Eleint 10 The Dawn Fronts Campaign (Weeping War: Campaign #5)
A.K.A.: "The Eastern Front"; The Spiders' Truce Wars, The Battles Above and Below
Despite the great advances made against the Army of Darkness, the Allies of Cormanthyr lost their momentum in this campaign, allowing the Army to re-establish some entrenchments closer to the capital. This was not an organized campaign, since it broke up into many skirmishes and a few isolated sub-campaigns, the two largest and most noted of which are below.
The Second Elven Court Crusade: The Clash at the Duelists' Arena, the Spiders' Assault, the Battle of Temples' Blight, the Four-Front War, and the Starsdark Clashes are the quintet of battles comprised the so-called Second Elven Court Crusade, and they all operated under the Spiders' Truce. The primary tactic of the elf armies was to drive the Army of Darkness into the ruins and hold them there. This tactic either would see them destroyed by the spiders and other monsters therein or they would inadvertently aid the elves in clearing out the spiders.
The Three Green wing Wars: These three battles were so named for their primary ally, a spelljamming elf man-o-war ship! Responding to a magical plea for help from a grounded ally among Cormanthyr's wizards, the Elven Imperial Fleet of Realmspace sent Captain Oncith Ilbenalu to aid the elves with his green crystalline-winged man-o-war battlecraft, the Monarch Mordent. Dominating the three battles in which it participated, the Monarch provided air cover and heavy weaponry with its ballistae and catapult that aided the ground troops immeasurably. With the Third Greenwing War, Captain Oncith's pride overcame his sense as he maneuvered too close to the treetops and the Army of Darkness forces that his helmsman could not maneuver effectively. When Gaulguth the nycoloth flew skyward, there was little beyond ineffectual missile fire to stop him from using his great axe Heartcleaver to shatter one of the ship's wings at its base. With the magical shock slaying the helmsman immediately, the Monarch Mordent crashed into the trees and atop nearly 200 members of the Army of Darkness. Since that lost battle, the photosynthetic wings continued to grow, and large crystalline webworks wrapped around the clearings and the trees in this northern glade now called Monarch's Fall Glade. While most animals shun the amber-and-emerald crystal webs and walls, many elves used this as a redoubt and shelter both during and long after the war.
This campaign lasts until Alturiak 713 (a total of 133 days). »