[OOC] Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

[HereComesTheSnow]

love the image of him just a step to Fleuri's back and right, nodding like fucking Jack Nicholson

[JessieTargaryen]

Okay, hopefully post actually drops tonight without my pc deleting it

[HereComesTheSnow]

been dealing with a minor knee injury, pushing post back a couple days. luckily, also been a couple days to hunt down literature on landsknecht stuff to help me get an idea of what i’ll have Gerard do here

[Raineh Daze]

@HereComesTheSnow Ouch, hope it gets better.

Also, seek out expensive, colourful clothes and extravagantly plumed hats? :p

[HereComesTheSnow]

looking at tomorrow

[VitaVitaAR]

I hope your knee gets better soon!

[HereComesTheSnow]

I think we're making some progress on it. Luckily, I've been very careful with it and caught the twinge early enough that it's not developed into something serious.

Happy Lunar New Year, to those celebrating!

[VitaVitaAR]

Alrighty I'll update this weekend at the latest.

[Raineh Daze]

Lol Haelstadt.

"okay i can kill people pretty fine, but picking my head up after? that's hard"

[Raineh Daze]

I'll post tomorrow.

[HereComesTheSnow]

nothing today, it valentine

an idea is formed for later in the week though

[Raineh Daze]

Well, I planned to post earlier and then my internet decided to be off for hours. Fun.

[VitaVitaAR]

So I decided between updates in the RP I could do some lore dumping on the setting, particularly in relation to concepts or ideas that I've mentioned in the RP already.

This time I'm going to talk about the Vos Korvungand and the Battle of Fenna.

196 years prior to the current year, black-sailed boats landed on the southern shores of Thaln. Unfortunately for the people of Thaln, these were the Vos Korvungand. Bearing the names of northmen pirates in service of the long-fallen Kingdom of Talderia, the Vos Korvungand were vicious raiders who came in vast numbers aboard their black-sailed boats and had a vise-like grip on Eastern Barukstaed. They had traveled from Barukstaed, stopping briefly along the shores to mount smaller raids as they sailed towards their true prize. Their leader, the ambitious Eigurd Bearbiter, believed he could take advantage of Thaln's often volatile state to cut a path directly to the capital, sacking and conquering as he went. His plan from there was to pillage Aimlenn and slay the King and Queen. To this end, over 30,000 northmen arrived on Thaln's shores. Once the had established themselves, the plan was to contact further reinforcements via Bearbiter's sages.

At first they raided local settlements, destroying them and slaughtering or enslaving their people. But by far their most heinous act came when they attacked the City of Kyss, a religious and trading center of Thaln. They overwhelmed Kyss's defenses, pillaged many religious icons for themselves, and murdered the priestesses, taking the young Moonlit Child(a young girl chosen to convey symbolic blessings in Thaln and tied to one of Thaln's holidays) as a prisoner, believing the young girl to be among the valuable treasures of Kyss that could eventually be sold for great profit and that such a fate would be deeply demoralizing for the people of Thaln. Kyss was transformed into their base of operations in Thaln, its people forced into labor or murdered with the Moonlit Child used as leverage over any who would still attempt to resist.

But some escaped the sacking of Kyss, and fled north. While previously the Vos Korvungand had moved swiftly, their presence was now well known.

But at the time, the King's army was depleted from containing orcish raids to the north. And yet, the Iron Rose Knights, with Saint Elionne motivated by righteous fury, swiftly stepped in to take all 200 of their current members southwards to spearhead a counteroffensive. Though it would take some time to muster more soldiers, the knights departed immediately and without hesitation.

At the time, the Vos Korvungand had sent 15,000 of their men to attack the nearby city of Fenna. It was smaller and less well-defended then Kyss had been, and thus they believed it would be an easy victory.

They could not have been more wrong.

Even as Fenna's defenders seemed to be buckling, they were still holding out just enough to keep the Vos Korvungand forces, lead by Eigurd Bearbiter himself, at bay.

It was during a prolonged assault that the Iron Rose Knights arrived. Fully armored and astride armored horses, they attacked in a massed cavalry charge, taking the Vos Korvungand completely by surprise. A wall of steel crushed their right flank and tore through their forces in an utterly devastating blow to the attackers.

It only got worse for them from here.

The battle spiraled out of control as the Iron Rose Knights slew more and more of their number, and Fenna's defenders mounted their own counterattack. 15,000 began dwindle increasingly rapidly, and the true death blow to the attackers came when Saint Elionne killed Bearbiter, decapitating the pirate lord.

It is said that not a single Vos Korvungand survived the battle of Fenna, righteous vengeance having ensured that not a single was spared.

With the King's army arriving in the following days, a swift move was made to retake Kyss. The pirates were unprepared for the attack, and were soon crushed, the Moonlit Child and all remaining prisoners freed. Few Vos Korvungand remained to flee the shores of Thaln.

Many of the clergy had been beheaded and their heads used to adorn the walls of Kyss. They were taken down, and given a proper burial. so many had perished, and yet at the same time so many had been saved.

Kyss had been liberated, and the vicious pirates driven from Thaln's shores.

The Vos Korvungand were crushed utterly. So many of their number, including their leader, had died in a disastrous attempt to pillage the heart of Thaln. Their hold on Eastern Barukstard collapsed, and they vanished completely.

[FlappyTheSpybot]

Hopefully have a reply up tomorrow night, will do my best to not slow things down.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Crimson Paladin@JessieTargaryen: Do you need any help getting a post up?

[Raineh Daze]

@JessieTargaryen You okay?

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll be updating tomorrow.

[VitaVitaAR]

Aah, sorry about the delay, brain felt a bit scrambled trying to post here. ^^;

I'll try and get something up tonight still, might have to wait until tomorrow though.

[Raineh Daze]

As distracting as Elden Ring has been, I'll post over the weekend.

[Sanity43217]

Is this still accepting new people?