Redwood Invasion:
Prelude
The invasion of the Redwood Forest was a two year conflict that was the result of rising tensions in Voronda. A continent ruled by individual city states of Humans, that gained their power by conquering local smaller cities and towns.The tensions spilled over when the Varatosh Trading Company begun to build roads through the Redwood Forest and begun to establish their trading towns, as they tried to open a path to Arminius that didn't involve weeks at sea. What they didn't expect was such strong resistant from the nature loving city state of Hanow. The act of war was seen as a last act by the Varatosh, they worried that war would damage their profits. Something they would not worry about in future conflicts.
The Redwood Invasion
Over the last decade their roads had been destroyed, wagons burnt and merchants killed. However the invasion was instigated by Hanow when they attacked a wagon that was transporting the board members of the company. This proved a step to far and so the company went to war.Strange Bedfellows:
Hanow was at first unaware of the coming war. As the mercenaries sailed back and the board of the Varatosh ordered less valuable wagons to continue through the bloody Redwood paths.While Montauban begun to raise a small army, to help support the conflict, the board were debating on who else they could convince to join their war. The Aquilian democracy would ensure help would arrive late and the element of surprise ruined. Arminius was not yet under the thumb of the Varatosh and the other city states were too small to even consider worth it. That left one city state left, the war loving Bellatorian state, who hated the Varatosh.
Gilador Saari would head personally to Bellator and would spend four nights at the palace of the kings. There they debated over killing him or hearing him. Eventually they listened and when the chance to attack their northern neighbour was presented, they agreed. The Bellatorian kings had hoped that while they could win the conflict themselves, they could use this as a chance to seriously weaken the growing might of the Varatosh. What they didn't realise was the Carnens had sent a fleet of warriors, all formally mercenaries who had volunteered to head west, but in reality all active members of the Carnen army.
