Lore:Siege of Avarga

Siege of Avarga
Date: April 10, 2012. Location: Avarga, Elevation. Result: Mongol Empire victory.
Kingdom:	Jenn-Kellon, Mol-Rehan, Horde of the Summoned.	The Mongol Empire.
Towns:	Several.	Avarga.
Strength:	50+.	24.

Importance of the Battle

The Siege of Avarga is characterized as one of the most important, and certainly the largest scale pvp encounter in the history of Wurm Online. The combining of all the kingdoms of a server into a raid force has never been done before, nor has it yet to be done again. This adds to the significance of the battle. While the exact troop totals are unknown, the conservative number places it around 100, but some estimates go far beyond that total.

Additionally this was not intended to be a raid, like most engagements of the modern era. Sieges occurred on an infrequent basis, last multiple days with either constant fighting or hostilities, examples including sieges over the White Light on Wild, and the Siege of Ebony Veil.

Leadership & Notable Forces

Mongol Leadership: Posteh (Hellfang) Xallo (Moirai) Awakening (Great Khan)

Forces: Avarga, Wrestlers (Deed)

Motivation Survive, Gear.

Entente Alliance (All others) Leadership: Dragonpen (Tonygreen) Kellyt (others)

Forces: Mol-Rehan, Horde of the Summoned, Jenn-Kellon, Legion of Pirates, (others)

Motivation Gear from Mongol loot houses, A morale boost for the entire server

Use of Artifacts

This Siege saw some of the first and most effective use of the Orb of Doom, a powerful artifact that inflicts mass AoE damage, or fails abruptly killing the holder.

Before The Battle

The Day was still, a quiet time a little two quiet, not to sound cliche.

The Mongol Empire initially noticed in the early hours of the day, a large population of players on at the time. The Mongol Scouts were recalled, it was far too dangerous to be out with such a large amount of people not seen. Avarga prepared for the worst, and went into a full defensive mode preparing every entrance to the deed to impact.

Upon sighting the enemy force, the first interpretation was that the Wrestlers Deed was about to be raided, but upon realizing that raid was coming for Avarga, the wrestlers took an extreme risk and sailed down a nearby canal to the Capitol.

The Battle

The battle began not with tremendous zealous, but slow gradual escalation. The Entente decided the landing zone would be a barely a local range away from the actual deed they were raiding. Both sides began building exterior housing, walls, and tunneling assuming it would be a long siege. A point of contention came over a flag between the two camps, often resulting in small skirmishes for the cloth. The area was more and more representing a siege as things continued to physically develop around the area.

The strategy from the Entente, was to chain walls all the way until they reached the actually deed. The idea was to cut off possible encirclement and ensure safety for the long instance, almost like a city in its own right. They would then be free to catapult the deed at will.

This strategy would backfire upon what Mongols refer to as the "Great Push" in which the entire Mongol force went into the walled off area. The tight quarters allowed the Mongols to most effectively use the Orb of Doom in combination with Fire and Ice pillars and in devastating counter attack completely wiping out the siege party at limited causalities.

The Immediate Aftermath

A known history at this point, the server was still at this time very young, an event like this had dire consequences on the morale of every kingdom. For the Entente, the loss was additionally crippling, and resulted in a complete change of policy for many of simply not fighting the Mongol Empire.

For the Mongol Empire, victory was sweet but short lived, killing everyone had consequences. The Mongols had to go beyond and change tactics more slipping into any fight they could before it ended. A river of combat dried, and the Mongol Empire disbanded to accommodate a populace that had disdain for them.

The ruins of the shanty towns build before the push remained for almost a year.

A Final Analysis

This was one of the most important events that changed the course of Epic as a whole. A siege of this magnitude was exceptionally rare for its time and still has yet to be bested. The aftermath would be short lived as the Mongol Empire would eventually reunite under the banner of Jenn-Kellon, but with the game being prepared for them this time. The Avarga Siege was a good thing for epic, it showed what was truly possible in Wurm as a PvP game.

See Also

Pvp Logs for Epic