Spice and Warforged/War

Fall of Iota

 * Isle Valo, lead by Arix Stormbrood and Hope, 20 Namesworn, 10 sailors, the Dragonsbane
 * Iota:
 * Team Monkey, lead by Son Wukong, 32 children, 20 jetskis
 * Edges of Iota, leaderless, 18 children, 10 jetskis
 * 30 October, 347 YD, on the Island of the Ancients, Tyrfing Archipelago
 * Isle Valo victory. Iota incorporated into Valo Autonomous Zone, Monkeys and Edges incorporated into Valorous Lucians.

The Monkeys and Edges fought to defend Iota. The Edges had recently lost their leader, Adolf Vice; the Monkeys, realizing that Isle Valo did not want to hurt them, stood down quickly, while the Edges took a few more hours to yield. By the end of the night, Arix Stormbrood had persuaded them to stand down. Due to the revivifying effect of Iota, there were no casualties on either side.

After the battle, Light befriended the children and convinced them to join the Valorous Lucians. Tyrfing rewarded Isle Valo for bringing Iota to heel by incorporating Iota into the Valo Autonomous Zone and providing them with a new ship, the Transient. The loyalist Valorous Lucians opposed to Light who had fled to Iota after his coup of Isle Valo fled during the battle.

Massacre at Topos

 * Nation of Thor, lead by Khemed Gogz, 1 Paragon
 * Confederacy of Ashen Waters, unarmed, 6 military casualties; 200 civilian casualties
 * 18 November, 347 YD, at the League of Legends, Topos, Capital Prefecture, the Confederacy of Ashen Waters
 * Nation of Thor victory. League of Legends massacred. Beginning of conflict between Nation of Thor and Ascaloni alliance.

Out for revenge for the actions of Project ROSCOE, Khemed Gogz called an earthquake to massacre the League of Legends. He then hunted down the survivors, killing most of them with a firestorm.

Battle of Lahaina

 * Confederacy of Ashen Waters, lead by Tall Gun, 20,000 troops; 20,000 military casualties, including Tall Gun
 * Nation of Thor, lead by Khemed Gogz, 6 Paragons, 300 militia; 100 militia casualties, 300 civilian casualties
 * 15-21 December, 347 YD, at Lahaina, Great Solister, Nation of Thor
 * Nation of Thor victory. Confederacy forced to abandon invasion of Great Solister.

“Khemed, how good it is to see you in such good health.” A masked figure seems to appear before Khemed in his chambers. “I’ve asked that you refrain from doing the sudden appearances you know how I feel about that.” Khemed says to the figure. “Well, Paragon, I thought you might like to know as soon as possible that a new alliance has been created for the sole purpose of destroying all that you have recovered from the Lathbroods.” “Furthermore, I thought you should know that they are poised to land 20,000 troops in Kitauji Strait on Greater Solister very soon.” Khemed sighs “They just won’t get it; I’ll have to break them myself. There is no reason to continue the bloodshed of my people, that’s what started this war in the first place.” The figure continues, “These troops will be landing on the shores in 3 large ocean bound vessels and their only target is you.”

Khemed simply stands up upon hearing this from the figure, and thanks him for what he could do. “I am simply not the monster they may claim me to be, but I’m more than willing to accommodate just to play a show for President Steele.” Khemed calls out to the shadows to Garagin, who appears in a cloud of black dust. “Yes 6th Paragon?” Khemed smirks, as Garagin has gotten much more powerful as a spymaster since the civil war between the Lathbroods and Solister. “Garagin, I need you to prepare for an invasion, this new alliance needs to be stopped as soon as possible before we have a second event of destruction though Solister and this is of the upmost importance.” “This alliance has come for me; they know I was the one to dish punishment out to the men behind cardinality and Project ROSCOE.” They think me a monster so I will go and be the monster they wish to see.” “I will go alone to meet part of their army and summon the very might I was given to protect our lands and wreak havoc among those foolish enough to come to our nation.”

