Numor War

The Numor War (1263-1275)
Izlandian Involvement -

Izland’s first advance into Numor was the siege of Morens. At this battle 684 men, mainly Marines. After this, the 14,000 strong army followed Arthur through the North, where he came upon a hilly valley, the Valley of Rotek, where there were four passes with small fortifications leading to a large trading center. Opposing Arthur were 20,000 Orcs. So, Arthur split his forces up evenly among the passes, and the Orcish commander did the same. Then the day turned to night as the armies watched each other, before Arthur took half of three of the garrisons and moved them to the furthest south, before attacking the Orcish army, who were surprised to see a much larger army, and were quickly defeated. Then Arthur took this army, and during the next day defeated the three other Orcish armies. After this, as he moved to the trading center, many Orcish clans who were iffy about who to support, as not all Orcs supported King Quda, joined the Izlandians. Thus, when Arthur arrived at the trading center, the 15,000 remaining Orcish force saw 23,000 soldiers advancing towards them, and fled. At this point Arthur took a five thousand strong force of Izlandian and Allied Orcish cavalry to aid in the Battle of Numor Plains. Five legions left after him to join in the Siege of Gotorok along with 5,000 Allied Orcs, Two legions, along with 5 stratoi of archers set off to take the small Fort of Guldur(heh), and the remaining soldiers stayed to guard the trading post. Soon after, Quda’s northern army marched south, they had about 18,000, and soon split, sending a force of roughly 10,000 to besiege the Fort of Guldur, and the rest to take back Rotek, however they underestimated not only how many were att Rotek, but also that the Izlandians had built fortifications. Thus, in a brief and violent attack, the Orcs were thrown off, for their 8,000 were against 5,500, and besieging walls. In the end, 243 Izlandians, 1,000 Allied Orcs, and 3,500 of the Northern Army perished. After this battle the remaining forces recuperated, not realizing that the fleeing 4,500 of the Northern Army moved to reinforce the already ten thousand besieging Guldur. So now, the Izlandian forces who were already outnumbered 4 to 1, were now closer to being outnumbered by 6 to 1. Thus, the attacks continued, many died and at open point the wall broke, only to have soldiers from both sides rush to the break in the wall. Eventually, the Izlandians won out, and put up a defensive structure. After another two weeks, 13,000 Elves under Duke Nolor Dasri of Archton came to the Izlandians aid, pushing back the Northern Army of the now dead Quda. Athur led one more Northern Campaign with a few stratoi of Izlandian cavalry, and many stratoi’s of Elvish cavalry, and many Allied Orcish cavalry. This was mainly used to ensure full defeat in the north, and no Izlandians are reported to have died in this. There was an Izlandian force in Morens until 1269, but after the end of the Second Siege of Guldur, the Izlandian involvement was really over.