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Almer (1338-1389,51)
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A prominent east Greyfield Lord.
1380
Lord Almer launches an attack on the Torreson Casot School grounds.
Fenwin, Erwin, Dreywin, and Vern are taken captive by Lord Almer and help captive at Almer Hall.
King Rupert turns to his southern neighbor lords seeking aid in a war against Lord Almer. The lords decline.
King Rupert goes through the motions of paying a ransom and tribute for the return of his sons from Lord Almer but upon discovery that Almer is facing the threat of a foreign army camped at Army Watch Rupert cancels the ransom at the last minute and instead leads a host of warriors across the River Grey into Greyfield.
1381
Rupert's forces skirmish with those of Lord Almer's west of River Grey.
King Rupert, frustrated at failing to rescuse his sons from Lord Almer, raids and captures Almer's wife, one daughter, Lilith, and her son, Grent. The husband is killed fighting to protect his wife and mother-in-law.
Lord Almer pleads peace with King Rupert. Almer's forces are stretched thin, combating Rupert's raids to the east and other Greyfield lords to the west- who are in turn being pushed east by Donwick lords and Trefel raids. Almer also faces the year old threat of the army camped in the mountain valley to the north.
King Rupert demands the return of his sons from Lord Almer, indicating no peace will be had until his sons are returned.
Lord Almer, with his own family held hostage by Rupert, continues his resistance, thinking Rupert will betray him and kill his family.
Lord Almer sends his brother, Geroth, with Rupert's sons west for protection.
Geroth and Rupert's boys are ransomed back to Lord Almer.
King Rupert, thinking his sons are lost or killed, murders Lord Almer's grandson, Grent.
Lord Almer sends a force across the River Grey to engage King Rupert.
Lord Almer occupies the Torreson Casot School.
1382
Army I sweeps into Lord Almer's lands, nearly unopposed.
Army I reaches and sieges Greyfield Castle. The castle is only lightly garrisoned. The King of Greyfield, Hollwick, was caught off guard. He expected Lord Almer's lands to act as a buffering cushion rather than a highway.
Lord Almer meets with King Rupert. Almer returns Dreywin and Vern to Rupert.
Lord Almer's troops flee the Torreson Casot School with Army I on their heels.
King Rupert takes Almer and his men deep into the Vesop Woods.
Rupert and Almer evade capture, fleeing deeper into the contested south Vesop Woods.
Lord Almer travels to the Greyfield Casot School.
1383
Lord Almer returns to King Rupert in the Vesop Woods with several hundred men recruited out of south Greyfield.
King Rupert and Lord Almer slowly disintegrate Army II in the south Vesop Woods.
1388
Lord Almer, angry with King Rupert for being complacent and accusing him of making peace with Hollwick and the Myron Empire only because his son is on the other side, leads a force against King Rupert deep in the Vesop Woods.
King Rupert is killed in the fighting between his forces and those of Lord Almer.
Lord Almer's wife is murdered.
Lord Almer resumes hostilities with Greyfield and King Hollwick.
Lord Almer murders Dreywin, Amber, and Silvan. Vern escapes.
1389
Prince Fenwin, familiar with the land and known to the people, quickly maneuvers Army I into a position compromising Lord Almer's defenses in the Vesop Woods.
Prince Fenwin accepts Lord Almer's surrender.
Prince Fenwin murders Lord Almer's entire surviving direct family in front of Almer's eyes.
Prince Fenwin has Lord Almer's grandchildren rounded up and imprisoned at Greyfield Castle.
Prince Fenwin imprisons Lord Almer at the Greyfield Casot School, where he later commits suicide.
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