“Garagin you have been my most trusted advisor and friend throughout the years, I fear that this may take a toll on all of us and we must be prepared for the worst. Should anything happen to me you must act in my place until the people can elect their new elder. Do not let them subjugate our people again.”

Garagin nods to Khemed, “By your orders, Paragon.” Voice cracking at the end hiding tears as he disappears into the shadows once more.

The figure, still watching “I have done what I can, the rest is up to you. However, the Confederacy was alone the last time you fought against them. With both Murakami and The Confederacy’s might combined how will you hope to defeat them?” Khemed simply sighs and looks the figure in his fiendish eyes. “I will do what I must to secure the future of the Nation of Thor.”

Khemed dismisses the Figure and begins to leave, being sure to pack for the journey as well as grab his hammer and the book of titanite. It will take about 4 days to get to that part of Solister and he wants to be ready for whatever fodder the Alliance decides to throw at Khemed.

Four days later, Tall Gun finishes writing his report on the battle. The local resistance is quelled, with negligible losses to us. The enemy has not shown himself, and we are building fortifications to prepare for when that happens. It will be done in two days, Migalo willing; now that the plan is in place, justice will be served. As he lifts his finger off the keyboard, a bullet strikes it, sending the giant Warforged reeling. He stands up and collects himself, and notices his assailant: his own guard.

“What is the meaning of this?” Tall Gun roars and charges at the guard, taking another bullet to the chest. Being a Warforged, he feels not pain, yet still feels rage, fueled more by the betrayal than the lead peppering him. He lunges forward, grabs the traitor, and throws him through the window, sending a rain of robot parts and broken glass down several stories into the madness below.

On the ground, the Confederate soldiers had turned on each other, stabbing and slicing and shooting and stunning each other just as if they had been mortal enemies. Irene, Tall Gun knows. His superiors had intimated the known powers of the Five Paragons of Thor, the ancient heroes of Thor’s cult, whose gifts had been inherited by Khemed. Previously, Dorin Lathbrood had called upon Irene to enslave tens of thousands of civilians to attack the allied armies besieging his fortress in Hibike -- but Dorin was not gifted as Khemed was, and his feeble attempt at breaking allied ranks was nothing like the carnage Tall Gun is now faced with.

The wreckage of a Warforged slams into the watchtower. Tall Gun does just as all of the other Warforged who’d avoided Irene’s fell magicks do: he slammed the door shut, barricaded it with a table before more enemies could take cover, and ducked.

The next day, Khemed passes through what just a week prior had been the town of Lahaina, home of some hundreds of local kobolds. No more: seeing the Confederates approaching, it seemed, the young men of the village had dared put up a fight. Now those young men were dead, the village nothing more than ash, broken glass, and stone, and their wives, parents, and children gone Thor alone knows where.

As with Tall Gun, Khemed’s preternatural abilities does not protect him from his emotions. He slams Thor’s Mercy into a smouldering pile of wood. “The bastards will pay. They will pay. Come forth, Yeri! Come forth, O Wendigo!”

As Khemed speaks, stormclouds gather overhead, and what was once a sunny day turns to impenetrable darkness. Rain begins to fall -- lightly at first, but then in a blinding storm. The earth itself roars and thunder claps.

Just as quickly as the storm came, it fades. As the rain stops, a new sort of precipitation forms: one flaming airship cleft in twain by lightning, then two, three, fall from the sky, just as comets rain down in the night. The fuming craters they leave behind, covered in the remains of thousands of men and machines, level what remains of Lahaina.

Khemed’s work is not done here. “Come forth, Seulgi. Allow the fallen of Lahaina to avenge their families. Make the fallen of the Confederacy rise up against their masters.” To which the dead speak in a gravelly chorus: “Yes, Master Khemed. Yes, Master Seulgi. We will avenge our families. We will rise up against our masters.” The corpses climb from the ground and begin marching towards the site of the last Confederate airship dock.

