The Dance of Chaos [OOC-Fantasy-OPEN]

[Elysian Kentarchy]

Finally, a man dressed in a dark suit and holding a pile of contracts seems to appear out of nowhere. “I am from the law firm Horace, Edward, Logan and Lee. My client has instructed me to inform you that there is only one way to save the Roman people from this calamity. Tell all of them to sign these contracts, then my client shall transport them all to a place far away from the imminent catastrophe. There’s nothing to be suspicious about, my client is a reasonable fellow.”

I really love NS at times.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Well, I've ended up with a new character idea I've made a draft of, and it's not the previous ones I mentioned in the old thread (the vampire and the knight). Lunas decided to revive his Fate RP, so I might use Astolfo there again. Though I have also thought about making a master instead.

As for the character idea I've came up with for this RP, it's basically an undead trap necromancer/shapeshifter that may also be host to some sort of monstrous entity.

Oh, hi there Vid. Been a pretty long time since I last saw you.
How are you?

Uh, do you usually levitate firecrackers before you with telekinesis to light them?

What is NS Summer...what? I am usually a very ill informed person.

I don't think anything I said implied telekinesis.

Well, if you never hold firecrackers in your hand when lighting them, then obviously you must've either placed them somewhere or you must be levitating them in front of you with the power of your mind.

I have always lit my firecrackers in my hand and then thrown them away. Granted, I haven't been lighting anything the last two years because I got bored with it but the point still stands.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

Well, I've ended up with a new character idea I've made a draft of, and it's not the previous ones I mentioned in the old thread (the vampire and the knight). Lunas decided to revive his Fate RP, so I might use Astolfo there again. Though I have also thought about making a master instead.

As for the character idea I've came up with for this RP, it's basically an undead trap necromancer/shapeshifter that may also be host to some sort of monstrous entity.

Oh, hi there Vid. Been a pretty long time since I last saw you.
How are you?

I don't think anything I said implied telekinesis.

Well, if you never hold firecrackers in your hand when lighting them, then obviously you must've either placed them somewhere or you must be levitating them in front of you with the power of your mind.

I have always lit my firecrackers in my hand and then thrown them away. Granted, I haven't been lighting anything the last two years because I got bored with it but the point still stands.

Huh. Normally I put them on the ground and light them. To each their own I guess.

[Nea Videssos]

Well, I've ended up with a new character idea I've made a draft of, and it's not the previous ones I mentioned in the old thread (the vampire and the knight). Lunas decided to revive his Fate RP, so I might use Astolfo there again. Though I have also thought about making a master instead.

As for the character idea I've came up with for this RP, it's basically an undead trap necromancer/shapeshifter that may also be host to some sort of monstrous entity.

Lunas is reviving the Fate RP?

I'm not sure if I'll have the time for it, but I certainly want to join it xD

As for this RP, your character idea sounds really nice, and not just because it would be a trap

Yep. I'm on the discord server for that RP, and there are 12 people on there so far. I believe he said he's going to start up the RP around late May.

As for this necromancer, here are a few pics:

Well, I've ended up with a new character idea I've made a draft of, and it's not the previous ones I mentioned in the old thread (the vampire and the knight). Lunas decided to revive his Fate RP, so I might use Astolfo there again. Though I have also thought about making a master instead.

As for the character idea I've came up with for this RP, it's basically an undead trap necromancer/shapeshifter that may also be host to some sort of monstrous entity.

Oh, hi there Vid. Been a pretty long time since I last saw you.
How are you?

Alright. Been a bit busy with other stuff for the past few months (including assorted essays, seminar logs, document analyses and exams), though I have been lurking on NS.

[Vulnier]

Oh, hi there Vid. Been a pretty long time since I last saw you.
How are you?


Well, if you never hold firecrackers in your hand when lighting them, then obviously you must've either placed them somewhere or you must be levitating them in front of you with the power of your mind.

I have always lit my firecrackers in my hand and then thrown them away. Granted, I haven't been lighting anything the last two years because I got bored with it but the point still stands.

Huh. Normally I put them on the ground and light them. To each their own I guess.

