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The war seems indecisive for the majority of its duration. Initially, their access to the port cities and a sizable navy prove an invaluable advantages to the Magistrates, but after Aeneleg can win the western Kalparians, already threatened in their existence by the Olgish settlers, for his cause, the Bight of Hajalad becomes a battlefield as much as the mainland. A glimpse of relief only emerges in 453, when Aeneleg himself is slain in the otherwise indecisive Battle at Niom Unrín. His dispersed army is rallied by [[Genvéreth the Shallow|Genvéreth, an earl or shieldmaiden]] of his retinue, who, having seemingly reached the conclusion that the barren land of the Hajalad be worth no further action of arms, has them chase down and pillage the Hayan wagon train hastily evacuating the Magistral treasury after a [[Naval Siege of Unrír|devastating Kalparian attack on the harbour of Unrír]], the provisional Hayan capital after the [[Sack of Bernab]] two years prior. Then, tired from years of war and now laden with riches, the Wertians turn their back on the Hajalad, returning to the heath and once more living in small earldoms and under the rule of petty kings, the dream of a united Wertian nation again a faint one. | The war seems indecisive for the majority of its duration. Initially, their access to the port cities and a sizable navy prove an invaluable advantages to the Magistrates, but after Aeneleg can win the western Kalparians, already threatened in their existence by the Olgish settlers, for his cause, the Bight of Hajalad becomes a battlefield as much as the mainland. A glimpse of relief only emerges in 453, when Aeneleg himself is slain in the otherwise indecisive Battle at Niom Unrín. His dispersed army is rallied by [[Genvéreth the Shallow|Genvéreth, an earl or shieldmaiden]] of his retinue, who, having seemingly reached the conclusion that the barren land of the Hajalad be worth no further action of arms, has them chase down and pillage the Hayan wagon train hastily evacuating the Magistral treasury after a [[Naval Siege of Unrír|devastating Kalparian attack on the harbour of Unrír]], the provisional Hayan capital after the [[Sack of Bernab]] two years prior. Then, tired from years of war and now laden with riches, the Wertians turn their back on the Hajalad, returning to the heath and once more living in small earldoms and under the rule of petty kings, the dream of a united Wertian nation again a faint one. | ||
No official resignation is delivered to the Magistrates, and neither to the Kalparian allies, and the maritime war rages on for almost two more years. Initially planning on buying the Kalparian privateers, an increasingly worrisome lack of funds cripples the Magistrates’ diplomatic mobility and progressively alienates their mercenaries. Dissatisfied with the harsh conditions of the indecisive conflict and having gone months without pay, they first abandon their post before, having lost any interest in the Magistrates’ affairs, restoring their bands and raiding the Hayan countryside. This second, even bloodier conflict, | No official resignation is delivered to the Magistrates, and neither to the Kalparian allies, and the maritime war rages on for almost two more years. Initially planning on buying the Kalparian privateers, an increasingly worrisome lack of funds cripples the Magistrates’ diplomatic mobility and progressively alienates their mercenaries. Dissatisfied with the harsh conditions of the indecisive conflict and having gone months without pay, they first abandon their post before, having lost any interest in the Magistrates’ affairs, restoring their bands and raiding the Hayan countryside. This second, even bloodier conflict, lasts for the better part of two decades and leaves the Hajalad scattered across the few fortified merchant cities, lawless pirate ports, and the country populace, who suffer most of all. Despite brief truces, all three sides remain hostile towards each other. Only in 473, 40 years after Aeneleg’s accession, an allied rebellion of mercenaries and peasants rises against the powers of the cities. The magistrates have reached a decisive low point in their history, bankrupted in matters both personal and official, with only a trace left of the influence they once possessed, and abhorred nearly universally in their own cities. They initially present a last desperate resistance | ||
-> the magistrates hire mercenaries from the Mairn etc. > Aeneleg dies in battle > he is succeeded by an earl who doesn't care about the land but takes the riches and withdraws > the magistrates are unable to pay their mercenaries > the mercenaries begin to raid the countryside > the populace tries to resist > eventually they work together in a great uprising > the magistrates fall > a short-lived republic under a new mercenary nobility > prosperity > What then? > eventually, the Wertians take the land back > all of this can take abt 400 years | -> the magistrates hire mercenaries from the Mairn etc. > Aeneleg dies in battle > he is succeeded by an earl who doesn't care about the land but takes the riches and withdraws > the magistrates are unable to pay their mercenaries > the mercenaries begin to raid the countryside > the populace tries to resist > eventually they work together in a great uprising > the magistrates fall > a short-lived republic under a new mercenary nobility > prosperity > What then? > eventually, the Wertians take the land back > all of this can take abt 400 years | ||