Khorod
First Post
A navy allows you to attack coastal settlements and defenses from the well-protected position of the water. It also allows you to use guerilla tactics against coastal lands. However, if you just want to send a few legions you can use leaky fishing scows.
Actually, in one of the First Persian War, Xerxes had a pontoon bridge built across the Hellespont (the waterway that separated the Black Sea from the Agaean). His armies walked across it when the time came. I can well picture an even more massive undertaking in a major historical invasion effort by Eyros.
"half-orc general Salla Zul-Dagvar launched a secret expedition with over 2000 soldiers"
2000 Soldiers in a Roman scale is not even half a legion. It certainly doesn't leave room for the auxiliary forces so critical to many Roman military expeditions... like the engineers. I don't know how Romanesque the armies of Eyros are, that has yet to be decided. But if you want this to be a respectable force the way I've been interpreting things, you want at least 4-5 thousand men.
Contribution:
One of the Imperial Holdings on the Western Border of Xaleris is Ventis. Ventis has historically had a dualistic religion in which the ancestors of all good men were collectively responsible for good in the world. The original power of darkness, known simply as the Darkness, predates the forces of good in the universe. To them, the rulers (and most of the people) of Xaleris has long since given up their souls in service to the Darkness.
Ventis has hills practically riddled with silver deposits. Most of their spellcasters keep a low profile, as historically they contrived a way to convert Venti silver into deadly weapons capable of standing against the steel of their foes... or cast a light even into the Darkness.
There is one port nominally in Ventis, through which Nistadeen has begun a quiet trade to help the quietly growing Rebel Army centered in the Venti Hills. They have even noticed with some surprise some slight resemblence between their faiths.
Saint Lusair has had a vision (or so she called it), Ventis is the next realm to spread the faith.
Actually, in one of the First Persian War, Xerxes had a pontoon bridge built across the Hellespont (the waterway that separated the Black Sea from the Agaean). His armies walked across it when the time came. I can well picture an even more massive undertaking in a major historical invasion effort by Eyros.
"half-orc general Salla Zul-Dagvar launched a secret expedition with over 2000 soldiers"
2000 Soldiers in a Roman scale is not even half a legion. It certainly doesn't leave room for the auxiliary forces so critical to many Roman military expeditions... like the engineers. I don't know how Romanesque the armies of Eyros are, that has yet to be decided. But if you want this to be a respectable force the way I've been interpreting things, you want at least 4-5 thousand men.
Contribution:
One of the Imperial Holdings on the Western Border of Xaleris is Ventis. Ventis has historically had a dualistic religion in which the ancestors of all good men were collectively responsible for good in the world. The original power of darkness, known simply as the Darkness, predates the forces of good in the universe. To them, the rulers (and most of the people) of Xaleris has long since given up their souls in service to the Darkness.
Ventis has hills practically riddled with silver deposits. Most of their spellcasters keep a low profile, as historically they contrived a way to convert Venti silver into deadly weapons capable of standing against the steel of their foes... or cast a light even into the Darkness.
There is one port nominally in Ventis, through which Nistadeen has begun a quiet trade to help the quietly growing Rebel Army centered in the Venti Hills. They have even noticed with some surprise some slight resemblence between their faiths.
Saint Lusair has had a vision (or so she called it), Ventis is the next realm to spread the faith.