All this talk of firecrackers makes me want to pop some now... and watch fire. What are y'all doing to meh. ;-;

[Charlia]

Finally, a man dressed in a dark suit and holding a pile of contracts seems to appear out of nowhere. “I am from the law firm Horace, Edward, Logan and Lee. My client has instructed me to inform you that there is only one way to save the Roman people from this calamity. Tell all of them to sign these contracts, then my client shall transport them all to a place far away from the imminent catastrophe. There’s nothing to be suspicious about, my client is a reasonable fellow.”

I really love NS at times.

That...

That's the issue I got this morning. O_O

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Lunas is reviving the Fate RP?

I'm not sure if I'll have the time for it, but I certainly want to join it xD

As for this RP, your character idea sounds really nice, and not just because it would be a trap

Yep. I'm on the discord server for that RP, and there are 12 people on there so far. I believe he said he's going to start up the RP around late May.

As for this necromancer, here are a few pics:

Oh, hi there Vid. Been a pretty long time since I last saw you.
How are you?

Alright. Been a bit busy with other stuff for the past few months (including assorted essays, seminar logs, document analyses and exams), though I have been lurking on NS.

*says a few*
*posts a million*

You never change Vid. You never do.
Well, good to hear that you've been alright and apparently just as busy as I've been.

I really love NS at times.

That...

That's the issue I got this morning. O_O

I just recently started answering issues again. I had lost all motivation to develop my nation after the last crash...just like I had when I crashed before that. But I guess, now it's time again to attempt to build that empire of terror and destruction.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

I really love NS at times.

That...

That's the issue I got this morning. O_O

It is clear that Charlia is me from an alternate reality. Or I am Charlia from an alternate reality. Hard to tell with this reality stuff, gets to be mighty confusing.

[Charlia]

That...

That's the issue I got this morning. O_O

It is clear that Charlia is me from an alternate reality. Or I am Charlia from an alternate reality. Hard to tell with this reality stuff, gets to be mighty confusing.

*weird mashup of X-Files theme, Doctor Who theme, and the Marvel Studios opener plays*

[Nuridia]

Did y'all see my new app yet? Not to rush, just curious.

[Tracian Empire]

Did y'all see my new app yet? Not to rush, just curious.

Unfortunately, I'm the one who's in charge of the apps and I've been pretty busy today. I will try to do my best in reviewing them.

The IC will appear in a day or two at the most.

[Tracian Empire]

What are the rules on swearing in posts?

There are no rules in particular. As long as it doesn't break the forum rules, it should be alright.

But I personally dislike characters that swear a lot for apparently no reason at all

[Tracian Empire]

... I can take care of Calaria, Trace, if you want.

I just, you know, won’t be able to post that often and I don’t want to have to app for the Captain Generals.

Well, any help would be appreciated. But don't worry about Calaria if you don't have much time - you can just focus on Dante and me and Exil will do something about it.

And Exil, what's that about the Calarian border fortifications?

[Charlia]

What are the rules on swearing in posts?

There are no rules in particular. As long as it doesn't break the forum rules, it should be alright.

But I personally dislike characters that swear a lot for apparently no reason at all

And then there's me. XD

[Tracian Empire]

Yep. I'm on the discord server for that RP, and there are 12 people on there so far. I believe he said he's going to start up the RP around late May.

As for this necromancer, here are a few pics:

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Well then, I'll probably hunt Lunas and force him to give me an invite

And as always, you amaze me with the number of pictures of a single character that you can find xD

I really like the appearance of this particular trap

And the cult leader appearances, and all the beasts and abominations that you have there are really interesting!

[Elysian Kentarchy]

What are the rules on swearing in posts?

There are no rules in particular. As long as it doesn't break the forum rules, it should be alright.

But I personally dislike characters that swear a lot for apparently no reason at all

Scraps plans for a character that swears every third word

I am tempted to make a new character or something but I got nothing for the moment.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

... I can take care of Calaria, Trace, if you want.

I just, you know, won’t be able to post that often and I don’t want to have to app for the Captain Generals.

Well, any help would be appreciated. But don't worry about Calaria if you don't have much time - you can just focus on Dante and me and Exil will do something about it.

And Exil, what's that about the Calarian border fortifications?

Yeah...that happened...in IC...thank you for your attention OP...

[Tracian Empire]

Well, any help would be appreciated. But don't worry about Calaria if you don't have much time - you can just focus on Dante and me and Exil will do something about it.

And Exil, what's that about the Calarian border fortifications?

