Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160531165159/@comment-17114085-20160613114838

(@Fishy: You'll see. Though since I had not seen your previous post before posting mine you might need to edit your last post accordingly.

@Sunny: There is no penalty for taking forts in other regions. As for the settlements, expansion out of your province is severely limited in the mid-game. As you'd need to take one at a time to avoid a revolt, by having your marshal, court wizard and chancellor there to try to control and convert the populace. It would also be easier if you take settlements in provinces that have the same culture/religion group as you. Like Valenwood for example. In Stirk's case you'd need to convert both culture and religion, as both are very different from yours.)

~22nd of Last Seed

The battle went on for some time, both sides losing men along the way.

The first real progress for the Old Holds was when the College Mages were finally put down by the Berserkers. With them out of the way, the remaining 35 Berserkers aided the cavalry in causing chaos among the Winterhold formation.

Winterhold's spearmen had been at the front of the army when the cavalry charged so they weren't able to help stop them. So the Old Holds cavalry was at a great advantage as they charged through the rear formation, mostly consisting of archers and regular mages.

The arrival of the Old Holds archers, that had been on the wall, aided somewhat in dealing with the battle. They climbed up to the roofs of the buildings west of the townsquare and cautiously fired at the Winterhold force, taking longer than usual to fire so that they could do as little friendly fire as possible.

Korst led a push that burst through the enemy formation, using his paralysis spell and Craven's Bane to create a weakspot in the formation and let his men break past.

From there the battle devolved into an all out skirmish between the armies, with both barely maintaining any strict formation. Winterhold's force had dropped to 500 while the Old Holds was at 700 soldiers, counting the 100 archers that had joined up.

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~7th of Hearthfire

A letter from the new Lord of Gnottlesfont arrived in Hackdirt congratulating his brother on reclaiming their ancestral home and asking him how the town was after the battle that had taken place the previous month. He had sent his letter in advance so that it arrived a day after his brother was planned to arrive in Hackdirt.

The courtiers of Hackdirt, whom were currently keeping the peace and ruling the town as there was no Baron, were confused at the letter's contents and wrote a reply to the new Lord questioning him about the contents.

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~10th of Hearthfire

The letter from Hackdirt arrives in Gnottlesfont. The new Lord is confused at learning that his brother had not arrived in Hackdirt. Still he decided to wait in case there had been a delay on the road and his brother took longer than expected to arrive.

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~12th of Hearthfire

When no other reply from his brother had come, the Lord grew worried and wrote to the king asking about his brother and Iagun's escort.

He also sent out guards to search the road from the village to the town for any trace of his missing brother.

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~15th of Hearthfire

The new Lord's letter arrived in Chorrol addressed to King Parius.

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~16th of Hearthfire

The unit of guards discovered the old Lord's corpse in the woods. As he had been dead for 2 weeks his body had begun to decay, but it was clear who he was because of his clothes. Many of the wounds were still visible, so the cause of death was brutal murder. The fact that there were no other corpses nearby, especially no bandits nor Iagun and his men made them heavily suspiscious.

The guards took the rotting corpse of the old Lord with them on their way back to Gnottlesfont.

(I won't post more because you need to reply to the letter portion of my post. When you do I will post the events after the 16th.)

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~25th of Hearthfire

The Lord of Mathiisen sent word to the Viscount of Skywatch, asking for assistance in dealing with the revolt.

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The Skywatch army, save for the soldiers of Mathiisen who were busy dealing with the revolt, had been gathering in Fort Thir, near the border with Firsthold to the north.

Word of the Empress and a large portion of her army had reached the Viscount a few weeks back and he began preparations for an invasion of his northern rival. The only problem stopping him from immediatly attacking was Cloudrest, but he had a plan to deal with it. He just needed a few more days to receive the reply from his new potential ally.