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Discord Reigns
Egypt and the Levant
This region is dominated by the effects of Egypt’s deteriorating leadership and their final collapse. Although inbreeding have resulted in imbecile rulers in the past, a series of these kings led to nonsensical warfare, the collapse of the monarchy, and finally the fall of Egypt and the lower Levant into chaos while the dispossessed armies and navies formed mercenary and pirate bands and prayed on all who attempt to live near or sail through the Levantine Seas.
The Slow Plague arrived in Egypt, and begun wearing down the Royal Family. The God Kings no longer marched through the lands and gathered support from their people; now, they sit in their thrones surrounded by layers of their family, while Nomarches governed Egypt under their command. But as the royal blood became scarce due to the plague, non-Royal nomarches are increasingly becoming the norm. This, in combination with the Anorian God-King’s traditional apathy towards the strengthening south, is a recipe for disaster.
King Ah-Rais II Second-of-Ra is the first of the apathetic kings which lead to the decline of power. Ignoring the plague outside his walls, he ruled as if Egypt was still the strongest stallion. He appoints the first none-royal Nomarch, although he was probably oblivious of the fact. “Just appoint the next in line” was most common phrase found on court records, both due to his apathy and the plague. A tentative peace was held in the Levant-Ugarit retreated from Byblos due to this resurgence of the plague.
The next God King, Resus II Isis’-Boon, never left the throne room. He is forced to continue to appoint non-royal Nomarches, including the influential Pharsa of Thebes and keep his army home to keep their loyalty. He would much prefer peace, but to his shock (and that of other Levantine States) Damascus provoked a war against Byblos, when in the past such wars were all started by Egypt (as they convinced themselves with some evidence). Tyre declared neutrality while shooting dirty looks at Siria while Ugarit also joined in, with Cyrus just participating in a sea battle that destroyed the Byblon fleet.
(-9 Ships, remainder+experience; -1 Archer : Byblos)
(-2 Ships (0.5): Ugarit)
(-3 Ships (0.5): Cyrus)
(-1 Spearmen (1.5): Forman Siria)
This affront to the power of the God Kings cannot stand, even against a peaceful king such as Resus II. He digs up his father’s invasion plan and put it into play. Assembling his army at Raffa, he coerced the Canaanite cities to fund his logistical nightmare of an army, and sailed his fleets to the neutral but friendly port of Acre.
[A Zirilist Monk
Ah… The False Height of Egyptian power; although the Grand Army was nearly twice the size of Nahan II’s Royal Divisions he united before Damascus, the foundation is crumbling. The army itself is unwieldy and stumbling, based around a core of veteran companies and their elite descendents.]
Tyre permitted the Sirian army to fortify outside the Acran border just in case. The Cypriot fleet took time from the blockade to prepare itself for the Egyptian onslaught. Acre apparently made a fortune off of hungry Egyptian sailors and soldiers. Rumors are coming faster than ever; The army disappeared in the Sirian desert; The army has sailed to New Rhodes; The Egyptians have devastated Enkomi; a timely spell of plague forced them to retreat.
Concrete news came that the Egyptian army left Acre southward.
Then;
[A Zirilist Monk
Enkomi, the second homeland of the Phygrians on the fertile Cyrus, was built for a naval siege. Nearly a mile inland, the dredged channels are narrow and walled, perfect for trade but devastating for enemy attack. Other beaches are watched as well, if not as stringently.
What shocked them was the great size of the Egyptian military. For the Egyptians, they decided that they should attack as swiftly as possible to bypass the Cyrpiot defenses, so the naval commander, Admiral Dejef of Anor, agreed to launch an attack on five beaches simultaneously; codified as Spear, Kitab, Silver, Katan and Abbas.
The fight was heroic, and would be the only heroic battle of what is to come. The skilled Spearmen of the Second Levantine War rowed small craft onto the beaches, forming battle lines so skillfully that the enemy was still asleep when they captured the main roads inland. The captives were killed, and the chariots of the God King, for the first time in warfare, were placed onto the soil of Cyprus.
The Cypriot commanders, with the little forces they had, could not withstand this attack. Retreating troops found towns ahead of them burned and desecrated. Reinforcements arrived before a town’s gate only to be murdered by Egyptian Archers. In less than two days, Enkomi and its surroundings was captured in one of the most amazing feat of arms of all time.
What came after was child’s play compared to Valyria, but still brutal nonetheless. All men, children and aged men where killed in the city, and it was put to the flame. The army then spread out over the countryside and destroyed every Cypriot town and village, hunting and scattering the survivors, and resettling military colonies on the land.
In less than three years, Cyprus is completely Egyptian. All Phygrian influence was destroyed by fire and spear.]