Yeah...that happened...in IC...thank you for your attention OP...

You do know that I can't possibly read everything...

But the Calarian border is pretty large.. how did you take all of the fortresses?

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Yeah...that happened...in IC...thank you for your attention OP...

You do know that I can't possibly read everything...

But the Calarian border is pretty large.. how did you take all of the fortresses?

Strike em while they were weak. Make use of quickly mobilized, prior mobilized forces like bloody mercenaries to strike at them shortly after the declaration of war passed the border. Strike them before they managed to call their citizens to arms or hire their own mercenaries, before they managed to fill their fortresses with a thicc garrison.

Granted, I think I wrote that I only took the most important passes and streets (obviously guarded by castles) so I was exaggerating before but well, point still stands, the Calarian border is wide open.

Also, since I keep forgetting about the status of the peninsula, I just didn't do shit about it other than occupying the entrance to it.

[Free Empire of the Low Isles]

You do know that I can't possibly read everything...

But the Calarian border is pretty large.. how did you take all of the fortresses?

Strike em while they were weak. Make use of quickly mobilized, prior mobilized forces like bloody mercenaries to strike at them shortly after the declaration of war passed the border. Strike them before they managed to call their citizens to arms or hire their own mercenaries, before they managed to fill their fortresses with a thicc garrison.

Granted, I think I wrote that I only took the most important passes and streets (obviously guarded by castles) so I was exaggerating before but well, point still stands, the Calarian border is wide open.

Also, since I keep forgetting about the status of the peninsula, I just didn't do shit about it other than occupying the entrance to it.

... But that wouldn't work, either, because Anselm wouldn't have mobilized mercs right on the border of Calaria. Mercs aren't like guerrilla fighters, they don't just appear out of nowhere when you want them to. Mercs are just a prepared army for hire. They still have travel time, they still make camps, and if a nation spots a large concentration of them or hears about the enemy nation buying them up through spies or rumors or notices them camping literally on the border, they're gonna try to buy them off or assemble a force against them.

This blitzkrieg by merc wouldn't work logistically at all. The only reason lightning warfare worked for Hitler was because, well, he had trucks and tanks which could move faster than horses could and could be easily hidden at the time.

[Tracian Empire]

You do know that I can't possibly read everything...

But the Calarian border is pretty large.. how did you take all of the fortresses?

Strike em while they were weak. Make use of quickly mobilized, prior mobilized forces like bloody mercenaries to strike at them shortly after the declaration of war passed the border. Strike them before they managed to call their citizens to arms or hire their own mercenaries, before they managed to fill their fortresses with a thicc garrison.

Granted, I think I wrote that I only took the most important passes and streets (obviously guarded by castles) so I was exaggerating before but well, point still stands, the Calarian border is wide open.

Also, since I keep forgetting about the status of the peninsula, I just didn't do shit about it other than occupying the entrance to it.

I mean, sorry to break in, but I doubt that all their castles were like that. We're talking about a predictable war that came after years of worsening relations and rising tensions. So I'd assume that the Calarians would have already had at leas some garrisons.

So I think that while you would have been able to take some of them , the bigger fortresses would especially still stand strong. Though, you would clearly have a numerical advantage for the time being - mostly because as always, Calaria is a mostly naval faction.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Strike em while they were weak. Make use of quickly mobilized, prior mobilized forces like bloody mercenaries to strike at them shortly after the declaration of war passed the border. Strike them before they managed to call their citizens to arms or hire their own mercenaries, before they managed to fill their fortresses with a thicc garrison.

Granted, I think I wrote that I only took the most important passes and streets (obviously guarded by castles) so I was exaggerating before but well, point still stands, the Calarian border is wide open.

Also, since I keep forgetting about the status of the peninsula, I just didn't do shit about it other than occupying the entrance to it.

... But that wouldn't work, either, because Anselm wouldn't have mobilized mercs right on the border of Calaria. Mercs aren't like guerrilla fighters, they don't just appear out of nowhere when you want them to. Mercs are just a prepared army for hire. They still have travel time, they still make camps, and if a nation spots a large concentration of them or hears about the enemy nation buying them up through spies or rumors or notices them camping literally on the border, they're gonna try to buy them off or assemble a force against them.