Khemed’s work is still not done here. “Come forth to my aid, Joyeuse.” He feels lighter, faster, stronger. He embarks with his newly forged army of undead and draws Thor’s Mercy.

The hooded figure, now with his mask off, watches from his home, thousands of miles away from the front, through his attendant mage’s scrying bowl. He feels satisfied, as he sucks on a tart little lozenge: everything has occurred precisely according to his foresight. Such fun is rarely enjoyed by mortals -- is this what being a god feels like?

It seems that Khemed, not content enough to bleed the enemy from far away, has charged onto the front lines himself. He slays twenty Warforged, thirty, fourty, crushing their mechanical skulls one by one with Thor’s Mercy. Every time he strikes, he absorbs their strength and grows faster, more furious.

He is bloodlust.

Lightning arcs from Thor’s Mercy and cuts through another ten Warforged. Meanwhile, the army of undead is storming Tall Gun’s last airship. Tall Gun, it seems, is ready to abandon the evacuation efforts and just save the few lucky Confederates who are already on the ship.

Not if Khemed has his say. He charges the airship, and leaps on board just as it takes off. Breaking down the door, he encounters Tall Gun.

The Confederate commander has no time to beg for mercy, or to offer a peace deal. His head, as those of thousands of his subordinates, falls.

The hooded figure chuckles and pops another lozenge into his mouth. “Seems I just did the Weird Sisters’ jobs for them, and all it took was a little well-placed information.”

But as with Khemed, the hooded figure’s work is not done here. He goes downstairs to continue preparing his captor for his true purpose.

Mission to Lesser Sputnik

 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by General Cato Nema, 50+ spies, 100,000 undead
 * Nation of Thor, lead by Garagin, 200 troops; no military casualties, 5 Priests of Thor captured
 * 21 December, 347 YD, at Lesser Sputnik, Nation of Thor
 * Murakaman victory. Nation of Thor forced to halt war for the time being.

While Gogz and the Paragons were distracted by the Battle of Lahaina, Murakami appeared to begin a siege of Lesser Sputnik. This was just a feint, as while the defenders were preparing for battle, he sent in a team of spies who captured five Priests of Thor and imprisoned them on the Murakaman spaceship Enact, out of Khemed's reach, for use as hostages. General Nema withdrew all his troops before Khemed could return.

Fall of Apollonius

 * Tyrfing:
 * Tyrfing-on-Ascalon, lead by Admiral Nagisa Mulbari, 4 ships, 100 naval troops; 3 causalties
 * Isle Valo, lead by Hope, 20 Namesworn, 20 sailors, 2 ships (Dragonsbane and Transient)
 * Tuske Laboratories, lead by Oak Tuske, 5 mages, 20 sea monsters, 200 undead; all sea monsters and undead destroyed, Oak Tuske and all mages captured
 * 1-5 January, 348 YD, at Apollonius, Tyrfing Archipelago
 * Tyrfing victory. Apollonius recaptured, all necromantic experiments stopped.

As part of the campaign to reclaim the Tyrfing Archipelago, Tyrfing-on-Ascalon and Isle Valo launched a joint attack on the island of Apollonius, home of the "sovereign citizen" archmage Oak Tuske, who used the island for illegal magical experiments. Once his sea monsters and army of undead were gunned down, Tuske surrendered without a fight and was arrested.

Destruction of Moralia Drydocks

 * Isle Valo, lead by Bill Harlow, 4 heroes
 * The Monster, lead by One-Eye, 20 pirates; 3 casualties, including One-Eye.
 * 5 January, 348 YD, at the Moralia Drydocks, the Monster, Tyrfing Archipelago
 * Isle Valo victory. Moralia Drydocks burned. Beginning of conflict between Isle Valo and the Monster.

After the first mate, One-Eye, of the pirates on the Monster forcibly attempted to recruit Bill Harlow and his team into a mission to assassinate Arix Stormbrood and Cucamelon Cucumber, and the Monster trapped Harlow's team, Harlow and company responded by killing or routing the pirates, and then burning the drydocks to the ground.

