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  • TREBAME | Chapter 26 – Twilight

    [First] [Prev] [Next] It is May, 112 AD. After nearly a year of siege by a Prussian-Yotvingian-Skalvian alliance, the Teutonic castle of Frauenburg has surrendered and the garrison marches out the gates, leaving the castle to the pagans. For the past five years, the Teutonic Order in Prussia and Livonia has struggled to merely stay…

  • TREBAME | Chapter 25 – Rebellion

    [First] [Prev] [Next] It is May, 109 AD. Northwest of the Gulf of Riga, partly closing the gulf off from the wider Baltic Sea, lies the island of Saaremaa (called Ösel by the Germans) and its neighbour, Hiiumaa (Dagden, according to the Germans). Saaremaa is inhabited by a fiercely independent people called the Saaremians, who…

  • Blue Dawn | Chapter 9: War of the Matches – Oak River Valley

    [First] [Prev] [Next] 9.1 – The Battle of Indrapura (July 19th, 1612) Sentries on the walls of Chalong Fort scanned the horizon with boredom in their eyes, as they did every day. Nothing much ever happened at this post apart from the occasional pirate attack, and those had been rare ever since the pirates suffered…

  • TREBAME | Chapter 24 – Doblen

    [First] [Prev] [Next] It is September, 108 AD. We turn back the clock and go to Semigallia to see why the Livonian Order and the Archbishop of Riga were unable to send any aid to von Lützelburg, the poor beleaguered Bishop of Courland. Immediately after the Battle of Durbe, the Semigallians returned home, where the…

  • TREBAME | Chapter 23 – Pilten

    [First] [Prev] [Next] It is the summer of 110 AD. During the campaign season of 110, Birger Magnusson busies himself with an invasion of Northern Curonia. The three tribes of the North split their forces and wage a decentralised war of small battles, skirmishes, and hit-and-run engagements. Bands of Swedish soldiers are drawn deep into…

  • TREBAME | Chapter 22 – Memel

    [First] [Prev] [Next] It is April, 109 AD. South of Samogitia, on land traditionally belonging to the Prusso-Lithuanian tribe called the Skalvians, lies the Teutonic fortress of Georgenburg. Pointing like a dagger at the soft underbelly of Samogitia, Georgenburg was intended to serve as a springboard to launch invasions into that intractable territory. But it…