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Post by Svetovida Sviatislav on Jul 27, 2016 18:46:52 GMT
The army of Svetovida Sviatislav marches on the Mauri city of Volubilis. The Army consists of the following forces.
1,000 Drugi
3,000 Berber Cavalry
4,000 Romano-Berber Nobles
20,000 Romano-Berber Peasants
With such a large portion of cavalry the army is able to move relatively fast, the march between settlements and Oases taking on water and supplies at every stop. They make good use of the local Berber troops as desert guides and seem to make good progress. The Berber and Romano-Berber cavalry scout around the column for miles, searching for bands of Mauri cavalry and nomads.
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Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2016 18:44:46 GMT
Little resistence is met. Lone horsemen are spotted on the horizon at almost every stretch. When the army arrives in Volubilis they find a horrifying spectacle. A burning mound of corpses is assembled in the forum, and heads hang from the city gates. It seems that the Romans still living in the city were subjected to a massacre as punishment to Julian for his incursions into what had become Mauri territory. Few people remain, as it seems those Mauri that refused to leave were treated as Romans, and anyone linked to the Ghomara people of King Heraclius were subjected to dismemberment and disembowelling, before having their bodies and entrails hand along the city walls as a grizzly warning. The city's main Church is relatively undamaged, although looted, and the Bishop is crucified at the centre of it. The Romano-Berbers make every efforts to purify the Church, give the Bishop a Christian burial, and gather all the bodies neatly and correctly ready for a mass burial.
Once the ghost-city is cleared, King Heraclius of the Ghomara is able to set it up as his capital. Though much-diminished, the city still stands and still presents a glorious visage to visitors who are not put off by the field of crosses and stones just beyond the city walls.
King Heraclius is set up as King of the Moors, although his writ does not run throughout the whole of the kingdom, and his rivals remain at large. It is highly likely that Heraclius' regime will soon need support, and that the southern discontents will return with a vengeance as soon as fortune seems to go in their favour.
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