This blitzkrieg by merc wouldn't work logistically at all. The only reason lightning warfare worked for Hitler was because, well, he had trucks and tanks which could move faster than horses could and could be easily hidden at the time.

Firstly, as said, they have been mobilized prior. Secondly, they haven't been officially bought before the war. It pays off to suddenly find out that the commander of the biggest mercenary group around happens to be family. Not to mention that he's in it for the war and not for the wealth. He can very well move his mercenaries somewhere else and even pay for them himself if they ask why they got to move. He can tell them that this is the most likely place where they will be contracted. And being the biggest mercenary group, he could tell other mercenaries to fuck off, that they alone would get a possible contract, thus decreasing the concentration of overall mercenary forces in the deployment areas.

Now, please, do not forget, that while mercenaries are not guerillas, which also don't just pop out from nowhere, they are still irregulars which makes their movements already more difficult to trace. Besides, it makes a lot of sense for soldiers for hire to move towards the common border of two nations who keep looking at each other in rather hostile ways. Where else would they get hired quickly once a war breaks out or some saber rattling is in order?

Trucks and tanks are also not easily hidden, especcially not at the time. In fact, most of the nations he Blitzkrieged were aware of the troop concetrations on their borders, hell, the french were aware of the entire thing about going through Belgium. The Soviets were aware that their border was lined with Axis troops and armoured divisions. Now, Hitler's Blitzkrieg, we talk about in grander, strategic schemes, armoured and motorized forces would break through the enemy line and quickly advance beyond it while infantry would flood through the breaks and in coordination with the mobile forces would attempt to encircle the enemy frontline forces while other mobile forces would continue to push to give the enemy no time to reorganize a defense or a counter offensive.

What we currently have is more like the beginning of a Blitzkrieg, aka a Schwerpunkt tactic. Anselm has had officially not hired mercenary forces ready at several strategically important points from which it stroke at the border fortifications. This strike does not require motorized speed. It is basically just a lot of force applied against several important points to to take them. No large scale encirclements, no bumrushing the enemy capital. They are still standing pretty close to their own border. It's a Blitz in the sense how quickly they took the important fortresses, which has more to do with them being understrength and the absolute ruthlessness employed in storming them. Yes storming them. That just shows how ruthless they were with it.

Strike em while they were weak. Make use of quickly mobilized, prior mobilized forces like bloody mercenaries to strike at them shortly after the declaration of war passed the border. Strike them before they managed to call their citizens to arms or hire their own mercenaries, before they managed to fill their fortresses with a thicc garrison.

Granted, I think I wrote that I only took the most important passes and streets (obviously guarded by castles) so I was exaggerating before but well, point still stands, the Calarian border is wide open.

Also, since I keep forgetting about the status of the peninsula, I just didn't do shit about it other than occupying the entrance to it.

I mean, sorry to break in, but I doubt that all their castles were like that. We're talking about a predictable war that came after years of worsening relations and rising tensions. So I'd assume that the Calarians would have already had at leas some garrisons.

So I think that while you would have been able to take some of them , the bigger fortresses would especially still stand strong. Though, you would clearly have a numerical advantage for the time being - mostly because as always, Calaria is a mostly naval faction.

I didn't said they had no garrisons. I said they had no thicc garrisons. They are understrength compared to what they would be in real war.
Granted, even understrength can be very strong but that's why the mercenaries were concentrated along several points, to achieve the numerical superiority necessary for a quick and bloody assault. Usually castles are sieged out to save manpower and ressources but I doubt Anselm would want to do that.
The only reason I see for a castle to still stand undefeated would be extremely superior architecture. Like Minas Tirith which had walls too high to be scaled with ladders or grappling hooks like the Uruk-hai could employ them at Helms Deep. Minas Tirith required the construction of actual, large siege engines like stronger catapults and high siege towers.

I personally went, when imagining the castles, from historical examples of spanish castles and enlargened them a bit. I see now in retrospect, that that may have been a bad idea, given that this is a FANTASY setting for a reason.

Still, it would have been a lot cooler if we would've had this discussion 7 months ago and not now.

[Tracian Empire]

Well, this is partially my fault, as I have never noticed it.

But as I said in the post above, it is perfectly feasible for Calaria to have also slowly but surely been preparing its forces. Tensions have been risiny for quite some time, and both nations are rich enough and have enough people or maintain sizeable peace time forces.


