. Of the four hundred thousand men of the army there were less then fifty after its conclusion, and what was left retreated into Andorra in the hopes that they had destroyed the main force and could now hold out until relief came.

Fall of Andorra

Everyone watched the fall of Hispania with little interest at first which as the Orcs took more and more of the land it became an almost fanatical rush to try and come together to save France before the whole continent fell apart.
Bill Lovie

The Orcs breaking out of Hispania caused a massive amount of chaos to spread throughout Europe. At first like many of the members of the Kingdom of Lucerne he looked at it with little importance as he was dealing with a lot of the leadership issues that were going alongside with him taking over from his father. He was pushed in different directions by his council of which some wanted him to stay completely out of the talk of assistance as they didn't want to waste energy protecting their rival in the Roman Empire. While this happened though it was Draco Highmore that would romanticize the protection of the land from the rampaging forces of the Orcs, and thus it was without anyone realizing it that Bill Lovie was becoming very interested in saving the land from the Orcs. A council was held in the French City of Lyon. As king of one of the mighty kingdoms of Europe he attended the council.

Council of Lyons

Main Article : Council of Lyons

Hope was the main emotion I felt learning about what happened at the Council at Lyons. I saw the forces of Europe aligned together to fight the common enemy, and honestly hearing about the forces that would be brought to bear it didn't even pop into my mind that it might not be enough.
James Lovie II.

James Lovie sent envoys to the Bretonian city of Lyons where they met with the leadership of the European human Kingdoms where they would decide the direction they were all going to take. James was strongly on the side of the Bretonians and was fully on board with a completely all in mentality on the part of the humans of Europe. The meeting would go especially well, and would lead to a massive combined human and Dwarf force that would head towards the Lyons area, and take part in the Battle of Lyons.

Flemeth Enters the Fray
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I shall hunt down the forces of Flemeth that enter France. I shall not fail you father.
Helja

While the Human/Dwarven Alliance was massing for its move against the Orcs at Lyons it was other actors that moved further into the area attempting to drive there own goals forward. These two actors were the Thunderlands of Valhalla, and the Korcani Wilds of which the Korcani Wilds and Flemeth wanted to ruin the Kingdom of Bretonia while the Thunderlands wanted to stop this from happening and thus both sent agents into the maelstrom that was France at the time. Flemeth sent in four of her daughters in the form of Peltrasia Dominica, Luciana Cordelier, Isabel Saintyon, and Nicolete Espernon accompanied by several hundred Korcani Knights and nearly three thousand Korcani Men at Arms leaving a large force entering. The Thunderlands would send in a force of four Valkyrie in the form of Helja, Roswita, Hrodny, and Svanhilda who were accompanied by nearly two thousand Vrykul, and ten Storm Giants to oppose the forces of Flemeth leaving the Thunderlands with on paper the more powerful force. Flemeth knew that she could not compete militarily with the Thunderlands and thus that was never her goal instead she sent the entire force to the western front where the Dwarves were battling and made it appear that there goal was helping defeat the Dwarves. While the main force went that way it was Peltrasia, Isabel, and Luciana that went to the city of Reims where the Roman army was massing for its movement north. The three would get inside the Roman court and Peltrasia using Magi was able to get into the mind of the Imperial Legate Lartius Tiburtius convincing him that the two were deeply in love and she had the powers of premonition. While Peltrasia and the other two were manipulating the Romans it was the Thunderlands forces that followed Nicolete who was busying herself destroying bretonian villages and sacrificing villagers to summon to her hundreds of demons allowing her to be viewed as more of a threat then she actually was. Hrodny, and Svanhilda would break off from the main Valhalla forces following a lead and eventually found the other three daughters at the city of Orleans where the Romans had reached, and in a mistake they did not wait for the main force and fought the daughters alone leading to them being killed but also mortally wounding Peltrasia. Without Peltrasia to guide him Lartius became desperate for her return and made a deal with Isabel that he believed would bring her back, but in fact only allowed her to have him possessed by a demon. Now in complete control of the Roman army they moved towards Lyons only days away from the Battle of Lyons.

Your too late Helja. My sisters have control of the Romans. By the time you get there the battle will be a bloodbath. This land is gone.
Nicolete Espernon


Battle of Lyons

Main Article : Battle of Lyons

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I had been to Lyons before the Orcs arrived so I knew what the city looked like in peacetime. Arriving there this time it was almost beyond looking at this time. Unimagineable numbers of Orcs sprawled out like bugs around the city now left this horrifying small circle of space in the middle of the horde.
James Lovie II.

The opening to the battle would begin with the Human armies moving into position around the besieged city. The commanders in charge had placed a strategy of encirclement with the largest army in the Romans facing what was the strongest section of the Orcs, and the second strongest in The Empire facing the east side. With this strategy the element of surprise was the most important aspect, and this was mainly due to the fact that the Orc besieging army had well over a million orcs in it. The human alliance was almost six hundred thousand but no where near big enough to compete without an ambush. There is much speculation as to what happened in the Roman lines, and the fact that very few survived, and those that did do not speak of it doesn't help things. It is believed by most that the Romans believed they could take the army without the Bretonian, Lucernian, and Alcase assistance and because of this they begin bombarding the Orc lines. This attack did heavy damage to the closest Orc forces, but it also alerted the whole sieging force that they were surrounded. With the Orcs now at full alert they ignored the city of Lyons and simply charged the nearest human they could find, which meant that the million plus orcs were now charging as one massive pack, and the entire ambush was a failure.

