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===[[Vellum Citadel]]=== [[File:Conquest Location VellumCitadel.png|center]] {{quote| The [[vellum citadel|Vellum Citadel]] was an archive and library of massive scale. Its inhabitants were known as the School of Ink and Quill, a circle of mages that, centuries ago, carved out their own mountainous refuge on lands unsettled by the other major realms. Legends said that the Citadel housed a treasure trove of arcane knowledge. The Overlord's spies infiltrated the school and confirmed as much. The time was ripe to send a detachment to the great library fortress, and force the scholars to yield to [[kyros|Kyros]]. }} {|class="wikitable" width="100%" ! width="33%" | Stage I ! width="33%" | Stage II ! width="33%" | Stage III |- |rowspan="2"| {| !colspan="2"| Chain of Command |- ![[File:BurningLibrary ChainofCommand.png |center|x150px]] | <small>A detachment of Kyros' army marched on the Vellum Citadel expecting an orderly surrender. As they neared the main gates, a blast of arcane energy struck the commanders dead. Suddenly the highest ranking officer alive, Kyros' forces looked to you for the next steps. The call weighed on your mind, as it had an immediate influence on soldier losses.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Order the Scarlet Chorus to attack|You ordered the expendable Scarlet Chorus to attack, commanding the disorderly mob forward to give the elite Disfavored a chance to withdraw. Though a costly maneuver in terms of lives lost, this assured the survival of the most capable and effective soldiers. Ever itching for a fight, the howling mob still recognized your maneuver the sacrificial move that it was. Those from the Scarlet Chorus who ran headlong into battle made promises of a reckoning upon their return. Thankfully for you, hardly any of them limped back in one piece. Those few who survived made fevered whisperings their grievances, naming you as a villain to the Scarlet Chorus.}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Order the Disfavored to advance|You ordered the Disfavored to advance their shieldwall, knowing that a handful of Kyros' elite soldiers could hold off the attack until the Scarlet Chorus retreated. You knew the Disfavored would despise you for any losses at the Scarlet Chorus' expense, but that was a small price to pay for saving lives. The Disfavored were quick to follow your command, and formed an unbreakable phalanx that gave the unarmored Scarlet Chorus horde a chance to escape. Only once they returned to camp did the singed and maimed Disfavored take issue with their orders. As far as they were concerned, the Scarlet Chorus should have taken care of themselves. If they weren't equal to the challenge of defending their brethren, then they had no place in this Conquest.}} | {| !colspan="2"| Plunder of Parchment |- ![[File:BurningLibrary CaptiveBinder.png |center|x150px]] | <small>The army captured a supply caravan overflowing with arcane books. When the Disfavored started a bonfire of forbidden texts, the Scarlet Chorus rescued the tomes from the flames and attacked.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Destroy the texts|In accordance with the Disfavored's wishes, you upheld Kyros' law regarding forbidden lore, and had all of the texts burned. The Disfavored cheered as they tossed books into the fire - savoring the pop of binding and the crinkle of pages beyond count turning black. Perhaps the contents might have proven useful, but that was nothing to observing Kyros' law. Even an advantage needed to be destroyed if it contradicted the Overlord's will.}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Grant half of the scrolls to the Scarlet Chorus|You decreed that the Disfavored are welcome to burn their half of the plunder, but the Scarlet Chorus has rightful claim to the other half - provided you first review the texts first to eliminate any that touched on forbidden knowledge. The Scarlet Chorus agreed to your generous terms, and you set to poring over every manuscript before it was handed over. The work took several evenings, and you came away with a glimpse of truths better left unknown. Taking the burden upon yourself was a less-risky alternative than disseminating it among Kyros' ranks, though it didn't help you sleep at night.}} | rowspan="4"| {| !colspan="2"| Edict of Fire |- ![[File:BurningLibrary EdictofFire.png |center|x150px]] | <small>"The parchment arrived in a slender case of engraved iron. Written on it, the words of Kyros’ Edict of Fire - a spell powerful enough to devastate the Vellum Citadel. You were instructed to proclaim the words of Kyros' Edict from on high - your voice the final component to the destructive spell. The only condition was that it had to be done while the sun burned in the sky. You had the choice of when to read the Edict. Reading it at sunrise would offer your enemies no warning of the devastation to come. You could also wait until sunset, giving them ample time to flee or make amends.