Recaps

After Count Black’s death, Victor took charge of the Great Oak Territory, secured allies and supplies, and crushed a rebellion in Sunset City. With Brando protected and the eastern nobles joining him, Victor marched south into Cornwall County while the wider war shifted toward the Carson Mountains.

• Victor learned that Count Black had died, accepted responsibility for Brando, and took temporary custody of the lord’s seal while Yellen pledged the Great Oak Territory’s army to him.
• Victor executed officers who had betrayed Count Black, assigned Magnus to manage the territory, and organized the wounded, prisoners, and troops for the southward campaign.
• Victor negotiated with Viscount Boateng for gold, wheat, ships, soldiers, and the captured Serf Soldiers’ families, then gathered further supplies from nobles along his route.
• Victor reached Sunset City, where Magnus exposed a Great Oak Family conspiracy, and Victor and Magnus used the attempted uprising to capture Enzos and the other plotters.
• Victor’s forces defeated the refugee bandits and contained a POW camp riot, while Isaac identified irreversible changes in affected prisoners and Victor ordered an investigation.
• Victor’s army crossed the Blackwater River and received reinforcements as Brando watched its departure from Sunset City.
• Victor received news of the Duchy Army’s advance in the Carson Mountains, ordered James to scout the river route and contact the Iron Vine Family, and Count Colt assigned Edmund’s infantry to a dangerous mission.

While Alex worked to strengthen the Northern Alliance Army’s morale, Edmund led the navy through a storm by a newly charted route and began conquering western noble territories. The rapid invasion forced Count Sibeth to withdraw troops from the front, though Turas kept the news from two regiments still fighting.

• Alex and Count Colt rallied the Northern Alliance Army’s commanders by describing the Fifth Legion’s reinforcement and Victor’s victory, then Alex used the improved morale to launch raids on Duchy camps.
• Alex captured a supply convoy and learned the Duchy Army’s provisions were running short, but the Duchy switched to supply fleets on the water and ended his efforts to disrupt its supply lines.
• Edmund guided the Raine Kingdom fleet through a thunderstorm, discovered a shorter route, and reached the western coast with Gilles and Texera supporting him.
• Edmund captured Karask, Gaita, and Hashim, then won Hashim’s cooperation by promising to help him take revenge on Baron Benn.
• Bertley and Hashim seized Baron Benn’s castle, and Edmund questioned Benn before the navy took his territory’s wealth and began its campaign against western nobles.
• Edmund persuaded Gilles and Texera to cooperate in conquering nearby territories, recruited local Freemen, and made Hashim his retainer after restoring his family’s land.
• Gilles and Texera reported swift victories in two baronies, while Edmund advanced northeast and learned that Count Sibeth’s territory was under threat.
• Count Sibeth withdrew his troops from Carn City after learning the Raine Kingdom Navy had conquered nine noble territories, while Turas kept the invasion news from the two regiments still at the front.

Victor led the Southern Marching Legion to aid the Iron Vine Family and joined its plan to flood Yalori Valley against the Coalition of Nobles. As the enemy prepared its attack, Victor and Lenster confronted the Silver Maple Secret Guard, and Victor left to inspect the battlefield after the guards died.

• Benjamin and Albert exploited the Second Legion’s weakened line to retake part of the defensive position, while Count Sibeth withdrew after Gilles and Texera burned most of his supplies.
• Victor’s cavalry routed a Hampshire force in Ironvine Territory and captured prisoners who reported that the northern defenses still held at Ironwire City.
• Victor redirected his cavalry to distract the Fourth Legion and brought the main force by ship to join Lenster and Viscount Ferry at Yalori Valley.
• Lenster explained the Iron Vine Family’s plan to release an underground river through an old riverbed and flood the valleys, and Victor brought thirty thousand combat troops to support it.
• Victor agreed that Viscount Ferry would lead the operation, joined the central camp, and inspected the cavern that served as the plan’s key.
• The Coalition of Nobles arranged to take an outer wall with help from an insider, while Viscount Dawan recruited Asur and Melendo to attack the Iron Vine camp and capture Bed Crossbows.
• Lenster and Victor led an operation against the Silver Maple Secret Guard, trapping some guards in nets before reinforcements ambushed them.
• Victor killed the frenzied Number Five and confronted another guard, who swallowed poison and died, and Lenster reported that the other guards had also died, and Victor asked to see the battlefield.

Victor and Lenster lured the Allied Army into Yalori Valley, where a deliberately unleashed flood devastated the coalition and forced both sides to retreat. As the survivors regrouped and moved toward Ironwire City, Victor’s orders sent James and Ron to block the roads and conceal the army’s movements.

• Lenster and Victor investigated the Silver Maple Secret Guard’s bodies, and Victor learned that Tooth One and Tooth Two had survived while the rest of their squads were lost.
• Number One turned the recovered powder into a gemstone that could gather magic energy and detect nearby hostile life forms.
• Suas and Portland helped the Coalition of Nobles take the outer wall, while Lenster kept their plans under surveillance and Victor prepared to defend Yalori Valley.
• Viscount Rusa led the Allied Army toward the valley despite warnings about the danger, and Victor’s forces held off assaults on their camps.
• Victor, Lenster, and Viscount Ferry opened the waterway, and a mountain collapse sent a torrent of mud and water sweeping through the valley.
• Victor stayed behind until Marvin and Foss’s troops escaped, then led the retreat with Lenster as Viscount Ferry remained with the sick and later collapsed from plague.
• Victor and Lenster led the main force out of the valley, while Ursus questioned surviving Silver Maple Secret Guard members and Ron and James regrouped near Ironwire City.
• Gutierrez delivered Victor’s orders to James and Ron to block every road from the ferry crossing to Ironwire City and keep enemy scouts from learning their routes.