Episode: And Not to Yield
Posted by Story on 01/23/24
The Lyceum is not a place given to sentimentality at the best of times. The Hundred Cities are famed for their pragmatism, and so it was when Azazel legions began marching across the Lyceum, an overwhelming majority of the city-states simply evacuated to move for the strong point of Lenosia. The smart, pragmatic choice, and if the slow moving couldn't quite make it, well that's rather unfortunate. A handful of domains stood and fought, being swept under the tide, their domains razed and their people consumed by the march of Azazel's forces.
The duchy of Ostria did not flee.
It was a brutal battle, all told, but tales quickly come of the Duchess of Ostria fighting atop dragon back, personally holding the inner gate of the Middle Round of her city, while the Duke-Consort Hadrian Mazetti fought atop a sphynx that called Ostria home, unknown but to a precious few.
The battle was intense, and Ostria held, driving back Azazel's legions which had to regroup their battered forces and march around the city, leaving Ostria be. It held, but at great cost, with painful losses among the Ostrian soldiers- and of the Duke Hadrian himself, who gave his life to save the Sphynx of Ostria when victory was in their grasp.
As Ostria endures, they will remember.
The duchy of Ostria did not flee.
It was a brutal battle, all told, but tales quickly come of the Duchess of Ostria fighting atop dragon back, personally holding the inner gate of the Middle Round of her city, while the Duke-Consort Hadrian Mazetti fought atop a sphynx that called Ostria home, unknown but to a precious few.
The battle was intense, and Ostria held, driving back Azazel's legions which had to regroup their battered forces and march around the city, leaving Ostria be. It held, but at great cost, with painful losses among the Ostrian soldiers- and of the Duke Hadrian himself, who gave his life to save the Sphynx of Ostria when victory was in their grasp.
As Ostria endures, they will remember.