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Give no warning|Opting to give the enemy no quarter, you proclaimed the Edict of Fire at the first moments of dawn - granting the enemy no warning of the destruction to come. Though the Chorus insisted your actions doomed their spies, the Disfavoredapplauded your decision. You read the Edict as the new sun rose behind the Citadel, casting a long shadow in its wake. You were the last person to see that hall of knowledge the moment before the devastation. The earth shook and red-orange light glowed in the foundation of the sprawling Citadel. Bubbling up from under the library, a torrent of lava heaved with explosive force, gushing from the windows and between loose bricks, melting hostile trenches in the surrounding land. The mages awoke to smoke and fire - for most it is already too late. Only a handful of bewildered mages escaped the smoldering collapse of the massive library fortress. Kyros' will be done.}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Give one day's warning|Claiming they still had spies within the Citadel, the Scarlet Chorus urged you to warn the mages of the Overlord's Edict. Granting their request, you met with the enemy under a blue flag of peace and warned them of their doom - giving the Chorus spies, and the enemy, a chance to run. You confronted the mages with a warning, and hoped the message was received. The hour before sunset, numerous figures were spotted fleeing the citadel. As the sun dipped under the horizon, you read the words of the Edict. The earth shook and red-orange light glowed in the foundation of the sprawling Citadel. Bubbling up from under the library, a torrent of lava heaved with explosive force, gushing from windows and between loose bricks, melting winding trenches in the surrounding land. Days later, the flames still raged on - the conflagration continually fed and renewed by the power of the Edict. *Sages can be recruited at [[Spires]]. *Access to plateau at [[Burning Library]] ([[Emberglow Hood]] and interaction with formations)}} |- | {| !colspan="2"| Lost to the Mountains |- ![[File:BurningLibrary Effigy.png |center|x150px]] | <small>The Disfavored learned of a hidden enemy enclave, and sent scouts to locate it. They never returned from their mission. The remaining Disfavored soldiers demanded that you send the Scarlet Chorus to retrieve their scouts, but the Scarlet Chorus flatly refused to fall into the same trap. They recommended that the scouts be treated as wartime casualties.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Send the Scarlet Chorus to rescue the lost scouts|You ordered the Scarlet Chorus to send scouts to locate and rescue the lost Disfavored patrol. Though the Scarlet Chorus were bitter at having their time 'wasted' in search of lost soldiers, grandstanding before their rivals in the Disfavored was an opportunity too delicious to ignore. Tracking the legion yielded them the site of an ambush, where spell-slinging mages had the last of the Disfavored scouts pinned down. After launching a successful counterattack, the Chorus escorted the shaken and humiliated Disfavored scouts back to camp. Unlocks [[deserted battleground]].}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Abandon the lost Disfavored|You consigned the Disfavored scouts to their fate. If the elite of Kyros' army could not return on their own, then there was no sense in wasting the lives of the Scarlet Chorus to find them. The siege went on without the bulk of the Disfavored detachment - a troubling absence that left you wondering in spite of your order. Days after you made your ruling, a resounding clang echoed across the expanse between the Vellum Citadel and your camp. A team of scouts sent to investigate recovered a crude, iron sculpture shaped in a mockery of Graven Ashe. The materials: the blood-stained armor of your lost soldiers, torn and re-shaped with enemy magic.}} |- |rowspan="2"| {| !colspan="2"| Song of Ensnarement |- ![[ File:BladeGrave RogueBinder.png|center|x150px]] | <small>Sirin, Archon of Song, used her power to enthrall enemy mages who crept beyond the Citadel walls. After Kyros' forces rounded up the arcane practitioners, the Disfavored began executing the new captives before they could share dangerous knowledge - a crime under Kyros' law - with the Scarlet Chorus.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Muzzle the mages|You calmed the Disfavored with a compromise. The sages' mouths would be bound with iron bridles, preventing them from speaking their forbidden knowledge. As the Disfavored fitted the sages with their restraining masks, the Scarlet Chorus openly criticized the suppression of enemy intelligence. You gave the soldiers a stern lesson on Kyros' laws and the sensitive treatment of forbidden knowledge, but that didn't stop the whispering and rumors that the Conquest was being mismanaged.