Battle of Chamrest

Before the first industrial revolution, backed by the development of new magic practices, Scriryi was a small mining and processing development that was built around the Chamrest Mines. In this earth and rock, the material known as Trazlucerne and Gauvirst was discovered in veins of crystallized igneous stone closest to Hrorun Lake. Trazlucerne was quickly found to be magically inert and resistant to many types of damage while also carrying an opalescent look that made it quite attractive for building and ornament. Gauvirst, on the other hand, was the rarer twin stone, able to seemingly create raw magical energy out of nowhere. It was these two stones that put Scriryi on the map in a big way. Not long after their discovery, trazlucerne and gauvirst became a major export for the city, coveted throughout Xeoti, Copera, Juram, Grivaltir, and Omarop. It was with these materials that the magical research field took off. Their properties became the basis for the Magical Revolution. Whereas magic had originally been thought to be largely isolated to individuals with the gift, products made of gauvirst allowed the average citizen to power spells and wards of their own. Trazlucerne allowed for the containment of the raw power that gauvirst could put out or transduce in the hands of a magically skilled individual.
The revolution saw a boom in culture and civilization but also a shift in military tactics. With magic more readily at the fingertips of militants and leaders, battles for domination and expansions of the powers in the city-states led to a drawn out war. While Grivaltir and Copera bought heavily into trazlucerne to defend their people and cities, Xeoti sought power in gauvirst. The initial effect was still overwhelmingly in the Xeotian's favour as King Lor developed mage battalions and war practices that could infiltrate cities and get through cleverly crafted armour. King Lor's domination came to a grinding halt when Copera developed Traz Cannons and Grivaltir's dwarves mastered the creation of mobile Light Walls made of trazlucerne. As the tides changed, King Lor gained a new enemy in his sights. Considering Scriryi to be a weak mining town getting too rich for its own good, King Lor sent out a division of ten battalions including an elite magician brigade known as the Worldenders to take control of the mining town and maintain control from the other city states.
Months after the battalions' dispatch and an ongoing bloody stalemate, King Lor's troops arrived at Scriryi to find a mining town sprawled around the ever deepening Chamrest Chasm. Led primarily by the Hrorun Mining Union's lead, Falleh Bonestriker, the miners had taken to creating a militia to protect their town. As it had turned out, Juram had attempted to take over Scriryi two years back and the miners and architects had learned their lesson. Building Scriryi around the chasm, the town had a natural barrier to protect it from two sides, the Hrorun Lake at its back and the Cliest river to act as a deterent and way to bring food and supplies in the event of a siege. Though the physical barriers were a joint effort of leaders and workers, Falleh led the militia to victory through a clever mix of guerilla warfare and eventual urban warfare that wore down on the ill prepared forces sent by the king.

Conflict Type

Battle