Battle of the Swan's Road

Military action

An army of Alderni soldiers, plus thousands of peasant levies, the entire city watch of Schwannenholt, and countless others besides, assembles at the edge of the city. Queen Margaretha IV Bheuren takes personal command of the army, telling the assembled troops that this was the day in which Aldernord lives or dies. She leads the charge against the larger Balthan force, and against all odds is victorious, routing the advancing army and driving them back towards the river Lyska - where the Alderni army that emerged from Ket Brezi is waiting for them, having marched more than two hundred miles over the ten preceding days. More than half the Balthan army surrenders when they realise that they are surrounded; the rest desperately attempt to break through and reach Haraldslott, and are slaughtered in their hundreds as they attempt to cross the Lyska.