After destroying Enkomi, this force smashed the Allied Navy outside of Byblos and landed their troops inside the city. Running out of room after disembarking half their forces, they opened the gates and charged the Sirian siege. It was then, after killing nearly five thousand enemies on the field of battle, that Pharsa’s rebellion was heard by the High Commander Vizier Tetrufis of Demietta. Nearly all of upper Egypt joined the rebellious Nomarch. The Egyptian army retreated behind the walls of Byblos, and redeployed.
Resus II, hearing of the brutality to the north and the south committed by Egyptians- be they rebels or his own, was said to have died of shock.
King Tafer Bringer-of-Wadjet's-Justice was the next king, and he distained his father’s love of peace. War he fought, if from all the way home in Anor. The Cypriot colonies and protectorates were burned one by one. In Egypt, he ruthlessly ended several rebellious northern Nomarches while his own armies were soaked by the rebels of Upper Egypt. Although Pharsa died, and the alliance he led fell apart, they always united to destroy the armies of the God King of only Lower Egypt. Annoyed, he wished to see his army in action one last time; on the fields of battle before Damascus he caught an arrow like so many before him, and died without a heir.
Remember, it was the freeing of forces from the collapse of Hyak and Egypt’s armies at nearly the same time which allowed for the rise of the Sirian Empire.
Queen Nebula Daughter-of-Isis ruined the last vestiges of Egyptian power. Spending ruinously, the mostly Loyal Royal Army slowly deserted. First Damietta and half the navy, then Avaris deserted her. She died in the palace during the last Egyptian Confederacy’s attempt to take Anor and capture the symbols of the Pharoh.
Child King Leozis was her only male child. Anor now controls even less land then Rezzemus once had at the start of his reign. His vizier managed to maintain Anor’s position as one of equals in a new era of Egyptian instability…
In Phoenicia, the capture of Byblos after the Egyptians left by Tyre sees a tired and wartorn land; frustrated with foreigners using them as puppets, the Sirian Empire’s arrogance exceeding that of the Egyptians, and finding common ground in their reject of outsiders, the two cities and the conquered Byblos formed the Phoenician Union, later joined by Acre. Byblos decayed into a supply depot, and although this union was clearly dominated by Tyre, it does not seek to expand its influence… yet.
For the other cities to the north, they sought protection in anther direction; Katan.
Finally, a massive number of ships- nearly 50, were disbanded over the years by various fleets as the plague and warfare took their toll. Cyprus became a pirate island, and the nautically inept Katan’s coastline became a center of Piracy. Ships now fear to travel on the Levantine seas, and for good reason.
More pirates in the Aegean.
This region is dominated by the effects of Egypt’s deteriorating leadership and their final collapse. Although inbreeding have resulted in imbecile rulers in the past, a series of these kings led to nonsensical warfare, the collapse of the monarchy, and finally the fall of Egypt and the lower Levant into chaos while the dispossessed armies and navies formed mercenary and pirate bands and prayed on all who attempt to live near or sail through the Levantine Seas.
The Slow Plague arrived in Egypt, and begun wearing down the Royal Family. The God Kings no longer marched through the lands and gathered support from their people; now, they sit in their thrones surrounded by layers of their family, while Nomarches governed Egypt under their command. But as the royal blood became scarce due to the plague, non-Royal nomarches are increasingly becoming the norm. This, in combination with the Anorian God-King’s traditional apathy towards the strengthening south, is a recipe for disaster.
King Ah-Rais II Second-of-Ra is the first of the apathetic kings which lead to the decline of power. Ignoring the plague outside his walls, he ruled as if Egypt was still the strongest stallion. He appoints the first none-royal Nomarch, although he was probably oblivious of the fact. “Just appoint the next in line” was most common phrase found on court records, both due to his apathy and the plague. A tentative peace was held in the Levant-Ugarit retreated from Byblos due to this resurgence of the plague.
The next God King, Resus II Isis’-Boon, never left the throne room. He is forced to continue to appoint non-royal Nomarches, including the influential Pharsa of Thebes and keep his army home to keep their loyalty. He would much prefer peace, but to his shock (and that of other Levantine States) Damascus provoked a war against Byblos, when in the past such wars were all started by Egypt (as they convinced themselves with some evidence). Tyre declared neutrality while shooting dirty looks at Siria while Ugarit also joined in, with Cyrus just participating in a sea battle that destroyed the Byblon fleet.
(-9 Ships, remainder+experience; -1 Archer : Byblos)
(-2 Ships (0.5): Ugarit)
(-3 Ships (0.5): Cyrus)
(-1 Spearmen (1.5): Forman Siria)
This affront to the power of the God Kings cannot stand, even against a peaceful king such as Resus II. He digs up his father’s invasion plan and put it into play. Assembling his army at Raffa, he coerced the Canaanite cities to fund his logistical nightmare of an army, and sailed his fleets to the neutral but friendly port of Acre.
