The Kanesh Offensive

Military action

The Pilgrims, along with their new Iskendran allies, attack positions held by the Qartagonians in the Kaneshite Peninsula.

In Iskendra, the Empress Zena Dardannos pledged to aid the Pilgrims by sending her army with them if the Pilgrims agreed to help the Iskendrans retake several important fort towns in the Kanesh peninsula. The Miraculous Three reluctantly agreed and set out from Iskendra with a bolstered force. This aid from the Iskendrans proved to be a great asset to the Pilgrims, though not because of their manpower. As the Grand Pilgrim Army took the fort towns of Melitan, Perga, and Damizon, the Mashiqi emirs thought that the invading army was simply a renewed effort by the Iskendrans and not some larger threat. When the Grand Pilgrim Army emerged from the Bashari Timberlands, the Mashiqi were largely unprepared. Additionally, during this march through Kanesh, one of the beloved Miraculous Three—Lothair the Fair—was killed while fording a stream during an ambush.