Lucernians Return to the Valley

Main Article : Lucernian Retreat from Lyons

France - Retreat of Lucerne
We have survived where thousands have not. We owe it to them to make it home.
James Lovie II.

Following the violence and hopelessness that he felt and saw during the War in France, James continued to lead the Lucernians southward but discovered to his increasing horror a land that was now in the control of the Orcs. Reaching the port of Saint Le'Poliel they would be met on the outskirts of the town by Byron Arryn and his men who had been tasked with holding the fleet at Saint Le'Poliel, but had failed when they had been overrun by wave of attackers. From Byron they learned the town had been taken over by the forces of the Orcs but was being held dark skinned humans, and there were far too many defending the town to hope to retake it. Unable to use the ships they had left behind at Saint Le'Poliel they were forced to continue southward where they made their way towards Orleans constantly forced to hide within the forests as the Orcs rampaged across the land. Arriving at the town of Saint Etienne they found the place had been retaken by retreat Roman troops and entering the town they discovered the Romans preparing to leave were stripping the town of its supplies as they did this. Shocked at what was happening but without the troops to protect the remaining Bretonians it was James that commanded the Lucernians out of the town where a small group of Romans followed with their party as they continued southward towards Orleans.

It all just feels so fake, ya know? This idea that good things happen to good people. That there's magic in the world, and that the meek and the righteous will inherit it. Too many good people suffer for that to be true. Too many prayers go unanswered. And every day it just gets worse. Every day we ignore how truly broken this world is, and we tell ourselves it's all going to be okay. But it's not going to be okay. And once you know that, there's no going back. There's no magic in the world...at least today there isn't.
Avidius Agaptus

The ride back from the battle was perhaps the true nail in the coffin as he was riding with a an emotionally distraught Legion Tribune by the name of Avidius Agaptus. Pablius Reeter was a Roman Legion Tribune that survived the battle but watched as three of his children, and his father did not. In this kind of emotional state it wasn't shocking when he was beyond pessimistic. Pablius had been present in the planning meeting where Imperial Legate Lartius Tiburtius had made the decision to attack without the rest of the army, and despite Pablius and the two Legion Legate's arguing against this it was Pablius that overruled them. Pablius would talk of loss with James and this talk made James miss Lisa even more then he did before, and as the situation around them deteriorated it was James that held onto his desire to see Lisa again as the only thing moving him forward. As they moved southward they were met on the road by the forces of House Royce who had been forced out of Reims and had traveled in this direction attempting to assist the main Lucernian forces. Arriving at the town of Saint Etienne they found the place had been retaken by retreat Roman troops and entering the town they discovered the Romans preparing to leave were stripping the town of its supplies as they did this. Shocked at what was happening but without the troops to protect the remaining Bretonians it was James that commanded the Lucernians out of the town while a small group of Romans led by Pablius followed with their party as they continued southward towards Orleans. Arriving at Orleans the Lucernian/Roman force looked on as humans were paraded in large convoys by more of the dark skinned humans as before, and again realizing that they were too few to effect any kind of change James made the decision to turn away from Orleans and keep going south attempting to find any kind of port where they could get ships. While traveling south of Orleans they accumulated hundreds of panicked Bretonian refugees of whom would lead the army towards the port of Saint Velialla where the people said the whole town had been put to the sword or fled as the Orcs moved northward.

Battle of Saint Velialla
Tell me where you come from? Tell me why you did this?
James Lovie II.

Reaching Saint Velialla they found a massacre that was beyond what they could understand as there was no sign of any kind of military in the town, and thus it appeared it was just civilians that had been killed. They were able to find enough ships at Saint Velialla but these ships were under the control of a small garrison of the black skinned humans, but with a suprise factor on their side they would decide to make there move now. The Senegal troops there were led by Addir Istroddir of whom was just finishing looting the town and filling the boats before he would be heading northward to the main site of their forces in Orleans and thus was not in any way prepared for a battle. When the Lucernian force crashed into them the Senegal troops were spread out through the whole town and thus half were killed before they even realized they were under attack and then the Lucernians captured the ships before the Senegal troops could push off into the water. Trohn Royce would be killed during this attack leaving Yohn Royce to become the lord of House Royce as well as forced to leave behind his father as there was no time to bury any of the bodies. Taking what loot they could onto the boats as well as the few surviving slaves joining them they would take several Senegal hostages with them as they moved south on the river. Only Addir was able to speak german and only barely and so James interrogated the commander of whom gave him what information he could in return for promises of being released by the Lucernians. Learning what he could from Addir they would eventually execute the other Senegal troops before releasing Addir with his hands bound in the river to die. Sailing eastward toward Reims where they believed they would find shelter they would instead be stopped on the river by a Magi apparition created by Wilhelm Kissling causing them to come to shore.

Bypassing Reims

Coming to shore they met with Wilhelm Kissling and his men who told them that Reims had been overtaken by the Greenskin while they were gone, and thus they would have to travel by land to get by.

Fall of France

Harriot Eisenburg would be inside the walls of Paris as the Orcs besieged the city, and at this point moral was extremely low following the disastrous Battle of Lyons and it was left to Harriot to take charge of the city, but the emotional losses she had suffered left her unable to do this leading to the rise of the Lord Duke of Paris in the form of Marcel Frolois becoming the central leader in the defense.

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