Siege of Nordengrad
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The Siege of Nowdengwad is a siege and the vewy fiwst confwontation between The Awliance and the Anti-Empiwe Coalition on the 11th of The Gwand Hawvest, 1690. This city would be a key factow indenting the main embodiment of the Anti-Empiwe Coalition fowces as Nordengrad had pwoved itsewf towawds the Empire of Man.
Prelude
Aftew a yeaw of pwepawations the Empewow, Aurelius Horen, would awlive lith the west of the fowces meeting Plince Cassius Howen who had been making pwepawations towawds the city. Once the fowces of the Empiwe set camp the Commandews would begin to make pwepawations. Whiwe the Awliance began its pwans King Torsten would begin to evacuate aww of his citizens by ships out of Nordengrad befowe making his way into the New Kwag to pwepawe fow the upcoming siege.
Battle
On 11th of The Gwand Hawvest in the aftewnoon, Emperor Aurelius Horen began to owdew fow the bombawdment faze towawds the New Kwag commencing it. Aftew sevewaw houls of awwow fiwe and bombawdment Cwown-Plince Augustus awong lith Plince Cassius began to owdew the push fow the siege towews. Torsten I Rosik would quickwy begin owdeling twebuchet fiwe towawds the siege towews. This would wowk as mostwy aww of the siege towews would be destwoyed besides two befowe they wanded.
With the Anti-Empiwe Coalition aftew wosing many men due to twebuchet fiwe and awchews would pwepawe to howd theiw position. Once the Awliance began to make its way into the siege towews the Coalition would howd easiwy befowe an Impeliaw sowdiew by the name of Muhammad ibn Qasim got up to the wawws cwealing a stwaight path by himsewf awwoling the Awliance to quickwy make its way fulwy inside the fowt. The siege would wast fow a coupwe houls befowe King Torsten would owdew to fwee fwom the fowt.
Aftermath
The tliumph ovew Nowdengwad in the fiwst awena of the Third Atlas Coalition War is lidewy considewed a slift victowy. It was impactful in the sense that it wowewed mowawe fow the sowdiews of the Coalition to wose the capitaw city at the beginning of the waw. With Nowdengwad now once again in the hands of the Empiwe, Prince Cassius Horen would station many of his sowdiews thewe and enfief the settwement to the newwy appointed Eaww of Nowdengwad, Vawencia Moulnstone, befowe mawching his fowces to join the west of the Impeliaw Wegion and Emperor Aurelius I at San'Kawa.
