Liberation of Aurelia

The Liberation of Aurelia is an engagement in the Rys-Nevrakis Conflict in which Queen Kenna Rys liberated the city of Aurelia from the Military occupation of Prince Marco and a small Nevrakis army.

Prelude
After gaining a lot of soldiers from Severin's mercenary camp, Queen Kenna discovers that they have have a problem, they need to find a great amount of coin, in order to afford better weapons and armors for her soldiers, since Marco's army has way better equipment than her.

Val tells her of the legend of the Gilded City of Aurelia, a city with riches beyond imagination, and also offers to lead Kenna to the city.

Kenna, Leon, Gabriel, Val and a small army of Stormholt soldiers, march through the forest to the base of a mountain range.

After clearing a pile of boulders, they find a secret passage inside the mountain, when they enter, they find a guardpost at the outer edge of the city, two Aurelian Guards notice Kenna and her party, they immediately stop them and demand them to state their intentions.

Kenna explains that they wish to form an alliance and that their leader will surely want to hear her ouy, the guards allow to let Kenna in, but they will only permit entry to Kenna and her allies, her soldiers have to stay behind, they also have to hand over their weapons.

The guards lead Kenna and her friends into the golden hall of Aurelia, there they find Annelyse Adair, The Ruler of Aurelia.

Kenna states that she wishes to forge an alliance with Aurelia, but Annelyse doesn't think that joining a war will make the nobles of Aurelia happy, and that they would probably revolt if Annelyse were to agree to such an alliance, but still she offers Kenna and her party to stay for the celebrations.

The next morning, Kenna heads to the Banquet Hall, there she finds Annelyse sitted on the main table, Kenna joins her, Annelyse says that she hopes Kenna has a magnificent time the day prior, but she also says that unfortunately, they won't be having fun today, Annelyse states that she's sorry, and that she did what she did only to protect her city.

Suddenly, the doors to the hall are thrown open, and Prince Marco and a group of Nevrakis soldiers enter the hall.

The soldiers surround Kenna and her allies, Kenna asks Annelyse why she did this, she explains that Marco threatened to destroy Aurelia if Annelyse didn't betray Kenna.

Annelyse approaches Marco and tells him that everything will go back to normal when he and his men leave, Marco states that he doesn't intend to leave, in fact, he plans to conquer Aurelia and add it to his rule by marrying Annelyse, Annelyse is furious and says that this wasn't part of their deal, but Marco backfires by saying that, if she doesn't comply, he's going to have her executed.

Escaping Aurelia
A few hours later, Kenna was forced to celebrate Marco's engagement party, while a dozen of Nevrakis guards watch her closely.

Kenna asks Marco if that's the way he makes friends, but he aggressively replies by commanding her to be quiet, and that if she just had the guts for it, Aurelia could have been hers to command, Kenna backfires by saying that she's not like Marco, she doesn't need slaves to do her fighting.

Marco then commands Kenna to pour some wine for him, while she does that, Marco knocks his cup over, spilling wine on the floor, he orders Kenna to clean everything up, but then Kenna notices Raydan out of the corner of her eye, in order to get him closer, Kenna distracts Marco with a fake marriage proposal, Marco in incredibly confused, but before he can react, Raydan kills two guards with his daggers, seizing on Marco's shock, Kenna, Annelyse and her friends escape the banquet hall, Together, they all rush towards the narrow path leading out of the city.

Later, at Kenna's camp, Leon briefs Kenna's soldiers on what happened in Aurelia, Kenna stands on a fallen tree and makes a speech to her men, she tells them that Marco has taken over Aurelia, and that if they don't retake the city, in the coming Battle of Stormholt he's going to be invincible.

Her army is clearly moved, and they all start chanting her name, now that her army has been encouraged enough, there was only one thing left to do, taking back the city.

The Battle
Since a direct attack could give Marco enough time to run away, Raydan and Annelyse told Kenna about a secret passage into the gold mines below the city.