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My Lords, Ladies and noble knights, pray take heed whilst I tell you of the battle between the NobleViscomte de Eskmeals and the vile High Elf trespassers of Prince Rathirlan of Caledor.

It was the twenty fifth day of the Season of Sun in the one thousandth five hundredth and forty fifth year of our Lady, in the twenty third year of the reign of our most noble and Gracious Louen

Leoncoeur, King of Bretonnia, Duc de Couronne, Defender of the Faith, Beloved son of Bretonniaand Champion of our most Holy Lady.

James Bigert, Viscomte de Eskmeals sat in his great hall presiding over the evening feast, attended byhis personal household, when a lone Yeoman burst in through the great oak doors. He staggereddown the length of the Hall past the startled guests and family members to finally collapse at hislords feet. Le Viscomte rose from his seat and bent to the fallen warrior, with his dying breath the

young peasant whispered that a great fleet had landed on the shores of the Viscomtes domain and alarge army was disembarking.

Le Viscomte arose calling his personal household to him and ordering his squires to fetch his armour

and saddle his Warhorse. A few scant hours later he and his men were fully armed, armoured and saddled with his personal standard unfurled. The local peasant militia had been roused and the small force marched forth.

Le Viscomte de Eskmeals led his force of seven Knights, his son carrying his personal standard, hisdaughter the Damsel Elisabeth, five mounted yeomen and their Warden, Pierre Bonn, and a smalldetachment of ten peasant bowmen led by their Villein. The final addition to Le Viscomtes force wasthe Field Trebuchet, Le Thunder , drawn by six oxen.

Le Viscomte carried his Birthsword, given unto him by his Father on his birthing day, a great helmmade of Gromril gifted to his Family by Snorri Grimesson, and finally a seed of rebirth held by his

family for generations. His ever duteous son carried the Banner of Chalons into battle. The Lady Elisabeth carried the chalice of Malfleur.

As they marched toward the beach the Mounted Yeomen scouted ahead under the expert guidance oftheir veteran warden, six hours after dawn Pierre reported to Le Viscomte that a small force of Elveshad been sighted nearing the lookout tower of Gubbergill, held by a detachment of 10 peasantbowmen and their Villein. Le Viscomte thought about the tower and its location. He rememberedthat the tower had been defended by Blazing Barricades and that there was a small guardroom closeby. He also recalled a dark charnel pit seething with bones and blood that had never suffered itself tobe covered. He immediately called together his Knights and the senior peasants to plan their

positioning.The field of battle was centred on the lookout tower. To the south of the tower was the guardhouse,the Blazing Barricade spread to the north and east of the guardhouse leaving a small gap between theend of the Blazing Barricade and the tower. Another small barricade stretched to the north of thetower. In the north east corner of the field was the only hill. The dark charnel pit lay to the north ofthe tower and the Blazing Barricade.

As Le Viscomte arrived on the field and his small force began deploying he could see the Elvesdeploying to the East. The Elves had brought a large force of twenty archers which occupied the hillto the north east. A large unit of 20 Spearmen were mustering directly to the East of the watchtower

with a small contingent of 10 Swordmasters to the north of the spearmen. The Elven general stoodwith his Swordmaster body guard and a Mage stood among the Archers on the hill. Opposite this Le


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Vi scomte mustered his Trebuchet, Le T hunder in the North West corner of the field protected by the small detachment of bowmen who set up their stakes and lit the braziers. The Damsel Elisabeth joined these bowmen. To the south of the Trebuchet Pierre Bonn deployed his Mounted Yeomen.These were all to the north of the Tower and charnel pit, directly opposite the Elven archers. Finally

Le Viscomte led his noble Knights onto the field to the south of the Guardroom. The tower remainedin the hands of its small garrison of bowmen.

At a sign from Le Viscomte the entire Army bent knee and prayed to the Lady of the Lake for herdeliverance and protection.

As our noble knights arose from their prayers the High Elves began their advance. Having seen LeViscomtes somewhat unusual deployment the Elven general order his spearmen to march directlytoward the tower whilst he wheeled his Swordmasters around to the south and marched toward the

guardhouse and the southerly Blazing Barricade.

The Elven mage drew the winds of Magic to him and seemed to draw extra power from the sorcerous

banner carried by the Swordmasters. As he cast his eyes across the field however he soon realisedthat none of the Bretonnians were in range of his spells. He therefore attempted to drain the area ofmagic. The lady Elisabeth saw his intent and cast powerful counter charms foiling the magesattempts to drain magic.

