Siege of Marshstone

The Siege of Marshstone was the final battle in the Wars of Religion between the Kingdom of Dawn and the Kingdom of Lubeck. By this point in the war, Dawn was losing heavily, with most of her cities besieged or unsafe.

Events Preceeding
On December the 6th, 13th century, Viscount Corvus and some Berunian militiamen and King Fingaeron of Lubeck entered the last safe city of Dawn, Haven, and arrested the reigning nobleman, Allanon. The group dragged the man back to Marshstone Castle, the capital of Lubeck. Corvus successfully interrogated Allanon, who revealed he was the Dawnking, the ruler of the crumbling Kingdom of Dawn.

Fingaeron made Allanon convert to the Dusk religion, before crucifiying him and hanging the dying Dawnking on top of the tower near the gatehouse to the castle.

The Siege
A force of Dawn militia summoned from Haven and the remaining Dawn villages gathered outside the castle and their leader, Tath, demanded that Allanon be set free. Fingaeron, Corvus, and the Beruna miltiamen, asked that they leave the premises of the castle. The group refused, and was given a final chance.

A final refusal resulted in the Lubeckian defenders firing into the group, killing the last remaining nobility in the Kingdom of Dawn, the lady of Malvaria, and wounding several others. The castle was not breached and the Dawn miltiamen fell back in disarray, scattered into the countryside. Lubeck was once again victorious.

Aftermath
With Lubeck again taking a chunk out of the population of Dawn, this battle is heralded as the last of the Wars of Religion to this date. Dawn's nobility and knights were exhausted from fighting the better-trained and equipped Lubeckians. The numerical superiority of Dawn faded as their population was massacred by repeated Deathknight attacks following the siege.

One day after the short siege, the Kingdom of Dawn was considered defunct by most as it's namesake city and last remaining holds were abandoned.

The Kingdom of Dawn's former populace now lives a more solitary existence, mostly in small farmsteads scattered around the land, while Lubeck is now the sole power and government in Karador.