And we do have to think indeed that this is first and foremost, a medieval setting. By also taking into account the idea that the continental border between Calaria and Anselm/Arghyo is most likely a historical one, which would lead us to the assumption that the region should be heavily fortified. Castles with good fortifications, strengthened by magic.

Then how would your mercenaries have taken them that easily? Even if we only take the soldiers into account, the garrison would have the advantage. You can't just climb over the walls. Even a small garrison would be able to more or less effectively man their walls, and your element of surprise wouldn't last forever. Add the mages in and a siege becomes a rather brutal endeavor.

Granted, your attack could have taken some of the first forts, but you'd quickly lose the surprise. Yes, mercenaries are irregulars but they're still armed men, and you need to gather a lot of them in the same place in order to be able to strike. All while the first Calarian fort would have been able to warn the others.

So while you would have been able to strike some initial victories, I don't think that the entire Calarian border would be defenseless.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Well, this is partially my fault, as I have never noticed it.

But as I said in the post above, it is perfectly feasible for Calaria to have also slowly but surely been preparing its forces. Tensions have been risiny for quite some time, and both nations are rich enough and have enough people or maintain sizeable peace time forces.


And we do have to think indeed that this is first and foremost, a medieval setting. By also taking into account the idea that the continental border between Calaria and Anselm/Arghyo is most likely a historical one, which would lead us to the assumption that the region should be heavily fortified. Castles with good fortifications, strengthened by magic.

Then how would your mercenaries have taken them that easily? Even if we only take the soldiers into account, the garrison would have the advantage. You can't just climb over the walls. Even a small garrison would be able to more or less effectively man their walls, and your element of surprise wouldn't last forever. Add the mages in and a siege becomes a rather brutal endeavor.

Granted, your attack could have taken some of the first forts, but you'd quickly lose the surprise. Yes, mercenaries are irregulars but they're still armed men, and you need to gather a lot of them in the same place in order to be able to strike. All while the first Calarian fort would have been able to warn the others.

So while you would have been able to strike some initial victories, I don't think that the entire Calarian border would be defenseless.

See, I didn't even know that. Fuck, I don't even know my own forces. I personally went with Anselm in my imagination as a nation that does not maintain an army in peacetime apart from town guard against criminals due to cost reasons. Now I know that Anselm is apparently rich enough to maintain sizeable forces even in peacetime. And now I hear about magically fortified castles for the first time. Bloody hell, the problem with fantasy settings when you have no actual clue how fantasy it is. Same with this warning. This is a attack against several forts or fortresses along the border. You btw, never specified how these warnings looked like so I imagined it to be either by horse, hence why I sent out light cavarly to circle fortresses, or by dove, hence why horse archers of the good Yazgirian stock are mong them. Now though, the question is magic since I have no clue what magic can or cannot do. You also never said anything about how integrated mages are in the armies of the countries etc.

I sent atleast one TG asking what I should be aware of when attacking Calaria. If I remember, the answers were pretty vague and could be summarized with: " You do you but don't conquer the entire nation unrealistically quickly." Granted my memory has never been the best so I can probably not hope to actually remember what was said 7+ months ago.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

Strike em while they were weak. Make use of quickly mobilized, prior mobilized forces like bloody mercenaries to strike at them shortly after the declaration of war passed the border. Strike them before they managed to call their citizens to arms or hire their own mercenaries, before they managed to fill their fortresses with a thicc garrison.

Granted, I think I wrote that I only took the most important passes and streets (obviously guarded by castles) so I was exaggerating before but well, point still stands, the Calarian border is wide open.

Also, since I keep forgetting about the status of the peninsula, I just didn't do shit about it other than occupying the entrance to it.

I mean, sorry to break in, but I doubt that all their castles were like that. We're talking about a predictable war that came after years of worsening relations and rising tensions. So I'd assume that the Calarians would have already had at leas some garrisons.

So I think that while you would have been able to take some of them , the bigger fortresses would especially still stand strong. Though, you would clearly have a numerical advantage for the time being - mostly because as always, Calaria is a mostly naval faction.

Obviously, Exil threw each fortress a huge party in celebration of some random holiday and while they were partying Exil's forces conducted a ritual to summon Elizabeth (can't remember the name Exil changed her to) from the Imperial War Academy universe and she scared them all into surrendering.