As the Elven Spearmen and Swordmasters manoeuvred into their new positions the archers on the hilllet loose against Pierre and his brave Yeomen. A hail of arrows fell amongst the poorly armouredhorsemen and soon only Pierre was left standing, his shield filled with the hafts of Elven arrows. Ashe looked at his fallen comrades his heart was filled with a sense of foreboding and dread but hebravely held his ground and silently promised his fallen comrades that their deaths would not be invain.

Having seen the Elves re-deployment Le Viscomte allowed himself a grim smile and ordered his Knights to advance to the east, as they cantered along they were soon positioned to the south of the guardhouse and Blazing Barricade. The peasants and the Lady Elisabeth held their ground in thenorth east.

Elisabeth looked to the heavens and drew the power of the winds to her, she began chanting the wordsto cast the Throne of Vines, seeing this the Elven Mage began to chant a counter curse but Elisabethwas soon struggling to control the power she had called forth, eventually she cast the spell with anirresistible force. She was unable to contain the magical feedback and a powerful backlash hit her,

but our most Holy Lady protected the young Elisabeth and the energies were dispersed with no harmcoming to her.

In the centre the Villein of the tower guard could see the approaching Elven Spearmen and deemedthem to be his most pressing threat, ordering his men to fire into the advancing regiment. The guardlet fly, their arrows struck home and one of the hau ghty elves fell dead. The archers guarding LeThunder also let loose their arrows, only their target was the large regiment of high elf archers onthe hill. It was a long range for the bowmen and few of the arrows made it to their target, althoughone found its mark and an E lven bowman fell from the hill. Finally the blacksmith in charge of LeThunder had finished his preparations and with a yell he let loose the trebuchets payload. The rock

flew straight and true and landed directly on top of the large unit of Elven Spearmen. The Elf directly

beneath the blast saw his danger and managed to throw himself clear at the last possible second.


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In the centre the lightning fast elves thrust and parried in the confines of the tower but to no avail,they failed to harm a single member of the tower guard. In response the ill trained and ill disciplined

peasants managed to kill two of the expert spearmen. One by dropping a rock on his head as heassaulted and the other as he tripped on a strategically placed banana skin!

Finally Le Viscomte led his noble knights on a glorious charge into the Elven General. The noble Elfheld his ground and took the charge. Pierre Bonn also charged into the archers on the hill!

Lady Elisabeth failed to cast re-growth on her bowman body guard, the loss of life and carnage that surrounded her was greatly upsetting to the young damsel schooled in the ways of healing.

The two archers tried to console the Lady Elisabeth as there were no elves within range of their bows.The tower guard again fired on the spearmen but failed to kill any. The Blacksmith considered firingon the Elven Spearmen but decided that the risk to the tower and to Le Viscomte was too great.

As Pierre and Ron charged into the archers, the noble steed stumbled on a root in the uneven ground,

seizing their chance two archers pounced, hamstringing the horse and stabbing Pierre in the chest.On the other side of the field the Knights crashed into the Elven General. With his lightning reflexesand dextrous weapon skill he launched himself at Le Viscomte, too furious to issue a challenge andtoo swift to allow Le Viscomte time to issue one. His mighty Wight blade scored two blows upon ournoble Lord. The first was turned by Le Viscomtes armour whilst the second rebounded from themagical Gromril helm. Le Viscomte, his Son the Battle standard bearer and the Gallant of the

Knights then proceeded to cut the Elven General to pieces. With a cry of Victory Le Viscomte led hisknights into the rear of the Elven spearmen that had just been repulsed from the tower.

On the hill the Elven Mage watched as his cousin Aurelian was cut down and trampled beneath thehooves of the victorious Humans. Saddened by the loss and realising that the spearmen faced a

similar fate he ordered the archers to withdraw in good order, so that he might bring word of thisdefeat to his Prince, Rathirlan.

After the last Elf had been dispatched, James Bigert, Le Viscomte de Eskmeals walked over to wherehis old friend and brother in arms, Pierre Bonn lay in a pool of blood. Bent over the old peasant wasthe Lady Elisabeth, her hands on Pierres chest her eyes closed and her lips gently chanting a charm.Suddenly her hands began to glow and the old peasant gasped and convulsed, his eyes opening wide.

Le Viscomte smiled; once again Pierre would be able to ride to battle at his lords side ready to facethese Elven invaders.

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