From the Edge of Existence, A Casse A.A.R.

[monkian]

Ahhh spoken like a true cymraeg, A true briton indeed well i suppose i could change it. ill have a tinker about

oh yeahh on the 8th of march........that lovely field of daffodills will be swamped and killed off by some lovely looking shamrock....

Bring it on Paddy lad, Cymru am byth !

Hope you thump the Saesneg though

[Reverend Joe]

Wow, man, fantastic!

One thing, though -- you use a lot of run-on sentences. Gotta watch that a little more.

[Shylence]

Give me an example of what you mean. My grammar n punctuation have never been so great. If i know where im going wrong then i can stop.

[Reality=Chaos]

I like it, I like it, I like it a lot. Not only are you oleplaying really well, you make the Casse culture come to live. Also the fact that you use the different 'rebel' tribes to create a complex political landscape is awesome. Not just any other AAR, one that shows huge (really huge) potential. I would help you with the grammar and spelling (since there are a few mistakes there) but I'm not a native speaker, and my grammar is awful. Apart from those mistakes its awesome. a possible rename for this thread: Rule Britannica: Of brits and Belgians.

[Shylence]

Chapter 3 Tribal politics
264BC
Spirits were high in Cassemorg a great victory had been won and secured the Casse immediate survival. A great celebration was planned the last years even though politically traumatic had been perfect for agriculture. Feasts in the larger settlements were planned and Barae and Sentata Toured around explaining the great defeat of the Calydrae. Soldiers had rushed to join the ranks as it was quite well known, through the gossipmongers anyway, that Barae would soon defeat the Cymreniu also. Even if he were not going to, once it dawned on him that absolute power would only come through promises. He soon declared that indeed the Cymreniu force that still resisted all Casse druids would have to be removed. Among the new soldiers a surprising amount of native Britons were present as well as former Belgae enemies as the men were organised a new unit of Veterans were produced. Proud and optimistic the men choose to do battle naked and woad free minus their torcs that proved their bravery in battle. A powerful symbol on the battlefield one in which Sentata and Barae very much approved off. After the celebration had ended Barae and Sentata moved west. Margorix who had never entered an aggressive battle in 20 years stayed behind to administer the kingdom. Something that he had grown to be skilled at, if some nobles and soldiers taunted him for his past deeds on the battlefield, they never would question his authority on his patronage for fair taxation and law. Barae had left his sons with Margorix to be educated in all the things that had made the Casse kingdom it’s strongest and that was great economics. When the time was right the boys would soon join their father and uncle on the battlefield to learn the ways of war.

Margorix and Mowg, Barae’s eldest were walking along a track from a Iceni settlement back to Camulosadae.

”So what was it like then uncle?”
”What do you mean?”
”The battle? The battle you fought in with grandfather”
”ohhh I hope you haven’t paid any attention to the rumours!” He scoffed at the thought
“I suppose I better tell you then. Well I was young man about your age around about 30 years ago. Your father hadn’t even been born yet and Sentata was about 5 years old. After we had shamed the Aedui we had no time to rest, your grandfather knew that if he showed any weakness then the fragile alliance of the tribes would soon collapse”
“I remember as we began to march east the weather had turned. You see as a child I grew listening to the elders’ talk of how cold it had seemed to be how the whole world had fallen under the grip of death. The winters were harsh and long and in the summer it was almost always grey and wet many of the crops could not cope. This winter was no different the men from the east would come to scavenge at the small food stores.
” The day we met them, there was a thick fog we couldn’t really see them but we could hear them. The fog had lifted and ahead of my small vanguard and me stood a thousand and more dark warriors. I guess I panicked I ran back to my father and he was furious as he saw me come back he sent the whole army the other way to my troops”
”Get back and fight! Do not leave your men!!!”
”So you had ran?”


”Yes I didn’t know what to do. Then more men appeared even the great veterans were committed to battle I was so tried by that point running back and forth and then into the biggest battle of my life. Our army broke quickly only the veterans stayed and fought, they fought the strangers to breaking point and then once the strangers had enough they left. I had been sent to retrieve those who were running away. They wouldn’t listen to a boy and that’s where it started my indecision had caused them to flee or so they said. When it is one man, no, boy arguing against 1000 it is very hard to come out on top. So I was the scapegoat you see. Of course the men who stayed did not judge me so hard and your grandfather didn’t judge me either to save our people and all that he had achieved I was to be sacrificed”
”really?!?!”
”Yes but my father couldn’t bare to do it instead I was banished from fighting with the army of course it didn’t matter. Our strength was broken The Aedui soon appeared and forced a deal on us. Leave our homeland and face former enemies in the land across the sea or perish. So to survive we moved. Many of those men who had fled during the battle quickly joined with the Aedui and with their backing had waged personal vendettas of eviction to those tribes who stayed loyal to your grandfather They look at me as the nemesis of their people. But you see Mowg they still look at me with hatred due to their own self-loathing. Their men fled that day and as you know it is a terrible shame to leave your brothers in battle. I did not flee I was ordered to collect those men who would not listen to a child. I believe many were surprised your grandfather survived that day. It is an important Lesson that you must learn Mowg and that is tribal politics. To be a ruler you must know your friends just as much as your enemies for you never quite know who is who”

