Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24793042-20150820043328/@comment-24793042-20150827135258

(Double Post, because I have the time for it.)

When Scouts returned saying they couldn't tell how many magi were encamped, Valerian had Andromeda scan the area with her orb of glass. She knew the exact number, and it wasn't so far from our own. Apparently the Magi had enough men to damage an unprepared city-state.

Marius left the Blue Palace right Away, bringing forth the right of conscription to those too poor to pay it off. He then used it on mercenaries who had done crimes before, threatening with jail time if they didn't listen. Then lastly came the actual soldiers.

Within 2 hours, the army had amassed at the Embassy. They surrounded it, and climbed the now crumbling walls. The Magi hadn't predicted it, and many were killed or knocked out before they knew they were even under attack. Once they began fighting back as a whole, things became trickier.

It wasn't until an hour more that the Embassy had been taken. Due to the General's strategy, the most deaths occurred in the mercenary groups and peasants. The General had only managed to capture 78 slaves, since others had been killed or too wounded.

Later on that day, the General's son, Mercius, was named Count of 'New Bruma' by Valerian himself. The peasants and mercenaries that had actually survived being used as cannon fodder were given buildings at the Embassy as estates, and the 78 Servants all went through the mentally crippling process that prevented magic use. From there, they were sold to passing privateers, merchants, and noblemen. The Pay from it all was 200,000 Titans and a trade for some Altmer slaves.