March on Teichmueller

 * Nation of Thor, lead by Paragon Khemed Gogz, 2 Paragons, 30,000 undead
 * Murakami and allies:
 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by Colonel Percy Kang, 10,000 troops, 50,000 undead
 * Confederacy of Ash, lead by Major Edvard von Tilly, token support
 * Evermulch, lead by Major Milo Lawreit, token support
 * 5-8 January, 348 YD, at Base Meriele and Hartshorne, District Arakelov, Ame-no-Murakami
 * Inconclusive.

Following the abductions during the mission to Lesser Sputnik, Gogz called upon the Paragons to give him control of one of the undead armies at Base Meriele, and ordered them to sack Teichmueller. Murakami and its allies prepared to make a stand at the city of Hartshorne, but Gogz suddenly stood down, narrowly averting disaster.

Battle of Sentimentarchu

 * Tyrfing and allies:
 * Tyrfing-on-Ascalon, lead by Admiral Nagisa Mulbari, 4 ships, 500 troops; 15 casualties
 * Isle Valo, lead by Arix Stormbrood, 2 ships, 30 Namesworn, 50 other troops, 4 heroes; 2 casualties
 * Rakastae of the Monster, lead by Samira, 20 parrot-riders, 80 tiger-riders; 5 casualties
 * The Monster and allies:
 * The Monster, lead by the Dread Captain Sahir, 700 pirates, 12 ships, 6 sea monsters; 500 captured, all else casualties; 6 ships sunk, 4 sea monster casualties; Dread Captain Sahir dead
 * Gyro, material support
 * Ame-no-Murakami, material support
 * 6-8 January, 348 YD, at Sentimentarchu, the Monster, Tyrfing Archipelago
 * Decisive Tyrfing victory. Sentimentarchu destroyed, all pirates on the Monster arrested.

After destroying the Moralia Drydocks, Harlow's team used a car bomb to destroy a neighborhood of the pirate city of Sentimentarchu. Three of them were captured shortly after, but two forces -- rakasta and Tyrfing-aligned -- attacked Sentimentarchu, seeing the carnage caused by the truck bomb and a subsequent fire at the docks as an opportunity to destroy the pirates and rescue Harlow's team.

After the rakasta parrot-riders destroyed the pirate barracks by calling down a comet, their tiger-riders stormed the ruins of the city. Though their numbers were inferior, the pirates had no leadership due to the deaths of One-Eye and Dread Captain Sahir, who was personally killed by Harlow's team, so they routed at the sight of the tiger-riders, fleeing into what was left of their ships, where they were easy prey for Isle Valo and the Tyrfing navy, even though they called forth sea monsters to cover their escape.

Siege of the Baby Monster

 * Tyrfing and allies:
 * Tyrfing-on-Ascalon, lead by Admiral Nagisa Mulbari, 4 ships, 500 troops
 * Isle Valo, lead by Hope, 1 ship, 20 Namesworn, 40 other troops
 * The Baby Monster, 3,000 pirates
 * 13 January, 348 YD-???, at the Baby Monster, Tyrfing Archipelago
 * Ongoing.

The siege of the last pirates holding out against Tyrfing following the arrests at Sentimentarchu.

The Chaorkartel Summit

 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by ???, at least 10,000 undead, some geasmasters, and others; 30 casualties, including Prime Minister Raon Lee
 * The Confederacy of Ash, no clear leadership, 30 bodyguards, 50 Warforged; 80 casualties
 * Neutral parties:
 * The Nation of Thor, lead by Khemed Gogz
 * Isle Valo, lead by Bill Harlow, 3 heroes
 * Nox's Family, lead by Carmen, 20 paladins; 2 casualties
 * 20 January, 348 YD, at Chaorkartel, the Disputed Territories of New Ascalon and Arakelov
 * Beginning of open war between Ame-no-Murakami and the Confederacy, and martial law in Ame-no-Murakami

Unclear what actually happened here.