[A Zirilist Monk
Ah… The False Height of Egyptian power; although the Grand Army was nearly twice the size of Nahan II’s Royal Divisions he united before Damascus, the foundation is crumbling. The army itself is unwieldy and stumbling, based around a core of veteran companies and their elite descendents.]
Tyre permitted the Sirian army to fortify outside the Acran border just in case. The Cypriot fleet took time from the blockade to prepare itself for the Egyptian onslaught. Acre apparently made a fortune off of hungry Egyptian sailors and soldiers. Rumors are coming faster than ever; The army disappeared in the Sirian desert; The army has sailed to New Rhodes; The Egyptians have devastated Enkomi; a timely spell of plague forced them to retreat.
Concrete news came that the Egyptian army left Acre southward.
Then;
[A Zirilist Monk
Enkomi, the second homeland of the Phygrians on the fertile Cyrus, was built for a naval siege. Nearly a mile inland, the dredged channels are narrow and walled, perfect for trade but devastating for enemy attack. Other beaches are watched as well, if not as stringently.
What shocked them was the great size of the Egyptian military. For the Egyptians, they decided that they should attack as swiftly as possible to bypass the Cyrpiot defenses, so the naval commander, Admiral Dejef of Anor, agreed to launch an attack on five beaches simultaneously; codified as Spear, Kitab, Silver, Katan and Abbas.
The fight was heroic, and would be the only heroic battle of what is to come. The skilled Spearmen of the Second Levantine War rowed small craft onto the beaches, forming battle lines so skillfully that the enemy was still asleep when they captured the main roads inland. The captives were killed, and the chariots of the God King, for the first time in warfare, were placed onto the soil of Cyprus.
The Cypriot commanders, with the little forces they had, could not withstand this attack. Retreating troops found towns ahead of them burned and desecrated. Reinforcements arrived before a town’s gate only to be murdered by Egyptian Archers. In less than two days, Enkomi and its surroundings was captured in one of the most amazing feat of arms of all time.
What came after was child’s play compared to Valyria, but still brutal nonetheless. All men, children and aged men where killed in the city, and it was put to the flame. The army then spread out over the countryside and destroyed every Cypriot town and village, hunting and scattering the survivors, and resettling military colonies on the land.
In less than three years, Cyprus is completely Egyptian. All Phygrian influence was destroyed by fire and spear.]
After destroying Enkomi, this force smashed the Allied Navy outside of Byblos and landed their troops inside the city. Running out of room after disembarking half their forces, they opened the gates and charged the Sirian siege. It was then, after killing nearly five thousand enemies on the field of battle, that Pharsa’s rebellion was heard by the High Commander Vizier Tetrufis of Demietta. Nearly all of upper Egypt joined the rebellious Nomarch. The Egyptian army retreated behind the walls of Byblos, and redeployed.
Resus II, hearing of the brutality to the north and the south committed by Egyptians- be they rebels or his own, was said to have died of shock.
King Tafer Bringer-of-Wadjet's-Justice was the next king, and he distained his father’s love of peace. War he fought, if from all the way home in Anor. The Cypriot colonies and protectorates were burned one by one. In Egypt, he ruthlessly ended several rebellious northern Nomarches while his own armies were soaked by the rebels of Upper Egypt. Although Pharsa died, and the alliance he led fell apart, they always united to destroy the armies of the God King of only Lower Egypt. Annoyed, he wished to see his army in action one last time; on the fields of battle before Damascus he caught an arrow like so many before him, and died without a heir.
Remember, it was the freeing of forces from the collapse of Hyak and Egypt’s armies at nearly the same time which allowed for the rise of the Sirian Empire.
Queen Nebula Daughter-of-Isis ruined the last vestiges of Egyptian power. Spending ruinously, the mostly Loyal Royal Army slowly deserted. First Damietta and half the navy, then Avaris deserted her. She died in the palace during the last Egyptian Confederacy’s attempt to take Anor and capture the symbols of the Pharoh.
Child King Leozis was her only male child. Anor now controls even less land then Rezzemus once had at the start of his reign. His vizier managed to maintain Anor’s position as one of equals in a new era of Egyptian instability…
In Phoenicia, the capture of Byblos after the Egyptians left by Tyre sees a tired and wartorn land; frustrated with foreigners using them as puppets, the Sirian Empire’s arrogance exceeding that of the Egyptians, and finding common ground in their reject of outsiders, the two cities and the conquered Byblos formed the Phoenician Union, later joined by Acre. Byblos decayed into a supply depot, and although this union was clearly dominated by Tyre, it does not seek to expand its influence… yet.
For the other cities to the north, they sought protection in anther direction; Katan.
Finally, a massive number of ships- nearly 50, were disbanded over the years by various fleets as the plague and warfare took their toll. Cyprus became a pirate island, and the nautically inept Katan’s coastline became a center of Piracy. Ships now fear to travel on the Levantine seas, and for good reason.
More pirates in the Aegean.