=Event Story=
Scenario 1 – Stormjarl and The Yurnai
Nightriver and Newhope continue their push into Grimward territory with renewed vigor now that the worst of the Spring thaw and storms are behind us. With Spring’s sweet heat rousing moods, the combined forces of Newhope and freshly-arrived Clan Nightriver, now with concentrated focus, resume their campaign to push against Grimward across the Yurnai River. The influx of fresh Nightriver warriors has renewed morale and allowed Newhope to push the warfront further into Grimward controlled territory making it less dangerous to navigate the area.
Similarly, with Clan Stormjarl’s recent success in taking some lost land back from Clan Grimward, hunger for revenge has grown amongst the warriors and even many in leadership. Now though, the clan’s own built outposts on the northern half of The Scar stand in their way, having been sieged and taken by Grimward during their invasion the prior year.
Each area’s confidence has sharpened into boldness, and both sides feel ready to push into a new offensive. Connecting the Yurnai Bridge to Stormjarl territory would strengthen the tentative foothold around the bridge, making it much more easily defensible, and allowing an easier, much safer means of getting support to and from mainland Stormjarl territory. In a coordinated effort, Clan Stormjarl has begun their attack northeast up the river while Newhope and Clan Nightriver attack southwest down the river, hoping to connect in the middle and create a land path to join the three allies and their critical supply lines.
Opposing this renewed campaign are the warriors of Clan Grimward, who have also spent the winter preparing for war and recovering from the defeat at the Battle of Blooded Shores. The emboldened martial forces and stretching supply lines of various allies will be put to the test, as any territory taken from Grimward will need to be pried away from stalwart warriors in their own lands. The success, or failure, of these critical first engagements will reveal if this campaign across the Yurnai carries forward this initial momentum or breaks upon the defenses of the enemy.
Scenario 2 – Shattered Spear Resistance
With the recent revelation of Clanleader Laifnar Icefury’s survival and his proclamation to rise up, a fire has been lit in the Ulven of Shattered Spear. While those who escaped Stonetooth’s initial attack two years ago continue to help allied forces push back towards their homelands, the Shattered Spear who were unlucky to be conquered have started fighting back. The Shattered Spear resistance has begun.
The resistance has given Stonetooth a taste of their own medicine, employing hit and run tactics to free their own thralled people and overrun settlements. While the tactics have been quite successful, it has drawn the attention of the main Stonetooth forces who have abandoned the Goldenfield warfront and now travel back to Shattered Spear lands.
With Stonetooth now bearing down on them and Shattered Spear Ulven still imprisoned in their own lands, the resistance has a hard battle ahead. Many of their people know that they may not survive to see summer, but still aim to make an impact far behind the war’s frontlines and crimson the ground of their homeland with invader’s blood.
=Event Summary=
Saturday: Stormjarl and the Yurnai
Newhope and Stormjarl’s effort to join warfronts was anything but a slow start, as each side immediately found themselves needing to strategize their fighting power, while also a mysterious Grimward archer sent arrows with cryptic messages into each camp. With no time to waste decoding what could’ve been nothing, fighters went out to defend their camps against Grimward.
Newhope’s lack of front-line fighters became an immediate concern when their forces were pushed back just enough to let Grimward raiders slip through to do damage to their supply line. Scouts did their best to be quick on their feet to deliver messages between camps, but with the constant pressure Grimward was placing, both on the camps and the traveling scouts, the message was not quick enough to save Newhope from another defeat.
Stormjarl, being successful so far on their side, decided to ferry over all the warriors they could spare. Now stretched thin, the warriors who stayed continued their success by the skin of their teeth. Patched-up armor and patched-up bodies managed to carry the Stormjarl side until finally, there was enough of an opening to merge the camps together. Unfortunately, the support from Stormjarl wasn’t enough to pull together the line for the Newhope side, and Grimward raiders continued to wreak havoc on their supply lines.
The merging of the camps finally gave each side a moment to breath, and finally the time to decipher the strange messages that had been shot into their respective camps at the beginning of the day. As it turned out, each camp had received half of a larger puzzle, beaconing them to a location at a certain time.
The night persisted with more pressure from Grimward, but thanks to all the warriors being together, no more raiders were able to break through. As for the mysterious meeting point—only tight lips can be found among the brave group that ventured out to it.
Newhope’s forces may have been forced to a halt, but the continued success of Clan Stormjarl was just able to secure the combined warfront. Only time will tell if the allied forces are able to keep it that way.
Sunday: Shattered Spear Resistance
As the sun rose and crossed the sky, the Shattered Spear resistance, lead by Clanleader Laifnar Icefury, worked to push through Stonetooth warriors and Thrallkeepers to free their kin and push further into the stolen Shattered Spear territory.
As Thralls were freed and joined the ranks of the resistance fighters, more territory was able to be taken and held against Stonetooth. Several successful ambush attacks gained the group enough ground that High Priestess Gyda Shattered Spear, previously taken hostage by Stonetooth at the start of the war, was able to be saved from Stonetooth’s captivity.
While the group found initial success in the rapid guerilla tactics, Stonetooth’s main army returning from the front lines to the east began to respond to the uprising; descending on the pockets of resistance across the clan, with very few being able to escape before the clanleader’s personal group was completely surrounded. Quickly finding themselves surrounded with limited options, the resistance fighters were forced to decide who would stay to buy time for the delegates and fighters selected to carry the stories of their time under Stonetooth further south into friendly territory.
Those chosen to take the dangerous passage back to safer lands left swiftly, leaving the brave resistance fighters to stand against the growing forces of Stonetooth. Their final fight was explosive, with every fighter refusing to go alone to the Great Wolf, taking down as many Stonetooth with them as they could. The Clanleader, refusing to leave his people even in the face of overwhelming odds, fought until the bitter end alongside the other Shattered Spear warriors who refused to yield to Stonetooth’s forces.