Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26444332-20160820033218/@comment-25975584-20160820183207

Faenor of the Silver Laurel wrote: The defenders have taken up field positions in the unwalled town of Kievrÿl, a Canaris Novan village on a slight hill surrounded by unbroken grassy plains for several hundred kilometers in every direction. The plains are mostly flat, and a shallow but treacherous river (the bottom is quicksand and soft clay) runs through it to form a natural U around the town's borders.

Valerius's armies have set up in the opening of the U over a long front, while the thirty thousand Donorian pikemen have joined with the hundred thousand from the Empire. A further forty thousand veteran Imperial men-at-arms under the command of Archcount Caecilius Marius from the northern border will arrive at the Imperial camp in two days.

The current commander of the larger Imperial force, Count Julius Antony, son of the currently ill Viscount Gaius Antony (who otherwise would be serving as the force's interim commander), waits for Valerius to join his forces and take supreme command.

The advance listening posts of the Imperials report a thin web-like veil of magic around the city, obviously cast by the Arcadians and known to the Empire from some old books. It is a defensive ward that prevents magical and mundane bombardment- The Empire must advance within the field to use siege engines or spellcasters for any effect. I didn't even march yet, nor did I declare war. I simply let the slavers loose.