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Rupert (1348-1388,40)
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Warrior Prince, and later king, of Vesop.
1365
Fenwin is born, son of Rupert and Katria.
1366
Katria births a stillborn girl with Rupert.
1367
Erwin is born, son of Rupert and Katria.
1369
Dreywin is born, son of Rupert and Katria.
1370
Rupert leads a force against another north Vesop warlord. Rupert's side is victorious, taking many prisoners and claiming control of most of the north Vesop Woods.
Amber is born, daughter of Rupert and Katria.
Vern is born, son of Rupert and Katria.
1372
Silvan is born, daughter of Rupert and Katria.
1374
Rupert leads a raid on the Torreson Casot School.
During a trade of ransom with the Casot School, Rupert is actually convinced to convert to worship Mother Egu. He still forces the Casot School to buy back prisoners and artifacts, though.
1379
Much of the mid/north Vesop Woods peoples align themselves with Rupert. He has a reputation of a fierce woodsman warlord- raiding Greyfield fiefs with unrelenting ferocity. Some people refer to Rupert as 'King of Vesop' or the 'Vesop Warlord'
Rupert sends his sons to live at the Torreson Casot School.
Rupert claims protective custody of the Torreson Casot School.
Rupert leads a force and captures the Torreson Casot School and surrounding lands.
Further campaigning extends Rupert's command to around 60 miles south of the Torreson Casot School and all the way east through the Vesop Woods to the mountains.
1380
Rupert titles himself King of Vesop.
King Rupert's influence spreads throughout the Vesop Woods.
King Rupert turns to his southern neighbor lords seeking aid in a war against Lord Almer. The lords decline.
King Rupert leads a series of raids to the south of his northern Vesop lands, one so far that he gets within sight of the Greyfield Casot School.
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.
Prince Fenwin and his brothers are moved several times throughout the year, avoiding Rupert's raids.
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.
1382
Geroth, Prince Fenwin, and Erwin are captured by Myron II's troops trying to sneak out of Greyfield. Rupert's two other sons, Dreywin and Vern escape with some of Geroth's men.
Lord Almer meets with King Rupert. Almer returns Dreywin and Vern to Rupert.
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.
King Rupert organizes his defenses, holding Army II back in the south Vesop Woods. But Army I continues to make headway in the north.
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.
Recognizing the situation as dire, Cyfurrel pulls his men out of the Vesop Woods to avoid the guerrilla fighting against the hardened woodsmen of Rupert. Army II fortifies camps along the southern edge of the Vesop Woods.
King Rupert leaves a small force in the south Vesop Woods to feign defense and leads the bulk of his soldiers towards the Greyfield Casot School in an attempt to link up with supply lines from Donwick.
1385
Myron II and King Rupert meet 10 miles east of the Casot School and River Grey.
Myron II falls in battle against Rupert's forces along the River Grey.
King Rupert, realizing the victory of the day (mortally wounding Myron II) retreats his casualty heavy force to the Vesop Woods.
1387
Prince Fenwin negotiates peace with his father, King Rupert, on behalf of King Hollwick.
Mark acts as assistant to Fenwin for much of the year, participating in Fenwin's negotiations between Rupert and Hollwick.
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.
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