Battle of Nox's Family

 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by Colonel Niclause Cater, 10,000 undead, 1 Law; 7,000 undead destroyed, 1 Law captured
 * Defenders:
 * The Confederacy of Ash, lead by Sargent Samson Pattinson, 1 Blaster
 * Isle Valo, lead by Arix Stormbrood, 4 heroes, 30 Namesworn; 2 dead
 * Nox's Family, lead by Carmen, 200 paladins, 1000 footsoldiers; 30 dead
 * 20-21 January, 348 YD, at Nox's Family, New Ascalon, the Confederacy of Ash
 * Confederate victory; Murakami abandons plans to raze New Ascalon.

After the Chaorkartel Incident, Murakami began a full-scale invasion of New Ascalon, and their vanguard was first met with resistance at Nox's Family. Before the invasion of Nox's Family proper, however, a strike team from Isle Valo captured the Second Law, using it to exterminate hundreds or thousands of undead soldiers that surrounded the city, even as the defenses of Nox's Family were overrun and the eastern half of the city destroyed. After the Second Law forced Murakami into retreat, a Blaster arrived and routed the remaining invaders.

Battle of the Mutemiyah Valley

 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by General Runxi Chang Shen, 200,000 undead, 30,000 mortals
 * The Confederacy of Ash, lead by General Alphonse Eisenbud, 80,000 Warforged, 16,000 mortals, 2 Blasters
 * 21 January, 348 YD-???, at the Mutemiyah Valley, Poetsbane, the Confederacy of Ash
 * Ongoing.

Owing to the fierce resistance and extreme weather in New Ascalon, the Murakaman invasion moved to the past of least resistance -- into Poetsbane. Following word from a spy that a Confederate caravan was planning to send supplies through Kaiserion, the Murakaman troops came within thirty miles of Kaiserion, only to be stopped by a host of Confederates, and locked into a bloody stalemate in the Mutemiyah Valley.

Battle over New Spanos and Ozymandias

 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by General Francis McLintere, 2,800 pilots
 * The Confederacy of Ash, lead by General Thea Shiloh, 1,750 pilots
 * 21 January, 348 YD-???, airspace over Ozymandias, Poetsbane, and New Spanos, New Ascalon, the Confederacy of Ash
 * Ongoing.

Concurrently to the battle of the Mutemiyah Valley, the Murakaman invasion force sent bombers to soften up the defenses of New Spanos. As this move was expected, the Confederates defended the city, but the Murakaman attack was just a feint: their primary goal, Ozymandias, was left ill-defended by this maneuver, and by 23 January air raids had destroyed several Confederate military facilities in Ozymandias.

Battle of Evermulch

 * The Confederacy of Ash, lead by General Vincent Kamemarsh, 30,000 Warforged, 1 Blaster
 * Evermulch, lead by General Anapest Underborough, 2,000 regulars, 25,000 irregulars
 * 22 January, 348 YD-???, at Evermulch, Farglance
 * Ongoing.

The Confederacy sought to cut off Murakaman supply lines, most prominently their trading partners in Farglance. After a bombing run, the Confederates landed outside Evermulch and demanded surrender, beginning a fierce urban combat under the walls of Evermulch.

Battle of Borns-Weil

 * Allies:
 * The Weird Sisters, lead by Joy Alya, 50 conspirators, the Damocletian
 * The Nation of Thor, lead by Paragon Khemed Gogz, 200 troops
 * The Valorous Lucians, lead by Arix Stormbrood, 50 Namesworn, 4 heroes, 1 Law, 600 troops
 * The Monster, lead by Bahira, 190 rakastae
 * Ame-no-Murakami, lead by General Cato Nema, ??? troops, the Fei-Meng
 * 25 January, 348 YD-???, airspace over Murkville, Borns-Weil, the Confederacy of Ash