Battle of Windhelm (Empire's Fate)

The Battle of Windhelm was a battle that took place from the 8th - 10th of Morning Star 4E 203. The battle began with an advancing Inperial Legion besieging Windhelm, with a smaller detachment aiding them from Winterhold. The Stormcloaks were blocked from any route out of Windhelm, with the Imperial Navy awaiting in the harbor and along the bay to the Sea of Ghosts.

Battle
Approaching from the south, the larger force of Inperials besieged the city and began using catapults to attack the walls. The Imperial Navy did so as well, and portions of the old city walls quickly fell. Stormcloak archers were fet with a volley of arrows and firevalls from battlemages, but not eithout Imperial losses from the archers as well. For most of the first day of battle, it was mostly ranged combat. On the second day, the small Winterhold detachment arrived, and General Tullius gave orders to begin assaulting the city, from there until the next day, civilians and soldiers were butchered. A slow advance to the Palace of Kings, the Imperials continued to counterattack any Stormcloak advances. Galmar Stone-Fist, the second in command of the Stormcloaks, was shot by an arrow, and he is allegedly stumbled back to the Palace to Ulfric to be by his side when the inevitable came. By the early hours of the third day of battle, many Stormcloak soldiers were dead ir wounded, and a last-ditch effort by the Palace Guard resulted in them being completely destroyed by battlemages. General Tullius and Legate Rikke entered the palace to face against Ulfric and Galmar in a duel. The already weakened Galmar was stabbed in the stomach by Legate Rikke, and attempted to flee, he was killed by Imperial troops outside the Palace. Ulfric Stormcloak, using the Thu'um, attempted to kill the General and Legate, while the Legate was knocked unconscious, Tullius stood standing, and while still down, sliced Ulfric's legs. Ulfric fell, and demanded he be killed. Tullius obliged, and stabbed the Stormcloak leader in the chest, killing him.

Result
With the death of the two leaders of the Rebellion, the new de facto leader of the Rebellion, Hjalmar Frozen-Bear; signed the peace treaty. A new jarl of Windhelm was put in place, and the city has since now been occupied be Imperial soldiers. In the countryside, some Stormcloak soldiers remain, and most have willingly chosen to go back to their homes.