Calishite Campaign

A military campaign sponsored by the Corsi family supporting Amnian’s mercantile interests.

Led by Richard of Corsi, the eldest son of the Aurelian Duke Eldred of Corsi. The campaign traveled south from the [[Shilmista Forest]], through Tethyr, and into Calimshan near the [[Forest of Mir]] and the foothills of the Marching Mountains.

Though ostensibly the purpose was to suppress a legion of gnolls disrupting the southern trade routes, there were plenty of skirmishes with the common folk along the way (which may or may not have had something to do with a foreign army demanding food, supplies, and lodging from them). It was a long, brutal campaign - hard marching, hard terrain, and vicious foes in an unwelcoming foreign land.

People

• Armitage del Veign - Lieutenant of Richard of Corsi, second in command
• Barrick Ironstone - Member of [[Scout Group Sling|Sling]]
• Hugh Stoddard - Member of [[Scout Group Sling|Sling]]
• Kira Fe’lorin - Member of Sling
• Gavin Pellemont - Member of Sling
• Bikke Alder - Member of Sling, hero of [[Bikke’s Ambush]]
• [[Sevestre]] - Scout trainer. Trained both [[Barrick Ironstone|Barrick]] and [[Hugh Stoddard|Hugh]]

Resolution

The Corsi came to fight the gnolls, fought hard in the Marching Mountains, and eventually destroyed a network of gnoll camps that had been raising on the River Agis and supporting roads.

When the main force reached Saliran and realized Glaive and Arrow were lost, Zev led the investigation. The evidence they found led him to believe the scouts had been murdered by locals. A group of miners were hung outside the town gate as punishment for the murders, and when the mayor, Nadir, tried to stop them he was struck down in the street, and the ensuing protestors ridden down by Corsi calvary. This was The Saliran Massacre.

The Calishites refused aid, leading the Corsi to take what they needed by intimidation or force. That in turn led to a small guerrilla resistance and a migrating conflict that followed the Corsi flanks until they were back in Tethyr.

It was never war with Calimshan, and most of the Corsi thought of it as resisting/punishing local bandits. It was a broadly uncomfortable and undesired part of the campaign, but to the average Corsi soldier it was an unavoidable response to hostile people who started the fight by killing their scouts.