Weeks later Mowg now marched ahead in full battlefield attire. He listened to his Uncle and father. Much of the journeys conversation was about tactics and the Cymreniu army. They were now deep inside Cymreniu territory far west of the Great standing stones. Crossing the great river they helped to mark Cambriae proper. Sentata convinced Barae to march deep and draw the army, led by a Siluri named Casticos, into fighting them, but Casticos had not moved. Sentata then took to raiding which Barae then overruled comparing their tactics to that of the raiders from the lands far in the east. Mowg had spoken up siding with his father saying to act like a foreigner would only prolong the great British snubbing that had been enforce the minute the Casse had set foot on Britain’s soil. Sentata had been quiet since the army had turned around. Senaculos the great Iverni spymaster had reported daily to Barae saying that somewhere in the woods the Cymreniu main force laid the only thing Sentata had asked about was a captain. In the Army
” Manwdyin?”
”No not him he had killed the Calydrae leader during the battle. The other one”
”oh erm…the one who came to my aid towards the end of the battle? I could have sworn it was Manwdyin”
”It wasn’t”
”well erm oh wait!!! Nodaicos yes he is now in charge of our naked warriors. A fitting place for a great man he saved my life”
”Yes he did Barae very admirable I have not seen him since that day.”
”Well I sent him home as a reward he joined us as we had left our territories a few days ago. He was eager for battle I’m sure he will serve our people well.......I was thinking that maybe i will allow him to marry Andoran”
"really?" Sentata choked on the idea
"What?"
"well isint he a bit old for her"
"ten years but that doesnt matter andoran is becoming a woman and she has taken a noted interest in him also. this would not be a marriage of political convenience possibly of love"

Sentata smiled at Barae and then glanced over to Mowg who was scanning the trees for danger the excitement on his face was obvious

”Don’t worry Mowg wolves or bears wont want to eat a scrawny boy like you! Haha”

Before Sentata had finished his sentence a distant horn was heard. The whole army was halted and in almost perfect silence Barae signalled to his commanders to ready to the men. He rode out ahead of the army towards the horn calls.

He could hear the sound of men marching and chattering away it was Casticos and his Cymreniu army. Barae had inadvertently marched his men into the path of the Cymreniu. The Cymreniu were obviously marching back west to find Barae.
He rushed back to the army his eyes wide.

“what?”
”shhhsss!!! Its them its them!!! They are headed right this way!”
”They know we are here? Oh F.. Quick Mowg run to the.
”NO! shhss look they are headed this way but they have no clue we are hear! The will be probably be at this point in the road in about 10mins! Quick get the men on either side of the path! Mowg my boy follow me and your uncle we will wait further down the path”

Soon the army straddled the path both left and right hiding in the dense forest Barae took his son and brother back west along the small path. As the army settled in their positions Casticos men rounded a corner and walked in a straight line into the trap. Casticos led the men from the front. The army had looked as if it was made up of Southern men of Cambriae they had a darker skin to the other Britons and it was said they had come far from the south of Gaul. Once Sentata had seen Casticos he surged forward his men blowing their battle horns! And at once the Casse army descended down on the front of the Cymreniu column. Through the thick forest it as hard to see what was going on.

The naked spearmen of the Casse had quickly got the Generals bodyguard surrounded and amid the chaos Casticos was slain. Before the rear of the Cymreniu army had a chance to engage in battle the front had collapsed and a rout had started. In pockets of clearings small battles took place. As some Cymreniu reformed but although inflicting casualties the disorder and lack of command let down the brave troops. Most of the Casse army was flooding east and bearing down upon the fleeing troops Sentata Roared at his men to slay them all

Sentata then veered of course he left the main force and rid back down the path to where the small battles were taking place. He stopped just ahead of a skirmish, he Casse naked veterans were mopping up the last of the Cymreniu resistance.

Sentata scanned the scene. He spotted what he was searching for and selected a javelin. He flung it far into the sky knowing exactly how and where it would fall. The javelin soon began its descent into the fray the sharp point plunged deep into its target making contact in right side of the mans upper body it hit at the back and drove right out of the mans front. The men surrounding the victim were shocked it had come from nowhere they rushed to their commander’s side as he collapsed into the dirt. Turning him over they called to him

” Nodaicos you are going to the afterlife you have served your people well on this day your family will be protected”

Nodaicos smiled through his coughing, blood was frothing out of his mouth in seconds he was dead he joined 110 other Casse warriors that day a small price for the complete annihilation of the Cymreniu standing force.

[Shylence]

Ok for those who read this Im away for 5 days so it will be a while before i next can get anything down. I have some many work obligations right now. thats my College work. And my work work. Someone died where i work and his fiance is takeng time off because of it so too has his two sisters. some is very ill at work and two peeps are on maternity leave that means we are 7 people down.

So right now im on over time. Give me some feedback. I feel as if i make my things to long, im not gonna change it. Its they way i like to write even as a kid i go a bit overbored with things. anyway im still at it just have'ne time at the moment.

Patience is a virtue.

Also i think i put my difficult on m/m thats gonna be shit i dont wanna be wining all the time. i need some loss for my role playing. anyway Toodle pip old beans! i will be back soon

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