Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150127181142/@comment-17114085-20150129134749

(Do you remember when Silith and Vehkguard were founded? Because then we could keep track of how much it is developing. Also it takes resources to have the colonies keep growing. They don't just grow by themselves, which is why every town, village and settlement don't grow. For example Kynesgrove is a village, but it has been 6 years since it was introduced in part 1. However it hasn't grown into a town because they haven't been using up their money and resources to do so.)

Eastmarch was outside of Whistling Village. Whistling Mine grew into a settlement and then into a village since the 4th Era. They had less men there than Kastav did. Only 300 soldiers. Their defenses were below average, but still they didn't surrender.

Jarl Engar had been trying to get the Lord of the village to surrender for a while but he wouldn't accept it. He thought of attacking the village but word from the scouts say that Winterhold's army was marching south to the village and would arrive soon. So the Jarl thought it best to deal with the army first instead of having to deal with the village first, possibly losing more men and wasting time.

The problem would be that if they marched north then Whistling Mine could later attack them from the rear and that could turn the tide of the battle against Winterhold. Instead he decided to march back down to Kastav and await for the army there. It took a few weeks (They arrived in Whistling village a few months back, as the battle for Kastav was on the 3rd month and now it is the 7th.) but they arrived, and waited.

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Winterhold's forces reached Whistling Village and gathered all 300 men from there. The Lord of the village didn't like this but the Jarl of Winterhold didn't give him a choice. With 1500 men now in his forces the Jarl marched south to meet Eastmarch in battle near Kastav.