}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Punish the Disfavored|You punished the Disfavored for executing mages bound to the Scarlet Chorus, ordering that several Disfavored soldiers be given to the Archon of Song as her personal bodyguards. The wisdom of the sages, and knowledge of the Vellum Citadel, were too important to silence. The Disfavored balked at entering the Archon's service, but your ruling left them with no recourse. Archon Sirin delighted in having 'new toys to play with,' and promptly enthralled her personal guard. You spotted them in camp days later, following their new mistress with wide-eyed devotion.}} | {| !colspan="2"| Right of Command |- ![[File:BurningLibrary ArcaneAssault.png |center|x150px]] | <small>The Archon of Song incited Scarlet Chorus recruits to fight their leaders. Bosses were killed and supplanted left and right. The Disfavored demanded an end to the practice for the good of the Conquest.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Put an end to the contests|You agreed with the Disfavored arguments. The Right of Command had its place, but not when Kyros' forces were outnumbered and reinforcements were weeks behind - if not longer. The Scarlet Chorus - even the gang bosses - argued in favor of their ritual contest-killing. In the end, they agreed to suspend the practice for the remainder of the Vellum Citadel campaign. Lacking an outlet to settle scores or deal with pent-up hostility, tensions flared between commanders and recruits who were forced to act against their better nature and communicate.}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Honor the Right of Challenge|You ruled that each Archon had the right to govern their armies according to their nature. The Right of Command bred chaos, but it also ensured that the strongest rise to lead. Your keen understanding of their ways pleased and surprised the Scarlet Chorus detachment, who thanked you for the ruling. The following evening, two gang bosses were murdered in their pallets and replaced by stronger variants, who fought hard to defend their status. Though the camp grew quieter over time, the Chorus fought with twice the ferocity under new leadership.}} |- | {| !colspan="2"| The Spymaster's Agents? |- ![[File:BurningLibrary KyrosAgent.png |center|x150px]] | <small>A group of enemy mages surrendered to the Disfavored, claiming to be spies loyal to the Voices of Nerat. No one in the army could verify the claim. The Disfavored readied to interrogate the mages, but the Scarlet Chorus protested, demanding that the prisoners be given to their custody. They couldn't risk the Voices of Nerat's secrets falling into the wrong hands.</small> |} {{col|[[File:Symbol disfavored.png|30px|link=]] Leave the mages in Disfavored custody|Though it meant angering the Scarlet Chorus, the mages were Disfavored property. They remained in custody while you reviewed their claims. You took time poring over the mages' confiscated documents. Finding no blatant messages to the Voices of Nerat or anyone else, you resolved to question the mages yourself. When you reached their cells, you discovered the bodies - each of them slaughtered in a grisly display. Tense discussion and accusations followed, but with no evidence to suggest a responsible party, you were forced to let the matter drop.}} {{col|[[File:Symbol scarletchorus.png|30px|link=]] Release the mages to the Scarlet Chorus|You ignored the Disfavored threats, sharply reminding them that they marched at Kyros' orders and not their own whims. The mages were released into the custody of the Scarlet Chorus. The Scarlet Chorus accepted the mages into their company with gratitude. After secreting them within tents and out of earshot, you presume that a discussion or interrogation followed. When asked about it the following day, the Scarlet Chorus admitted that they sent the mages to the Voices of Nerat with an escort, dispatching them under cover of night without due authorization. You reprimanded the soldiers for keeping you out of the loop, but there was naught else to be done in the matter.}} |- |} {{quote| The armies of [[kyros|Kyros]] left the devastation of the [[vellum citadel|Vellum Citadel]] in silence. From that day forward, the Tiers came to know the once-noble citadel as the '[[burning library|Burning Library]].' This was an undisputed loss - of resources, knowledge, culture and life. But a message had been sent: the Overlord will not tolerate defiance. You didn't have long to rest before [[tunon|Tunon]] called you into service once more. You were one of the last to depart from mountains, and as you journeyed off, you spotted a few campfires in the mountains. They were mere specks, dwarfed by the inferno, the last gasps of survivors, or perhaps looters from [[kyros|Kyros]]' armies bored and daring enough to pick through the ashes.| Conclusion of the Contested Lands campaign}}
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